BUY THIS YESTERDAY.

This product combines Bonus Fat and Milo Goes To College onto a single, phenomenal 33-minute CD. This was my introduction to the Descendents, and I was so instantly floored that I still haven't standed back up. And yes this is partly just laziness, but also the CD is so perfectly paced for maximum emotional fulfillment that I'm unable to hear either of the original records alone without thinking, "Jesus, why is this so short? Was the pressing plant owned by some guy ... read more

The winner. Extremely infectious and honestly pretty darn funny, too. Plus, it's a smorgasbord of delectable entrees, tasty licks, and month-old skim milk! There's a James Brown parody about beating your wife, a trailer park rant linking bad soil to gay martians, a punk polka that in the space of one minute escalates from an anti-frat boy ditty to an anti-mankind diatribe, a rollicking celebration on the joys of attending a lousy party, a jolly skipperoo about guzzling bleach, a proud anthem of ... read more

Okay, they started off as a pretty normal punk band. This stuff is mostly your basic distorted guitar barre chord stuff, but hits like "Drug Me," "Let's Lynch The Landlord," and "Stealing People's Mail" present the DKs as a much more spiteful and controversial band than most other punkers of the day, including those overrated superheroes "The Sex Pistols." Plus, a few of the songs, especially the eerie echo-ridden "Holiday In Cambodia" and the ... read more

PLEASE NOTE: this band actually released an incredible debut called Out of the Womb in 1981. However, four years later when Fringe announced plans to reissue it, the Dayglos decided to record ten new compositions, throw as much as possible of Out of the Womb onto the b-side, and release it as a whole new album! If you own Feed Us A Foetus, all you're missing from that first LP are the adorable Ramonesy "I Wanna Be an East Indian" (now available on God Records' CD reissue of Feed Us A ... read more

A bare-chested, evil-minded hard rock album with bad things and punching people on its mind. Mr. Scary has dumped the devilock and picked up a threatening pair of sideburns from some stupidass comic book character (Glenn's big into comic books, even though he's over 50 - I'm not knockin' him, per se. I still like stuffed animals!), and now he's ready to steal your daughter and convert her to Satanism with the help of some rip-roarin' AC/DC riffs!!!!
Good old Glenn and the boys. These songs ... read more

This is the Damned album you want. Brian James is gone and former bassist Captain Sensible has taken over lead guitarist duties to happy effect. No longer are they a one-dimensional slop punk act. Now they're a tight melodic uptempo pop rock group! I've tried really hard to hate this album because they look so ugly in their band photos, but it's just impossible. The melodies are too wonderful, from beginning to finish. If you love pop music at all, you CAN'T hate this Damned record!!!!!! Great ... read more

This must be some sort of goth landmark. Sloshy death keyboards intertwined with pounding suicide rhythms, throes of agony vocals, out-of-tune echoing noises of despair flowing throughout the background, and some really catchy guitar lines! This is definitely the record that most successfully transforms the original Cure sense of hopelessness into musical expression. Eight tracks of four-chord droning anguish (okay, "A Short Term Effect" is almost happy, but the rest don't even come ... read more

Beyond perfect. Just the greatest - the kind of package that makes me want to kiss an Alternative Tentacles decision-maker. Not on the mouth though; I don't want Jello Biafra's discharge dripping onto my tongue. This is a CD reissue of the first two Crucifucks albums, showing both the bitter punk and insane melodic sides of Doc Corbin Dart and his hired hands. Also features a great bonus track from the first band and a hilarious back cover that got Alternative Tentacles sued. Check it out - ... read more

His first one was really good, but some of the longer stories tended to drag on and on and his nervous profanity made him sound more amateurish than he actually is (having been a standup comedian since the mid-80s). Both of those problems have been Shanghai'd (in Shanghai) for his single-disc sophomore release, incorrectly entitled It's Not Funny. Hang on, I just remembered something I wanted to mention. Let's start a new paragraph together, you and I. A second honeymoon, a new leash on life -- ... read more

Out of the swamp and into the small town. Pretty much a concept album, although I guess the others were too, in their own way. Every one of these songs scrapes under your skin with a gleeful muddy glow that warms your soul as it dirties up your apartment. Two godlike covers, "Cotton Fields" and "The Midnight Special," make it dang clear where these boys's sympathies lie - with the poor and unnoticed, the simple and happy, the farmer and the bluesman...and the originals ain't ... read more

A sparkling exhibit of what can happen when noise and ruckus meet creativity and strong production in the middle of a dusty alleyway. Every one of these twelve tracks is unique, memorable, and totally kick axe! Iain Burgess does the production and, along with powerful new drummer Norm Rogers (who might have played on Peacetika, but I've yet to fully verify that elusive bit of data), gives this new structured Cows sound an excitingly tough edge by pumping the guitars way up in the mix, but ... read more

This was one of the first hardcore albums I ever heard and it did a great job of getting me hooked on the genre. Beause it's AWESOME! The filthy, dirty production completely separates the high fuzzed out guitar from the dulled low bass tone, with overmodulated cymbal-drums and original singer Eric Eycke's COMPLETELY toneless but violently intense pit bull growls finishing up the brew. The songs are what some might call generic hardcore, but with lots of out-of-place metallic overtures and ... read more

One of the larger mysteries in the history of rock is what exactly happened between 1970 and 1971 to make the Alice Cooper Band so goddarned good. Was it their sudden move to KISS's fabled Detroit Rock City? Was it the guiding influence of their new producer Bob Ezrin? Or was it just a feeling that, now that the band had made the leap to Warner Bros. proper, they actually had a chance of radio success if their new songs were commercial instead of infuriating? Whatever the reason, they hit a ... read more

Knock knock!
Who's there?
Pee!
Pee who?
"Pee-Yoo" is right! This joke stinks!

Actually, I should go ahead and warn you that the actual record review doesn't start for another 14 paragraphs or so. So if THAT'S what you're here for, you may want to scroll down.

The other night I had a hilarious (terrible) idea for a movie whose opening scene went a-something like this:

(close-up on tough mafia guy): "You got some set of balls there, pal."

(pan over to his equally tough ... read more

Well, either a 10 or a 0, depending on whether you think it's brilliant or asinine to go on stage with no act and just cuss at people for two hours. 'Cuz that's what he does here. He goes on stage with no jokes in mind, sounding bored, tired and pissed off at EVERYBODY, and just proceeds to harrass everybody for 2 full CDs worth of time. My lord, is it funny. Or maybe it's just so unsettling that it's impossible not to laugh out of sheer insecurity. Either way, this isn't a CD that most people ... read more

Somebody must have complained about Give 'Em Enough Rope, 'cause this sounds like a completely different band!! No more a one-dimensional barre chord combo, The Clash here present themselves as a fully-realized (and incredibly well-produced) rock/pop/reggae/funk/soul/jazz/blues/punk/lounge act with more great melodies than J.D.'s got Considine! Nineteen tracks and two albums big, this thing is darn near perfect in composition and presentation! Cereal! Rolling Stone Magazine labeled it "the ... read more

An essential punk document. Oh, there have been faster. Oh, there have been angrier. But this shim is WACK, Phranc! The songs are so ditzy and adolescent and spitty. And drummer Lucky Lehrer forkin' KICKS it, jube! Have you heard "Red Tape"? The guy's a nutbag! Fourteen songs in fifteen minutes, with bitchin' col' titles like "World Up My Ass," "Live Fast Die Young" and "Deny Everything." A couple of old Black Flag riffs are...umm.... blatantly ripped off ... read more

Something is gnawing at me NOT to give this album the 10, but I just love all the songs too much. I'll tell you why I'm being gnawed: unlike the first two Edge/Creed works, where the pot is boiling aflame and all sorts of unexpected space-age LSD-drenched nonsense infects your ears like the canine herpes sores currently adorning my puppy's lower lip, this album features nine SONGS. No backward drums, looped insane samples or 15-part tracks - hardly any experimentation at all, in fact - just ... read more

The classic Nick Cave CD to end all classic Nick Cave CDs, Let Love In jumps from genre to genre like a tick in a nudist colony (oh alright, that's "gender") while sharing some of the most disturbing, heartbreaking and hilariously self-deprecating lyrics in history's ever. Morbid suave-rock, gorgeous piano balladry, growly guitar sleaze, speedy cowpunk, western drama, minor-key sorrow, comical gospel, violins of eerieness, intrigue jazz and even a soon-to-be METALLICA SONG all make ... read more

It's 1978, and the first three songs on here are "Good Times Roll," "My Best Friend's Girl," and "Just What I Needed," three oft-played radio classics that present The Cars as rock purists in an age of punk, disco, and new wave. Like with Tom Petty, your dad can listen to these songs and think "Wow! Finally, some normal guys!" Then "I'm In Touch With Your World" comes on and your dad realizes, "Uh oh....they're NEW WAVE!!!" Then ... read more