| "Pay to Cum" | |
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| Single by Bad Brains | |
| A-side | "Pay to Cum" |
| B-side | "Stay Close to Me" |
| Released | 1980 |
| Format | 7" 45 |
| Recorded | 1979, Jimi Quidd Studio |
| Genre | Hardcore punk |
| Length | 1:33 |
| Label | Bad Brain Records |
| Writer(s) | Bad Brains, Dr. Know, Paul Hudson, Darryl Jenifer, Earl Hudson |
| Producer | Jimi Quidd |
"Pay to Cum" is the first single recorded by D.C. hardcore band Bad Brains. It was recorded in NYC by Jimi Quidd who heard the band play at a New York Club.
The "A-side" to the original single was "Pay to Cum", while the flip side was "Stay Close to Me", identified as "Side 1". The original 7" had no "B-side" or "Side 2".
The song was featured in the 1985 movie After Hours directed by Martin Scorsese. It was later featured during the opening credits of American Hardcore, a 2006 documentary.
Trouser Press called it a "memorable ... 1:33 of free-fire guitar rage" that established Bad Brains' "mastery" of hardcore punk.[1]
Filter magazine in 2007 called it "one of the fastest, most furious songs ever recorded".[2]
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