Group Sex
by Circle Jerks

Album
Group Sex by Circle Jerks
Year: 1980
Release date: 1980-10-01
Overall rank: 6,795th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
70/100 (from 107 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1980 (114th)
Award Top albums of of the 1980s (963rd)
Award Best albums of all time (6,795th)

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Overall rank: 6,795th | 1980s rank: 963rd | 1980 rank: 114th  Overall chart history
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From Mercury 10/11/2022 01:56 in Greatest Metal According to Gowi/LedZep/Repo/Rocky and I!
“First off, I want to circle back to a bit of housekeeping so I can shout out a few releases that I haven’t included in this project. These are the main ones that I skipped that I love to a greater or lesser degree and felt bad not repping at all. And so I have decided to write short notes on these…”
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From Liedzeit 09/09/2022 16:30 in What album are you listening to right now?
“What album are you listening to right now?”
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From dihansse 04/07/2022 19:21 in My discoveries per year
“These are my choices of albums of 1980: An album on my wishlist: Police albums are not always of great quality overall but of course there are the hits: here it's the wonderful Don't Stand So Close To Me and De Do (and some more De's, do's and da's). And there are other nice tracks like Driven To…”
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From 03/11/2023 17:57 | #294917 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
14 songs in just over 15 minutes. A perfect descriptor of what the 1980s would have to offer in American punk music. The hardcore style was sharpening its edges and trimming off what wasn't needed...boiling down to songs that are barely one minute in length each. As Lester Bangs said in his quasi-review of this album in 1982, "Hardcore is the womb."
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From 04/12/2022 07:39 | #284057 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
They didnt have the agression of Minor Threat, the talent of Bad Brains, the cool guitars of Black Flag or the importance of The Germs, but it exemplifies everything fun about the genre.
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From 11/04/2021 18:31 | #275863
more punk rubbish
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From 02/20/2021 09:26 | #266537 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
The 12YO version of me that listened to this over and over on cassette would have sworn this compact little gem was longer than 15 minutes.
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From 04/30/2016 04:12 | #164871
A 14 year old version of me would probably give this a chance and like it.
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