Government Issue

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Sheer Terror 01:29 Tools
Religious Ripoff 00:00 Tools
Bored to Death 00:00 Tools
No Rights 00:00 Tools
Hall of Fame 00:00 Tools
Asshole 00:00 Tools
Puppet on a String 00:00 Tools
G.I. 00:00 Tools
Plain to See 00:00 Tools
Fashionite 00:00 Tools
Teenager in a Box 00:00 Tools
Cowboy Fashion 00:00 Tools
Hour of 1 00:00 Tools
Snubbing 00:00 Tools
Rock'n Roll Bullshit 00:00 Tools
Insomniac 00:00 Tools
Happy People 00:00 Tools
Lost in Limbo 00:00 Tools
Asshole (With Ian) 00:00 Tools
Understand 00:00 Tools
Time to Escape 00:00 Tools
Blending In 00:00 Tools
Here's the Rope 00:00 Tools
Hey, Ronnie 00:00 Tools
No Way Out 00:00 Tools
Anarchy is Dead 00:00 Tools
Twisted Views 00:00 Tools
Partyline 00:00 Tools
Mad at Myself 00:00 Tools
Familiar 00:00 Tools
Rock & Roll Bullshit 00:00 Tools
Written Word 00:00 Tools
Jaded Eyes 00:00 Tools
Caring Line 00:00 Tools
Notch to My Crotch 00:00 Tools
The Next Time 00:00 Tools
Lie, Cheat, & Steal 00:00 Tools
Vanity Fare 00:00 Tools
4-Wall Hermit 00:00 Tools
Reflection 00:00 Tools
Beyond 00:00 Tools
Joy Ride 00:00 Tools
Fun & Games 00:00 Tools
World Caved In 00:00 Tools
Trapped 00:00 Tools
These Boots Are Made For Walkin' 00:00 Tools
They Know 00:00 Tools
Massacre 00:00 Tools
Rock and Roll Bullshit 00:00 Tools
Where You Live 00:00 Tools
Wishing 00:00 Tools
Say Something 00:00 Tools
Hey Ronnie 00:00 Tools
Strange Wine 00:00 Tools
Man in a Trap 00:00 Tools
It Begins Now 00:00 Tools
Party Line 00:00 Tools
Rock 'n' Roll Bullshit 00:00 Tools
Another Day 00:00 Tools
Everybody's Victim 00:00 Tools
Young Love 00:00 Tools
Public Stage 00:00 Tools
Day of Reckoning 00:00 Tools
Connecticut 00:00 Tools
Hole in the Scene 00:00 Tools
On The Screen 00:00 Tools
Fun and Games 00:00 Tools
Visions And ? 00:00 Tools
Better Than TV 00:00 Tools
Even When You're Here 00:00 Tools
Locked Inside 00:00 Tools
World, You and I 00:00 Tools
Last Forever 00:00 Tools
Hear The Scream 00:00 Tools
Memories Past 00:00 Tools
Lie, Cheat & Steal 00:00 Tools
Melancholy Miss 00:00 Tools
Crash 00:00 Tools
The Price 00:00 Tools
For Ever 00:00 Tools
Time Will Rearrange 00:00 Tools
Interview 00:00 Tools
Summer of Blood 00:00 Tools
When I'm Alone 00:00 Tools
The Fear 00:00 Tools
Interview 2 00:00 Tools
Dead Dog 00:00 Tools
These Boots Are Made For Walkin 00:00 Tools
G.I. (Live) 00:00 Tools
Rock'n'Roll Bullshit 00:00 Tools
Hour of One 00:00 Tools
Georgetown Blues 00:00 Tools
Blending In (live) 00:00 Tools
GI 00:00 Tools
Hall of Fame (Live) 00:00 Tools
Dali's Sunflower 00:00 Tools
Next Time 00:00 Tools
Hall Of Fame II 00:00 Tools
No Rights (Live) 00:00 Tools
Time to Escape (live) 00:00 Tools
Teenager in a Box (Live) 00:00 Tools
Notch to My Crotch (live) 00:00 Tools
Sheer Terror (Live) 00:00 Tools
Familiar (live) 00:00 Tools
Brand New Cataracts 00:00 Tools
Fun & Games (live) 00:00 Tools
Forever 00:00 Tools
Hour of 1 (Live) 00:00 Tools
Hall of Fame II (live) 00:00 Tools
Next Time (live) 00:00 Tools
Reflection (live) 00:00 Tools
Understand (live) 00:00 Tools
Warzone Casualty 00:00 Tools
Visions And? 00:00 Tools
Happy People (live) 00:00 Tools
Rabbits 00:00 Tools
Dead Dog (live) 00:00 Tools
These Boots Were Made For Walkin' 00:00 Tools
Public Stage (live) 00:00 Tools
4-Walled Hermit 00:00 Tools
The Land of Me 00:00 Tools
Asshole [With Ian MacKaye] 00:00 Tools
Everybody's Getting Banned 00:00 Tools
Rock 'n Roll Bullshit 00:00 Tools
Puppet on a String (Live) 00:00 Tools
Vanity Fare (live) 00:00 Tools
Snubbing [#] 00:00 Tools
These Boots Are Made for Walkin' [Live] 00:00 Tools
Lie, Cheat and Steal 00:00 Tools
Asshole [#] 00:00 Tools
These Boots 00:00 Tools
Reflections 00:00 Tools
Message to a Friend 00:00 Tools
Hey Ronnie (live) 00:00 Tools
I'm James Dean 00:00 Tools
Rock N Roll Bullshit 00:00 Tools
Hey Ronnie [Live] 00:00 Tools
Asshole (feat. Ian MacKaye) 00:00 Tools
Puppet on a String [Live] 00:00 Tools
Government Issue - Asshole (With Ian) 00:00 Tools
Better Than T.V. 00:00 Tools
Visions & On 00:00 Tools
Government Issue - Legless Bul 00:00 Tools
I'm In Love With You So Why Do You Sleep In the Hay? 00:00 Tools
Vanity Fare [Live] 00:00 Tools
Everybody´s Getting Banned 00:00 Tools
Wild Blood 00:00 Tools
A*****e 00:00 Tools
(Some Trips) Last Forever 00:00 Tools
These Boots Are Made for Walkin' (live) 00:00 Tools
Rock 'n Roll B******t 00:00 Tools
-2 00:00 Tools
Interview, Pt. 2 00:00 Tools
Hall of Fame, Pt. 2 00:00 Tools
Asshole (Live) 00:00 Tools
G.I. [Live][*] 00:00 Tools
Puppet on a String [Live][*] 00:00 Tools
Rock N' Roll Bullshit 00:00 Tools
Rock and Roll Habit 00:00 Tools
Fahionite 00:00 Tools
Twisted View 00:00 Tools
lending In 00:00 Tools
These Boots Were Made For Walk 00:00 Tools
Religious Right 00:00 Tools
Say Something / Visions And? 00:00 Tools
11 - anarchy is dead 00:00 Tools
Fashonite 00:00 Tools
Lie, Cheat, Steal 00:00 Tools
GOVERNMENT ISSUE - 01 Teenager in a box 00:00 Tools
03 - rock & roll bullshit 00:00 Tools
Religious Ripoff (Live) 00:00 Tools
Rock & Roll 00:00 Tools
No Way Out (Live) 00:00 Tools
No Rights (1983) 00:00 Tools
Joyride+hall Of Fame 00:00 Tools
Bored to Death (Live) 00:00 Tools
G.I. 2 00:00 Tools
GOVERNMENT ISSUE - 02 No way out 00:00 Tools
Partyline (incomplete) 00:00 Tools
Lie, Cheat, and Steal 00:00 Tools
Blen 00:00 Tools
01 - g.i. 00:00 Tools
Twisted Views (Live) 00:00 Tools
Rock & Rol 00:00 Tools
GOVERNMENT ISSUE - 03 Twisted views 00:00 Tools
extra trk 00:00 Tools
Legless Bull 00:00 Tools
GOVERNMENT ISSUE - 04 Sheer terror 00:00 Tools
Here's the Rope (Live) 00:00 Tools
Rock'n' Roll Bullshit 00:00 Tools
Government Issue 00:00 Tools
Rockn Roll Bullshit 00:00 Tools
Plain to See (Live) 00:00 Tools
02 - fahionite 00:00 Tools
lie cheat and steal 00:00 Tools
Partyline (Live) 00:00 Tools
Rock & Roll Habit 00:00 Tools
04 - cowboy fashion 00:00 Tools
Visions And ... 00:00 Tools
(SomeTrips)Last Forever 00:00 Tools
G.I. (2) 00:00 Tools
These Boots Were Made for Walkin' (Live) 00:00 Tools
Here's the Rope (incomplete) (Live) 00:00 Tools
Rock & Roll...Bullshit 00:00 Tools
Mystery Track 00:00 Tools
Say Something/Visions And? 00:00 Tools
Sheer Terror (incomplete) 00:00 Tools
Hey, Ronnie/Lie, cheat, & steal 00:00 Tools
Hour of 1 (Complete Session) 00:00 Tools
Notch to My Crotch (incomplete) 00:00 Tools
Insomniac (Live) 00:00 Tools
Snubbing (Unreleased) 00:00 Tools
Government Issue - Hey, Ronnie 00:00 Tools
Asshole (With Ian MacKaye) 00:00 Tools
Government Issue - Religious Ripoff 00:00 Tools
Lie, Cheat, & Steal (Live) 00:00 Tools
Plain To See (Complete Session) 00:00 Tools
Fasionite 00:00 Tools
It Begins Now/Wishing 00:00 Tools
Government Issue - Fashionite 00:00 Tools
G.I. (Complete Session) 00:00 Tools
world you and i 00:00 Tools
05 - Sheer Terror 00:00 Tools
Beyond (Live) 00:00 Tools
Government Issue - Lie, Cheat, & Steal 00:00 Tools
Paryline (Live) 00:00 Tools
Say Something/Visions and ? 00:00 Tools
Strange Wine (live) 00:00 Tools
Fear 00:00 Tools
Lie cheat & steal 00:00 Tools
Melancholy 00:00 Tools
Puppet On A String (Complete Session) 00:00 Tools
03 Puppet On A String 00:00 Tools
02 Hour Of One 00:00 Tools
02 - Fashionites 00:00 Tools
Religious Ripoff (Outtake) 00:00 Tools
Wishing (Live) 00:00 Tools
Lost in Limbo - Plain to See 00:00 Tools
Government Issue - Asshole 00:00 Tools
Asshole (With Ian Singing Unreleased) 00:00 Tools
06 - Asshole 00:00 Tools
Here's The Rope (Complete Session) 00:00 Tools
Sheer Terror (Complete Session) 00:00 Tools
Mad At Myself (Live) 00:00 Tools
Jaded Eyes (live) 00:00 Tools
02 Fashionite 00:00 Tools
Government Issue - No Rights 00:00 Tools
Say Something - Visions And 00:00 Tools
A*****e (With Ian) 00:00 Tools
Happy People (Complete Session) 00:00 Tools
Insomniac (Complete Session) 00:00 Tools
Twisted Views (Complete Session) 00:00 Tools
No Way Out (Complete Session) 00:00 Tools
Fashionite (Complete Session) 00:00 Tools
Party Line (Complete Session) 00:00 Tools
Visions And/They Know/Caring Line 00:00 Tools
Caring Line (Live) 00:00 Tools
01 - Teenager In A Box 00:00 Tools
Everybodys Victim 00:00 Tools
Hole In The Scene (Live) 00:00 Tools
Another Day (Live) 00:00 Tools
07 Partyline 00:00 Tools
Fun Games 00:00 Tools
Government Issue - Beyond 00:00 Tools
No Rights (Complete Session) 00:00 Tools
Government Issue - Jaded Eyes 00:00 Tools
Legless Bull EP - Fashionite 00:00 Tools
Hall Of Fame (Complete Session) 00:00 Tools
Asshole (Complete Session) 00:00 Tools
It Begins Now (Live) 00:00 Tools
Government Issue - Wishing 00:00 Tools
08 government issue-asshole (w 00:00 Tools
Government Issue - The Price 00:00 Tools
Legless Bull EP - Religious Ripoff 00:00 Tools
Rabbits (Live) 00:00 Tools
Hey! Ronnie 00:00 Tools
Teenager In A Box (Complete Session) 00:00 Tools
11 Twisted View 00:00 Tools
06 Heres The Rope 00:00 Tools
Strange Wine 00:00 Tools
Lie Cheat Steal 00:00 Tools
Lost In Limbo (Complete Session) 00:00 Tools
Religious Ripoff (Complete Session) 00:00 Tools
Bored To Death (Complete Session) 00:00 Tools
Georgetown Blues (Complete Session) 00:00 Tools
RocknRoll Bullshit 00:00 Tools
Asshole (Ian Mackaye vocal, 1982) 00:00 Tools
4 wall hermit 00:00 Tools
On The Sceen 00:00 Tools
Here's the Rope (incomplete) 00:00 Tools
The Price (live) 00:00 Tools
02 - No Way Out 00:00 Tools
Legless Bull EP - Sheer Terror 00:00 Tools
Mad At Myself (Live CBGB 08-30-1987) 00:00 Tools
07 government issue-rock & roll bullshit 00:00 Tools
A Few Choice Words w/John Stabb 00:00 Tools
Government Issue - Sheer Terror 00:00 Tools
Government Issue - Bored To Death 00:00 Tools
Mas At Myself 00:00 Tools
03 Rock'n'Roll Bullshit 00:00 Tools
Message To A Friend (Out-Take) 00:00 Tools
07 government issue-rock & rol 00:00 Tools
Mad At Myself (Alternate Version) 00:00 Tools
06 Asshole 00:00 Tools
Wall hermit 00:00 Tools
Where You Live (Live) 00:00 Tools
08 No Rights 00:00 Tools
Better Than TV (Live) 00:00 Tools
Snubbing (Complete Session) 00:00 Tools
Legless Bull EP - Asshole 00:00 Tools
Asshole [with Ian] 00:00 Tools
04 Puppet on a String 00:00 Tools
Lie, Cheat Steal 00:00 Tools
(SomeTrips) Last Forever 00:00 Tools
02 Hour of 1 00:00 Tools
Legless Bull EP - Rock'n Roll Bullshit 00:00 Tools
Paryline 00:00 Tools
Government Issue - Connecticut 00:00 Tools
Connecticut (live) 00:00 Tools
Rock and Roll 00:00 Tools
T&A on T.V. 00:00 Tools
Hall of Fame (Complete Session) 00:00 Tools
Vanity Fair (Alternate Mix) 00:00 Tools
World Caved In (Hit & Run Version) 00:00 Tools
Mad At Myself 1 00:00 Tools
VisionsAnd_TheyKnow_CaringLine 00:00 Tools
Understand 1 00:00 Tools
Where You Live 1 00:00 Tools
ItBeginsNow_Wishing 00:00 Tools
Any Final Comments? 00:00 Tools
Government Issue - Public Stag 00:00 Tools
They Know (Live) 00:00 Tools
The Next Time 1 00:00 Tools
03 G.I. 00:00 Tools
07 government issue-snubbing 00:00 Tools
Say Something (Live) 00:00 Tools
Strange Win 00:00 Tools
Legless Bull EP - Bored to Death 00:00 Tools
No Rights [*][Live] 00:00 Tools
03 - Twisted Views 00:00 Tools
Government Issue - Better Than 00:00 Tools
Legless Bull EP - No Rights 00:00 Tools
09 Summer Of Blood 00:00 Tools
Say Something/Visions & Questions 00:00 Tools
The Land Of Me (Live) 00:00 Tools
Last Forever (Live) 00:00 Tools
Forever (Live) 00:00 Tools
Government Issue / No Rights 00:00 Tools
Beef Chant 00:00 Tools
Everebody's Getting Banned 00:00 Tools
Band New Cataracts 00:00 Tools
Hide in the Scene 00:00 Tools
Anarhy Is Dead 00:00 Tools
Lost in Limbo (Live) 00:00 Tools
Religous Ripoff 00:00 Tools
Sheer Terror (mk III) 00:00 Tools
Wishing 1 00:00 Tools
Familiar (Adelphi, MD '84) 00:00 Tools
Plain to See (Stabb EP) 00:00 Tools
melancholy kiss 00:00 Tools
Lost in Limbo / Plain to See 00:00 Tools
Hall of Fame (2) 00:00 Tools
where you live? 00:00 Tools
Visions & ? - They Know - Caring Line (Live CBGB 08-30-1987) 00:00 Tools
young live 00:00 Tools
When I'm Alone [*] 00:00 Tools
Beyond (Live CBGB 08-30-1987) 00:00 Tools
Fun and Games (Phila. '85) 00:00 Tools
Warzone Casuality 00:00 Tools
01 Hall of Fame 00:00 Tools
It Begins Now - Wishing (Live CBGB 08-30-1987) 00:00 Tools
Visions And? (live) 00:00 Tools
Government Issue - Where You L 00:00 Tools
Government Issue - Caring Line 00:00 Tools
Hole In The 00:00 Tools
Government Issue - Crash 00:00 Tools
Sheer Terror [*][Live] 00:00 Tools
Legless Bull EP - Cowboy Fashion 00:00 Tools
Government Issue - Another Day 00:00 Tools
asshole (w 00:00 Tools
Government Issue / Religious Ripoff 00:00 Tools
These Boots Are Made For WalkiGovernment Issue 00:00 Tools
Government Issue / Rock'n Roll Bullshit 00:00 Tools
Hall of Fame / Hey Ronnie (li) 00:00 Tools
02 - Bored to Death 00:00 Tools
07 Lost in Limbo 00:00 Tools
Jaded Eyes 1 00:00 Tools
These Boots Are Made For Walking (live) 00:00 Tools
Lie, Cheat, & Steal - GOVERNMENT ISSUE 00:00 Tools
Hey, Ronnie - GOVERNMENT ISSUE 00:00 Tools
Hour of 1 (incomplete) (Live) 00:00 Tools
Time to Escape (Adelphi, MD '84) 00:00 Tools
11 Insomniac 00:00 Tools
02 No Way Out 00:00 Tools
Beyond (3) 00:00 Tools
side b 00:00 Tools
08 government issue-asshole (with ian) 00:00 Tools
Hole in the Scene (2) 00:00 Tools
Wishing (3) 00:00 Tools
G.I. [*][Live] 00:00 Tools
Snubbing (1981) 00:00 Tools
G.I. (D.C. '82) 00:00 Tools
Government Issue - Rock'n Roll Bullshit 00:00 Tools
Hey Ronnie - Flex Your Head 00:00 Tools
Hey, Ronnie! 00:00 Tools
Interview (Baltimore '81) 00:00 Tools
09 Party Line 00:00 Tools
08 The Fear 00:00 Tools
side a 00:00 Tools
Im In Love With You So Why Do You Sleep In the Hay 00:00 Tools
Happy People [*][Live] 00:00 Tools
Puppet on a String [*][Live] 00:00 Tools
Government Issue - Summer Of B 00:00 Tools
vision and? 00:00 Tools
Government Issue: Snubbing 00:00 Tools
Public Stage : Live (Public Stage : Live) 00:00 Tools
Government Issue / Fashionite 00:00 Tools
Dalis Sunflower 00:00 Tools
10 For Ever 00:00 Tools
Government Issue / Asshole 00:00 Tools
33 - Bored To Death 00:00 Tools
32 - Asshole 00:00 Tools
Government Issue - Young Love 00:00 Tools
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Government Issue (often just GI) were an American straight edge hardcore punk band originating from the Washington DC scene, formed in 1980 and signed to Dischord Records. Many early songs were straightforward hardcore, clocking in at under the one minute mark, but they later progressed into a more melodic song-focused outfit (citing The Damned as key to gaining this catchy sound) and often with lyrics critical of the short-sighted behavior of the scene they aided in creating. Given the long running nature of the band, many participants in the DC hardcore scene had gone through G.I.'s membership. Government issue featured Brian Baker of Minor Threat, as well as Mike Fellows of Rites Of Spring and many others. The G.I.s, as they were known, became one of the longest-running bands in the DC hardcore scene. After numerous line-up changes, the band broke up in 1989, vocalist John Stabb (aka: "Fruit Loops", he also had a band called Betty Blue in the mid 90's, around 96-98, not sure of the status of that group however) and guitarist Tom Lyle formed an experimental outfit called Glee Club and made two records. Tom Lyle made two solo records that were more straight-ahead hard rock in 1990 and 1992. Tom Lyle, as well as Bassist J. Robbins and drummer Peter Moffett, regrouped to record 2 unrecorded GI songs. This was released as the Rollkicker Laydown EP. Bassist Jay Robbins went on to form Jawbox. Robbins later formed Burning Airlines with GI drummer Peter Moffett. Stabb formed the DC quintet The Factory Incident in 2000. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.