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100
While it may be a shade less exceptional than its predecessor, Wild Gift is nonetheless a classic effort.
13y
90
X are too worldly and worn to believe in a born-again future -- for music, love or society -- that doesn't involve making an uneasy peace with the past. Their triumph on Wild Gift is that they're also too wise to begrudge the effort.
10y
Although very similar to their debut Los Angeles, Wild gift still manages to be an entertaining, energetic release and with the influence of the rising psychobilly movement truly gives X edge of their contempories and with John Doe and Exene Cervenka giving powerful deliveries and the record being short, punchy, catchy and fast tempo means Wild Gift never feels overbearing and over staying its welcome and knows when to move to the next track but sadly, many of the songs on this record just ... read more
Really good punk. It keeps the same energy that most punk bands are good at, but the actual songwriting isn’t sacrificed for that, like it is in so much punk. Awesome album that I’ll definitely be revisiting.
This is a strong follow up to the debut record and it might be a bit more catchy, but there isn’t a single super strong song like the first album had.
CLASSIC!!!!!!!! why is it that the highest compliment one can give a punk album is THIS IS PUNK!!! this is the real deal! might not go as hard as modern audiences expect but imagine how hard this went back in LA in 1981? EXENE IS SO COOL
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Track List
| 1 | The Once Over Twice 2:31 | 80 |
| 2 | We're Desperate 2:02 | 79 |
| 3 | Adult Books 3:21 | 69 |
| 4 | Universal Corner 4:39 | 72 |
| 5 | I'm Coming Over 1:14 | 75 |
| 6 | It's Who You Know 2:14 | 71 |
| 7 | In This House I Call Home 3:33 | 74 |
| 8 | Some Other Time 2:17 | 75 |
| 9 | White Girl 3:29 | 82 |
| 10 | Beyond and Back 2:49 | 81 |
| 11 | Back 2 the Base 1:32 | 84 |
| 12 | When Our Love Passed Out on the Couch 2:00 | 76 |
| 13 | Year 1 1:19 | 75 |
Total Length: 33 minutes
