scannest wrote:It's like a filmmaker saying "Spielberg is my idol. Every time I get behind the camera I think about how I can make my film as good as Hook"
WrEtcH wrote:up there with
"Los Angeles,"
" "Damaged,"
"Group Sex,"
Adolescents blue album,
"Back To Samoa,"
"Mommy's Little Monster,"
"The Record"
1st Suicidal album
(must I go on?)
as far as best LA Punk albums of the 80's.
sorry, I'm biased. oh and "Parents" is a great song. flawless album and one of the few punk concept albums around.
lewdd wrote:WrEtcH wrote:up there with
"Los Angeles,"
" "Damaged,"
"Group Sex,"
Adolescents blue album,
"Back To Samoa,"
"Mommy's Little Monster,"
"The Record"
1st Suicidal album
(must I go on?)
as far as best LA Punk albums of the 80's.
sorry, I'm biased. oh and "Parents" is a great song. flawless album and one of the few punk concept albums around.
Don't forget:
"Fear of Life"
"Living in Darkness"
"A World Apart"
"Sink with California"
"Suffer"
"Dance with Me"
gregpolard wrote:Sometimes I say “Everything Sucks” is my favorite (SELLOUT!!!!!) but other times it’s this one. It’s the first full album of theirs I ever heard and it’s super special to me and I never get sick of it.
clash77 wrote:gregpolard wrote:Sometimes I say “Everything Sucks” is my favorite (SELLOUT!!!!!) but other times it’s this one. It’s the first full album of theirs I ever heard and it’s super special to me and I never get sick of it.
But where do rank it Greg( not only among Descendents records but in Punk lore)?
scannest wrote:It's like a filmmaker saying "Spielberg is my idol. Every time I get behind the camera I think about how I can make my film as good as Hook"
scannest wrote:I always liked Christgau's review:
Milo Goes to College [New Alliance, 1982]
These fishermen don't kid around about what powers hardcore hyperdrive--not simply an unjust society, but also a battered psyche. When they're feeling bad, any kind of power--money, age, ass-man cool, the possession of a vagina--can set off their anarchic, patricidal, "homo"-baiting, gynephobic rage. But their bad feelings add poignant weight to the doomed vulnerability of the last four songs, which happen to be their hookiest--"Marriage" ("I want you to marry me"), "Hope" ("I'm not giving up"), "Bikeage" ("Don't be afraid, it's not too late") and--chillingly--"Jean Is Dead." And you thought there were no more concept albums. A-
scannest wrote:It's like a filmmaker saying "Spielberg is my idol. Every time I get behind the camera I think about how I can make my film as good as Hook"
scannest wrote:It's like a filmmaker saying "Spielberg is my idol. Every time I get behind the camera I think about how I can make my film as good as Hook"
gregpolard wrote:Someone explain the concept album portion, though. I am an idiot. Full disclosure.
xxxHunterxxx wrote:gregpolard wrote:Someone explain the concept album portion, though. I am an idiot. Full disclosure.
Think of the concept as "teenaged alienation."
scannest wrote:It's like a filmmaker saying "Spielberg is my idol. Every time I get behind the camera I think about how I can make my film as good as Hook"
xxxHunterxxx wrote:gregpolard wrote:Someone explain the concept album portion, though. I am an idiot. Full disclosure.
Think of the concept as "teenaged alienation."
soulforce wrote:Their best LP, for sure. But what's with this "concept album" tag? I never knew there was another concept hardcore punk record besides "Zen Arcade". Please, enlighten me!
xxxMidgexxx wrote:But perhaps I just love drone stuff in general.
77clash wrote:I loves me some "Terminal Preppie"
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