No Policy

No Policy
No Policy
EP by State of Alert
Released	March 1981
Recorded	December 1980 – January 1981
Studio	Inner Ear Studios in Arlington, Virginia
Genre	Hardcore punk
Length	8:20
Label	Dischord (No. 2)
Producer	Skip Groff
State of Alert chronology

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No Policy is the debut studio EP by the American hardcore punk band State of Alert, the first band to be fronted by Henry Rollins.^[2] Consisting of ten tracks, it was recorded at Inner Ear Studios in Arlington, Virginia, produced by Skip Groff and engineered by Inner Ear owner Don Zientara. No Policy was released on Dischord Records in March 1981, as the label's second release.^[3]^[2] No Policy was financed by Rollins, as Dischord was tied up in releasing Minor Threat's debut EP.^[4]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Henry Garfield and Michael Hampton, except where noted

Side one
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Lost in Space"	0:43
2.	"Draw Blank" (written by Garfield, Hampton and Lyle Preslar)	0:36
3.	"Girl Problems"	0:48
4.	"Blackout" (written by Garfield and Simon Jacobsen)	0:45
5.	"Gate Crashers"	1:03

Side two
No.	Title	Length
6.	"Warzone"	0:51
7.	"Riot"	0:41
8.	"Gang Fight"	0:59
9.	"Public Defender"	1:12
10.	"Gonna Hafta Fight" (written by Garfield and Jacobsen)	0:43
Total length:		8:20

Production

Cogan, Brian (2008). The Encyclopedia of Punk. Sterling. ISBN 978-1-4027-5960-4.