X "Hate City" 7" – Resist Records

These four songs, recorded in 1977, are the only recordings of the original four-piece line-up of the Australian band X featuring Ian Rilen (Rose Tatoo), Steve Lucas, Ian Krahe, and Steve Cafiero. Three of the songs ('Home is Where the Floor Is,' 'TV Cabaret Rules,' and 'Hate City') were released on the 1985 compilation Why March When You Can Riot while 'Good On Ya Baby' was later re-recorded for the X-Aspirations LP. While their debut LP, X-Aspirations, is rightly lauded as an Australian punk classic, this batch of songs is often overlooked because they never received a wide release. This is the band at their most snotty and rambunctious.