Living In Darkness (40th Anniversary Edition)

One of the greatest punk albums ever made. Album has no fillers exceptional straight through. Great melodic voice with killer riffs. Best track Breakdown

A stone classic of an album. $2.99 for the wad is insane!

37th Anniversary edition didn't sound as auspicious as 40th. Album was recorded and released in 1981, except for original version of Bloodstains and bonus material dating from 1979/1980.

Listening to this brings back so many good memories.I use to play this tape so much that eventually it wore out and had to replace it cause it was just that good.

Great album but I’m confused ...If anyone can help me I would most likely appreciate it. so the thing is this album is 40 years old right regarding its 40th anniversary. but the math seems to be bothering me a little bit when it says 40th anniversary. I subtracted from 2018 that makes it 1978 when this album was released in 1981 and you add that much to 2018 or subtracted i mean it adds up to 37 years so when they announced it a 40th anniversary was supposed to round up to that or was it just something else that I’m completely forgetting and missing if so please let me know....

To anyone that reads this review and loves this album (and if you ARE reading this, you should because it's an awesome surf punk record), don't buy it on iTunes unless you just want to give them money. I repeat: DO NOT BUY THIS VERSION OF LIVING IN DARKNESS. The source they uploaded this album download from is HORRIBLE. I'm not even an audiophile, but I can't stress this enough; pull up Living In Darkness on YouTube and you'll know exactly what I'm talking about. Starting with the song "A Cry for Help in a World Gone Mad" (my personal favorite) the whole rest of the album gets drowned out in an unbearable mess of clipping and compression. AACGain was reading most of the album at 102+ dB volume before I applied any volume changes. One track even reached 105! That's way too loud and it shows. Drop the volume down and you'll still hear the terrible clipping, and if you don't hear that you'll hear how muffled this whole download of the album is. There's no clarity in any of the instruments or vocals at all compared to any other released version of the album or it's B-sides. TLDR PSA: Buy this album, because it's fantastic, but buy it literally anywhere else unless you want to give them money and that's it. This download version is dreadful and makes a classic literally sound like it's covered in cobwebs and dust. It was $3 on iTunes when I purchased it, and now I know it was for a reason. Buyer beware!

I used to have this album on cd

This is one of my favorite records to play all the way thru. Work thru some of that confusion, frustration, and aggression. Not surprised that most people on here rate this highly.

Not really "punk", it's more skate-ish than anything

If you are a native Californian and GenX, this is all about you. Punk and surf music combined, if you were a skating teen in the 80s this was the sh!t. Solid music, and gets me as worked up now as it did then.