Have a Missing Foundation Christmas!

Back in October of 2018, I posted an enthused little entry about how Peter Missing – he of Missing Foundation notoriety – was really taking full advantage of the Bandcamp platform as a means of exhuming and re-disseminating the recordings of his infamous collective. This was especially noteworthy for some of us, being that Missing Foundation’s records were frequently hard to come by. With copies of certain albums fetching princely sums on eBay, the privilege of actually hearing any of MF’s outpourings was becoming increasingly rarefied and almost solely reserved for the demographic of so-called “record collector scum.”

Via Bandcamp, however, Missing was able to showcase his entire audio archive, from incendiary soup to nihilistic nuts.

Since that earlier post, Peter’s only uploaded more of his music, most notably In a State of Mind, the original debut cassette by Drunk Driving, the band that would later morph into Missing Foundation. The songs of Drunk Driving – featuring drummer Bob Bert, also of Sonic Youth, Pussy Galore, Bewitched, Chrome Cranks and Lydia Lunch’s Retrovirus – displayed a bit more finesse and conventional song-structure than what would follow in Missing Foundation, but don’t be fooled – they’re still a damn long way from polished pop tunes. Hear that stuff here. I’m particularly fond of “Laughing Killer.”

The only reason I’m posting about all this again, however, is because Flaming Pablum pal and former Missing Foundation member RB Korbet posted a cut from the 1985 Demos collection that I thought was especially noteworthy.

Cryptically dubbed “Untitled 30,” herewith Missing Foundation having a vitriolic bash through “My Generation” in a manner that would probably make Pete Townshend’s bowels violently discharge. MERRY CHRISTMAS!

ADDENDUM: The great Peter Missing wrote in to say that Bob Bert does not, in fact, appear on this particular recording, but rather fellow future-MF collaborator (and Flaming Pablum interviewee) Chris Egan did. Apologies for disseminating confusing and/or incorrect info.