SSD to release remastered version of 'The Kid Will Have Their Say', share music video

Official press release:

Highly influential hardcore and Straight Edge band SSD has revealed a new music video and the remastered audio for "Boiling Point". The classic anthem is the album opener for their long out-of-print classic, The Kids Will Have Their Say, which has long been heralded as the first straight-edge album and a landmark moment in the history of American hardcore. 

SSD frontman David "Springa" Springs shared the following:

It's kind of my epitaph, my intro to the anger I had to keep bottled up as a child. Because at that time in my life, any display of rebellion was met with severe discipline. Looking back on it now in 2023, I believe it's become an anthem for all the loners who felt like outcasts at their schools and found unity at the gallery of hardcore.

The Kids Will Have Their Say captures a time and an era in the nascent hardcore scene before there were formulas and posturing. It's an unfiltered artistic statement that's singular in scope and vision. The Boston act's debut was extremely limited, never repressed and has gone on to have a life of its own despite the fact the only affordable way to listen to it has been low quality streams on YouTube. Now, after being out of print for 40 years, the album is going to be available on streaming services for the first time ever and will be released on vinyl by archival label, Trust Records on November 20.

This deluxe version has been meticulously updated with remastered audio and a painstaking recreation of the iconic cover art, courtesy of Bryan Ray Turcotte. Over the years the mythology of the album has only grown—and this reissue of the album is sure to introduce this prescient and powerful collection of songs  to a new generation of fans who never had the opportunity to see the original lineup of guitarist Al Barile, vocalist David "Springa" Spring, bassist Jaime Sciarappa and drummer Chris Foley perform live.

Today SSD is pleased to announce that for the first time in 25 years, all four original members will reunite under the same roof for a special meet and greet in Boston to celebrate the reissue. The event takes place on November 22 at Newbury Comics (348 Newbury St.) from 3-5PM – flyer below.

The Kids Will Have Their Say Deluxe Reissue Track Listing:

SIDE A 
1. Boiling Point
2. Fight Them 
3. Do You Even Care
4. Not Normal
5. Wasted Youth
6. Jock Itch
7. Fun to You
8. V.A.
9. How Much Art

SIDE B 
10. The Kids Will Have Their Say
11. Headed Straight
12. War Threat
13. Teach Me Violence
14. Screw
15. Who's to Judge
16. Police Beat
17. United
18. The End

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