PREORDER: Testors – Prime Primitive: 1976 - 1977 [REMASTERED Deluxe Silver Edition or Standard Black Vinyl Edition] - New LP

PREORDER TODAY: SHIPPING MAY 31, 2025. 

All items in your order will ship with your Testors LP.  If you want other items shipped now, purchase this "item": ship now.  (Or place two separate orders.)

Green Noise is so proud to offer this record, all songs written by Sonny Vincent, selected and sequenced by Sonny Vincent (Testors) and winch (green noise), one side studio, one live...two guitars, drum, vocals--that's it, all that Testors needed to build the raw punk sound and rip you apart...all songs newly remastered for maximum punch and loudness...Testors in the beginning (1976 - 1977), punk poetry set to sound, cuts culled from Swami Records' 2003 Complete comp, distilled down to the absolutely essential early recordings: PRIME PRIMITIVE.  

NEWLY REMASTERED by Timothy Stollenwerk of Stereophonic Mastering, working with Sonny Vincent (Testors) from September to December 2024 to create the best loud punch for each song.

Thanks to James Dixon (the punk-sniffin' dog in Australia) for the valuable assistance in helping with the selection of cuts.

Available in standard black vinyl or deluxe silver edition.

Deluxe Silver Edition:

(Green Noise mail-order exclusive) 

• Silver Nugget Vinyl

• Silver-foil jacket

• Two 2-sided poster inserts (identical, one for your wall, one for your record)

• Two Testors postcards (identical, but one hand-signed by Sonny Vincent).

• Two silver-foil Testors stickers (identical)

• Two Green Noise stickers (identical)

• One 4 x 6 glossy Testors show photo.

Side One (Studio):

1) Primitive (1976)

2) You Don't Break My Heart (1976)      

3) Voltaire (1976)

4) Hey You (1977)

5) Let’s Get Zooed Out (1977)

6) I See (1977)

7) MK Ultra (1977)

8) Stall (1977)

9) Don't Tell Me (1977)

Side Two (Live):        

            10) Awmaw - Live (1976)

            11) Motor Drive - live (1977)

            12) Remembrance - live (1977)

            13) Madra's Prison - live (1977)

            14) Purpose - live (1977) 

“Testors erupted on the New York scene at the epicenter of the punk rock explosion in 1976. Little has been known about this band until now, due to their fiery temperament and desire to burn every bridge in sight. Their incendiary sound consisted of dueling guitar noise, scrappy garage bashing and Sonny Vincent’s street poetry. Their earliest recordings are considerably tougher, louder and more desperate than any other music made at the time (or since!). Testors were a beautiful mess. Absolutely one of the most raw, catastrophic, and shocking bands to ever grace the stage of Max’s Kansas City and CBGB’s during the mid-70s punk heyday.” -- Swami Records

MAXIMUM ROCK N ROLL:  "classic NYC punk...this all canonical shit…fuckin’ hell, unbeatable."

"The Testors were a New York City punk rock band when it meant a lot to be one. They were contemporaries of great bands like the Ramones, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, and the Heartbreakers, and Sonny Vincent was the guitarist and vocalist. They had that late seventies New York sound with a lot of rock’n’roll and a lot of skinny-city-kid attitude. It fits right in with early stuff by The Cramps or stuff from the Dead Boys’ Young Loud and Snotty."  -- Razorcake 

In 1977, America was listening to a few albums on repeat by bands such as Foreigner, Styx, Eagles, Boston, Meatloaf, Bee Gees, Fleetwood Mac, Jackson Browne, Kansas, Clapton, Steely Dan, and Peter Frampton...but don’t let that fool you into thinking it was all a bunch of bullshit. 1977 was of course an amazing year, offered many seminal records that defined the era and created the future, two from Ramones, debut albums from Suicide, Heartbreakers, Richard Hell & The Voidoids, Talking Heads, Television, Blondie (actually late in 1976), and that’s just NYC!  Elsewhere, we got many key second albums...EPs and singles from Cleveland to London...multiple P-Funk albums...AC/DC...Thin Lizzy Bad Reputation...and debut albums by The Clash, The Damned, Sex Pistols, The Boys, The Stranglers, Wire, Buzzcocks, Ian Dury, Cheap Trick, Elvis Costello, the Dead Boys, The Real Kids, The Saints, Radio Birdman… We didn’t get The Testors debut, but we sure should have!  This is the album that could've been, should've been, here 'tis.  Sonny Vincent had been playing shows and recording tracks in NYC since the beginning of the 1970s, started recording and performing as Testors in 1976, one live and 3 studio tracks from that year included on this release, the others here from 1977.  It was just one year, but it was an amazing one, being one of the best albums of 1977 makes it one of the best albums of all time.  And this one stands next to any of them.  You give me my 20 albums to take to my island, this Testors album is in the crate.  There's nothing else like it so nothing could replace it.  If you hold up either of those two Ramones albums, and ask if this is the greatest album of all time, I’m going to say YES!  If you hold up Thin Lizzy – Bad Reputation (my first new-release 8-track purchase as a kid) and ask if it’s the greatest album of all time, I’m going to say YES!  And if you hold up this Testors album and ask if this is the greatest album ever recorded, I’m saying YES!  Sometimes I say that, but when I return to the record, I might downgrade it just slightly.  But not with this one.  The more I listen, the more I love it.  It is the greatest album ever recorded.  -- winch (green noise)