MDC is an American punk rock band, formed in 1979 in Austin, Texas. The band originally formed as The Stains.
MDC were one of three pioneering hardcore punk bands in Austin, Texas in the early '80s, alongside The Dicks and Big Boys. These bands frequently played together and established the Austin hardcore scene.
By 1982 MDC relocated to San Francisco and renamed themselves MDC. The band's lyrical content expresses radical left political views.
During the summer of 1982 they became involved in the Rock Against Reagan Tour, during which time they fell out with the band Bad Brains when Rastafarian singer H.R. learned that Big Boys' singer, Randy Turner, was gay. H.R. and MDC's Dave Dictor had an intense confrontation. Upon Bad Brains' departure from the bill, they refused to return a loan owed to Big Boys and instead left a note that reportedly read "burn in hell bloodclot faggot". The incident resulted in the MDC song "Pay To Come Along".
MDC's initial run ended in 1995 and the band spent five years on hiatus, before returning in 2000 with new band members.
Band members:
Dave Dictor - vocals
Ron Posner - guitar
Rudolph Frank Mares - bass
Michael Naohiko Donaldson - bass
Al Schultz - drums.
"Millions Of Dead Cops/More Dead Cops" is a compilation album by MDC, released in 1988 on R Radical Records and Boner Records. The album was reissued in 1995 on Boner Records.
Tracks:
1-14 LP Millions Of Dead Cops, released in 1982
15-27 LP More Dead Cops 1981-1987, a compilation album released in 1988.
More Dead Cops 1981-1987 contains the tracks:
15-16 7" John Wayne Was A Nazi by The Stains, released in 1981
17-20 7" Multi-Death Corporations, released in 1983
21-23 7" Millions Of Dead Children, released in 1984
24-25 LP Rat Music For Rat People Vol. 2, released in 1984
26-27 two unreleased covers from 1987; Spanish Castle Magic is a Jimi Hendrix cover and Born Under A Bad Sign is an Albert King cover although no credit is given.
Tracklisting:
1. Business On Parade
2. Dead Cops/America's So Straight
3. Born To Die
4. Corporate Deathburger
5. Violent Rednecks
6. I Remember
7. John Wayne Was A Nazi
8. Dick For Brains
9. I Hate Work
10. My Family Is A Little Weird
11. Greedy & Pathetic
12. Church & State
13. Kill The Light
14. American Achievements
15. John Wayne Was A Nazi
16. Born To Die
17. Multi Death Corporation
18. Selfish Shit
19. Radioactive Chocolate
20. No Place To Piss
21. Kleptomaniac
22. Chicken Squawk
23. Pecking Order (Death Of A Nun)
24. Pay To Come Along
25. Evolution In Rock
26. Spanish Castle Magic
27. Born Under A Bad Sign
VBR ~259K/s 44100Hz Joint Stereo
"Smoke Signals" is the second studio album by MDC, released in 1986 on R Radical Records. The album was reissued in 1996 on We Bite Records with two bonus tracks (track 14 and 15).
The tracks "Bombs Not Food and "Nazis Shoudn't Drive" are not listed on the track list.
The tracks were taken from the split Liberty Gone E.P. by MDC And Capitalist Casualties, released in 1994 on Slap A Ham Records.
The album finds the band moving in musical directions outside of hardcore punk, with a more diverse rock style than previously, but it is still largely a punk rock album featuring the band's typically tight, fast musicianship. The album also saw Gordon Fraser's first appearance as main guitarist.
Tracklisting:
1. No More Cops
2. King Of Thrash
3. Drink To Forget
4. The Big Picture
5. Skateboards From Hell
6. Tofutti
7. South Africa Is Free
8. Acceptable Risks
9. Missile Destroyed Civilization
10. Soup Kitchen Celebrity
11. Country Squawk
12. Paradise Lost
13. Smoke Signals
14. Bombs Not Food
15. Nazis Shoudn't Drive
VBR ~264K/s 44100Hz Joint Stereo
