In the art of rock, there can be no pussyfooting around. Written in 1985, aimed squarely at tyrants, oppressors and loud-talking, strong-arm boors of all stripes, “Suffering the Sadist” is razor sharp and fully updated for 2025’s game of fools. Now as then and forever forward, we have no time, respect, or sympathy for bullies.

On the flip side, "Pointless Youth" is a previously unreleased track recently unearthed and reconstructed with additional recording. Both tracks are late-phase B Pictures, post-punk, pop-adjacent, and bristling with nerve.

Play LOUD!

Jeffrey Bright – voice, keyboards
Jim Harper – guitar
Paul Comstock – bass
Kevin Fennell – drums

Initial recordings:
A basement somewhere northeast of Dayton, Ohio
1985

Restoration, additional recording,
mixing, mastering:
Jeffrey Bright / JABMA
Studio La Casa
San Francisco, California
2019–2025

Cover art & design – Jeffrey Bright

c) 1985 B Pictures
p) 2025 JABMA
Fugitive Music Publishing / BMI

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B Pictures – Suffering the Sadist

Written and recorded in a basement somewhere northeast of Dayton, Ohio, in 1985. Play it LOUD!

Voice, keyboards – Jeffrey Bright
Guitar – Jim Harper 
Bass – Paul Comstock
Drums – Kevin Fennell

Words – Bright
Music – Harper, Comstock, Fennell

Suffering the Sadist

Written and recorded in a basement somewhere northeast of Dayton, Ohio, in 1985. Play it LOUD!

Voice, keyboards – Jeffrey Bright
Guitar – Jim Harper
Bass – Paul Comstock
Drums – Kevin Fennell

Words – Bright
Music – Harper, Comstock, Fennell

Pointless Youth

JABMA is a label for the music created and performed by Jeffrey Alan Bright with a series of indie/alternative bands in Dayton, Ohio and San Francisco, California beginning in 1984 and ending in late 1999. Those acts include B Pictures and The Pleasures Pale in Dayton, and Darke County, Myself a Living Torch and finally Jeff Bright & The Sunshine Boys in San Francisco.