I've always seen this as kind of like 2 EPs, with side one being "punk" and side two being "pop". Though fearful of being caught, he's impressed by the strength of their WiFi. 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? The only song on here that mentions girls without bashing them is "Jean Is Dead," and that's only because the girl killed herself! Mary Shalane Minor Obituary (1972 - 2023) | Hamlin, Texas - Echovita Weve got it easy. One last thing: how is it that four of the best songs on here -- heartbreaking 'innocence lost' piece "Can't Go Back," Ramonesy sweet'n'sour "Silly Girl," emotional pop-punker "Good Good Things" and brilliant metallic closer "Ace" -- were written by THE GODDAMNED DRUMMER!?!?! His battles with the church arent over, Tim Bachman, founding guitarist of Bachman-Turner Overdrive, dies at 71, Ed Sheeran blasts music expert for criminal testimony in Marvin Gaye copyright trial, Paul Stanley of KISS dives into debate over transgender acceptance versus kids transitioning, Has the Justin Timberlake Its Gonna Be May meme passed its expiration date? [6][15] Dez Cadena sang backing vocals, while Stevenson created the album's cover graphics and Alvarez provided illustrations for the sleeve and liner notes.[2][15]. I havent slept in a bed since I was 18. thoughts? Hallraker Live! Now then, I present to you two days of Jon Wurster's 'status' updates, in chronological order: We weren't happy with Interscope at all. Those things stacking on top of one another is something I'm comfortable with and I have very specific ideas about. BUY THIS YESTERDAY. I'd almost be willing to write this off as ray cooper descendents - cabeloshidralindos.com Frank sings side A with a voice and melody straight outta Compton 1964 as Tony picks some surf-spy bass behind him, and then Tony sings side B like the biggest nerd on the beach as Frank scraggles up and down his guitar neck as fast as his little feet can carry him. Fuck my colon up the ASS! You won't fuck me because you're a bitch!" And then he died. 15 songs in 23 minutes worth of fist up your dick, to be exact! It was in first-person, so my sleeping mind was reacting to this suicidal action -- watching the ground racing up towards me -- just as it would in real life. Long white bones with the skin all gone? thoughts? Milo Goes To College - New Alliance 1982 Awkward and ugly (though not awful), these two sound like the initial songwriting attempts of a generic punk band - far from the impressive songcraft of the other 13 tracks. We share. Label head and musician Fat Mike was a longtime fan of the band, and his enthusiasm for working with them was a major factor in their decision to sign to the label. So the Descendibles turned into All, put out six albums and Jibbity-Joo! We're not gonna let the music die Im real thankful that Im allowed to play music and express myself and be free. When I thought I was asleep, I would open my right eye, see the top of the closet door, and try with every ounce of determination in my body to wake up. Either best or worst vocal moment: "SOUR FUCKIN' GRAPES!" Stevenson wasnt always so full of brotherly love. So by the time I woke up (still freezing), I was certainly in no mood to be on the television, which is why you didn't see me on Red Eye tonight. Barely out of the gate, and it dies a silent death. This is the nature of Thanksgiving, the scariest day of the year. Urine is produced by the kidneys, located on either side of YOU, THE READER at the base of the ribcage. And the nightmare would continue until I finally realized I wasn't awake, at which point I would re-open my right eye, only to be terrified by the sight of the top of the closet door -- meaning that all my physical efforts were in fact psychological. I don't hear The Beatles singing "I don't wanna smell your muff" or "The only fish I smell is on the back of my boat" or "Why don't we do it in the road?," so clearly these guys are a bit more aggressively anti-female than your usual gang of four. They asked if I drive forklift and I lied and said yes. I'm not sure why you chose to focus on that aspect of their lyrics, but I can relate to being a young and sexually shunned young man. Before I knew about the condition it was pretty scary (like when I heard someone writing something on my computer though I knew my wife wasn't home, or when I felt (couldn't see) a small girl standing beside the bed, and then starting to move her hands up and down the bedsheet (and this was before The Ring) it was horrible. OSLANE@student.gvsu.edu I think what I appreciate most about the descendents is their unapologetic immaturity either that or their wild lust for coffee. (1993), which would essentially be rerecorded in Ft. Collins as Rocks Your Lame Ass! (and so on) Looks like B&D's gonna blow Skil outta the H2O with this! More like 'Solid WASTE!' 12:34pm The playing of the core band is even better than before, never mistaking increased skill with needing to show off; the Lombardo/Stevenson rhythm section is in perfect sync, while Navetta provides the corrosive power. Luckily Henry The Dog heard me, and jumped from his chair to come over and wake me up. I was stubborn and selfish, he says. punchlines and lame "celebrities' vaginas" riffs. This time you are dead on though. Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe both shared . every potential punk song into either terrible hard rock or inoffensive Everything Sucks is better than All and Enjoy because those records were lyrically obnoxious, musically sloppy and vocally inferior. Critics have cited that their earlier music style which reflected hardcore punk being influential to modern day skate punk and pop-punk. I, Doug Carrion! [2], The band's music at the time was described by Stevenson as a "coffee'd-out blend of rock-surf-pop-punk music [] The sound consisted basically of Lombardo's hard-driving, melodic bass lines, Navetta's tight guitar riffing, and my 'caffinated' surf beats. ", "Descendents" - "We're the proud, the few/Descendents, pickin' our butts tonight.". During the band's first reformation, the songs got longer, darker, and experimental. none of it was actually 'punk rock'), If it's Descendents classics you're after, you're going to have to look beyond the la-de-da smiley faces of "Sick-O-Me" and "When I Get Old" and embrace the darker and more creative underbelly of the album, particularly Egerton's killer punk rock title track, Bill and Egerton's hardcore "Coffee Mug," Milo's haunting dysfunctional family lament "Rotting Out," Alvarez's cleverly ascending "Caught" and FRANK NAVETTA(!!!!!!! Don't blame me! It may be their least adventurous and most traditionally 'pop-punk' album to date, but it sure is professional-sounding and easy on the ears. I first stumbled on your page searching for "Ramones Record Reviews" in the 10th grade (in 2003, I can't believe your page escaped my schools filters) and I've been coming back over and over again since. ripped off by Green Day) and Bill's gorgeous "Cheer" - and both are way 2:03am [7] Stevenson commented that "If you've got the owner of the label saying he wants to put out a record by what is probably his favorite band of all time, that's rad. I Don't Want To Grow Up? Now then, I present to you two days of Jon Wurster's 'status' updates, in chronological order: Jon is looking at these sales reports Fullman just put on his desk and feeling pretty good about the '09 DustBuster Micro launch. I strongly disagree with you're views on the lyrics. We have three peoples clothing on one shelf, and everyone takes whatever he wants. The only fish I smell is on the back of my boat." Witnesses offer conflicting accounts, The 10 best things we saw at Willie Nelsons 90th birthday concert, Mars Voltas lead singer broke with Scientology and reunited with the band. At the end of "Iceman," he says, "Not necessarily an Iceman. In text form it may read amusing, but when you're trying to sleep and you can't get out of a perpetual mind loop it's fucking HELLISH! vocals and lame Tuff-Rock riffs. Shop for Vinyl, CDs and more from Ray Cooper at the Discogs Marketplace. This, the second of 14 Descendents live albums, features five songs each from All and I Want Don't To Grow Up, three from Boner Fat, two from Enjoy and a horrifying mere ONE (!!!!!) The album garnered rave reviews and wound up being named the best punk LP of 1983 by Englands New Musical Express. But only 7 of them are, because Milo sounds like his nose is shoved up somebody's asshole. He joined the band during 1987's ALL, so I figured the Oklahoma resident would offer a unique viewpoint on the songs as someone who is a fan of the band and a member. Especially the looping part. The dog had about 23 eyes, then when it turned around, there were four OTHER dogs attached to its back end, each with two eyes, then nose, then a THIRD eye, then mouth. Your dreams sound pretty spooky. Luckily Henry The Dog heard me, and jumped from his chair to come over and wake me up. ya know when you have a album cover like this one you are really in for a special treat from the descendents.they just dont make punk albums this fun anymore .so on the descendents 3rd album ENJOY they return after milo went to college bill went to black flag and than back in the band and with the new addition of doug carrion (from dagnasty) and ray coopers last album. It's hard to believe this is the same guy who stunk up Enjoy, All and both live albums with his lazy off-key wimp voice. Unless it really is just a Green Day/Bad Religion split-single that somebody put in the wrong album cover. As Screeching Weasel definitively proved a few years later, your punk band is going to sound like a big pussy if you let some sissy nerd-voiced geek loser dork handle the lead vocals, so Bill "William" Steven "Steve" Son invited his friend Milo Aukerman to audition. Ray Cooper! ", "Bikeage" - "Take a quaalude, relax your mind/Relax your body too!" I once had a dream where a bunch of my friends and I were trapped in a glass building that was being attacked by bloody mutant dogs with extra heads and limbs, just banging up against the glass, trying to get us. (etc.) CONCLUSION: A couple of brave attempts to infuse the Descendents sound Except for the bits of metal showing up every once in a while, these are Blink-182/Bowling for Soup/Bad Religion hybrid. Stevenson says he isnt worried. Hey, you like reasons. 3:08pm "[7] The album was preceded by the 'Merican EP in February 2004, followed by the full-length album in March. Who knows, at some point later on we might decide that we want to get together and record something. You make your own rules in here, says bassist Doug Carryon, 21, sipping on a giant cup of coffee--the Descendents drug of choice. Tony Lombardo's "Theme" has a bass part that seems to go out of its way to utilize as many frets and strings as humanly possible - lots of fun. Their debut single, "Ride The Wild"/"It's A Hectic World" shot up the charts upon its 1979 release, eventually stopping with a bullet somewhere around #15,000. The Descendents joined Planet Rock USA in 1978 when guitarist Frank Navetta, bassist Tony Lombardo and drummer Bill Stevenson got together to combine the sound of '60s beach music with the energy of '70s punk rock. Why, your urine stream would coat the entire bridal party! 9. OOOOOHOHOHOHOHOHHOHOH!!!!! Who's there? "Everything Sux," Everything Sux (1996): I'm not at all a confident songwriter. This time you are dead on though. Nolte produced and mixed the session, and his brother Joe turned the lead guitar level up, resulting in the guitar being very loud in the mix. Between these two albums there are some of their best songs, but in my opinion, "College" has too many tracks that just whiz by without much notice from me. There are 10 people living in one room 10 miles from here, he says. Looks like B&D's gonna blow Skil outta the H2O with this! The more they got into it the more it turned into their own religion; it's partly humor, but it's also an outlook on how to conduct your life: to not settle for some, to always go for All. But then everything took a downhill turn when I began dreaming that China's public transit system involves tiny open rope cages for people to stand in, all tied together in a row and dragged along overhead wires like cable cars. Years ago, I got trapped in this horrible pattern where every night I would dream the same exact LONG, IN-DEPTH nightmare that wouldn't end -- it just kept reaching a near-conclusion and then looping back and starting over, and over, and over. Yuck, that dream sounds horrific! I think you should have given this a 2-dot rating. I'd say this is my 3rd or 4th favorite Descendents record, which means it deserves, oh, say a 6.5/10. I'd have been all like, "Solid Gold? TRANSLATION: "Even though later in the song I claim that I don't want to 'have sex' with you but rather want to 'be your friend' and 'marry you,' it's pretty clear by lyrics like this that I do indeed want to have sex with you. Avoid Bowling for Soup though - nobody should have to listen to that. The distorted stereophonic guitars are loud as heck, and Milo's vocals are surprisingly tough, confident and tuneful. listening to Blink-182 and Bad Religion - they are both better than this Also, the lyrics are painfully real, and "Nothing With You" is absolutely adorable. Good times. Then you'll continue listening and be all like, "Why is Milo singing just like Greg Graffin and the band playing minor-key midtempo chord changes they stole off Bad Religion records?" Girl," with Milo writing off a new wave girl as a 'cocktease' because AAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAH!!!!! That song was me finally comes to terms with writing a complete idea. They're assholes. This is the nature of Thanksgiving, the scariest day of the year. Did you say "Ray POOPer"? The lyrical content of the Descendents made them being cited at the time as one of the most significant punk bands of the 1980s hardcore punk movement. This album made a difference in my young life but didn't make me grow to view women in a negative way. [2][9][10], In 1985 Stevenson left Black Flag and he, Aukerman, Cooper, and Lombardo reconvened as the Descendents for I Don't Want to Grow Up, recorded that April at Music Lab studios in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California with producer and engineer David Tarling and published by New Alliance Records. social satire (hard rock guy lashing out at new wave girl) were it not The Monkees - "I'm Not Your Stepping Stone Age" ray cooper descendents [53][54][55] In these lists, critic Simon Reynolds described the album as "Fifteen Cali-core paroxysms that anatomize dork-dude pangs with haiku brevity", while Andrew Beaujon called it "Super clean, super tight, super poppy hardcore about hating your parents, riding bikes, and not wanting to 'smell your muff. Sexual frustration is one thing, but their records show very little self-analysis, and lots of blaming and name calling towards the "homos" (read: guys getting more action) and "whores" (read: any female). TRANSLATION: "If a girl develops a drug problem, she's also a whore! But enough laughter and good cheer. Not only is I Don't Want To Grow Up the first Descendents album without guitarist Frank Navetta (he appears on three brief tracks, but replacement Ray Cooper handles the rest); it's also the last good album the band ever released. It's feeding the song and the band as a whole and how we work together that makes the song interesting. But besides that, this has been one of my most highly-regarded favorites of all time for a very long time. The otherwise impressive hard rocker "'80s Girl" is as misogynist as TRANSLATION: "She wants to fuck me, but she's a little baby, afraid to fuck me. Now that customer has no nose. As a sexually frustrated teenager, I felt all the same emotions as these guys, but I tended to bottle it up inside - mad respect for anyone willing to throw all that shit out into the open and say, "Yeah, I'm pissed off that I can't get laid. 9. Gather around everybody, for I'm going to tell you about the jokey material, and of my intensive loathing for it. 2) When are you gonna put a Supergrass page on your site? Have you seen the Ghost of John? A few of these renditions actually improve upon their studio counterparts: "Descendents" is meaner and speedier; "Wendy" dumps the palm muting and kicks up the tempo; and "Clean Sheets" is much less irritating without the super-high chorus vocals (though it still for some reason has me singing the hilarious parody lyrics, "That shirt's a dildo/And so's your old man!). This was my introduction to the Descendents, and I was so instantly floored that I still haven't standed back up. And stuff like 'Caught' and 'Doghouse' leave all the other so-called-punk bands from around that time in the dust! Milo sings. In fact, Milo can't even make it all the way through a serious metal song ("Jealous Of The World") without throwing in the wildly out-of-place 'threat,' "I think I'll fart on your face." The tempos are up, the guitars are fuzzy, the bass is loud, the vocals are more melodic than before while retaining that rough punk edge, and nearly every song boasts a vocal hook that is impossible to remove from one's head (examples: "Now you're gone and I'm alooooooone!," "Sheeeee don't need no one! Perhaps they were Fat leftovers? Let's make a song with farts all over it! technical ability, the song writing is inferior and Milo sucks (much Ha ha! Here are some reasons. I dug carryin' (Doug Carrion) all those terrible songs to the record on the album though come on, I can see how you think all that anti-beaver, fish/cunt stuff IS misogynistic because I feel that to make personal attacks on the female anatomy is wrong, HOWEVER I do feel you're being way too sensitive about the lyrics in "Pervert" and "GCF." Oh Milo, you're such a tortured soul! more pop than punk. Also, here's something intriguing that I found online about you: YOU, THE READER detects and identifies bacteria and yeast in the urine. understand their sound. As for the jokey material: the less said, the better for my colon. He didn't really play solos, per se, and there were open chords and minor chords, which was cool in the context of punk. One last thing: how is it that four of the best songs on here -- heartbreaking 'innocence lost' piece "Can't Go Back," Ramonesy sweet'n'sour "Silly Girl," emotional pop-punker "Good Good Things" and brilliant metallic closer "Ace" -- were written by THE GODDAMNED DRUMMER!?!?! Spears' vagina? [11] When the band's name was changed to All upon Aukerman's departure in 1987, bassist Karl Alvarez created the character Allroy to serve an equivalent function for the new band.[44]. over two guitar chords! My favorite is "Van", mostly for the tricky rhythmic changes (I wouldn't call it "punk funk") and 13/8 main riff, but also for the desperately joyful fecophelia (thanks, South Park!) [52], Milo Goes to College has been included in several lists of noteworthy punk albums. IIIIIHIHIHIHIHIHHIHIH!!!!! Theres nothing wrong with Raspberries! For example, mine right now says, "Mark Prindle is beginning to look a lot like Christmas." EEEEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHHEEHEEH!!!!! HEE HEE EHEEHEEH! from Colo Goes To Mileage! It's somebody asking, "All?" Jim Hull Oh, if only they'd devoted more of the record to departures like this one. Finally, you'll conclude, "This album stinks.". 4:13pm, Jon got fired from Black and Decker today. Descendents - markprindle.com At first, the dreams - though bizarre - were not frightening. This was my introduction to the Descendents, and I was so instantly floored that I still haven't standed back up.