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What are some of the songs on Hardcore 81?
On April 22, 1981 the band released their second album Hardcore '81; the record's title and its extensive North American promotional tour is sometimes credited with popularizing the term "hardcore punk".  Randy Rampage was fired from the band on January 1, 1982 and was replaced by ex-Skulls drummer Dimwit on bass. After a short tour of California, Chuck Biscuits left the band and joined Black Flag. Dimwit switched back to drums and Subhumans singer Wimpy Roy was hired as the new bass player and second singer, leaving Keithley as the only remaining original member. This lineup would last from 1982-1983 and later 1985-1986 and produced several notable releases, including the EP War on 45 (now expanded into a full-length album). War on 45 found the band expanding their sound with touches of funk and reggae, as well as making their anti-war and anti-imperialist political stance more clear.  1985's Let's Wreck The Party and 1987's True (North) Strong And Free saw the band taking on a more mainstream, hard-rock oriented production, but without watering down the band's political lyrical focus. Meanwhile, the band's lineup changes continued after Let's Wreck the Party, with Dimwit replaced by Kerr Belliveau. Belliveau stayed only three weeks with the band but recorded the Expo Hurts Everyone 7" as well as two songs for True (North) Strong and Free before being replaced by Jon Card from Personality Crisis. Dave Gregg quit in 1988 after D.O.A. fired their manager Ken Lester, to which he was very close. The band hired Chris Prohom from the Dayglo Abortions as a replacement. CANNOTANSWER
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D.O.A. is a Canadian punk rock band from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. They are often referred to as the "founders" of hardcore punk along with Black Flag, Bad Brains, Angry Samoans, The Bags, Germs, Negative Trend, and Middle Class. Their second album Hardcore '81 was thought by many to have been the first actual reference to the second wave of the American punk sound as hardcore.

Singer/guitarist Joey "Shithead" Keithley is the only founding member to have stayed in the band throughout its entire history, with original bassist Randy Rampage returning to the band twice after his original departure. D.O.A. has often released music on Jello Biafra's Alternative Tentacles Records, and they have released an album with Biafra on vocals titled Last Scream of the Missing Neighbors.

D.O.A. is known for its outspoken political opinions and has a history of performing for many causes and benefits. Its slogan is "Talk Minus Action Equals Zero." The band's lyrics and imagery frequently advocate anti-racism, anti-globalization, freedom of speech, and environmentalism.

Founder Joe Keithley is also the founder of Sudden Death Records which has released music by D.O.A. and several other bands including Pointed Sticks and Young Canadians.

History

Formation and early years (1977–1980)
D.O.A. has its origins in The Skulls, an early Vancouver-area punk rock band that included future D.O.A. members Joey "Shithead" Keithley, Brian "Wimpy Roy" Goble, and Ken "Dimwit" Montgomery.

When the Skulls broke up after an ill-fated move to Toronto, Keithley moved back to Vancouver and formed D.O.A. in early 1978 with himself on guitar, Dimwit's brother Chuck Biscuits on drums, Randy Rampage on bass, and a lead singer known only as "Harry Homo", who suggested the band's name. The band's first gig took place at the Japanese Hall in Vancouver on February 20 of that year, after which Harry Homo was sacked for an apparent lack of rhythm; Keithley then became the band's singer. A second guitarist named "Randy Romance" played briefly with the band in March 1978 before leaving.

The band began playing frequently around Vancouver and added guitarist Brad Kent the following June. That summer, they recorded and self-released their first single, the four-song EP Disco Sucks. The single soon topped the charts of the University of San Francisco radio station KUSF, which prompted the band to begin touring down to San Francisco. They played their first shows there in August 1978 at Mabuhay Gardens. It was during this trip that the band first met Dead Kennedys frontman and future collaborator Jello Biafra. Kent was fired from the band in September and later that fall the band recorded and released their second single "The Prisoner".

In May 1979, the band embarked on their first North American tour. Upon its completion they hired Vancouver journalist and activist Ken Lester as their manager. Lester booked another tour for them the following October, in the middle of which they flew back to Vancouver to open for The Clash at the Pacific Coliseum. They soon after released their third single, "World War 3" / "Whatcha Gonna Do?". In late 1979, they added second guitarist, Dave Gregg. Soon after, Biscuits and Rampage left the band after a disastrous gig at the University of British Columbia's Student Union Building and were replaced by Andy Graffiti and Simon "Stubby Pecker" Wilde on drums and bass, respectively. Keithley soon became dissatisfied with the band's performances with the new lineup, however, and Biscuits and Rampage both rejoined the band in March 1980.

D.O.A. released their full-length debut Something Better Change on Friends Records in 1980 and continued touring the United States and Canada extensively.

Hardcore 81 and further lineup changes (1981–1989)
On April 22, 1981 the band released their second album Hardcore '81; the record's title and its extensive North American promotional tour is sometimes credited with popularizing the term "hardcore punk".

Randy Rampage was fired from the band on January 1, 1982 and was replaced by ex-Skulls drummer Dimwit on bass. After a short tour of California, Chuck Biscuits left the band and joined Black Flag. Dimwit switched back to drums and Subhumans singer Wimpy Roy, another ex-Skulls member, was hired as the new bass player and second singer, leaving Keithley as the last remaining original member. This lineup would last from 1982–1983 and later 1985-1986 and produced several notable releases, including the EP War on 45 (now expanded into a full-length album).  War on 45 found the band expanding their sound with touches of funk and reggae, as well as making their anti-war and anti-imperialist political stance more clear.

1985's Let's Wreck The Party and 1987's True (North) Strong And Free saw the band taking on a more mainstream, hard-rock oriented production, but without watering down the band's political lyrical focus.  Meanwhile, the band's lineup changes continued after Let's Wreck the Party, with Dimwit replaced by Kerr Belliveau. Belliveau stayed only three weeks with the band but recorded the Expo Hurts Everyone 7" as well as two songs for True (North) Strong and Free before being replaced by Jon Card from Personality Crisis. Dave Gregg quit in 1988 after D.O.A. fired their manager Ken Lester, to which he was close. The band hired Chris Prohom from the Dayglo Abortions as a replacement.

First breakup and reunion (1990–2002)
1990's Murder featured rawer, almost thrash metal production, rather than their original basic punk sound.  The same year also produced a collaboration with Dead Kennedys singer Jello Biafra with Last Scream of the Missing Neighbors. In August 1990, Joey decided he was breaking up D.O.A. but, at the suggestion of promoter Dirk Dirksen, they did a farewell tour of the West Coast, playing their "final" show on December 1, 1990 at the Commodore in Vancouver. In 1991, they released a posthumous live album entitled Talk Minus Action = 0 while Keithley pursued an acting career.

19 months after D.O.A. broke up, Joey Shithead and Wimpy Roy had reunited as D.O.A in the summer of 1992. Fellow Canadian punk rock veteran John Wright from NoMeansNo suggested they hire Ken Jensen from Red Tide as the new drummer, which they did.  The new lineup released an EP and two albums in the early 1990s, 13 Flavours Of Doom and Loggerheads.  These albums found the band replacing the more hard-rock oriented sound of the 1980s with a return to punk rock, although it was a heavier, tighter brand of punk than their earlier work.  These albums were produced by Wright, who also played keyboards on the recordings. The band then added Ford Pier on guitar and vocals.

Tragedy struck in 1995 when drummer Ken Jensen died in a house fire. The "Ken Jensen Memorial Single" EP was released on Alternative Tentacles, including two tracks each from D.O.A. and Red Tide.  With John Wright filling in on drums, ninth full-length The Black Spot was recorded.  The album featured a more basic, sing-along type punk rock sound that was reminiscent of the band's late 1970s and early 1980s output.

The late 1990s found the band's lineup in turmoil, with Wimpy Roy leaving the band after a decade and a half of service and Kuba joining to play bass from 1997 until 2001.  Keithley experimented with different bassists and drummers and released the album Festival Of Atheists in 1998. By the early 2000s, the band had found a permanent drummer in the form of The Great Baldini. In 2002, Keithley put out his first solo album, Beat Trash, and original bassist Randy Rampage returned to the band after nearly 20 years for the Win The Battle album. However, the reunion did not last, with Rampage leaving the band again after the recording of the album, to be replaced by Dan Yaremko.

The Lost Tapes was the first release on Keithley's revived Sudden Death label, followed by Festival Of Atheists.  During this period, Keithley also oversaw the re-release of the band's classic early records on Sudden Death, several of which had been out of print for many years.

Later years and second hiatus (2003–2013)
In 2003, Vancouver Mayor Larry Campbell declared December 21 to be "D.O.A. Day" in honour of the band's 25th anniversary.   In the same year, the band released a career-spanning retrospective entitled War And Peace. 2004 found the band releasing the ska-flavoured Live Free or Die. In 2006, Randy Rampage rejoined D.O.A. for his 3rd stint in the band.

The lineup remained stable until 2008, when The Great Baldini left the band to be replaced by new drummer James Hayden.  Also in 2008, it was announced that Bob Rock, of Metallica fame would be producing the band's next album in time for their 30th anniversary. James Hayden quit before D.O.A. started to record to be replaced by Floor Tom Jones  In September 2008, D.O.A. released Northern Avenger and embarked on their 30th anniversary tour.  On the eve of the tour, it was announced that Randy Rampage was being replaced by Dan Yaremko once again.

D.O.A. played several dates in the summer of 2009 as part of the Van's Warped Tour 2009.

On May 1, 2010, D.O.A. released their fourteenth full-length album Talk Minus Action = Zero (a similarly titled live album Talk Minus Action Equals Zero had previously been released in 1990). Drummer Jesse Pinner (of the band Raised by Apes) took the place of Floor Tom Jones beginning on D.O.A.'s subsequent August 2010 tour due to Floor Tom Jones' commitments to his job at Canada Post.

In 2012, Joe announced that he would be seeking nomination as an NDP candidate in the B.C. provincial election. As a result, D.O.A. announced an indefinite hiatus, and began their farewell tour on January 18, 2013 in celebration of the band's thirty-five year anniversary.

Second reunion and recent activity (2014–present)
On September 22, 2014, Keithley officially announced on the Sudden Death Records website that he had decided to reform the band with Paddy Duddy on drums and Mike "Maggot" Hodsall on bass, and would be embarking on a Canadian tour in October in support of the recently released live album, Welcome To Chinatown. This lineup recorded and released the studio album Hard Rain Falling in 2015. In April 2016, the band released a new version of "Fucked Up Ronnie" entitled "Fucked Up Donald" (referring to the 2016 Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump) as a single.

Members
Current lineup
Joe Keithley – vocals, guitar (1978–present), bass (1996–1998)
Mike Hodsall – bass (2014–present)
Paddy Duddy – drums (2014–present)

Former members
Harry Homo - lead vocals (1978)
Brad Kent - guitar (1978)
Randy Romance - guitar (1978)
Zippy Pinhead - drums (1979; died 2019)
Simon Wilde - bass (1979-1980; died 1994)
Andy Graffiti - drums (1979-1980)
Randy Rampage – bass (1978–1982, 2000–2002, 2006–2009; died 2018)
Chuck Biscuits – drums (1978–1982) 
Dave Gregg – guitar (1979–1988; died 2014)
Brian Roy Goble – bass (1982–1996; died 2014)
Ken "Dimwit" Montgomery – bass (1982), drums (1982–1983, 1984-1986; died 1994)
Gregg "Ned Peckerwood" James - drums (1983-1984)
Kerr Belliveau - drums (1986)
Jon Card – drums (1986–1990) 
Chris Prohom – guitar (1988–1990) 
Ken Jensen – drums (1992–1995; died 1995) 
Jon Wright – keyboards (1992–1995), drums (1995–1996)
Ford Pier – guitar (1994–1996)
Wycliffe - bass (1997)
Kuba van der Pol - bass (1998-2000, 2002-2003)
Brien O’Brien – drums (1997–1999) 
The Great Baldini – drums (2000–2008) 
Dan Yaremko – bass (2003–2006, 2009–2013) 
Floor Tom Jones – drums (2008–2010) 
Jesse Pinner – drums (2010–2013)

Timeline

Discography

Studio albums 

 Something Better Change (1980)
 Hardcore '81 (1981)
 Let's Wreck The Party (1985)
 True (North) Strong And Free (1987)
 Murder (1990)
 13 Flavours of Doom (1992)

 Loggerheads (1993)
 The Black Spot (1995)
 Festival Of Atheists (1998)
 Win the Battle (2002)
 Live Free Or Die (2004)
 Northern Avenger (2008)

 Kings of Punk, Hockey and Beer (2009)
 Talk-Action=0 (2010)
 We Come In Peace (2012)
 Hard Rain Falling (2015)
 Fight Back (2018)
 Treason (2020)

Live albums 
 Talk Minus Action Equals Zero (1991)
 Welcome to Chinatown (2013)

EPs 
 Positively (1981)
 War on 45 (1982)
 D.O.A. & Thor - Are U Ready (2003)

Collaborations 
 Last Scream of the Missing Neighbors (With Jello Biafra) (1990)

Solo albums 
 Beat Trash (2002) - Solo Project from Joey "Shithead" Keithley

References

External links

The official D.O.A. myspace
CanadianBands.com entry
Sudden Death records
Interview with Joey Shithead
Snot Rag interview with Dimwit (1979)
Robert Christgau's review of five D.O.A. albums
 Scanner zine interview with Joey Shithead
Late Night Wallflower interview with Joey Shithead (2007)
Toronto Music Scene Interview with Joey Shithead
 The Ruckus - Audio Interview with Joey Keithley from September 2008
 

Musical groups established in 1978
Musical groups disestablished in 2013
Musical groups reestablished in 2014
Canadian hardcore punk groups
Canadian activists
Musical groups from Vancouver
Alternative Tentacles artists
1978 establishments in British Columbia
Political music groups
"What Are They Doing in Heaven?" is a Christian hymn written in 1901 by American Methodist minister Charles Albert Tindley. , it has become popular enough to have been included in 16 hymnals.

The song has sometimes been recorded under the titles "What Are They Doing?" and "What Are They Doing in Heaven Today?". The question mark is often omitted. The song may also be known by its first line, "I am thinking of friends whom I used to know".

The song consists of four verses and a refrain, each four lines long. In both the verses and the refrain, the first three lines rhyme, and the fourth is "What are they doing now?" or some small variant of that. The author reflects on friends who were burdened in life by care, or by disease, or by poverty; and wonders what they might now be doing in Heaven, without giving his answer.

The first known recording of the song is the 1928 one by Washington Phillips (18801954; vocals and zither), in gospel blues style. Phillips' recording was used in the soundtrack of the 2005 film Elizabethtown. The song has since been recorded many times in a wide variety of styles, including gospel and bluegrass; sometimes attributed to Phillips or to "anonymous" or to "traditional".

Recordings 

 1928Washington Phillips, 78rpm single Columbia 14404-D
 1934Mitchell's Christian Singers, 78rpm singles Perfect 326, Banner 33433, Conqueror 8431, and Melotone 13400 
 1938Golden Gate Quartet, 78rpm singles Bluebird 7994  and Montgomery 7866 
 The Southernaires, radio broadcast 
 1946Pilgrim Travelers
 1948The Lilly Brothers, 78rpm single Page 505
 1948The Southern Harmonizers, 78 rpm single Specialty 301 
 1950The Mello-Tones, 78rpm single Columbia 39051  
 1950-53Silvertone Singers
 1952The Dixie Hummingbirds, 45rpm single Peacock Records 5-1594 
 1957Harry and Jeanie West  on the album Favorite Gospel Songs 
 1960Sister Rosetta Tharpe on the album Gospels in Rhythm 
 1962The Fairfield Four on the album The Bells Are Tolling 
 1964The Staple Singers on the album This Little Light 
 196692Marion Williams
 1971The Downtown Sister New Heaven on the album Gospels And Spirituals 
 1983Slim & the Supreme Angels on the album Glory to His Name 
 1992Tom Hanway on the album Tom Hanway and Blue Horizon 
 1994Martin Simpson  on the album A Closer Walk with Thee 
 1995The Pfister Sisters  on the album The Pfister Sisters 
 1996Michelle Lanchester, Bernice Johnson Reagon and Yasmeen  on the album Wade in the Water: African American Sacred Music Traditions 
 1996Little Jimmy Scott on the album Heaven 
 2000Last Forever  on the album Trainfare Home 
 2000Margaret Allison and the Angelic Gospel Singers on the album Home in the Rock 
 2002Jorma Kaukonen on the album Blue Country Heart
 2003Bill Gaither feat. Gloria Gaither and Babbie Mason on the album Heaven 
 2003The Immortal Lee County Killers on the album Love Is a Charm of Powerful Trouble 
 2003Mike "Sport" Murphy  on the album Uncle 
 2006Riley Baugus on the album Long Steel Rail 
 2006Joanne Blum  on the album Even More Love 
 2006Cabin Fever NW  on the album The Door Is Always Open 
 2006Jessy Dixon on the album Get Away Jordan 
 2006Vince Gill on the album Voice of the Spirit, Gospel of the South 
 2006The Be Good Tanyas on the album Hello Love
 2006Boxcar Preachers  on the album Auto-Body Experience 
 2006Judy Cook  on the album If You Sing Songs ... 
 2006The Great Gospel Crew  on the album The Greatest Gospel Music 
 2007John Reischman and The Jaybirds  on the album Stellar Jays 
 2008Murry Hammond on the album I Don't Know Where I'm Going but I'm on My Way 
 2009Jim Byrnes on the album My Walking Stick 
 2009The Habit  on the album The Habit 
 2010Buddy Greene on the album A Few More Years 
 2011The Bright Wings Chorus  on the album '' 
 2011Dead Rock West on the album Bright Morning Stars 
 2013The Quiet American  on the album Wild Bill Jones  2013Marcy Marxer on the album Things Are Coming My Way 
 2013Mogwai on the album Les Revenants 2013Mavis Staples on the album One True Vine 2013Colin Stetson feat. Justin Vernon on the album New History Warfare, Vol. 3: To See More Light 
 2014Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn on the album Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn''

References 

American Christian hymns
Blues songs
Gospel songs
Songs about death
Songs about Heaven
Hymns by Charles Albert Tindley
1901 songs
Washington Phillips songs
Columbia Records singles
Pace Jubilee Singers songs
20th-century hymns Future Memories is the seventh studio album by German artist ATB, released on May 1, 2009.

Just like Two Worlds (2000) and Trilogy (2007) before it, this album also features two CDs. The first CD consists of dance songs, while the second one features chill-out tunes. Similarly to Trilogy, Future Memories also features 26 tracks in total and is released in two different versions: a normal one with two CDs, and a limited edition, which includes a DVD.

On the iTunes version of the album there are two bonus tracks, a full-length club remix of "L.A. Nights" and a 12-minute minimix featuring most songs from the album. This minimix was used to promote the album on YouTube.

Overview
ATB made almost all announcements concerning this new album on his MySpace blog. The first thing he said was that the album would not be promoted in the old-fashioned way, and a single would not be released before the album. Instead, there would be three tracks released at the same time (two of which are "What About Us" and "L.A. Nights") to represent the main album, and all three of them were going to have their own music videos. Also, four tracks on the album were going to have more than 160 beats per minute (bpm), rare in ATB's songs, but they were not anything close to the hardcore genre. The reason for some of the songs' high bpm was that for the first time in ATB's repertoire, he has incorporated drum and bass elements into some of the songs such as "What About Us" and "My Everything".

The opening to the song "Gravity" is similar melodically to the opening track on ATB's first album Movin' Melodies, entitled "The First Tones".

On March 30, 2009, ATB published a preview on YouTube that featured 10 selected tracks from the album, including "What About Us", "My Everything", "Summervibes with 9PM" and others.

Many singers and artists collaborated with ATB on this album, including Josh Gallahan, Haley Gibby (from Summer of Space), Betsie Larkin, Aruna, Tiff Lacey, Roberta Carter-Harrison (from Wild Strawberries), Apple&Stone, Jades and Flanders.

Track listing
ATB announced the official track list on March 27, 2009, on his MySpace blog.

Charts and certifications

Charts

Certifications

References

External links
 
 Future Memories cover
 ATB's MySpace Blog
 ATB's official website

2009 albums
ATB albums