Suicide Commandos - "Burn It Down"

One night in the fall of '77, the Minnetonka Fire Department burned down the condemned Utopia House--the legendary Commandos HQ that the band had rented for $30 a month. Knowing it would happen, the band wrote one of its finest anthems for the occasion--"Burn It Down"--shooting a video for the song with the flaming house as a live backdrop

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• suicide
• commandos
• minneapolis
• burn
• it
• down

[jimmyrocks08]

Go watch Iggy, the Dead Boys, the Clash, they were decent for Mpls in 1978, and were one of the first up there, but hardly blow away, and yeah;;; I saw 'em live, in person at the Longhorn a couple of times. They did all get a lot better as they got older, my guess is the reunion stuff is likely much better than the original stuff. It musta' been cool to have been in the mix in the "brand new scene" of punk though, cheers to 'em !

[Yodelmeister1]

Anyone know where the Utopia House was? Maybe the address?

[Teeslaw]

They'd get gigs at these bars in the outer burbs where the few people who'd show up, besides us, wouldn't get what they were doing. The sound on 'Make a Record' Is pretty thin. They sounded better live. Neither Chris nor Steve were all that great as front men, they didn't put on all that much of 'a show.' But their gigs were a blast because they always rocked, and the crowd got into it, or didn't, and it was always a scene.

[Dawitness11]

Jesus Saves!

[SchlafAroundTheBend]

don't know why but I love listening to the suicide commandos while jogging

[whitbyjet65]

The most annoying record ever made.

[cwolfe74]

Got to see these guys 2 years ago after work at work,a treat indeed!!Slightly unplugged.

[daredevilpre]

They sound like a cross between Blood Rock and the Ramones, and I mean that as a huge compliment.

At the end of a PBS clip in Minn from a Ramones show, you can hear a woman say "I'd rather see the Suicide Commandos."

I think they both rule

[Dronemful]

masterpiece

[MysticalManEusine]

hilarious