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Here’s what most agree is the hardest to find standard edition of a record on Dangerhouse — Rhino 39 Xerox/No Compromise b/w Prolixin Stomp. Every record on Dangerhouse has a couple of defining aspects that make it special and unique to the others. This one is kind of known for being more hardcore than most of the rest of the lot. Strictly speaking this is probably still “proto-hardcore”, but it takes a faster tempo than most other records/bands from 1979. Kind of sounds like a better version of the Middle Class “Out Of Vogue” 7″ to me. Another interesting fact, and maybe the reason it was actually faster than most of peers, was that Rhino 39 were high school aged at the time of this 7″. Sadly, singer Dave Dacron was actually never able to graduate because he was killed in a car crash a little before graduation. That also ensured that the Rhino 39 legacy ended up rather brief. They did have some demo tracks that have turned up on various anthologies over the years, and also later reformed with a new singer and less intense sound, but the group at their peak (i.e. this record) didn’t really get the chance they should have.

The A-side has a nice 1-2 punch with Xerox (about people with Xerox personalities…”norms”), and then cuts into No Compromise (a little too fast for me to decipher much of the lyrics). Both are done after about 1 minute and are really catchy and tight. The B-Side has a more mid-paced number “The Prolixin Stomp” which is at more of a pogoing speed but is as catchy as they come on Dangerhouse. Maybe this is the best of the Dangerhouse 2nd string.