1995, Johanns Face Records.
Tracklist:
01 - Jerk Lessons
02 - Smoker's Cough
03 - Not My Kind of Guy
04 - Be Alright
05 - Butter on the Rim
06 - Dean is a Punk
07 - Cindy (Nip Drivers)
08 - Kicking my Head In
09 - Hate is Such a Strong Word
10 - Gay Parade
11 - Sixteen
12 - Misguided Memories (the Freeze)
13 - Sorry Bout the Mess
14 - Sorry
15 - Space Glaze
16 - So Emotional
17 - Little Red Riding Hood (Sam Sham and the Pharohs)
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One day i'll write a very long winded story about my teenage years. One day. Before I die. Maybe. For now I don't really know where to start - it's overwhelming. The fireside bowl was the place to be in Chicago, and if you were around for that and if you were into punk rock in the mid '90s, theres a good chance you saw these guys, unless you absolutely avoided the,. (My toll was probably an average of once every two or three months for these guys. Oblivion, their rivals and good freinds, on the other hand usually played once a month. All that work and barely any recogniton... shame.) A majority of the people who played in this band are still involved in some project or another, with singer Todd ranking most active with at least three new bands under his belt, after a long period of no bands at all. They still rise from the grave from time to time, though those shows are few and far between they're really not something to be missed. I miss these guys more than most bands around from that period (oblivion is on top of that list too) and when I think about how long ago all of this was it just makes me feel like i'm too old for this shit. Maybe. Probably not.
Here is the original album description as recalled by drummer Andy on their now defunct website, with more information that you really asked for:
"Todd insisted on this title, and even had a lyric by the same title, but never used it. We had to record this quickly to finish it for our summer tour, so we've always had little bitches about it. We finally got to do a Nip Drivers song, and I think we did a Freeze cover, too (now there's an original idea). Whereas on past releases Bill and Scott did the majority of the songwriting, now everyone was gettin involved, which made it really fun and different. The cover was our take on The Rolling Stones' "Exile On Main Street", though the only thing we ever heard about it was, "Why are the KKK on the cover? Do you like the KKK? You're going to get in TROUBLE!" As of today, we still haven't gotten 'in trouble', Punk Rock is soooo daring these days. Also, the song "Kicking My Head In" was taken a little too literally. While we were trying to poke holes in "homophobic logic", some people just didn't understand the black humor we intend to inject into our songs. ("Gay Parade" has nothing to do with gay people, by the way). The first song should be a dead give-away as to how we feel about those who take everything at face value. "Little Red Riding Hood" became a regular set closer, and I think we've played "Sorry" live twice. "So Emotional", one of our favorite songs, with guest vocals by Tom Little Face from Sidekick Kato, has never been played live, because screaming for three minutes straight makes Todd a dull boy. "Dean Is a Punk", I think, is about someone in particular, not named Dean, though. The "Baby" (LP insert, CD back cover) is Todd's baby brother, Skylar."
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