The entire recorded output of the Unknowns was released on a Marilyn Records CD in 1994 called Bruce Joyner and the Unknowns (though I was able to order it much more recently).  It consists I suppose of the cuts on the EP and LP plus an equal number of demos (mostly but not entirely of different songs) – 24 tracks in all that are a revelation to anyone who thinks that punk rock is one-dimensional.  Bruce Joyner’s own reminiscence of the band in the liner notes begins:  “The Unknowns were underrated, and our place among our peers seems to have been forgotten.”  Hopefully I have done my part to put an end to that.

 

(June 2011)