Ruby Records was a subsidiary of Slash Records. It was run by Chris D (Desjardins), leader of the
Flesh Eaters.
It seems the more mainstream-palatable punk
rock was issued on Slash, while the more hard-core stuff was on Ruby. At first Ruby, like Slash, was
distributed independently. In 1982, Ruby went with Slash under the Warner Brothers distribution
operations. Once it got to Warner Brothers, it was not long for the world.
Ruby Records used a gold label with the logo in red print at the top for many of its issues (e.g., 101, 102,
805, 807), and a silver variation for 103. Albums 804 and 806 had custom label designs.
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RUBY ALBUM DISCOGRAPHY
Number - Title - Artist - [Release Date] (Chart) Contents
JRR 101 - A Minute to Pray, A Second to Die - Flesh Eaters [1981] Digging My
Grave/Pray Til You Sweat/River Of Fever/Satan's Stomp//See You In The Boneyard/So Long/Cyrano De
Berger's Back/Divine Horseman
JRR 102 - Fire of Love - Gun Club [1981] Sex Beat/Preaching The Blues/Promise
Me/She's Like Heroin To Me/For The Love Of Ivy/Fire Spirit//Ghost On The Highway/Jack On Fire/Black
Train/Cool Drink Of Water/Goodbye Johnny
JRR 103 - In Berlin - Blurt [1981] Cherry Blossom Polish/My Mother Was a Friend of an
Enemy of the People/Puppeteers of the World Unite/Dyslexia Rules//Get/Tube Plane/Paranoid
Blues/Ubu
JRR 804 - Walk Among Us - Misfits [1982] Original pressings have a pink sky on the
cover and a black label with red print. Later pressings have a blue sky. Some pressings are on blue
vinyl. 20 Eyes/I Turned Into a Martian/All Hell Breaks Loose/Vampira/Nike A Go
Go/Hatebreeders/Mommy Can I Go Out and Kill Tonight [Live]/Night of the Living Dead/Skulls/Violent
World/Devils Whorehouse/Astro Zombies/Braineaters
JRR 805 - Forever Came Today - Flesh Eaters [1982] My Life To Live/A Minute To Pray,
A Second To Die/Secret Life/Shallow Water/The Rosy Hours//The Wedding Dice/Hand Of Glory/Drag
My Name In The Mud/Because Of You/Tightrope On Fire
JRR 806 - 13.13 - Lydia Lunch [1982] Stares To Nowhere/3x3/This Side Of
Nowhere/Snakepit Breakdown//Dance Of The Dead Children/Suicide Ocean/Lock Your Door/Afraid Of
Your Company
JRR-807 - The Days of Wine and Roses - Dream Syndicate [1982] Tell Me When
It's Over/Definitely Clean/That's What You Always Says/Then She Remembers/Halloween//When You
Smile/Until Lately/Too Little, Too Late/The Days Of Wine And Roses
Distributed by Warner Brothers:
7599-2 3844-1 - The Days of Wine and Roses - Dream Syndicate [1982] Tell Me When
It's Over/Definitely Clean/That's What You Always Says/Then She Remembers/Halloween//When You
Smile/Until Lately/Too Little, Too Late/The Days Of Wine And Roses
Thanks to Mark Lungo.
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