THE STUPIDS were the legendary UK Hardcore Punk pioneers who, in three short years from 1984 to 1987 went from 4 track demos to the front cover of NME and Sounds and Indie Number 1 Chart albums. The first hardcore band to record a session for the John Peel Show, to openly embrace US Hardcore punk within their sound and style, THE STUPIDS paved the way for the whole UK HC scene and ?Britcore? explosion that followed. There was a period in the late 1980s when the Stupids were everywhere, gracing not only the cover of NME and Sounds, but the pages of the Sunday Times, the Evening Standard and even Smash Hits. Not bad for a three-piece hardcore punk band from Ipswich whose brand of "skatecore" was about as uncommercial as it got. Somehow, this brief flirtation with fame never transformed into a lasting legacy, and the kind of cult worship afforded contemporaries such as Napalm Death and Heresy has eluded them. Hopefully, the series of reissues of which this, their first album proper, is a part will change that. A blueprint for the Stupids' sound, Peruvian Vacation is silly, scrappy and all over the place. Combining breakneck thrash with pop-punk hooks (something of a lost art nowadays), it is not just one of the best hardcore records of its era, but of all time.

TRACKLIST:

1. VIRGIN BOMBSHELL FUCKER / IT?S FUN TO YOU
2. WIPE OUT
3. YOU SHOULDA LISTENED
4. ALWAYS NEVER FUN
5. I SCREAM INSIDE
6. YOU DIE
7. PERUVIAN VACATION
8. THIS IS THE NORM
9. SO MUCH FUN
10. BORN TO BUILT TO GRIND
11. IN BED AT NIGHT
12. I DON?T WANNA GET INVOLVED WITH YOU
13. THE PIT
14. LIFE?S A DRAG

*CD only bonus tracks

15. WIPE OUT *
16. YOU SHOULDA LISTENED *
17. ALWAYS NEVER FUN *
18. I AM ILL *
19. WHAT HAPPENS NEXT *
20. IN BED AT NIGHT *
21. BORN TO F**K *
22. SO MUCH FUN *
23. THIS IS THE NORM *
24. SLEEPING TROUBLES *
25. THIS IS THE NORM *
26. TAKEN TOO MANY *
27. ELEPHANT MAN *
28. THE PIT *
29. I AM ILL *
30. LINDEN SELL ME YOUR SCARF *
31. LIVIN IN A DREAM (COOLEST RETARDS) *
32. BUTHOLE (COOLEST RETARDS) *
33. VICKY (COOLEST RETARDS) *