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Golden Shower of Hits, Circle Jerks style.
The Circle Jerks return with another collection of punk driven pop songs.Tracks like Coup d' tat and When the Sh#@ Hits the fans are punk classics.The band shows their cheesy side when they do a medley of "hits" (the real highlight of the album).Sounds like they were having fun when they recorded the last track.Not as angry and bleak as their last disc.A true collection of golden shower "hits".
ok set of songs
The Circle Jerks were another legendary CA band.
What's better than group sex?
This album is.
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A different sound, but not a bad one
Although none of the material on this album is their own, that doesn't take away from how good it is. As you might have already gathered, this is an album of songs that The Ramones listened to when they were young & were influenced by. Some might come as a surprise, some make perfect sense & you can see how they were influenced by a certain sound by some of these bands.
WHY IS EVERYTHING SO WAAAAAAAAAVY, MAN?

Cut the crap, guys, this really SUCKS!
All you Ramones fans who say this was a "good" album need to have your head examined.I love the Ramones, but when this came out, I wanted to PUKE!The production is lame, the guitars are way down in the mix, there was a HOST of "guest musicians", as Johhny didn't play the intricate stuff, and well, this was AWEFUL.I could halfway get into the cover of "Surf City", and "Can't Seem To Make You Mine" was cool in the sense that this song was the kind of music that Joey envisioned the Ramones playing all along.
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I thought everyone had this album
Really, I did. When it was recommended to me, it was as if, "oh what do you mean you don't have this? It's like standard issue." And when I got it, I thought, this album is so awsome, why did it take me so long to hear it. But now I realize, not everyone loves this album, or has even heard it, or even the heard of the Dead Milkmen. In some ways, the songs on this album are so tightly arranged, crafted, and played, that one could make a Beatles comparison. And Dave Blood's bass playing is worth mentioning, on this and all albums. He really was one of the best bassists. This is the most polished and well produced album they put out as well. It is their Dark Side of the Moon.

Quality Stuff
I remember when I first bought this album I was a little bit disappointed because I didn't think it was as good as it predecesors, Big Lizard and Eat Your Paisley.Looking back I realize how foolish I was as their first two albums are tough to beat.Bucky Fellini stands on its own and does so quite well.The mocking of Ballroom Blitz at the beginning of the Pit cracks me up every time and Big Time Operator, Instant Club Hit, and Jellyfish Heaven are real stand-outs.My personal fav is Watching Scotty Die, a humorous look at toxic pollution.The best song TITLE, though is definitely (Theme from) Blood Orgy of the Atomic Fern.How do they come up with this stuff?Highly recommended.

Instant Dead Milkmen Fan
I bought this album (in 1987) having never heard a Dead Milkmen song, and as soon as the music started I was hooked.I've been a Dead Milkmen fan ever since. The music is raw, funny, and pure!From Rodney's unique vocal style (this guy has one of the best-sounding punk voices you'll ever hear) to Joe's grungy, garage rock guitar to Dean's caffeine-charged drumming, Bucky Fellini has it all.Best of all, this is one of the albums before they flip-flopped their format and ruined themselves; before Rodney, for some unknown reason, decided to hand over most of the vocal duties to Joe.(Don't get me wrong - Joe was GREAT, and still is!But the Dead Milkmen should never have tried to become Butterfly Joe in the midst of a great thing!!) Anyway...buy this CD!You won't ever regret it.It's as simple as that. ... Read more

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A perfectly matched set of MINUTEMEN releases.Both masterpieces.
I'll always love the cover painting on Punch Line.One of the great advantages of albums/12"s/lps or CD's: simply the size of the jacket that gave you much greater visual feasts when they had 'em and that was one.
Grow with First 2 Minutemen LPs
Like another reviewer here, I caught the Minutemen's whirl-a-gig jazz at a young age, but unlike him it's settled in nicely in my memory. The Minutemen opened me to Coltrane and Ornette, and the elliptical artistic attack of Boon, Watt, and Hurley continues to explode good sense as far as I'm concerned. They're at their most elegant here, finishing off practically every song under two minutes. Favorite lyric: "Pack a chunk of the sun/Glue it to your heart hold on." If you happen to have money to splurge, you could buy both of these albums separately: they were released a little more than a year apart, and while "The Punch Line" forms the musical foundation for everything to follow, "What Makes A Man Start Fires?" is thick, rich and strange enough to demand its own hearing. D. Boon's ghost might say, "Go econo."

Sounded great in 1981, but I feel different about it today
This CD is a compilation of the Minutemen's first two 1980s LPs on the SST label.There was no doubt in my mind about the genius of Mike Watt, D. Boone, and George Hurley at the time this music was released.In 1981, no one in the music world was blending leftist political song lyrics with ultra-short jazz-punk song stylings like these guys.In addition, the Minutemen were wonderful bearers of a post-Vietnam/anti-Cold War revolutionary spirit.Their songs seemed to stand for justice, equality, honesty, and peace for all.And they wrote about these topics in a very unique, obscure way.Each song was like a little puzzle to figure out."Son of a martyr, son of father/You can look inside you, you can look inside me."What the heck was Mike Watt talking about there?I don't know, but it was fun trying to figure out.Like the Dead Kennedys, the Minutemen were a political/metaphysical education to my fifteen year old mind.However, upon listening to this music in 2001, I now have the sense that it sounds "trite" and "above reality."It has hard to put my finger on why this is; perhaps it's because I have gotten older and more discriminating in my tastes; perhaps it's because I've become conditioned to better music production techniques over the last twenty years.But whatever the case, I just feel annoyed when I listen to these CDs today.They sound amphetamine-fueled, screechy, and grating to me.All in all, I think if you have not heard the Minutemen, "What Makes a Man Start Fires?" and "the punch line" are the place to start.However, keep in mind the context that this music was written and I think it will sound and play better. ... Read more

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Devo A No Go!
I got this album for a laugh after hearing 'Whip It' but the album was so bad I took it back.If you are a fan of Devo then you will like it.

Brilliant
I'ddisagreewiththelastreviewerinthatthehitsarethebestthinghere . Eachoneaclassic , buttheremixisaterriblethingtobeincluded . It'smediocreanddoesn'tgoanywhere . EvenstillIheartilyrecommendthisCDforanyonewhoisinterestedinthisinlisteningtosomethingabitbizarre

Listen to the hits...stay for the Remix.
This CD is great,if you want to listen to a good collection of DEVO,best of highlights. Not perfect in its choices,but thoroughly playable. For the hardcore Devonion,appearing only on this collection,is the "Whip It(HMS & M Version)"... a highly amusing remix by"Psycho-Slaphead".(Incorporating "Mutiny On The Bounty"and some killer techno-beats....quite DEVO!) ... Read more

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Descendents Kick @$$!
The Descendents are a good band, I think that the SST albums are better than the other 3 CDs that came out on other labels. I would get this as the first of the albums. even though this is good, I think the best one is definetly I don't want to grow up.

best!
dude, if you don't have this, you're blowin' it. milo goes to college is the best record by the best band ever. the other stuff is just a bonus cup.

The finest skate/pop punk albums
These two albums are among my top 5 (I'm counting them as one though!) Songs about being a regular joe and tribulations of growing up; girls that you dig but don't dig you, dreams of assimilating with the normal american families, family tension, and clean fun. Punk without the politics and the fashions that make it weak. A collection of good summer time tuneage. Like early bad religion, black flag, or adolescents? You'll enjoy this. ... Read more

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One word: awesome.
When I first listened to this album, two thoughts leapt to mind:
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We want to experiment without being an art band
The quote in the title is from Will Shatter (Flipper) and in hindsight it is easy to see how innovative Black Flag really were, always -aginst the grain- pushin their music and themselves forward - even if it meant stealing spare tyres, going without sleep for five days and eating dog food. I remember there was a poll in Flipside around the time this album came out titled 'band you think should call it a day' and yes - Black Flag came out top and whilst that may have been right as the band was crippled by the hatred between Henry Rollins and Greg Ginn, this album shows they still had it. For anyone who hasn't heard it, the album is a lot more experimentally "sonic" that the preceding albums with Ginn creating creepy crawling spidery riffs more complex than out and out metal riffing of 'Loose Nut'. The songs have weird shape shifting tempos with everthing treated with hallucinatory reverberation. Rollins vocals are buried in the mix and could be called 'psychotic whispering'which I believe is down to the fact that this album was originally intended to be an instrumental album (i also read it was to be Greg Ginn's first solo album) and was recorded in its entirety without Rollins. That is what gives it a quality unlike any other BF album that takes most of the songs away from normal 'rock'into almost improv riffing as Henry jams on songs like 'Black Love', 'Crazy Girl'. There are a few bootlegs of the band at this time floating around and i would recommend people to track them down as wellas it shows how great the band would have been live at this time. They play this material tight but at faster 4/4 tempos and Rollins is screaming the lyrics. Great album from a great band.

THANK GOD ITS OVER........
with the conclusion of this album,we are mercifully spared further "punk rock" classics from this pretentious group of egos -
Retired at 23?
If you say you like punk rock...you MUST try this one too. This is even better than their debut albuum. Black Flag's finest moments are in this album and in their debut album "Damaged". They have put very good melodies and riffs in this album. They play perfectly in this album and the lyrics are even better than ever. The songs like "The Crazy Girl", "Retired at 21" "It's All Up to You", and "Society's Disease" make me think very much about this like and the craziness it has. All the songs are really cool and I like all of them but there's something missing. Maybe those upbeat songs or somethin'. Henry Rollins sings very well (by the way, try his solo albums too)...he has a great male voice like in these album should be too.
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what was he thinking?
Felix P. screwed this LP from the get go. Way to 'radio friendly' as other reviewers have noted. On 'Young, loud..', Genya Raven captured their sound. Great bass, guitars in front (and LOUD) and Cheetah Chrome's lead even louder!
A Good 2nd LP
While I agree with most of the reviewers that the Dead Boys first LP is the better of the two.This, their 2nd LP, is not without it's moments.Son of Sam and Ain't It Fun are two great songs.If you have the first LP and still want more Dead Boys, give this one a try.

These guys were good.
I didn't even know this was still available, my copy is an old vinyl record, and I got it at a time when I bought and taped recordings by numerous punk bands, and was WIDELY criticized for doing it. I must've been precocious, because the music I liked back then earned me a lot of ridicule, only for the same people to come around later, and actually see something in it.
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Burma's best record?
I don't know how many times it can be said: on "Onoffon," Mission of Burma sounds as vital and intense as they did in 1983, an amazing feat for a band who hasn't recorded together in 22 years (and lost a founding member along the way).Another review noted that the returing Burma doesn't attempt the wide-ranging experimentation of "Vs."For my money, that's not a bad thing, and here's why."Onoffon" retains all the stomping ferocity of the 1983 model, and adds a focus and maturity gained through the intervening 20 years.In retrospect, it probably shouldn't be too surprising that a Burma reunion sounds this good.Miller stayed active in projects like the semi-successful Birdsongs of the Mesozoic; I think that gave him a clear idea, from the standpoint of musical experimentation, of what works and what doesn't.Prescott, meanwhile, blossomed as a leader and songwriter in his own right with the Volcano Suns and Kustomized.The only wild card here is Clint Conley - from what I know, the guy got out of the music business entirely after producing the first Yo La Tengo album (according to the Trouser Press, he was a TV producer in New Jersey); but then, we're talking about the guy who wrote "Academy Fight Song" after all.
Same raw intensity and musical ambition they had in 1983...
How could a band get back together after 22 years and still sound relevant...like they never left? They're playing today with the same raw intensity and musical ambition that they had in 1983. No more Martin Swope manipulating their sound but their producer, Bobby Weston does create some pretty interesting effects. My favorite three tracks are the hard-rocking "The Set Up" which is loaded with great riffs and noises, "The Enthusiast" sounding like the Gang of Four jamming with The Clash, and "Fake Blood" with King Crimson like guitar and bass lines. I hope we don't have to wait 22 years for their next album.

Mission Accomplished
An old Boston friend wrote me an email in late 2001 to tell me that Mission of Burma was reuniting after a 2 decade hiatus. The news ruined my day. Why would Mission of Burma want to reunite with its three founding members well into middle age? Had Roger, Peter and Clint succumbed to the impulse to finally cash in while the Mission of Burma name was still bankable? The Sacred Legend of Burma would certainly go up in flames, as the reunited members would certainly be a mid-life crisis parody of the band's former glory. An artistically viable reunion of a middle-aged Mission of Burma seemed akin to something like mission impossible.
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WHAT THE HELL!?
I hate people that say stuff like "well, real X fans" or "the real X fans." However, I am going to have to say it, the real X fans know that this album SUCKS! It is so over-produced, so pop-heavy, so....awful. The absence of Ray Manzarek is painfully obvious. Look, I saw X numerous times, I own all of their CDs and still worship them. However, this CD does not make the rotation, because it is crap. And I am not saying that all albums suck after the the first four classics. "See How We Are" is very good. So, if you feel I am betraying X by bashing this CD, so be it.

X BUT'S THE X IN THE BURNING HOUSE OF LOVE
OH, MAN i REMEMBER THIS SONG WHEN IT CAME OUT ON THE RADIO IN THE MID- 1980'S BURNING HOUSE OF LOVE IS A EXCELLENT SONG FROM A BAND I REALLY KNEW NOTHING ABOUT. BUT ON THE OTHER HAND, I HAVE HEARD OF THIS BAND X BUT THE MUSIC I REALLY NEVER GOT TO KNOW ON A LARGE SCALE BECAUSE I WAS INTO THE TECHNO MUSIC AND HEAVY METAL AND HARD ROCK. AND I STILL AM. WHICH WILL ALWAYS BE MY PASSIONS. WHEN I SAW THE VIDEO TO THIS SONG I REMEMBERED IT RIGHT AWAY. THE VIDEO TO IT I REALLY DON'T REMEMBER IT. BUT ANYWAY, I LOVE THIS SONG ALOT.

X IT'S THE MID 80'S HELP US WE NEED MONEY & FAME
O.K.I agree with what most people have to say about this album, how heavy handed the production is etc. but in defense of the band and the producer lets just look at the facts. Whilst all our opinions count, they will always vary greatly and thats what makes life interesting. Fact 1.You play in of the one more original and underated L.A. bands since the Doors. Fact 2.You have a record company hungry to re-coup the cash they sunk into you're earlier efforts,whilst showing great promise you only had small record sales.Fact 3. Hire Michael Wagener of Alice Cooper fame to produce Ain't love Grand if only to get the record company off you're back.Fact 4. I don't care what anyone says but the Wagener produced albums of Alice Cooper's in the early to mid 70's,rock as hard as any of the new punk rock music that was to come(just listen to the Killer album).Fact 5. unless we we're all there in the studio when X recorded, who really knows whathappened, it all just speculation.Now onto the non- facts I love X nearly and dearly with all my heart so much so that I have a great big X tattoed over my heart.In my ears, X never really did make a bad album just different records in a developing career, wether we the fans, agree or disagree with their desicions is entirely up to us as individuals.Thisalbum appears to have been fraught with danger from the very beginning, with John and Exene's ensuing personal issues as well as Billy Zoom deciding to quit the band,does this sound like arecipe for creative success , I personally would think not.When I put this album on to listen to I don't go in my head( oh my god I'm listening to the worst X album they ever made) I just let myself get into the music. Songs such as My Goodness crap over the latest effort from over produced pop muppets such as little Miss Kelly (I wanna be the next Avril) Clarkson's latest effort sorry Kelly I'm sure you're not a bad person(hang on yes you are).Sure this album was made in the middle of the big hair era but please don't use this as an excuse to say that this is why X didn't make a great record.From what I can hear they made the album that they had too make, not the album the we wanted them too make. There are still even hints of X's early sneering punk legacy in such songs as What's wrong with Me.Metal-billy makes an appearance in the form of the brilliant Dave Alvin penned Little Honey I think Billy Zoom shines on this track (which you can hear warts an' all on the Xcellent Knitters Poor Little Critter in the Road)and Burning house of Love rocks.The only song that ever really caught me off guard was their choice of the Small Faces All or Nothing(I never really did get this) and song such asWatch the sun Go Down, shows us to which direction The John Doe thing would take in another couple of years time .So maybe when you listen to this album don't be so harsh, maybe X are just victims of circumstances and the times, look out for those huge drum sounds BOOM! BOOM! BOOM ! Please Mr Producer man can I get a little more reverb on the snare thnx it's like record company executives had only just discovered reverb for the first time( it was total reverb mania in the 80's).Anyway after all is said and done you may still not like this album but at least try to be a little open-minded and forgiving. Because when you play in a band you don't always get to do things you want to do on a recording and I feel I can speak from experience, as a musician.As Jerry Dammers (of the Specials fame) once said in an early 80's interview and I still tend to agree with him, he said " there is no such thing as bad music there is only music that I like or that you don't like".
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Flip Your Wig - One of Huskers Best
This is the great over looked album of Husker Du's original SST releases and my favorite.I think it is so overlooked because of the obvious greatness of New Day Rising and the fact that somehow, Rolling Stone managed to brainwash everyone into believing that Zen Arcade is the Holy Grail of Eighties Garage/punk.Fip Your Wig was the very first Husker Du album I ever heard and the first song I heard was Find Me- I heard it on KNLU in Monroe, LA.(One of the best college stations in the world at the time - I think they were kickin' out all of 25 watts.)Find Me did for me what it asks.In a soup of Smiths and Hairmetal the open chords of Find Me screamed like nothing I had ever hear before.The rest of the songs do not disapoint with one exception, the obligatory experimental song The Wit and the Wisdom.One particular standout is Divide and Conquer - it will have you shaking your head and pounding the steering wheel on the way to work!This album/CD, what ever the format stands up very well even 20 years later.

"Normal people going for a spin"
Flip Your Wig was Husker Du's last album for SST before they ventured to Warner Bros.At this point, it was already clear they were moving in a more mainstream direction than their post-punk roots.This album has a more open, accessible sound than the raw, rough-around-the-edges New Day Rising which was also released in 1985.At his point in their career, Grant Hart was really emerging as an amazing singer/songwriter and I wish more of his stuff was on this album (well, not "The Baby Song").His tracks on their next album, Candy Apple Grey, are awesome.
Husker's Low Point
This album has bugged me for years, being the only Husker Du album I feel just plain outright sucks. For a long time I was under the impression that the problem with this album was its horrendous production (other reviewers have pointed out the specific flaws; this must be the worst production I've ever heard on a rock album, absolutely sucks the life out of the music). I've concluded however that the production flaw doesn't cover the whole range of this album's suck-age. Rather - and I'm being balasphemous here - the songwriting flat-out sucks as well. To my ears, this is the band's nadir, tremedously disappointing coming on the heals of such masterworks as "Everything Falls Apart", "Zen Arcade" and "New Day Rising". The bank's subsequent albums, "Candy Apple Grey" and "Warehouse", were marred by Mould & Hart's sub-par production as well (though better in comparison to this album), but at least the songwriting on those albums was much improved over this flaccid one. All in all, this is the only Husker Du album I wouldn't recommend. ... Read more

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I love this album with all my heart.Ultralistenable HC
Ordinarily I don't write a review for items with over say, 5 reviews.But, not surprisingly, this record gets love it or hate it reviews.All hardcore punk rock enthusiasts love it (how can you not?) and all heaven's to Murgatroid alt post punk lovin' musical sweethearts (we could use other terms but maybe you get the idea?Sure we do) hate it because it is so intense and unrelenting.
Refreshingly non-sterile
I guess for youngsters who only grew up with sterile, wanna-be punk or "hard" music, this is difficult to get.
Ear-splitting tripe
Husker-Du may be a great band.This album does not show that.It is tuneless, artless and worthless.Bob Mould should be embarassed it is still for sale. ... Read more

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Great punk compilation
This is one of the better punk comps i've heard, and has a lot more varied stuff on it than an "oi" comp would.There are some classic songs on here from Wasted Youth, TSOL, Agent Orange, and Flipper.Pretty much all of it is good but those are the best.I'd recommend getting Agent Orange's "Living in Darkness" or TSOL's "Dance With Me" if the songs on here appeal to you.

Germs rule!
This is one of the better compilations that I own.It is great, but itcould have had a better germs cut.Darby Crash rules!

Despite the cheesy title and cliche' cover, it's a keeper
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amazingly strange and intense
ah, i've been meaning to get this for a long time, a compilation album from the darkest and grandest of the no wave bands, Mars.opening with 3-E, a fast weird song with the strangest pounding drums you'll likely hear, the album progresses through the slow and subtle to the baraging and pulverising.11,000 volts is almost as spacey and warped as you can get, while helen forsdale, my favorite song, is just as weird as you can possible imagine.in fact, i'd be willing to tell you that helen fordale is one of the best songs of the seventies, but how to describe it...
Extreme
This is wierd, sometimes grating, influenced by Velvet Underground, Punk, and something else I can't quite put my finger on. Very interesting and Unique, this pretty much puts all their studio recordings on one disc, although the production is altered a little here and there, It can give you nightmares. Sonic Youth definitley took much of their sound from this. They are too loose, but damned if these aren't fantastic songs, even if they are mostly improvised. No pop, this is way out stuff.

A Hellish Heaven
after listening and accepting sonic youth as my favorite band, i began to look into their influences. well mars popped up and i had a hard time hearing their songs. i only heard one, but i liked it, and took a chance. well it payed off. this cd is lush in its own way. with the beat of the song carrying off in many directions at once, 78+ is just like one noisy dream. and the noise is what makes this album so scary and so good. just sit back and let this stuff soak in. im 13 and i like this stuff, other people should be able to too. buy it. ... Read more

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Best Green Day Album!
1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours is hands down, my favorite Green Day CD! Every Green Day CD is pure bliss, but this just has something that no other Green Day album has. Just a certain feeling of greatness. I't kinda wierd.
What Green Day's All About
OK, I'm going to start off by saying that this CD took about 9 months to get ahold of... And I'm pretty impatient so it felt like ages. I tried ordering online and it was out of stock EVERYWHERE. I looked in every store within a 50 mile radius of my town. I ordered it from a music store nearby and they said they'd have it within a week and they said they'd have it within a week and I waited and waited for 2 months and it never came. There was only one thing left to try... EBAY! And behold, they had a copy in England, and after what seemed like the longest week of my life, my copy of 1039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours came in the mail.
rock&rock&roll!
I LOVE this album! Like I love all the Green Day albums. On this album, some of the tracks are rock,, and some of the tracks are more like rock&roll. But they are all totally awesome. Oh alright, I don't like Knowledge. They don't really sing in that song, they just slam their guitars and shout it in to the mic but the rest of the album is fantastic. My favourites are 1,000 hours and paper lanterns. But this album is worth getting. ... Read more

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Editorial Review

This is it? Just two CDs devoted (snicker) to one of the great American bands? With the one-two punch of their mission statements"Jocko Homo" and "Mongoloid" from the early 70's, it's clear that Devo had it all figured out from the beginning. Theirs was a fight against the increasingly alienating modern world, a sort of "if you can't beat it, join it" idea. Devo would find more honest humanity by becoming less human. "Are we not men? We are Devo!" was their declaration, echoing the man-beast experiments in H.G. Wells's