I remember there used to be some controversy arround this Norewegian band. When they were scheduled to play in Tilburg some people were talking about a boycot, this was during the end of the nineties when the scene was still way more politcally correct than it seems to be nowadays.
The problem was Insurance Risk had a song called ' We don't care' with these lyrics:
'You take it up the butt
Suck it like candy
Think you're a man
You're a fucking sissu
Do we offend- we don't care
Friday night is here
You wanna get fucked
But you don't want no pussy
You wanna butt-fuck
Do we offend - we don't care!'
Here was this band in the middle of the youth crew revival playing tight as shit early Boston hardcore and with lyrics like this. Some people didn't understand how Crucial Response, the label that released ManLiftingBanner could also release Insurance Risk.
However the show went on without incidents and Insurance Risk turned out to be decent fellows. Fast forward three years and another Insurance Risk is released by at the time legendary MY WAR records, again full on Boston hc with simple lyrics that could have been on any early SSD or Project X record. Both 7" sold out pretty fast and were never repressed.
Fast forward to 2009. Crucial Response had all the songs remastered and releases both 7" on one lp. With a suitable layout and an explanation by drummer Ollie Anderson on the origins of Insurance Risk and why they wrote the controversial song. Looking back I'm amazed how good these songs actually sound. At the time I paid more attention to the controversy around the band than to the music itself. So it's great that Crucial Response made these songs available once again.
