FUUUUUCCCC YEAH! This is my shit! I'm glad you love it too. What a badass 15 minute tour de force of badass adolescent shit. Adore it. As of now its my fave of the year from what I've heard. _________________ -Ryan
FUUUUUCCCC YEAH! This is my shit! I'm glad you love it too. What a badass 15 minute tour de force of badass adolescent shit. Adore it. As of now its my fave of the year from what I've heard.
Definitely on the short list for best hardcore albums of all time. If you like this, you have to give that Angry Samoans EP -Inside My Brain- a whirl. Total kissing cousins!
Do u like Group Sex better than Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables (FFFRV)?
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Definitely on the short list for best hardcore albums of all time. If you like this, you have to give that Angry Samoans EP -Inside My Brain- a whirl. Total kissing cousins!
Do u like Group Sex better than Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables (FFFRV)?
I’ll give the angry Samoans another listen. Not sure Ive heard that ep. heard their debut and remember liking it.
And yes I rank Group Sex ahead of FFFRV although FFFRV is excellent. Group Sex is just more my style _________________ -Ryan
Definitely on the short list for best hardcore albums of all time. If you like this, you have to give that Angry Samoans EP -Inside My Brain- a whirl. Total kissing cousins!
Do u like Group Sex better than Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables (FFFRV)?
I’ll give the angry Samoans another listen. Not sure Ive heard that ep. heard their debut and remember liking it.
And yes I rank Group Sex ahead of FFFRV although FFFRV is excellent. Group Sex is just more my style
Me too! I have to be in the right mood for Jello's adenoidal yelping. And I prefer Hetson's guitar playing to East Bay Ray's so it's really not that close. FFFRV may get my respect but it's NOT getting in my chart! 😈
Let me know what u think of that EP! It will only take u 5 minutes to listen to! So you have no excuse. 😉
The Setting: After leaving The Supremes in the late 60s, Diana Ross simply owned the 70s with an extremely successful & prolific solo career riding the trends of 70s R&B, funk and disco. In many ways she was the living breathing embodiment of all those 70s empowerment anthems that ruled the radio waves. So it really shouldn’t have been a surprise that after releasing yet another GREAT R&B/disco album with The Boss in 1979, that she set her sights on a complete reinvention of her sound. Disco was getting stale. So she drafted Chic’s A Team of Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards and along with a crucial heavy hand at the mixing board by Russ Terrana completely updated her sound leaving many of her most ardent fans a bit flabbergasted.
The Listen: Oh but it did it ever work. One of the most successful reinventions of any R&B/Pop artist ever, Diana marks the end of disco and the start of 80s Pop. Diana proved to be the sassy survivor she sang so much about in the 70s. Along with Prince’s Dirty Mind, Diana serves as the template for 80s Pop that was about to take over the world with Michael Jackson and Madonna.
The Verdict: One of the best Pop albums of the 80s. Period. Every song on here is solid, addicting and will have you singing along in no time flat.
Rating: 😈😈😈😈😈
1980 Essentials (Thus Far)😈😈😈😈😈
1. Talking Heads - Remain In Light (Art Punk, Post-Punk)
2. The Cure - Seventeen Seconds (Post-Punk, Goth)
3. Circle Jerks - Group Sex (Hardcore, Punk)
4. Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden (Metal, NWOBHM)
5. Diana Ross - Diana (Pop, R&B)
6. Merle Haggard - Back To The Barrooms (Country)
7. Angry Samoans - Inside My Brain (Hardcore, Punk)
HMs
1. Judas Priest - British Steel (NWOBHM, Metal)
2. Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables (Hardcore, Punk)
3. Paul McCartney - II (Art Pop)
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Definitely on the short list for best hardcore albums of all time. If you like this, you have to give that Angry Samoans EP -Inside My Brain- a whirl. Total kissing cousins!
Do u like Group Sex better than Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables (FFFRV)?
I've honestly never truly loved Group Sex as much as I've wanted to. Fresh Fruit remains a punk staple for me, so it's not even close.
I got pretty into Angry Samoans in middle/high school, but I can't imagine I'd enjoy them nearly as much these days.
For me, this might be the most essential record from that original west coast punk scene
Definitely on the short list for best hardcore albums of all time. If you like this, you have to give that Angry Samoans EP -Inside My Brain- a whirl. Total kissing cousins!
Do u like Group Sex better than Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables (FFFRV)?
I've honestly never truly loved Group Sex as much as I've wanted to. Fresh Fruit remains a punk staple for me, so it's not even close.
To me, Group Sex was an important innovation on punk rock that introduced the classic West Coast hardcore sound. Whereas, FFFRV is more akin to 50s rock n' roll and rockabilly taken to ridiculous and sometimes even comical extremes ON PURPOSE! Sometimes I'm in the mood for that. But sometimes, it sounds too goofy. I do love its manic energy, but again I have to be in the right mood for that kind of zaniness. It's zany & purposefully spastic. (Perhaps the interlude on "Chemical Warfare" being the best and most obvious example of this.) It's making of mockery of rock ON PURPOSE! It's exaggerated and over the top.
Group SEx is just middle finger raised high & proud hardcore.
Mostly I think it's so cool that two hardcore albums from the same year sound so different. Both bands have immediately identifiable sounds.
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Then we played like 10 of our own songs and people didn’t know the difference. We all just looked at each other, and go, ‘[Forget] this, we’re gonna do our own songs. I think this is gonna work.’” - Ken Deans, drummer of The Heats
The Setting: It all started at a school dance. They were just going to play some basic rock covers. BUT, they got that itch... "What if?", they thought. So they played one original. And then another. And the teens couldn’t get enough. After a cover story in the local rag, Heatlemania unofficially broke out across Seattle and The Heaters, as they were then called, became the hottest band in town.
But, “We [weren’t] punk enough for the punk crowd, and we [weren’t] pop enough for the Top 40 crowd,” states drummer Ken Deans. Not able to score a major recording contract they were stuck as a regional wonder kind. And a different "What If?" emerged. “What if” they had been based in LA, New York, or London? Could they have competed with the big boys?
The Listen: You had better believe it! These boys could play. Simply one of the best power pop albums of the 80s, this is a true and blue lost classic. If you dig early Beatles, The Posies, and The Figgs, you may just fall in love all over again.
The Verdict. Don’t you just love hidden gems? Sure it’s a little dusty, but give it a spit & shine and a chance, and this little record will make you dance!
1980 Essentials (Thus Far)😈😈😈😈😈
1. Talking Heads - Remain In Light (Art Punk, Post-Punk)
2. The Cure - Seventeen Seconds (Post-Punk, Goth)
3. Circle Jerks - Group Sex (Hardcore, Punk)
4. Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden (Metal, NWOBHM)
5. The Heats - Have An Idea (Power Pop)
6. Diana Ross - Diana (Pop, R&B)
7. Merle Haggard - Back To The Barrooms (Country)
8. Angry Samoans - Inside My Brain (Hardcore, Punk)
HMs
1. Judas Priest - British Steel (NWOBHM, Metal)
2. Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables (Hardcore, Punk)
3. Paul McCartney - II (Art Pop)
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