Angers (49) // 1983 - Décembre 1999 // Entre rock speed et hardcore mélodique.

Guitare et chant : Eric Sourice.
Guitare : Thierry.
Basse : Gérald / 1988 : Pierre-Yves Sourice.
Batterie : Christophe Sourice.
Discographie

"Femme fatale"
K7 démo (Autoproduit) 1984

  • Femme fatale / Emotion / Trouble / About your life

"Annie"
K7 démo (Autoproduit) 1984

  • Annie / Emotion / Femme fatale / These boots are made for walking (de ?)

"Femme fatale"
K7 démo (Autoproduit) 1985

  • Femme fatale / Trouble / Annie / Emotion

Thugs "Frenetic dancing"
EP (Gougnaf mouvement - GM 005, test pressing 43 exemplaires) 1984
 EP (Gougnaf mouvement - GM 005, test pressing 50 exemplaires) janvier 1989
[ Enregistré par Godefroy de Maupeou à Juvisy/Orge en novembre 1984 - Eric Sourice (guitare et chant), Thierry (guitare), Gérald (basse), Christophe Sourice (batterie). ]

  • Face A : Night dance / Femme fatale
  • Face B : You say why ? / Mad train

Thugs "Frenetic dancing"
SP (Gougnaf mouvement - GM 005, 3000 exemplaires avec insert) 1985
[ Enregistré par Godefroy de Maupeou à Juvisy/Orge en novembre 1984 - Eric Sourice (guitare et chant), Thierry (guitare), Gérald (basse), Christophe Sourice (batterie). ]

  • Face A : Night dance
  • Face B : Femme fatale
[ Février 1985 - Nineteen n°14 - Archives Nineteen. ]
[ Février 1985 - Le Dékapsuleur n°2 - Archives 45 tours de rock francais. ]

"Les héros du peuple sont immortels"
Compilation LP (Gougnaf mouvement - GM 010 / Kronstadt tapes - S/R, avec livret) décembre 1985
Compilation LP (Gougnaf mouvement - GM 010 / Kronstadt tapes - S/R) septembre 1989
Compilation CD (Gougnaf mouvement - GM046 / Kronstadt tapes - S/R, juste un simple insert recto) septembre 1989

  • Face B : Thugs "Emotion"

"Raw cuts - volume one garage french"
Compilation LP (Criminal damage - CRI MLP 129, Angleterre) 1985

  • Night dance / You say why ?

"Ultraviolette 2"
Compilation K7 live (F.M.R. - S/R) 1985

  • Face A : Thugs "Stepping stone"

"R.H.T."
Compilation Fléxi EP (L'oreille est hardie - OH 185, promo pochette ouvrable) 1986

  • Thugs "Dead dreams (extrait)"

Thugs "Radical hystery"
SP (Closer records - CL0761) 1986

  • Face A : Never get older
  • Face B : Sunday time

Thugs "Radical hystery"
LP (Closer records - CL0068) 1986
LP (Dikeoma diovasis, Grèce) 1986

  • Face A : Never get older / Le schpountz / Road closed / I'm so bad
  • Face B : Mad train / Where the party ? / Lost fight / Without annie

"Radical hystery"
CD (Closer records - CLCD98) 1989
CD (Frenetic dancing - ) 19??

  • Never get older / Le schpountz / Road closed / I'm so bad / Mad train / Where is the party ? / Lost fight / Without Annie / Sunday time / Night dance / Femme fatale

"Radical hystery"
CD (Crash disques - CRASH CD 63, digipack) 2004

  • Never get older / Le schpountz / Road closed / I'm so bad / Mad train / Where is the party ? / Lost fight / Without Annie / Sunday time / Night dance / Femme fatale / Emotion / You say why / Annie (live) / Without Annie (live) / You say why (live) / Start and go (live) / Come on (live) / Black & noir

"Battle of the garage vol 4, tomorrow the world !"
Compilation LP (Voxx records - VXS 200.045, USA) 1986

  • Femme fatale

"Eyes on you"
Compilation LP (Closer records - CL 0080 / Teenage records - C) décembre 1987

  • Dirty white race

"Electric troubles"
Maxi (Closer records - CL0078) 1987
Maxi (Vinyl solution - SOL-5, Angleterre) 1987

  • Dead dreams / Legal drugs / Bad news from the heart / Little kiddy
  • Bulgarian blues / Chess & crimes / See you soon

"Electric troubles / Dirty white race"
CD (Crash disques - CRASH CD 64, digipack) 2004

  • Dead dreams / Legal drugs / Bad news from the heart / Little kiddy / Bulgarian blues / Chess & crimes / See you soon / I need you / Lost in the suburbs / Dirty white race / The hedgehogs / At the beginning (live) / About your life (live) / Dirty white race (live) / Steppin' stone (live)

"Dirty white race"
Maxi (Vinyl solution - VS-12, Angleterre) 1988

  • I need you / Lost in the suburbs
  • Dirty white race / The hedge hogs

"Electric troubles / Dirty white race"
LP (Glitterhouse, Allemagne) 1988
LP (La fabrica magnetica, Espagne) 1988
LP (Sub pop - SP 38, USA) 1989

  • Dead dreams / I need you / Bad news from the heart / Legal drugs / Chess and crimes / The hedgehogs
  • Bulgarian blues / Dirty white race / Little kiddy / Lost in the suburbs /See you soon

"Something's gone wrong again"
Fléxi SP (Rock hardi - RH005, offert avec le n°18, 1000 exemplaires) 1988

  • Something's gone wrong again (des Buzzcocks)

"Never get older with the Thugs"
K7 live (Le légume du jour - Recolt 01, hors commerce, 200 exemplaires) août 1988
[ Face A : Enregistré au "Rock au maximum" à Clermond-Ferrand en mai 1988. Face B : Enregistré au "Capsul rock en juin 1988. ]

  • Mad train / The hedgehogs / Dead dreams / Lost in the suburbs / Little kiddy / Without Annie / Road closed / Chess & crimes / Dirty white race
  • Never get older / See you soon / Femme fatale / Where is the party ! / + Interview

"Never get older with les Thugs"
K7 live (Le légume du jour, hors commerce, 300 exemplaires) 1989

  • Mad train / The hedgehogs / Dead dreams / Lost in the suburbs / Little kiddy / Without Annie / Road closed / Chess & crimes
  • Never get older / See you soon / Femme fatale / Where is the party / + Interview.

"Fart 3"
Compilation EP (Vinyl solution, sans pochette, ronds centraux noir ou rouge, 1000 exemplaires Angleterre) 1989

  • Something's gone wrong again (des Buzzcocks)

"Fart 3"
Compilation EP (Vinyl solution - FART 3, H-C, sans pochette, ronds centraux noir ou rouge, 1000 exemplaires Angleterre) 1989

  • Something's gone wrong again (des Buzzcocks)

Thugs "Still hungry still angry"
LP (Bondage productions - BR 042, avec insert) novembre 1989
LP (Decoy / Vinyl solution - DYL4, Angleterre) 1989
LP (Glitterhouse - GR066, Allemagne) 1989
 LP (Glitterhouse - SP038b, USA) 1990

  • Face A : Your kind of freedom / Suspended time / Groucho's theme / Birthday / Birds of ill omen / Going down
  • Face B : Raining again / Inside room / Little vera's song / Time of reaction / Radical / Square of lights

Thugs "Still hungry still angry"
CD (Bondage productions - ABCD 042 CD / Decoy / Vinyl solution - DYL 4 CD, Angleterre) 1990
CD (Sub pop, USA) 1992
CD (Vinyl solution, Angleterre) 1992

  • CD : Your kind of freedom / Suspended time / Groucho's theme / Birthday / Birds of ill omen / Going down / Raining again / Inside room / Little vera's song / Time of reaction / Radical / Square of lights / I need you / Lost in the suburbs / Dirty white race / The hedge hogs / Dead dreams / Legal drugs / Bad news from the heart / Little kiddy / Bulgarian blues / Chess and crimes / See you soon

"Still hungry still angry"
CD (Crash disques - CRASH CD 65, digipack) 2004

  • Your kind of freedom / Suspended time / Groucho's theme / Birthday / Birds of ill omen / Going down / Raining again / Inside room / Little vera's song / Time of reaction / Radical / Square of lights / My lonely time / Restless / Groucho's theme (live) / Dead dreams (live) / I need you (live) / Chess and crimes (Live)

"Chess & crimes"
SP (Sub pop - SP29, 1500 exemplaires, USA) 1989

  • Chess & crimes
  • Sunday time

"This house is not a motel"
Compilation LP / CD (Glitterhouse - GR 0046, Allemagne) 1989

  • I need you.

"La nuit noire"
Compilation K7 live (Rock hardi - RH009, hors commerce) 1989

  • Something's gone wrong again / You say why

"Falling apart"
Split SP avec Uptown bones (USA) (Black & noir records - BNS 04) 1990

  • Falling apart

"DK pulser"
Compilation mini CD (Danceteria / DK pulser - DKPCD01, offert avec le zine) 1990

  • You say why ? (live à Angers 30/09/1989)

"Cette machine sert à tuer tous les fascistes"
Compilation CD (On a faim - OAF D007) 1991

  • CD : Thugs "Dirty white race (live)" "You say why ? (live)"

"I.A.B.F."
LP (Houlala - HH LP 9129 LP, avec insert) avril 1991
LP (Alternative tentacles - VIRUS 93, USA) 1991
LP (Vinyl solution) 1991
LP (Glitterhouse - GR 0142, Allemagne) 1991
LP (Capote, Espagne) 1991
LP (Toys factory, Japon) 1991
[ Enregistré et mixé Steve Whitfield au studio "The Live House" (Launceston, Angleterre) en janvier 91. ]

  • N°6 / I love you so / I.A.B.F. / Stop the war / Power race
  • And he kept on whistling / Good friends / Is it the right way / Paranoia / Welcome to the club

"I.A.B.F."
CD (Houlala - HH 9129 CD) 1991
CD (Alternative tentacles, USA) 1991
CD (Vinyl solution - DYL23CD, Angleterre) 1991
CD (Glitterhouse, Allemagne) 1991
CD (Capote, Espagne) 1991
CD (Toys factory, Japon) 1991
[ Enregistré et mixé Steve Whitfield au studio "The Live House" (Launceston, Angleterre) en janvier 91. ]

  • N°6 / I love you so / I.A.B.F. / Stop the war / Power race / And he kept on whistling / Good friends / Is it the right way / Paranoia / Welcome to the club

"I.A.B.F."
CD (Crash disques - CRASH CD 66, digipack) 2004

  • N°6 / I love you so / I.A.B.F. / Stop the war / Power race / And he kept on whistling / Good friends / Is it the right way / Paranoia / Welcome to the club / Suspended time (live) / Birds of illomen (live) / I need you (live) / Groucho's theme (live) / Birthday (live) / Your kind of freedom (live) / Bulgarian blues (live) / Falling apart / Welcome to the club (démo)

Thugs "Sunday time"
Split EP avec Sale défaite (La bande à Bonnot - BB001, vinyl vert ou violet, Italie) 1992

  • Sunday time

"Virus 100"
Compilation LP (Alternative tentacles - VIRUS 100 / Decay, Angleterre) 1992
Compilation CD (Alternative tentacles - VIRUS 100 / Decay, Angleterre) 1992
Compilation LP (Alternative tentacles - VIRUS 100, USA) 1992
Compilation CD (Alternative tentacles - VIRUS 100, USA) 1992

  • Moon over marin (de Dead Kennedys)

"Bad & mad"
Compilation CD (Mad's co / Association de malfaiteurs) 1992

  • I love you so

"The bat is back - An alternative tentacles records sampler"
Compilation CDm (Alternative tentacles - VIRUS 112CD, promo, USA) 1992

  • I love you so

"As happy as possible"
Double LP (Vinyl solution - SOL39, 1500 exemplaires, Angleterre) 1993

  • As happy as / Papapapa / Harpo's theme / Horror toys
  • Biking / Immigrés, clandestins / August / Dreamers'song
  • Monkey 58 strings sonics fly / You wanna die / (Maria cries in lima) / Looking in your eyes
  • Ad men / (omar feels fear in weimar) / Flags / Desert days / (Wang leaves china)

"As happy as possible"
CD (Vinyl solution, Angleterre) 1993
CD (Roadrunner records - RR 9028-2, Hollande) 1993
CD (Sub pop - SP 228, USA) 1993

  • As happy as / Papapapa / Biking / Harpo's theme / Horror toys / Ad men / August / Dreamers'song / (omar feels fear in weimar) / Flags / Monkey 58 strings sonics fly / You wanna die / (Maria cries in lima) / Looking in your eyes / Immigrés, clandestins / Desert days / (Wang leaves china)

"As happy as possible"
CD (Crash disques - CRASH CD 69, digipack) 2004

  • As happy as / Papapapa / Biking / Harpo's theme / Horror toys / Ad men / August / Dreamers'song / (omar feels fear in weimar) / Flags / Monkey 58 strings sonics fly / You wanna die / (Maria cries in lima) / Looking in your eyes / Immigrés, clandestins / Desert days / (Wang leaves china) / Omar feels fear in weimar (live) / Papapapa (live) / There's so many lies / Road closed (live)

"As happy as possible"
SP (Sub pop - SP 237, USA) 1993

  • As happy as possible
  • August

"Curtis Pitts: sub pop employee of the month"
Compilation LP/CD (Sub pop - / SP 230b, USA) 1993

  • Flags

"Lutz R Mastmeyer: sub pop employee of the month"
Compilation LP/CD (Sub pop - SP 111/287 / SPCD 111/287, USA) 1993

  • Suspended time

"Enragez-vous"
Compilation CD (Black & noir records - BNCD13) décembre 1993

"Roadrunner 1994"
Compilation CD (Roadrunner records - RR PROMO 094) 1994

  • Biking

"Radiorunners II"
Compilation CDm (Roadrunner, promo) 1993

  • Papapapa

"Battle of the garage vol 2 + 3 + 4"
Compilation CD (Voxx, USA) 1994

  • Femme fatale

"Strike"
LP (Roadrunner - RR 8891-1) 1996
LP (Sup pop, USA) 1996

  • Allez les filles / Summer / Strike / Poison head / Loving son / Bella canzon / Assez
  • Waiting / Stories / New day / The letter / So heavy

"Strike"
CD (Roadrunner - RR 8891-1) 1996
CD (Sup pop, USA) 1996

  • Allez les filles / Summer / Strike / Poison head / Loving son / Bella canzon / Assez / Waiting / Stories / New day / The letter / So heavy

"Strike"
CD (Crash disques - CRASH CD 70, digipack) 2004

  • Allez les filles / Summer / Strike / Poison head / Loving son / Bella canzon / Assez ! / Waiting / Stories / New day / The letter / So heavy / Strike (Jon Auer remix) / The name / Flags (live) / 16 Little Vera's song (live) / Bulgarian blues (live)

"Nineteen something"
LP (Labels - 7243 8450261 4) 1997

  • Henri's back / Side by side / I was dreaming / Les lendemains qui chantent / Never work anymore / Take ma away
  • Defeated / Ya basta / A chance / Il gruppetto / While I'm waiting / Magic hour / Soon

"Nineteen something"
CD (Labels - 7243 8 450262 1, digipack) 1997

  • Henri's back / Side by side / I was dreaming / Les lendemains qui chantent / Never work anymore / Take ma away / Defeated / Ya basta / A chance / Il gruppetto / While I'm waiting / Magic hour / Soon

"Automne 1997"
Compilation double CD (Labels / Virgin, promo) 1997

  • Henri's back

"10 ans d'abus"
Compilation CDm (Abus dangereux - ABUS 39, avec le n°face 51, 5000 exemplaires) avril 1997

  • Words for nothing ?

"Nineteen something"
CD (Crash disques - CRASH CD 71, digipack) 2004

  • Henri's back / Side by side / I was dreaming / Les lendemains qui chantent / Never work anymore / Take ma away / Defeated / Ya basta / A chance / Il gruppetto / While I'm waiting / Magic hour / Soon / Nineteen something / New centurions (de Salaryman) / Yougoslavia

"Best of rock français"
Compilation CD (CNR music France - 3024812) septembre 1997

  • CD : Thugs "Dirty white race"

"Up to D.A.T."
Compilation CDm live (Mad's collectif - MAD 003, 1000 exemplaies) 1997

  • Road closed

"I was dreaming"
CDm (Labels / Virgin) 1997

  • I was dreaming / Les lendemains qui chantent

"Rock sound sampler - Volume 16"
Compilation CDm (Rock sound - RSCD016, offert avec "Rock sound" n°54) janvier 1998

  • Never work anymore

"New centurions"
S/SP avec Salaryman (USA) (Frenetic dancing - FD002, 1500 exemplaires) 1998

  • New centurions (de Salaryman)

"Sound: Check"
Compilation double CD (Sub pop records - SPCD 433, USA) 1998

  • Les lendmains qui chantent / I was dreaming

"Tout doit disparaître"
LP (Labels - ) 1999

  • This world is looking great / Gone / Rester debout / Mio-mio / The river / I'm scared / Good way / In town / Your smile / I'm just kidding / Le hamac / I loved this way

"Tout doit disparaître"
CD (Labels - 7243 8 48164 2 1) 1999

  • This world is looking great / Gone / Rester debout / Mio-mio / The river / I'm scared / Good way / In town / Your smile / I'm just kidding / Le hamac / I loved this way

"Tout doit disparaître"
CD (Crash disques - CRASH CD 72, digipack) 2004

  • This world is looking great / Gone / Rester debout / Mio-mio / The river / I'm scared / Good way / In town / Your smile / I'm just kidding / Le hamac / I loved this way / You'd better grow / My turn-around / I'm lonely / Everybody / Good way (live) / I'm just kidding (live) / Side by side (live) / I'm scared (live)

"Music with attitude - Volume 34"
Compilation CDm (Rock sound - RSCD0034, avec le n°72) septembre 1999

  • I'm scared

"Punk rawk explosion 12"
Compilation CDm (Punk rawk - PR008, avec "Punk rawk" n°12) juin 2003

"X-Rock #03"
Compilation CDm (X-rock - 03, offert avec "X-rock" n°3) 2003

  • Dead dreams

"Road Closed (1983-1999)"
Double CD (Crash disques - CRASH CD 57, digipack) 2004

  • Welcome to the club / Slide by slide / Gone / Words For Nothing? 1.05 Waiting 1.06 Road Closed 1.07 Papapapa 1.08 Moon Over Marin 1.09 Dead Dreams 1.10 Biking 1.11 Rester Debout 1.12 Brand New Cadillac (Live) 1.13 I Need You 1.14 Birthday 1.15 You Say Why? (Live) 1.16 Is It The Right Way 2.01 N.6 2.02 The River 2.03 As Happy As 2.04 Femme Fatale 2.05 I Love You So 2.06 I Was Dreaming 2.07 Strike 2.08 Fier De Ne Rien Faire 2.09 And He Kept On Whistling (Remix) 2.10 Summer 2.11 Dreamer's Song (Live) 2.12 Stop The War 2.13 Sunday Time 2.14 Something's Gone Wrong Again 2.15 Bulgarian Blues 2.16 Little Vera's Song (Live)

"Nyark nyark !"
Compilation CD (Zones / Folklore de la zone mondial - S/R, offert avec le livre) 8 novembre 2007

  • CD : Thugs "And he kept on whisthling"

Thugs "Come on, people"
LP live (Slow Death - SD029 / Crash Disques - CRASH LP 97, 500 exemplaires) 2012
LP live (Slow Death - SD029 / Crash Disques - CRASH LP 97, 500 exemplaires) 2013
[ Enregistré live le 10 juin 2008 à Bordeaux lors du "No reform tour". ]

  • Face A : Intro / As happy as possible / I need you / Dead dreams / Femme fatale / Waiting
  • Face B : Biking / Square of light / Dirty white race / Birds of ill omen / I love you so

Les reprises/hommages !

- Reprise de "Biking" par Salaryman (USA) sur S/SP avec les Thugs (Autoprod / Frenetic dancing, 1998).

Les concerts
- Samedi 15 juin 1985 au Seiiism (rue du docteur Charcot) à Champigny (94) - Avec Rats, Parabellum, Thugs, Hôt Pants.
Presse
[ Août 1985 - Le Dékapsuleur n°5 - Archives 45 tours de rock francais. ]
[ Avril 1985 - Nineteen n°1 - Archives Nineteen. ]
[ Mai 1986 - Les Héros Du Peuple Sont Immortels n°8. ]
 
[ Novembre 1989 - Le Légume Du Jour n°5. ]