If you are the child of the 80s here in MANILA you will definitely know this Indepedent Record label called TWISTED RED CROSS or better known as T.R.C. I haven't read yet any comprehensive review of this Legendary and Controversial Underground Philippine Record Label in the Internet so I decided to make a blogpost about it. My own way of giving tribute to TRC. The Legendary Twisted Record Cross Indie Label was the brain child of TOMMY TANCHANCO, son of Marcos-era cabinet member Jesus Tanchanco. Who wouldn't forget his father's name especially during those times at school I remember as a student this popular Newspaper called "Current Events Digest" which was popularly known back then as C.E.D. wherein we have to memorize some names of government officials as part of our Social Studies Class Quizes. Of course that included names like Cesar Virata, Blas Ople...etc. Wheeeew!! Tough luck ah!! TWISTED RED CROSS record label was formed during the last quarter of 1984 by TOMMY TANCHANCO from his entrepreneural company PARALYZED BODY INC. which would be the prime mover for the Local Underground Scene here in MANILA. Good thing I was able to find a picture of Tommy in my own Vaults which I used here in my special blogpost. He He He!! Tommy was also responsible for the famous Underground Publication HERALD X which would be their promotional arm for TRC's music releases. I made a blogspost about HERALD X last year check it out by clicking the logo:
Twisted Red Cross' appeal was mainly being non-corformist to go against the norm which I think has paid off since they officially released 17 cassette tapes under their label. Though, THIRD WORLD CHAOS and THE PRIVATE STOCK were considered as coming from their list too, the discography TRC numbering was not indicated on their release. . Who would forget TRC's ordeal with the International Red Cross because of molesting the Red Cross Logo.
VARIOUS ARTISTS
RESCUE LADDERS AND HUMAN BARRICADES
TRC-01
Release Date: 1985
SIDE A
1. URBAN BANDITS "Modern Fishballs" (first version)
2. WUDS "No Excuses"
3. BETRAYED "Betrayed By You" (first version)
4. DEAD BEAT "I'm Gonna Get Your Girl"
5. PRIVATE STOCK "Rock N Roll Machine"
6. SEX MILITANTS "Bloody Nutter"
SIDE B
1. PUBLIC SCANDAL "Guilty To Interupt"
2. BETRAYED "Urban Assault" (first version)
3. DEADBEAT "I Won't... (Swindle No.2)"
4. URBAN BANDITS "Hoy" (first Version)
5. SEX MILITANTS "You Made A Mistake"
6. WUDS "We" (Just Like Before)
7. PRIVATE STOCK "Future Generation"
VARIOUS ARTISTS
BRAVE NEW WORLD - LIVE!
TRC-02
Release Date: 1985
SIDE 1
1. WUDS "Teachers & Cheaters"
2. WUDS "Peace Be With You"
3. TRASH "Teenage Anger"
4. DEAD ENDS "Complaints"
5. SEX MILITANTS "No Need To Exalt"
6. BETRAYED "It Was Never Meant To Be This Way"
7. ZOOT SUIT "Rockabilly Boogie"
8. ETHNIC FACES "Love"
SIDE 2
1. ETHNIC FACES "Within Tribes"
2. DEAD BEAT "Dead Beat Revolutionary War Cry"
3. URBAN BANDITS "Do You Rebel Rebel"
4. URBAN BANDITS "nagpapansin"
5. PRIVATE STOCK "Have More Fun"
6. EXCOMMUNICATE "CCCP"
7. EXCOMMUNICATE "Miss Bitch, Fuck Off!"
8. PUBLIC SCANDAL "Traitor and Depressed"
Click the BNW photo to enter my BRAVE NEW WORLD blogpost:
DEAD ENDS
COMPLAINTS tape
TRC-03
Release Date:1985
SIDE A
1. Complaints
2. No Stopping Us
3. This World
4. Rage
5. Don't Want No War
6. Nightmare
SIDE B
1. Neurotic Tendencies
2. Dreamer
3. Lies
4. Morons (Like You)
5. The User
6. Hedonist
URBAN BANDITS
TRC-04,
Release Date: 1985
SIDE A
1. Modern Fishballs
2. Never
3. Breaking The Wall
4. Manila Girl
5. Nagpapa-Pansin Pansinin
6. Hoy!
SIDE B
1. No Future Sa Pader
2. Blood In Every Heart
3. I Don't Like Your School
4. We Don't Belong To The Stars
5. Machine To Mark
6. Do You Rebel Rebel
ARMS TALK
TRC-05
SIDE A
1. Stupid People
2. Man in The Mirror
3. Teachers & Cheaters
4. Seen But Ignored
5. Sa
6. Peace Be With You
SIDE B
1. Pera
2. Tahimik Hindi Magulo
3. Murder
4. Jail
5. Ang Mga Bata
6.
TRC-06
SIDE ONE
1. DEAD ENDS "New Life"
2. G.I. & THE IDIOTS "Broken Lineage"
3. G.I. & THE IDIOTS "Nine Years In Service"
4. G.I. & THE IDIOTS "The Flag"
5. WUDS "Patay Buhay"
6. WUDS "Inocente Lang Ang Nagtataka"
SIDE TWO
1. URBAN BANDITS "News Of The World"
2. URBAN BANDITS "
3. ZOOT SUIT "Take A Look At That Boy"
4. ZOOT SUIT "Suit Yourself"
5. DEAD ENDS "Don't Drop Your Guns"
SIDE A
1. Second Coming
2. Sorry
3. Won't Fool Me Again
4. Nothing I Can Do
5. Insanity
6. New Life
SIDE B
1. Propaganda
2. Lap Dogs
3. Whispers
4. Vixen
5. City
6. Guns
7. Noise Barrage
BETRAYED
TRC-08
Release Date:1986
NOW (SIDE ONE)
1. Kids Will Unite
2. Caught In The Crossfire
3. Urban Assault
4. Hardcore Rules
5. Where Has Love Gone
6. Military Rule
7. Fight! Fight!
8. Betrayed By You
AND THEN (SIDE B)
1. Never Meant To Be This Way
2.When I Met You
3. Roots Reggae
4. To Jamming
5. Love Song
6. Punk Reigns
GEORGE IMBECILE AND THE IDIOTS
FACINATING WORLD OF GARBAGE
TRC-09
Release Date: 1986
SIDE A
1. We Can't Get Along
2. This Time For Real
3. Broken Lineage
4. Scratch For Bugs To Eat
5. Garbage Again
6. Born Against
7. Damn You People
8. Uncivilized
SIDE B
1. Bury Yourself
2. Buy My Right
3. Charged
4. Cunts For Rent
5. Where Are You Going Boys?
6. Nine Years In Service
7. The Flag
8. Question Of Growing Up
SIDE A
1. PHILIPPINE VIOLATORS "Freedom"
2. PHILIPPINE VIOLATORS "Who Needs Society"
3. PRIVATE STOCK "Strange Boy In A Secret Sevice"
4. PRIVATE STOCK "Hype's Cool"
5. I.O.V. "My Song"
6. I.O.V. "Yankees"
SIDE B
1. CHAOS "Culture Shock"
2. CHAOS "Tools & Fools"
3. R.D.A. "Violent Dispersal"
4. R.D.A. "Nuclear"
5. DECEASED "Abandoned Youth"
6. BETRAYED "I Ain't Gonna Fight For You"
7. BETRAYED "Never Again"
VARIOUS ARTIST
KATRINA’S LIVE (TAMANA AWAY)
TRC-11
Release Date: 1986
SIDE ONE
BETRAYED
1. Caught in The Crossfire
2. Punk Reigns
3. Miltary Rules
4. Urban Assualt
5. Never Meant to be this Way
6. When I Met You
7. Kids Will Unite
8. Hardcore Rules
9. Betrayed By You
PRIVATE STOCK
10. Have More Fun
11. Future Generation
G.I. AND THE IDIOTS
1.Bury Yourself
2 Broken Lineage
3.The Flag"
4. Nine Years In Service
5. This Time For Real
6. Peace Be With You
7. Teachers and Cheaters
8. Just Like Before
9.
10.Inosente Lang Ang Nag-tataka
I.O.V. (INTOXICATION OF VIOLENCE)
ANOTHER DESTRUCTIVE CENTURY
TRC-12
Release Date: 1987
SIDE ONE
1. Lebanese Child
2. Vagrnacy
3. IOV
4. Gorvachev Attack
5. My Song
6. Guilt
7. Snap Election
8. Yankees
9. Stinking Bad Attitude
SIDE TWO
1. Another Destructive Century
2. Demoralized Ideas
3. You
4. Social Cancer
5. Doing Good Things
6. Stop Being An Ass
7. Total Annihilation
8. Statements
DAMNED NATION
TRC-13
Release Date: 1987
SIDE A
1. System
2. Still Alive
3. Flush The Attitude
4. Look At Me
5. Between Him And Me
6. Same Shit
7. Fags In Mags
8. Lights Are Out
1. College Degree
2. President
3. Promises
4. Damned Nations
5. Reminiscing The Future
6. Johnny Loves Hardcore
7. Sore Loosers
SIDE A
1. Everybody's Date
2. Man In Uniform
3. Things We Hate
4. Paralized Action
5. Lesson For
6. Brave United In Trust
7. Violent Dispersal
SIDE B
1. It Must Exist
2. Into The End
3. If You're Dead
4. Do It In Your Own
5. Nuclear
6. Survive And Stay Alive
PHILIPPINE VIOLATORS
AT LARGE
TRC-15
Release Date: 1987
SIDE A
1. My Generation
2. School Violence
3. Can't Stand Being Exploited
4. Freedom
5. Dead Chickens
6. Tired Of Life
7. Yesterday
SIDE B
1. Stupid Faith
2. Children Sick
3. Wonderful World Of Trash
4. Cruelty Even After Death
5. Tomorrow's Test
6. Who Needs Society
7. St. Vicious
8. Leave Me Alone
Click the photo to enter my PHILIPPINE VIOLATORS blogpost before:
DECEASED
NEVER REST IN PEACE
TRC-16
Release Date: 1988
SIDE t
1. Religion
2. The Jeanx
3. Paranoia
4. Romantic Death
5. Her Father's Filth
6. Never Rest In Peace
7. Abused By Authorities
SIDE tt
8. Too Fanatic
9. Noel's Wrath
10. Shoot You Down
11. Frustrated Sperm
12. Abandoned Youth
13. Damn You People
14. Pretender
15. Mr. Robbert
VARIOUS ARTISTS
PHILIPPINES: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
TRC-17
Release Date: 1987
SIDE A
1. DISCANT X "Depression and Suicide"
2. DISCANT X "Voices From the Grave"
3. INFERNAL WRATH "Back to Basic"
4. INFERNAL WRATH "Puppetry"
5. M.A.D. "Blasphemania"
6. M.A.D. "Fear Tomorrow"
7. BANNED "Reebok Gang"
1. BANNED "Green Money"
OTHERS:
1. Sophisticated Brat
2. Rebel Rockers
3. No Rule
4. Don't Cha Try To Stop Me
5. You
6. We Are The One
2. Opinions
3. Quitter
4. Insult The Useless People
5. You Won't Anymore
6. New Move For Error
2. Rock N' Roll Machine
3. Spider's Web
4. It's What I Want
5. Whatta Girl
6. As You've Said Before
YELLOW SIDE
1. High Volt For Revolt
2. Chaos of the Bandits
3. Girls In My School
4. Class Villains
5. Future Generation
Here's a photo of the COMPLETE TWISTED RED CROSS cassette tapes!!
Here's the Classic TRC Tapes Ad on HERALD X!!
WHAT CAN I SAY?
Tommy Really Cares!!
MABUHAY T.R.C.!!
17 comments:
Hey Doc!
Galeeng ng post mo. I'm actually doing a few articles on Pinoy Rock History and the 80s punk scene is a pivotal part of that!
I was wondering is you could share with me about where you got all those albums? How could I listen to them? Or are they still available?
Would like to know and maybe get some suggestions for you as to who would be the intersting people to interview/ profile, apart from the usual people like Je Bautista and Boyet Miguel.
Would appreciate any help.
- Archie =)
archie.asistores@yahoo.com
awesome blog, although i was part of the the Brave New and TRC era, i was one of the few people who embrace the hardcore punk scene today, others would guys stay stuck ib the past day dreaming..anyway, thanx for doing this, it meant a lot..
please check my blog...worldwide hardcore punk thrash from old school to new, including pinoys of course..
much respect...
motmot
http://tambaycore2.blogspot.com/
THANKS Archie!! :-) Well, I bought some of them and got some copies from my friends who loves listening to this kind of music. Regarding who would be the right person to interview personally, I guess the man himself "TOMMY TANCHANCO" would be the beat person. Thanks for liking my blogpost!!
MABUHAY!!
DR. STIRRING RHOD
THANKS motmot for the comments and of course for dropping by too!! Interesting blog you got there KABAYAN!! :-)
MABUHAY!!
DR. STIRRING RHOD
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replyelfideas wrote on Dec 16, '08
Doc Rod,
I read several blog entries of yours--from the TRC tribute to Pacquiao to NU Rock Awards and a few more. Great posts as always! Keep it up. I took the time even I'm at the moment in the middle of editing the newspaper for tomorrow morning's deadline. Hehehe. Lamayan na naman ako, but I enjoy it. By the way, I finally started my new column sa newspaper, "Sa Ugoy ng Musika." I like to send you clippings. Give me your postal address. Nakakalimang features na etong music column ko.
replyelfideas wrote on Dec 16, '08
E-mail mo na lang privately sa elfideas102 at yahoo dot com.
replyisis67 wrote on Dec 16, '08
nice tribute doc to TRC! ;-)
replyjunmiro wrote on Dec 16, '08
Thank's Doc!! The Best Blog Ever for The Mighty Philippine Underground Label!! Give my Salute to Mr.Tommy Tanchanco's Effort to the Philippine Underground Music Movement!!
Twisted Red Cross RULES!!
replydjmp3 wrote on Dec 16, '08
doc meron kb dl link mga trc mo
replystrangeface87 wrote on Dec 17, '08
great blogpost!
replykahoyman wrote on Dec 17, '08
idol baka pwede mo i share mga trc mo? hehehe
replyfredericknegapatan wrote on Dec 18, '08
great article bro!!!!
replydsri wrote on Dec 18, '08
elfideas said
E-mail mo na lang privately sa elfideas102 at yahoo dot com.
THANKS Alfie for reading my blogposts!! :-) Let''s feature your work on my blog. I'll PM you.
replydsri wrote on Dec 18, '08
dodit and Redge, actually gusto ko lagyan yan ng download link kaso mainit yung blog ko sa YMCA este DMCA. Hindi ko nga maintindihan yung Music Copyright nayan kasi minsan langko naguupload sa "The Doctor Is In".
replydsri wrote on Dec 18, '08
Thanks Ryan, Jun, James, and Fred too for appreciating my TRC Blogpost. :-)
replykahoyman wrote on Dec 18, '08
doc dito mo nalang kaya UL para atleast yung iba mapakinggan
replykeart17 wrote on Jan 17
It's sad that there was a recent kidnapping of the Philippine Red Cross people. TWISTED minds!
replydsri wrote on Mar 17
keart17 said
It's sad that there was a recent kidnapping of the Philippine Red Cross people. TWISTED minds!
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DR. STIRRING RHOD
This is amazing! I am actually the lead singer for Fatal Disguise and believe it or not...I don't have a single copy of our tape. Your research is great! I wish I can get a copy of the cover and the cd. :)
Good day, 80's music is really unique. I used to see Tommy Tanchangco of Third World Chaos, in our campus in San Beda College in the mid 80's. Their music is really different, that I can consider it as "Ahead of that time" I used to have a copy of their one and only album, if i'm not mistaken? New Move for Error" which is in cassette tape copy and unfortunately I can't find it..DOES ANYONE STILL HAVE A COPY hope you can send me?!! Anyway I'd to congratulate you for having a nice blog..KUDOS!
galing.....
THANKS Aeon and chima for dropping by and for the compliments. :-) I greatly appreciate it. :-)
THANKS also inkognita. :-)
I remember our times then in Tandem ( Recto ), I swap a pair of chuck sneakers for a DIY copy of Katrina's Live ( with a xerox copy of the inlay cover ).. that was my first TRC record!! ... Man, this is an awesome blog!! Now Im recalling how it was back then.. the gate crushing, the egg yolk gel, the safety pins, and of course.. the "siento-bente" cough syrup!!!
THANKS Buleck for sharing your thoughts!! Glad you like my TWISTED RED CROSS blogpost. Do come back.
hey doc!
Ang lupeeet!!... ng post mo it's a pity that i didn't get the chance to be a part of that incredible music era co'z i wasn't born yet at that time,, but i learned all about those music history from one of my co workers...he is also a music lover and reviewer at that time...when he shared some of those music i was totally blown away...i really appreciate those kind of sounds and i'm very eager to do my homework and research more to get to know the roots of my music...
more power and keep the history of our music alive...
GLAD you liked and enjoyed my special tribute to TWISTED REED CROSS alumbrorichard !! THANKS for appreciating it!!
All i can shout is : Hardcore Rules!
HARDCORE RULES! oi
astig ka. this brings back old and wonderful memories, lost through the passage of time.
question, lahat ba ng albums andito? kase parang may naalala akong album na yung logo lang nasa cover tapos may "no future sa pader". i could be wrong though.
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