Review #28 - Saint Vitus - Saint Vitus

Genre: Doom Metal, Slow Heavy Metal
Label: SST Records
Country: USA
Released: 1984
My Rating: 8/8

Saint Vitus, proboably the earliest "doom metal" bands formed as early as in 1979. They took their name from a Black Sabbath song "Saint Vitus Dance". Saint Vitus was a christian saint who according to a legend, cured some cesar's son from a so called dancing disease aka Huntington's disease which causes dementia and forced motions or something like that. This is their first album and it's selftitled as you proboably realised unless you are blind and can't actually read anything i'm writing here so brrrrrrrrrr. It was released on one of the main influences of this band, Black Flag's label SST and produced by one of Black Flag members, Dez Cadena along with 2 other dudes. It's cool that the band had alot of influences, but still their sound doesn't sound like a total ripoff. It surprised me that theres quite a few "heavy" rock bands who were influenced by hardcore punk rock like Black Flag and the Dead Kenndys for example and not just Deep Purple or something like that. Some people say that Black Flag is kinda like Black Sabbath but just sped up. If you check out Saint Vitus' cover of "Thirsty and Miserable" you can see what that means. The word "vittu" in finnish means fuck and if you say like ei vitus, it means fuck no, or you can say totta vitus, and that means fuck yeah. Saint Fuck. HAHAHA!!!......... i said Black Flag alot of times there.


1. Saint Vitus
They start their first album the cool Black Sabbath way, with the same song title as the band's name. Really awesome song to start the album with. This song has one of the coolest riffs ever. Dave Chandler is one of my favorite guitar players. He has also proboably the coolest look of all heavy metal bands ever. The singer at this period of time was a guy named Scott Reager and he sings with kind of high voice like The Scorpions or something. The lyrics are kind of a story of a yound vitus who the king wants to eliminate for the religious propaganda he pursuits. Real cool noise solo threwn in. The whole song is just perfect, perfect formula and everything. The song ends with the words,

Well,people always stay the same
They never seem to learn
Till they all have lost their faith
And their souls have burned


2. White Magic/Black Magic
Stars with the drums going bang bang bang bang, in a cool smooth rhythm. Really down tuned cool guitar sound here too. The lyrics have a pretty deep statement, but they are also kind of confusing which makes it cool, cause it makes me wanna figure out exactly what they mean. He sings about what he believes in and what not.

3. Zombie Hunger
Again totally awesome heavy ass riff. Maybe this doesn't hit the super mega hardcore metal fans but i like that Vitus kept it heavy and "groovey" and didn't take it over the limit... This song is kind of slow compared to the first two. Slow tempo, but it could be ever slower which had made it a bit heavier and dronier or something, but this is alright. The riff at the ending part of the song kinda reminds me of Black Sabbath's name title song, but thats not a surprise. The lyrics are a bit funny, there saying that a guy has turned into a zombie and eats little girls "cause free meals ain't wasted" haha..

4. The Psychopath
The song starts with kind of strange and a bit creepy guitar riff. Makes me think of myself walking alone in the dark on a dark cemetery where theres lots of fog and hearing weird ass elfs laughter and killer clowns coming from under the ground with rusty knives wanting to kill me. This is the longest song on the album, almost 10 whole minuttoes. The guitar sounds are totally class A, godly love making to my ears. You really just get lost in the melody. Love stuff like this. i love kind of long guitar solos which change their format rapidly. I don't really dig the singer's style on this album. I think a more low, raspy voiced person had been much better, since this song has a depressive feel in it and this guy sounds like he could be in a glam rock band like early Pantera or whatever. i think he kinda over sings too much at times and his tone just doesn't fit.

5. Burial At The Sea
Just 5 songs? cmon dude. Well it's actually 5 really amazing songs so i shouldn't be complaining.
Again a slow tempo in the song. Makes me think of a march to a war against flesh eating zombies or this could be used in a scene of some very old zombie horror movie. That would be awesome. Right about on the middle of the song, the beat gets faster. This song would totally fit into a war movie with knights or something or more like vikings fighting in their ships with their swords and spilling lots of blood and guts and slashing off eachothers heads and other bodyparts, since this song is about "burial at the sea".

Well that was Saint fuckin' Vitus. Listen to them if you're into Black Sabbath style of music or even early 80's hardcore punk rock fans like me can really get into this band aswell.

Review #27 - Over The Edge (Movie)

Genre: -
Country: USA
Released: 1979
My Rating: 8/8



This is the first movie i'll be reviewing here. It may include spoilers, but i try not to reveal too much.
The movie is based on a place called New Granada, which is kinda small place and pretty much isolated from the big cities. Alot of teenagers live there and all the parents think they're just out of control and blame everything on them. The kids hung out at a local recreation center and drink and do drugs, but never really annoying their parents on purpose.
The main characters in the movie are two boys, Carl and Ritchie. Carl is from a desent above the average kinda family and Ritchie lives in the suburbs with his family. One day a guy called Mark shoots at a cop car window with a rifle. Not with a real bullet though. I don't know what kinda bullet it was but fuck it. It goes through the window and the copper starts chasing after them. Mark and his friend took off and on their way, they go past Carl and Ritchie and warn them of a cop coming after them. The boys hide for some reason and the cop sees them and arrests them, thinking they were the ones who shot at him. The cops are real assholes, but the boys give it back to them. The boys won't tell who shot at the cop and get out of the station. Meanwhile some rich Texas millionaires come to town and want to built some industrial buildings to New Granada and the kids don't like it so they start to tease them as much as possible. Carl's dad is really nervous 'cause hes the middleman in the business. The boys succeed to get the rich people out of there. The adults realise that the kids are behind this and make cops to keep an eye on them and the cop annoys them as much as possible. The kids start to rebel against and stuff. Carl has a crush on the prettiest girl in town, Cory and starts hanging out with her. Cory gives Carl and Ritchie a gun which gets them in trouble later on. The town arranges a meeting at the local school for the parents discussing about the kids' behaviour. Being totally pissed off already about being threated so bad, the kids gather around and walk at the school, meaning to thrash it to the ground.
The characters are real interesting and they do a good job acting in the movie and Pamela Ludwig is hot. It's the hollywood pretty boy Matt Dillon's first movie. I don't care about screen play or stuff like that. The bottom line is that the story is really good and interesting and this is a movie you can watch several times and not get tired of it. Being called the greatest teen rebellion movie ever, i can agree with that. The music is quite good too. It includes songs from Cheap Trick, The Ramones, The Cars, Jimi Hendrix and few others.

Review #26 The Weirdos - Destroy All Music (EP)

Genre: Punk Rock
Label: Bomp Records
Country: US of A
Released: 1977
My Rating: 6/8


Formed in Los Angeles in '76 and yada yada yada. This is the first time i'm hearing The Weirdos, i don't know much about them. All i've heard about them before is that their drummer Nickey Beat was the Germs drummer for a little while. This is their first release i think.






1. Destroy All Music
Woow that quite a heavy line. If all music was destroyed i'd be very very more miserable. Well the title is just irony i guess. The guitar playing here reminds me little bit of Black Flag's style. Weird part is that no matter they sing kinda "slow" i can't understand all the words, so i don't know what this songs really about.

2. Life Of Crime
I read some negative reactions towards this track before, but it's not that bad. Like the riff and the improvising the guitarist does here and there. The songs about some girl who he (whoever) liked but she "got hungry for a life of crime" and he doesn't want to be with her anymore because of that.

3. Why Do You Exist?
The beginning starts like the song is trying to built some intesity on it, with the fast beating drum beat and slow guitar riff, but quickly gets into not that impressive of a pop kinda song. The loud guitar fills are cool though. Don't know the lyrics to this one either.


Wasn't quite as i expected it to be. They were more poppy like a nice version of the Sex Pistols. But given that it was released in 1977, the music is way more original than some emerging bands of the time. If that makes sense. It's 3am so i guess i don't make much sense at this period of time. The bad reviews gotten track "Life of Crime" is my fav track on the album.

Review #25 - Iggy and the Stooges - Raw Power

Genre: Rock n Roll, Protopunk
Label: Columbia Records

Country: US

Released: 1973
My Rating: 8/8

This album was another musical turning point in my life. I didn't honestly know nothing about the Stooges, i just bought this album 'cause i've read it praised by some of my favorite bands at that time and so i felt like it could be a cool record. At first i didn't think Raw Power wasn't that good as i expected, but as i learned more about the Stooges, be it their notorious behaviour and Iggy Pop's unstoppable energy and ability to make people stare at them with their mouths open, or the massive influence they had for future generation bands, lets just name a few bands that got influenced by The Stooges just for fun, The Ramones, Dead Kennedys, Tales Of Terror, Dead Boys, Sex Pistols, Black Flag, The Fluid, Joan Jett, Nirvana, The White Stripes, Green day, Rancid, The Germs, The Wipers, Sonic Youth, Bikini Kill, Misfits, Fang, Mudhoney, Joy Division, The Clash, The Damned, Circle Jerks, The Runaways, The Jam, Husker Du, Alice in chains.... Or just simply that they rocked so motherfucking hard and they were born to do so. It wasn't phony. I learned that this is one remarkable piece in music history. This was the 3rd Stooges album to be released. 3 years before they had released another remarkable album titled "Fun House". Their record label back then was Elektra and they dropped the Stooges off their label after Fun House!!! No one liked these nasty boys back then. No one thought they were worthy enough, but those who did care about them, did really become somebodies. Iggy had met David Bowie before Raw Power was released and the two developed a strong friendship. Stooges had broken up, the members were dealing with drug addictions, but Bowie got Iggy and the Stooges to sign with Columbia Records and to record the album that would become legendary. Only this time the late Ron Asheton would not play guitar here, but bass and James Williamson would play the guitar instead. Bowie was the one who mixed the original release. I myself own the 1997 re-release of the album mixed by Iggy Pop himself. This year the album got re-released again but its somekinda boxset which includes ton of stuff with it and i must have it. The album reception was pretty poor and they called it as an commercial failure. Columbia Records desided to drop the Stooges off their label. This didn't stop the band though. They continued their notorious live act and living life on the fast lane. Sex, drugs & rock n roll. Well lets hear the bloody songs now and stop jabblin',

1. Search And Destroy
The beginning is loud as fuck. I like Iggy's dog like shouts he makes. He sings about being the world's forgotten boy whos searching to destroy. Iggy said he got the name of this song title from an article from Time magazine about the war in Vietnam. He also said he thinks no one had used the word "destroy" in a pop song before.

2. Gimme Danger
Now this is way more deep and calmed down song. Pretty sad song too. One of my favorite Stooges songs. It's played with an acoustic guitar, which isnt that common with the Stooges previously. Iggy thought at this point that he should write some really good songs, but girls would always come to his way and he would be not writing anything and developing his music. This song was written about one of the girls of his life. He tells to the girl "Theres nothing in my dreams just some ugly memories". After the second verse, the song gets more intense. Hes singing with pure passion. He wants to find a wild stranger who would spend some time with him. Hes not sure if the girl will do so, so he demands her to swear. This song has so many good elements that a song should have and its just 3 and a hald minutes long which makes it pretty much perfect.
3. Your Pretty Face is Going To Hell
Back some good old loud n raw rock. Iggy's voice is really raspy and defines the word "raw" perfectly. I'm sure he got fed up with the clean, nice, sweet, beautiful boys singing about love and Iggy just gets it straight to the point, "I knew right away that i'd have to get my hooks in you". I like the line "I'll tell ya honey it's a crying shame, All the pretty women look the same". Haha i hear you. They all wear same clothing, have same hair, which is usually dyed blonde, same bags, some even sound exactly the same. It's frightening. This song was dedicated to some girl who Iggy knew, who wasn't very nice according to him. Like i said before, the sweet singing boys were popular and singing how they'll love someone forever and ever and ever and everiosfdhgiozdfxhgosd, well Iggy knew she wasn't gonna be pretty all her life so she wont have that weapon in the future!
4. Penetration
This song is pretty haunting. The way Iggy sings and the lyrics just wanna fuck with your mind. They repeat the song riff through the whole song. Iggy makes some weirdass sounds with his mouth near the end of the song. I like the sounds they make with (whatever instrument it is, i think its with an electric piano im not sure though). This song is about boredom and loneliness. End of side 1.

5. Raw Power
Side 2 starts with the title track.Iggy makes somekinda burping sound at the beginning. In this song it seems like Iggy is trying to hypnotise a girl and talking about raw power. That if she wants to be with him, raw power is surely comming runnin' to her. Which means kind of an wild lifestyle or something. towards the end hes asking the girl "Can you feel it" over and over again. I'm not fucking sure if i even make sense at all. Really noisy guitar solo towards the end of the song.

6. I Need Somebody
Kinda bluesy melody here. The guitar fills they threw in, sound really haunting. This and "Gimme Danger" are the two dark, ballad kinda songs on the album. Real high pitched solo towards the end which changes its form like a good blues jam does.

7. Shake AppealThis song has an awesome rock n roll formula as usually in the Stooges songs. Again real noisy solo thrown in. I think this is about time going too fast and feeling really down and out, thinking about the empty past or just how he likes seeing girls in tight pants, well "Tight Pants" was the original title of this song... Iggy sings with pretty high voice at the end.

8. Death Trip
Iggy wrote something on the album sleeve that the reason this is the last song on the album is that he knows the album is doomed. No ones gonna promote it, its way too rawrr to be played on the radio. So he desided to sing about it, cause its the kind of music they all loved to do so thats what theyre gonna do. It's also the longest track on the album being over 6 minutes long. Hes also singing about being a sick boy with "weird" kinda love. I really like the riff. The whole album should be played on full volume.

Just can't give this album nothing but the best possible rating. It was hated by most people, 'cause it's way ahead of its time, more loud and rocking than anything up to that point. Theres not really a thing to complain. Screw Deep Purple, Uriah heep and White snake, this is rock n roll as its honest.

Review #24 - D.O.A. - World War 3 (Single)

Genre: Punk Rock
Label: Sudden Death Records

Country: Canada

Released: 1979
My Rating: 6/8

DOA, a highly influential punk rock band, but at the same time despised for being fucken Canadians! I'm not an American so it doesn't really bother me where they're from. I can't be 100% sure but this might be their 4th release. Led by Joey Shithead on guitar and vocals. Joey is infamous for peeing on an audience member once. Theres different version of this story so i dont know if its true though.



Side 1:
World War 3
Starts with kinda army style of drumming and quickly adds the guitar in it. The sound with the guitar can be heard used by many other punk rock bands who got formed after DOA. This is an anti-war song. Telling how redicilous it is. "I don't really wanna die, with A-bombs dropping from the sky". The people don't need it, "Whitehouse is aiming the gun". The song is over 4 minutes long. A more cleaned up version was later released. They also made a music video of this song. It isn't my fav DOA song but its alright.

Side 2:
Whatcha gonna do?
A little jam at the beginning. Really chilled. Reminds me little bit of the Clash with the guitar sounds Joey makes. This sounds like something The Clash could have written. It's quite long song too (over 4 minutes), taking that they're a punk band, but that doesn't mean the songs should be short, you can just be playing and doing what you want and being as creative as possible. Towards the end Joey sings kinda wooooooo style you know. I like this song better than the side 1.






















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Review #23 - Gang Green - Sold Out EP

Genre: Punk Rock, Hardcore Punk
Label: Taang! Records

Country: US

Released: 1984 or 1985

So yea Gang Green formed in Braintree, Massachusetts in 1980 by three 15 year old boys. This original line up would disband in 1984, but little after that, their first ever release, which is THIS EP im reviewing, came out. Atleast the first 2 tracks on this EP were later included on Gang Green's album "Preschool". Gang Green would later deform to more of a speed metal type band but this is from the period when they were really good and fast pure hardcore punk rock. There was only 100 copies made of this EP and its Taang Records' first release. Lets take a look,



1. Sold Out
The beginning sounds really happy and they sing something like "All we want is money..." i can't understand the rest, but soon the happy part ends and he sings "Give back the people what they want!!" and it gets super fast. The drummer is insane. Unbelievable he can play that fast and its just the basic beat, he throws in even faster fills. After the madness, it cools down a bit to the same "happy" sound as it did in the start, and soon gets just all jamming without any vocals, but towards the end they speed up the song and throw in a crazeeh geetar soloe.

2. Terrorize
Some guitar feeback in the start, but not for too long. It fucking explodes. Another super fast song, dare i call it super duper fast? pretty hardcore ehehehehehehehheheeheh. This song is like 43 seconds long. Can't understand a word. Cool, bizarre yelling during the chorus.

3. Taang Dub
Obviously gotten its title from the band's record label. Or is the other way around?
In the beginning the drums and the bass jam a little, but soon the drummer wants it to turn more fast so he plays so and the song gets as he wants. The vocals hit and i still havent heard a single guitar chord in the song. After some angry yelling, theres a little jam part again. After awhile, a real quiet guitar sound is hearable, but soon it they crank it up and it plays pretty crazy solo, but thats it. THE END. go home

This is the first time i'm hearing Gang Green, i don't know yet how does their later stuff sound. I like to start from the first album usually. Definitely a band worth checking out.

My Rating: 8/8

Review #22 - Adolescents - Adolescents (1981)

The Adolescents from California. Formed with the early members of Social Distortion and Agent Orange. Their singer, Tony Cadena has been performing with many other bands such as White Flag, Abandoned, Sister Goddamn, Flower Leperds, ADZ and Gabba Gabba Heys. When he formed the Adolescents, was as old back then as i am now, 17! It's been said that him and Steve Soto got the idea to form a band after an Agent Orange show. The Adolescents are fairly popular among skateboarders. This is their self titled first album, letz taek ey lookah,






1. I Hate Children
Starts with a mean riff and kicks in. Pretty basic hardcore punk themed song. Fast drums, riffs and chanting in the chorus "I hate children!". I think they're singing of an angry parent's point of view. Being sick of the responisibility of having to take care of a child. In the beginning the child gets born and moving towards the end, the parent is starting to be really damn fed up with it and says to the child, "Do you see this toy it's called a gun,
And if you wanna live you'd better run".


2. Who Is Who
This is my favorite song by Adolescents. And yeah its pretty cliche since its one of their most popular songs, but fuck it. The song is awesome. Mudhoney covered it. The starting riff sound is really cool, quickly kicks in the song and the chorus, you can't help but to crank it up during the chorus it just sounds so awesome.


3. Wrecking Crew
This is a slow, mellow song. Not really that was just the beginning. He sings about being so over bored but soon it gets really fast and loud. Songs about being a lonely blue-collar worker whose life seems empty.


4. LA Girl
The Distillers have a song with the same title, but the song is totally different. Song is telling us about a girl from Los Angeles, whose really spoiled and only hanging out with certain kind of people who look like she wants and stuff. "My life starts where your life ends".


5. Self Destruct
Really short song. Last 15 seconds or so are just a fun noise soloing. Song is about OD'ing of heroine.


6. Kids Of The Black Hole
This is the longest track on the album (5 and a half minutes). Starts really chilly. I like the guitar sounds they make and the bass is more visible to hear here. Song tells about lost kids. Aliens who don't belong to this world. I like when they stretch the song, but not too much. But like this. This proboably the most creative song on the album.


7. No Way
The album kinda cooled down. This starts real slow too, and some odd, i guess kinda psychedelic sounds in the background. Soon the song gets more fast. The lyrics are funny,

No class, no job
I'm just a victim of society a slob
No ass, no head
I gotta go home and jack off instead
No mind, no kind
My brain is jelly and my memory is blind
No way, no way
I cannot live in a world this gay

Too bad i can relate to it so its not that funny anymore............................................................................................................................................


8. Amoeba
Was the Amoeba record store named after this song? I don't know, maybe it wuz.
In the beginning they sing "Amoebaaa" over and over again. But soon Tony's vocals join the song. And yeah hes singing about an amoeba and being amazed that this little thing has a mind of its own, but it better off dead if it only knew.

9. Word Attack
This is a fast song. I like all the melodies the guitar plays. Specially during the "We'll attack, we'll attack" part.

10. Rip It Up
Someone yells "rip it up!!" with real raspy voice in the beginning and then here we go. The first verse of the song talks pretty much directly about the movie Clockwork Orange and how they're sick of violence and if thats away to kill your boredom then you really suck.

11. Democracy
A song about how democracy doesn't work. Here in finland, few years ago when was the last president election thingy, the right wing party representer said in his campaign that hes the "president of the workingclass" yeah fucking right. Glad he didnt win eventually..

12. No Friends
I'm so ronery, so ronery
So ronery and sadry arone
There's no one, just me onry
Sitting on my rittle throne
I work very hard
And make up great prans
But nobody listens no one understands
Seems like no one takes me seriousry

And so, I'm ronery
A bittle ronery
Poor rittle me

There's nobody I can rerate to
Feel rike a bird in a cage
It's kinda sirry but not rearry
Because it's firring my body with rage
I'm the smartest most crever most physically fit
But nobody else seems to rearize it
When I change the world maybe they'll notice me

And until then I'll just be ronery
Yeah a rittle ronery
Poor rittle me

I'm so ronery

13. Creatures
The theme of the song is being a reject and not fitting in in the jock ruled system. Cheerleaders are just pleasers, they say no so i jerk white tears - teasers. I like the chorus "I hate them all! creatures!" which they chant few times over again and towards the end Tony sings it more angrier and angrier.


My 3 fav tracks:

1. Who is Who
2. Kids of the black hole
3. Creatures

My Rating: 7/8

Review #21 - Agent Orange - Bloodstains EP (1980)

Hello again. Been awhile (as usual) since i've done reviews. School ended and summer break started so it's been wild and party every day and night....... not really. It's actually been pretty lame and cold. Now, Agent Orange is a band from Orange County, California and been around since 1979! Though their earlier stuff is way more interesting than their later work... This is their first release and it's self-released which is mentionable. Bloodstains is a pretty well known "punk anthem", it's proboably the first skate/surf punk song ever written. Whatever skate or surf punk is, but that what the song makes me think of. There was many many compilation albums titled "Bloodstains across..." and a name of a country such as Germany, Norway, Finland, Australia, Denmark...... and also from California, Texas and Alberta.... All the songs are shorter than 2 minutes, lets hear em now,



1. Bloodstains This song definitely is their most well known and it over-shadows the other 2 tracks on the EP which is too bad, but this one definitely shines out the brightest. This is pretty much a perfect song, a pop song with Punk rock lyrics and kinda surf/skate themed melodies. It works. And it's just perfectly long/short enough and has pretty much every element you wanna hear in a good song. But this is also really accetable song and many mainstream kids know this and this is proboably used in some movies... This is an early version of this song. The sound isn't that clean and clear as in the more well known version. The guitar riffs makes me imagine surfing. Lyrics deal with alienation. I like the chorus,

bloodstains - speed kills
fast cars - cheap thrills
rich girls - fine wine
i've lost my sense - i've lost control - i've lost my mind!

After the second chorus the singer makes a loud scream and it gets into the solo part. Sounds like some weird 50's beach party..


2. America Way different sounding song that "Bloodstains". Starts with few drum beats and gives a little moment for feedback sound and then gets more fast hardcore punk esque kinda... Not that angry singing as i'm used to hear with hardcore punk. Another alienation themed song. Also deals with commercialism "join the pepsi generation, that's the american way". And about being bored of education and also saying that "america's been good to me, but i laugh when people say"
then the chorus:

all the kids salute the flag
uncle sam wants you
come on boys lets hear it for the
red, white , and blue

Funny at the same time but the meaning of the song is still current.


3. Bored Of You I like the bass playing in here. Sounds like the bassist is just playing 1 chord over and over again. This is also really hardcore punk rock kinda song. The singer sings more raw here which i like. He has a cool voice. He sings about being bored of everything thought as "cool" and which has became over too hip with new punkers and all of them looking the same and wearing the same things.


My Rating: 7/8

Review #20 - Antidote - Thou Shalt Not Kill (1983)

Horaleeeeeee. Time for another review, folks ala Me. Antidote was a hardcore punk rock band from New York, not to be cuntfused with another punk band with the same name who are from Holland. This is their first album and it's self-released, contains 8 really fast, frustrated, nazi killing songs. I don't know much about this band since there seems to be really little of information about them and they were originally around just for a few years, according to my knowledge. So lets put a sock in the mouth and listen to the THE.


1. Life As One
The riff is simple hardcore punk kinda. By the time the drums hit the first time, it explooooodesss. The chorus sounds fucking awesome, and the lyrics go "I just want a life as one, Then we all can have some fun, I just want a life as one, Why struggle to survive?". It has the kind of meaning that don't want to be controlled, just wanna do what the hell you want. Not just accepting what your surroudings gotta offer you. 'Cause all you get is just a struggle of surviving of boredom.

2. Nazi Youth
This is the shortest song on tha album (30 seconds long). Well surprise surprise its an anti-nazi song if you didn't get it, stupid.

3. Real Deal
F-Minus covered this. I heard their version first before the original. This is kind of an anthem of it's own. "Wake up, for the real deal, Please wake up for the real deal!". Dedicated to those who accept everything around them and living it year after year after year. Ignoring everything new and keeping it the same, not knowing your own rights. Please wake up.

4. Foreign Job Lot
The first verse deals with people, moving to US and opening up new business places. Feeding the baby of the corporate. Second verse deals the poor middleclass point of view, "The ones who pay, they stand in line, Awaiting every check, The measly wages they receive, Don't even cover half of it". The third is really dull. I don't get it, it confuses me. Now he sings that he can't get a job and something blasfvijndfigdfipjgfd. The singer's voice sounds really cool. He does alot of screaming. After the second chorus the song goes to a bridge and gets alot slower and DONE.

5. Zero Mentality
The first line is a bit funny, "You think you're just a nut, you don't know what's up"... A song for the ignorant. "Oh, there is a way to see things clearly today, With zero mentality". After the chorus the song goes to a short solo. Å

6. Got Me On The Line This seems like a love song. The solo is das gut. Weird and noisy.

7. Die At War A song about forced to join the army to die for your country. "Is this all we're living for?" At the end he screams something like "War is all over!!". Yeah it should be. Fucking redicilous.

8. Something Must Be Done Something? like what and to who? these kinda titles have always been so odd to me. Like the band Anti-Flag proved their stupidity when they spraypainted on a wall "What are we going to do about the USA" or something and looking like stiffs. Yeah what are you gonna do? wear tight clothes and get mohawks. Greeeeat. Anyway this is about ANTIDOTE. This is and "Real Deal" have said to be Antidote's classics. Both of them really shine out the best. This is not just 1234! and one chord riff and fast beating drums, you know the basic, stereotypical hardcore stuff. Actually this sounds kinda like a Black Sabbath song. No wonder the band later turned more metaly. The second part of the song has a cool bridge, a short jam part. The lyrics state not wanting to sit around at home watching tv and let the world revolve around me, something must be done. Yead something, but what? If you live in a quiet place like i, theres really not much to do. Nothing changes. I know what to do though, get the fuck out of here!!!!!!!


My Rating: 7/8

Review #19 - Let Them Eat Jellybeans! (1981)

Let Them Eat Jellybeans! is a compilation album including various punk rock bands and some not so punk ones. It was released thorugh Jello Biafra's Alternative Tentacles record label. It features versions of songs which were unreleased at the time such as Police Story by Black Flag with Dez Cadena on vocals, which was recorded during the Six Pack EP sessions. Also the version of Nazi Punks Fuck Off by the Dead Kennedys on this comp is not available anywhere else. On the cover art we have the all middleclass' favorite person in the whole world (i'll say that loosely) Ronald Reagan! His face was really popularry used on many many punk rock flyers for shows in the 1980's... Heres mr Biafra's liner notes on the backcover of this albummah:































1. Flipper - Ha Ha Ha
A classic indeedy. The bassline is really groovey. The Pixies ripped it off for their song "Debaser". Anyway lets sing along "Isn't life a blast it's just like living in the past, yeah we go downtown to do our shopping and we work in suburbia, well i say hahahahahahaha hohohoho hohehehehehe ahahahaha!!". One of Flipper's most popular songs. It is usually this song which gets used everywhere if they wanna use a Flipper tune. This was featured in the end credits of the movie American Hardcore and this had been on many compilations aswelll

2. D.O.A. - The Prisoner
Really fast song. Not DOA's best ones in my opinion. Still pretty descent.

3. Black Flag - Police Story
Here we gooo. As i said before its DEZ CADENA on vocals so you know it sounds fucking raw! It's about police power and how they use it against people, "walking down the street. i flip them off. they hit me across the head with a billy club. understand we're fighting a war we can't win. they hate us, we hate them. we can't win, no way. nothing i do, nothing i say. i tell them to go get fucked. they put me away."

4. Bad Brains - Pay To Cum
This song is super fast. Can't understand a word HR sings. I try to write them down here as best as i can, imenesibalegabebebabebego, imakealabegabebbagebefai!. These were the first 2 lines, heres what he really sings:

I make decision with precision
Lost inside this manned collision
Just to see that what is to be
Perfectly my fantasy

I came to know with now dismay
That in this world we all must pay
Pay to write, pay to play
Pay to cum, pay to fight

well i got pretty close right??

5. Dead Kennedys - Nazi Punks Fuck Off
On of the best songs ever written. 1234! punk aint to religious cult, punk means thinking for yourself! You ain't hardcore cos you spike your hair, When a jock still lives inside your head

Nazi punks
Nazi punks
Nazi punks-Fuck Off!

every single line means something. All the neo nazis and skinheads i've seen are always around a laaarge group of other fascists, never alone and no one seems to be scared of them. If they fight they never fight by themselves, theres always 10 guys beating up a one guy. And speaking about skinhead violence, why the hell they always wanna start a fight anyway? is that how you have fun? fuck off.

Ten guys jump one, what a man
You fight each other, the police state wins
Stab your backs when you trash our halls
Trash a bank if you've got real balls

You still think swastikas look cool
The real nazis run your schools
They're coaches, businessmen and cops
In a real fourth reich you'll be the first to go

Nazi punks fuck off!!!

6. Circle Jerks - Paid Vacation
The jerks must be the band i've listened to the least of all the most known hardcore punk rock bands of the 80's. Their singer was Keith Morris, the first singer of Black Flag. He left the band to form the Circle Jerks. The meaning of this song is still currently with us. It's angry. It's about going to a war for your country's sake. Well it's not really your country it's who evers in charge there. Your just a tool and you most likely never come back home. I like the guitar riff, but i can't find words to describe it.

7. Really Red - Prostitution
Neverheard of this band before i got this album. The song doesn't make me feel anything. They sing "Prostituuutiooon" many times and yell it aswell, a little bass and drum break and the weirdass guitar riff gets back. Those actually seem to be the only word in the whole song. Blaah

8. The Feederz - Jesus Entering from the Rear
This band was the reason why i got this album in the first place. I wanted to get into the Feederz and didn't seem to find their stuff anywhere. They were hated and despised and with actually good reasons too. I don't enjoy if the lead singer has dead cats hanging in his shirt and throwing dead dog in the audience or smashing a rat with a hammer in regular shows. So Frank Discussion pretty worthless person. Their music is ok though. Well this song is total atheist anthem. Singing how sick of he is about hearing about jesus over and over again. The guitar sounds really cheap and crappy, but in away its quite groovey.

9. Subhumans - Slave To My Dick
Now the Subhumans are another band i haven't gotten that much into yet. It's about a jock type person who just thinks with his balls, with no selfrespect, only getting laid is something. In my class theres few guys like this. Everything they talk about, everything they care about, everything worth going for is always related to their fucking dicks. The chorus sounds cool and the lyrics state "I'm just a slave to my dick, it really makes me sick" kinda sex pistols esque solo.
End of side 1

10. Geza X - Isotope Soap
Geza X was not only a musician, he also focused on west coast punk rock bands and produced albums to bands such as the Germs, Dead Kennedys, Black Flag, The Avengers and The Weirdos. His music was quite bizarre and experimental. I have no idea what isotope soap is. He sings about washing his hair with that or something.

11. BPeople - Persecution-That's My Song
Neverheard of this band either. This also belongs to the cast of the NOT punk bands in the album. They use of keyboards here reminds me of old nintendo 8 bit and it's games. But that part gets soon forgotten as the guitar dicks in. I find this boring.

12. Wounds - An Object
This is pretty neat. I like the vocal sound. Sounds it was recorded from a hole where the voice echoes a bit. The music is just kinda rockin' nothing remarcable.

13. The Offs - Everyone's A Bigot
They remind me of the Clash. They have that reggae beat in the background too.
Yeah everyone's a bigot to something, im a music fan(atic) and so on i can say jerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrwakawakabungaaa!!

14. Anonymous - Corporate Food
The who? no, Anonymous. This is another bizarre track on the comp. Using alot of electric keyboard sounds. Bass, drums and totally weird tuned guitar are present aswell. The beginning sounds as if they were squeezing dog toys. The singer yells something i have no clue what.

15. Half Japanese - Fun Again
This band consists of brothers Jad Fair and David Fair. Real noisy track. The vocals are yelled. Don't know the lyrics.

16.Christian Lunch - Joke's on You
Another Devo influenced band on the comp, so they use that keyboard thing.
La la laa la la laa la la

17. Voice Farm - Sleep
This song makes me wanna sleep. The vocals sound so....................zzzzzzzzzzzz

My rating: 7/8

Review #18 - Flipper - Generic (1982)

Be pissed off, happy, fucked up, drunk... No matter what your mood is, Flipper is always enjoyable. Flipper is A BAND (call it punk or anti-punk or noise rock, whatever) they were formed in San Francisco in 1979, got alot of hatred and just little bit of admiration, but from the right people. They were hated 'cause "they coudln't play" or were just so annoyingly slow to the punkers of the time when punk rock songs were really fast and short. They spraypainted to the side of their tourbuss "Flipper suffered for their music, now it's your turn". Flipper was not following the trend. Their songs had simple drum beat and bass riff which held together the song, the guitar was full noise and i just love it. The vocals were sang either by Will Shatter or Bruce Loose. Their lyrics were haunting and real and sometimes fun at the same time. To me, Flipper are heavy, fun and real. Flipper consisted of the vocalists who i mentioned before, they also both played bass. Ted Falconi was the guitarist and Steve DePace their drummer. Generic Flipper was their first LP and heres the fucken review:


1. Ever
Noisy medley starts the song, then the drums kick in with the bass. Guitar starts "playing" and then the vocals join up,

Ever live a life that's real
Full of zest, but no appeal
Ever want to cry so much
You want to die
Ever feel that you've been had
Had so much that you turn mad
Ever been depressed that
(to) those you turn to, you bring distress
Ever sit in tormenting silence
That turns so loud, you start to scream
Ever take control of a dream
And play all the parts and set all the scenes
Ever do nothing and gain nothing from it
Ever feel stupid and then know that you really are
Ever think you're smart and then find out you aren't
Ever play the fool and then find out that you're worse
Ever look at a flower and hate it
Ever see a couple kissing and get sickened by it
Ever wish the human race didn't exist
And then realize you're one too
Well, have you? ever... I have
So what!

The lyrics are just so great that i wanted to show them all here. This is the song that really opened my eyes. Before this i didn't like Flipper much at all. I didn't ever really listen to them. Each line of the song was something i could relate to. I felt exactly what Bruce was singing while i first heard this. It's still as current to me as it was back then.


2. Life Is Cheap
Quite deep bass riff starts the song and continues through the whole song. Bruce sings here too. This song is pretty depressive aswell. Hard lyrics, but totally true. "People cling to things to make to make their lives seem real, Crawling like bugs at some fool leader’s heels, Boasting of freedom when they’re tied down with chains". The vocals can be heard as an echo voice or something and normal in the background, sounds really haunting.


3. Shed No Tears
This has way more happy feel to it. How weird that might sound. Will Shatter does the vocals here. The song states "Shed no tears for the martyr dying, Shed no tears for the cop bleeding, Shed no tears for the nun beaten, Shed no tears for the suicide", "No tears wasted, No sorrow no pity, No, no crying, no loss" it's not my loss, don't expect me to cry. Don't call this song awful, call it inspirational.

4. (I Saw You) Shine
One of their most haunting songs. The bass line and the drums are deep. Will sings it, "Turn away, turn away from the waaaaaaaaaaall", each line is heavy as fuck. The song deals with rejection. Half of the song is played without any lyrics at all. Flipper did this quite often. Was it because they didn't know how to end the song, or that they got so deep into it that they couldn't stop it when "it was supposed to". The longest song on the album.

5. Way Of The World
Proboably the most infamous Flipper tune. First one i ever heard from them. Simple bass strumming starts it with the drums, the geetar noise adds with them soon. "There are eyes that cannot see and fingers that cannot touch! that's the way of the woooooorld!". Each line states which is still current in the way of the world, "There are kisses undelivered, Sighs and moans unuttered, That's the way of the world"...





6. Life
"This is our favorite song, and it's dedicated to all of you" Will Shatter said in a gig in 1982. The crowd had to be quite stoned by seeing them since theres not much clapping or shouting after the songs. Guitar feedback on the background as the bass line starts the song and the drums kick in soon. "Life! Life! Life is the only thing worth living for!" Bruce does some backing vocals "I know it got it's ups and downs".
Pretty much the whole song is only singing "Life, life, life is the only thing worth living for...".

7. Nothing
"So what do you wanna hear? You don't wanna hear anything? so that means nothing, they wanna hear nothing!" Said Bruce at the same gig in 1982. Let the lyrics speak for themselves. "Nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, Sitting around and you're wasting my time, Nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, Once you were a good friend of mine", "You gotta let me out of here!" You can hear a glass going to bits in the background with the noise near the end of the song.



8. Living For The Depression
Shortest song on the album and i think the fastest aswell. Half of it deals with people who cannot realize how capitalistic society were living in and they deal with it by just ignoring everything. Oh well, "Who cares anyway? Who listens to what I say?, This song rhymes and we play it in time, I'm not living life to be, A really cheap fucker like you, Copout!!!"

9. Sex Bomb
Aah this is the classic. The bassline and drum beat over and over and over again as usual, with some saxophone added into it, to mock the boring songs that had saxophone used in them always and it was just annoying as hell. It fits so well here. Total party song. There are pretty meaningful, serious lyrics aswell lets not forget them, "She's a sex bomb my baby yeah!!".
First time i heard this song. I was like most people first time hearing Flipper, "What the fuck??" the song sounds so much different to me now, it makes no sense at all so much it makes a bit sense.


My rating: 8/8

Review #17 - Melvins - The Bride Screamed Murder (2010)

Gee a new Melvins album leaked to the internet wayyyyy before it was ment to be released. I don't know whos to blame, but thanks alot!
The album has the good olde Melvins sound in it, but also experiments with new sounds. Even though The Melvins will always be El Melvins, each of their album has different kinda feel to it. Nevermind the the yadayada, fasten your seatbelt, sit on top of your hands, put your legs up in the air and scream like a lunatic, heres the Melvins:

1. The Water Glass
Good Melvins style heavy sound starts the album. It soon deforms more noisy and noisy, makes you wanna turn up these barely working computer stereos from 1995 to the max. The noise part soon ends and Dale starts drumming this and that, then some bizarre yelling is the first vocal thing we hear. The song changes the form again and now Dale jams more faster, then suddenly makes it way slower. As the song
is near its end, Buzz says "1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4, here we go..." Then the singing changes to army like, we are ready! then the soldiers reply we are readyy! and whatever their sargent sings first. They keep singing like this till the song ends.


2. Evil New War God
Now this is alot different that the 1st track. Sounds like the "usual" Melvins. Heavy, rock song and since i don't know the lyrics yet, they proboably make no sense at all like in so many of their songs, another thing which makes them so enjoyable. The song morphs to more slow and has some electric piano played in the background, which gets the song kinda ghost-train kinda feel to it for a few seconds, then Dale and Buzz play a little thing one at a time and back to the creepyass ghost-train we go.

3. Pig House
The Melvins have always had the coolest songtitles. Alot different sound here than the previous track. Not that heavy, yet pretty rockin'. The riff changes totally for awhile and sounds like the song is ending, but Dale starts drumming and here we go again. "Weeeeeee starteeeeed(?) but now we're runniiiiing". Noisy solo kicks in. I'm not sure if this could be even considered a solo since half of the song is jamming. Well i'll call it a solo. Then the song gets more quieter and quieter till you can just hear the drums and "ow" and whistling, then bing!, like hitting a glass with a spoon kinda sound ends it with it's feedback.

4. I'll finish you off
If you imagine the guitar being a shaver, you could maybe imagine how the guitar sound at the beginning sounds like. More bizarre singing here. Sounds like a male choir of Buzz Osbournes singing. Gets all heavy and suddenly back to church we go. This time the male choir is on acid. Someone hums something at the end, then we hear some electric piano playing and "my generatioon!".

5. Electric Flower
a Bass jam starts the song, guitar quickly adding into it and drums keep up the rhytmn (how the hell you type that word? rhytymn, rhtmn? rhytmndsouisdsgesad?). I just thought of a music video to this, a thousand cowboys riding their horses in the wild west to a saloon and The Melvins playing there. The cowboys would start to dance polka dance or whatever to the music.

6. Hospital Up
This sounds relaxing and mellow. They could actually make music vids of the whole album. This would be a sequel to the thousand cowboys dancing at the saloon. This time it could be a bar fight in slowmotion. When the "real" part of the song is over, the place is torn to the ground and everybody lays unconciousness and theres chickens running everywhere and cats walking on a piano since theres some piano playing heard in the song.

7. Inhumanity and Death
Drums start the song, bass quickly adds in, then a scream can be heard and weeeeehooooooowaaaaaaaaaaahhhh!!! sounds kinda like the 1983 mELVInS. This time, some wannabe badass thief cowboy enters the town and robs the bank and the thousand cowboys have to chase him down. Really intense and insanely retarded chase begins. The ending sounds like as if the robber could get hit by a train but it ends so that we'll might never know did it hit or not.

8. My Generation
The Who cover yeah. But with totally slow and haunting kinda melody. The whole sound changes shape and it sounds like a blizzard. Like if an alien landed on earth and it trys walking through the snowstorm and faints and santa finds it and uses it as his present making slave. The alien trys to escape but it's way more though escaping from the dark basements of santa's castle than from Alcatraz.

9. P.G. x 3
Harmonica starts the song with. The male choir is back with this track. Maybe this is what you hear when you die. A slow guitar solo joins the song when the male choir stops singing. A little girl counts 123456 and someone counts it again with really lovely feedback noise in the background. Then she repeats 4 few times really sloooooooow and then it keeps getting faster and faster and faster till its so super duper fast that you cant keep up with it anymooooooooooooooooooooore wahahahhahahhahahahhahahhaahaa!!!!


Really good new Melvins album. Way different better than what i thought it might be. You'll never know what to excpet from thee Melvinssssah. This album gets the gruel bowl of the week


My rating: 8/8

Review #16 - State Of Alert - No Policy 7" EP (1981)

Okay, State Of Alert or S.O.A. was an early, but short lived hardcore punk rock group formed in Washington D.C. S.O.A. was active from 1980 to 1981. The band consisted of guitarrist Michael Hampton, bassist Wendel Blow, drummer Simon Jacobsen (Ivor Hanson being their second and last drummer), and a guy named Henry Garfield (later known as Henry Rollins) on vocals. Henry would join Black Flag after this band's demise and become one of the reconizable and distinctive persons in the whole hardcore scene. State Of Alert released just this one EP through D.C. based Dischord Records, but appearad on the hardcore punk compilation album "Flex your head", with 3 songs which were not on this EP. The album lenght is just 8 minutes and 20 seconds!! and it takes me about 2 hours to review it. There are 10 tracks on the EP. The songs are really short, about 40 seconds long each. Really fast and quite generic with the whole hardcore punk rock sound. Henry's hoarse voice is pretty unique in my opinion. He sings to attack, not for a nice performance.

1. Lost In Space
The classic one two three four!! starts the 40 second bedlam. Really simple as you would excpet from a 3 chord punk rock band. I guess this could aswell be played by just 1 chord or 1 finger. It doesn't matter. The song seems to be about having to deal with people who are proud of taking pills and thinking how cool they are but are just a joke. Ian Mackaye from Minor Threat, a friend of Rollins, said in the rockumentary *chough cough* American Hardcore that everybody was just singing about getting high and people were now looking for someone not singing about getting high and this song is clearly an anti-Jefferson Airplane song. "Who's gonna wind up dead - you!".

2. Draw Blank
Henry sings so fast i didn't think i was reading the right lyrics while listening to the song, but no the lyrics were the real ones.. The little less than 10 second noisy wtf "solo" is awesome and back to chorus and finito. I think the song deals with subjects like feeling alienated and other people wondering why the fuck are you so weird eh?. Well,

You'll never know
I'll never show
I'm not a book
You can't read me

Just one complain i have is that i wish it could be louder.

3. Girl Problems
"You have gotta lie through your teeth to make her think you are cool". That could be thought as an attack to mainstream which shows all the over-developed, over steroided or the pretty guys with their little trendy clothes and baseball caps or just simply: THE FAKES getting all the girls. And i've noticed some people believing this and acting totally different around a girl than with his usual group of guy friends and putting the guys down and trying to grow his mental penis. Like my dad, first seeming really charming but finding out that his just a narcissist and a jerk.
"I don't need no girl problems, I've got troubles as it is".


4. Blackout
Proboably my favorite song in the EP. Has real mean riff. Song deals with depression, alienation, feeling of being lost. The lyrics speak for themselves.


5. Gate Crashers
Starts way slower than the songs before. Slow, mean riff, but it ends quick and the insane drum playing kick in. The guitar isn't trying to catch up with the fast playing of the drums, but keeps it quite slow and this makes this sound neat.
This deals with one of the main things that gave birth to punk rock and that is when music got too friendly, too over-produced, too posey... your sick of the songs you hear on the radio all day and sick how long the guitar solos are, sick of the long hair trend, sick of the non creativity of all music and want to yell fuck off at their face. Theres still shitty popular music around. I don't think it'll go anywhere except worser and worser. Have to say bands like Deep Purple, Emerson lake and palmer, Fleetwood Mack etc were atleast playing real instruments. Today it's so much worse with.. ugh i don't even wanna type their names. I'm sure you've all heard of them anyway...

6. Warzone
They seem to use the same guitar sound in every single song. It doesn't sound bad, but with 10 songs on the album that sound pretty much the same can get pretty boring. Oh well fuck me i couldn't even play like them.
Someone yells BANZAI!!! at the beginning and then heeere we go. Henry sings which could be about any punk rock band. The band is a real attack, a real threat. They came to tear the place to the ground. They came to terrorize the popular culture and burn it and leave. It's funny considering the part, "They wear chains and they wear leather, They wear boots in any weather, Never dress up for a show, Look this way when they're at home". It's not like this anymore. Some morons thought punk is about looking like this and wearing that. NO they wore that shit daily. Now it's just another fashion trend. All the bands who are now like "yeaaah were so punk!" are so lame and cheesy it makes me wanna shoot them.

7. Riot
In the beginning you hear a guy laughing and Henry says "are you crazy, Wendel?" talking to their drummer. Wendel replys "What?".
The song is about rioting (wow really?!?!?!??!?!?!!!!!!!!!!). When they yell RIOT! during the chorus, i first heard it was OI! which had been a bit cheesy and i really doubt this wasn't what they really yell.

8. Gang Fight
Title states what the songs about. How pointless it is. The other side is to blame, it's never your own fault. Your friends get killed, well though titters. Shooting eachother is fucking stupid!!!!!! Why not attack together on something which could be meaningful like why is prozac legal but marijuana isn't?, PMRC... theres alot of things to do. Alot of things to get mad about. Some people rather shoot eachother.

9. Public Defender
The song is about our dear friends the pigs aka cops. I like the drum part during the chorus. All the cops i've have to meet have always been the same. Yeah it is a good thing to poke some freaks who do harm for innocent people, but not poke around the innocent people!!!! Like if they had nothing else to do. Give tickets just for fun, arrest people just for fun, beat the crap out of people for fun... fucked up.

10. Gonna Have to Fight
The main point in the song is: fight back, don't give up. You got rights.

My rating: 7/8

Review #15 - Dinosaur Jr. - Bug

Year: 1988
Genre: Experimental rock
Label: SST Records
My Rating: 8/8

Dinosaur Jr. was formed in 1984 by 2 former members of hardcore punk band Deep Wound after they broke up, J Mascis and Lou Barlow. And Murph as their drummer. Every member of the band is incredibly talented musically, J as a (underrated) guitarist can play really original solos and melodies and writes really good lyrics aswell. Lou played bass in Dinosaur Jr and wrote songs to them aswell, but was kicked out of the band little time after the released this album, because he and J weren't in good terms or as Lou put it "i was just the most annoying little kid". Lou would form Sebadoh along with quite a few side projects and continued making really neat music. Murph is one of my favorite drummers. He hits hard, does alot of cool fills and just has a perfect timing.

1. Freak Scene
The first ever Dinosaur song i heard and it's still one of my favorite songs. It has kinda love song feel to it, but it's not that lame as that might sound. I think it's about when you've met someone who you think doesn't fit with the rest of the crowd or "the freak scene". And none of them accepts you. "Freak scene just can't believe us, can't it just be cool and free us?" The melody is really catchy and after the second verse, J throws an insane solo. Well it's not that insane anymore to me, i enjoy it as much as i ever did, but first time i heard it was really something i hadn't ever heard before. then they sing the last lines of the song, "Sometimes I don't thrill you , Sometimes I think I'll kill you , Just don't let me fuck up will you, 'cause when I need a friend it's still you, What a mess" and J performs another guitar solo, this time it's a bit longer and they play it till the end of the song. During their live performances like in the early 90s when they had made somewhat big name of themselves, no mainstreamwise though, after the the last line J would sing really quiet and you could hear the crowd sing the last line of the song and then the solo hits and everyone just goes insane. Fucking sucks Dinosaur will come to Finland again and i can't go to their show!!!!!!!!!!

2. No Bones This is alot slower song. It sounds kinda sad. The lyrics are sad too. When the solo hits, i thought blah this is it? But suddenly J creates such a weird, distorted sound. He changes the sound while he plays. The solo has like 3-4 parts all in all. It's fantastic. During the last verse, the distorted guitar sound can be heard on the background. Sounds like if the guitar was so raped, it barely works anymore, but they still play it.

3. They Always Come Starts with few loud drum beats then all the other instrument kick in. This is way faster song than the previous. Little before the solo theres a little "break", where J plays just a simple high tuned, clean sound guitar riff, then the beautiful solo dicks in. J sings the last line while still soloing. He changes his singing a bit for the last lines. The song gets kinda dreamy feel into it.

4. Yeah We Know
This song has kinda funky beat and rhythm feel. But again it's not that lame as that might sound, cause Murph is drumming the shit out of the drums here. The solo is real neat again, but short. They start jamming that funky sound after it for a little while. Every song in this album so far, J has sung differently. Can't explain it, you'd just have to listen to them yourself. Every song has it's own feel. Really underrated dinosaur jr song.

5. Let It Ride This sounds like a "pre-grunge" song. It's quite fast, has some really cool, odd sounds threwn in after few lines of the song, some clean parts, and the grungy sounding part. Murph also kills here aswell. Before the solo, theres a little part where J plays really down tuned riff then the INSANE solo hits. This solo really describes how Thurston Moore said about J's guitar playing, "it was like Motörhead times 10". J keeps singing through the soloing though. The song ends kinda suddenly.

6. Pond Song J plays few REALLY fast, short, distorted guitar riffs, in a few parts during the chorus. This has the kinda sound, i was more familiar with Dinosaur Jr. But as i listened them more and more, i learned their music can be really diverse. They play some hardcore punk influenced stuff, some really experimental noisy songs, but also "wimpy" pop songs. This is one of the pop ones. Theres kinda sonic youthy jammin' parts here and there.

7. Budge
This is kinda hardcore themed. Fast beating drums, fast guitar riff. But the song deforms to more poppy, but soon gets back to that punk stuff. One complain in this song: Theres no solo!!! Well i guess J didn't want every song to sound the same.

8. The Post
Real slow song, with cool feedback sound in the background. The bass sounds little bit like Flipper. Has some really loud parts thrown in aswell. The guitar sound during the chorus sounds really good. If you know that feeling when some song just sounds so fucking good, this gave me that feeling. J plays really loud solo, but it ends kinda suddenly and the song gets slow again.

9. Don't
This song is quite interesting. Really really experimental and not like any song on this album before. In the book about the hardcore punk scene from 1981 to 1991, they say that Lou Barlow screamed so hard during this song that he started to cough blood afterwards. Wow. The total lyrics are "Whyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!?, Why don't you like me?". J masturbates the geetar in the background. If you want to go berserk and jump on your bed or something and yell randomly, listen to this and do that.


In my opinion the best songs from this album are The Post, Don't and Let It Ride. I picked up these songs, because i haven't heard them that often and they showed really many sides with the band. Otherwise i had picked up Freak Scene as the ultimate song, but that song is more poppy and not so diverse than the ones i desided to pick.