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====== Circle One ======

Punk Rock / Hardcore\\
Pico Rivera, California, USA

Circle One is a hardcore punk band formed in Pico Rivera, California in 1980. The band recorded a couple of demos in 1981 and an LP in 1983. The band split up in 1985 after Danny Dorman joined the band Wasted Youth. In 1991, the lead singer John Macias was killed by the police in Santa Monica, California. They reformed in 2003 and released a new LP in 2008 featuring new vocalist Billy Brown.

===== Discography =====

| 1980 | First Demo |
| 1980 | Second Demo |
| 1981 | Demos|
| 1983 | Patterns of Force | Upstart Records |
| 1991 | Live '81 | Feedback Records |
| 1991 | Survive (compilation) | Lost and Found Records |
| 1997 | Are You Afraid? (compilation) | Grand Theft Audio |
| 2008 | Never Give Up | Artifix Records |
| 2013 | Public Service Tracks | Puke N Vomit Records |
| 2019 | Demos & Comp | Puke N Vomit Records |

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==== First Demo ====

1980 Independent

  - Nothing
  - One Chord
  - In This City
  - F.O.
  - G.I. Combat
  - L-R-L
  - Red Machine
  - High School Society
  - Plastic Life
  - Relics From The Past

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==== Second Demo ====

1980 Independent

  - Are You Afraid
  - Wap
  - God Bless America
  - Highway Patrolmen

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==== Demos ====

1981 Independent

John Macias - Vocals\\
Michael Vallejo - Guitar\\
Mike Ituarte - Bass\\
Bill Ituarte - Drums

  - One Chord
  - In This City
  - F.O.
  - G.I. Combat
  - Left - Right - Left
  - Red Machine
  - High School Society
  - Plastic Life
  - Relics From the Past
  - W.A.P.

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==== Patterns of Force ====

1983 Upstart Records (UP-001)

John Macias - Vocals\\
Michael Vallejo - Guitars\\
Danny Dorman - Bass\\
D.J. Hill - Percussion

  - Social Climbing Leaches
  - Beware
  - The Gospel
  - Survive
  - Fading
  - Destroy Exxon
  - Patterns of Force
  - Plastic Life
  - Rapture
  - Vietnam Vets
  - Pride
  - Our Sword
  - Unity

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==== Live '81 ====

1991 Feedback Records (FB01)

John Macias - Vocals\\
Michael Vallejo - Guitar\\
Mike Ituarte - Bass\\
Bill Ituarte - Drums

  - You're So Boring
  - Relics From the Past
  - Hippycrits
  - PAU
  - L-R-L
  - Real Machine
  - Anarchy
  - Highway Patrolmen (demo version)

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==== Survive ====

1991 Lost and Found Records (LF 023)

John Macias - Vocals\\
Michael Vallejo - Guitar\\
Mike Ituarte - Bass on tracks 1-14\\
Danny Doormann - Bass on tracks 15-27\\
Bill Ituarte - Drums on tracks 1-10\\
Jody Hill - Drums on tracks 11-27

  - One Chord
  - In This City
  - F.O.
  - G.I. Combat
  - Left - Right - Left
  - Red Machine
  - High School Society
  - Plastic Life
  - Relics From the Past
  - W.A.P.
  - Metal Roulette
  - God Bless America
  - Societies Tool
  - When the Bomb Falls	
  - Fading
  - Destroy Exxon
  - Unity
  - G.I. Combat
  - Are You Afraid
  - Patterns of Force
  - Plastic Life
  - Draw The Line
  - Pride
  - Survive
  - Going Against the Grain
  - Rapture
  - Our Sword

Tracks 1-10 from 1981 Demos.\\
Tracks 11-14 live from the Eastern Front show in 1982.\\
Tracks 15-27 live from Phoenix, Arizona in 1982.\\

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==== Are You Afraid? ====

1997 Grand Theft Audio (GTA 029)

  - Social Climbing Leeches
  - Beware
  - Gospel
  - Survive
  - Fading / Destroy Exxon
  - Patterns of Force
  - Plastic Life / Rapture
  - Vietnam Vets
  - Pride
  - Our Sword
  - Unity
  - Destroy Exxon
  - Nothing
  - One Chord
  - In This City
  - F.O.
  - G.I. Combat
  - L-R-L
  - Red Machine
  - High School Society
  - Plastic Life
  - Relics From the Past
  - Are You Afraid
  - Wap
  - God Bless America
  - Highway Patrolmen
  - Are You Afraid
  - Hate, Lust, Filth and Greed
  - Highway Patrolmen
  - Scared Straight
  - Don't Get Mad
  - Highway Patrolmen
  - Teenage Prison
  - Hate, Lust, Filth and Greed
  - Going Against the Grain
  - Interview

Tracks 1-12 are from //Patterns of Force//.\\
Tracks 13-22 are from their first demo.\\
Tracks 23-26 are from their second demo.\\
Tracks 27-29 are live from LA in 1983.\\
Tracks 30-33 are rehearsal songs from 1980.\\
Tracks 34-35 are compilation tracks from 1983 and 1984.\\

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//(...to be continued...)//

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