Average Rating: 4.10 Rating Variance: 0.43 Objectivity Score: 53% (Somewhat Balanced)
Sort by: Rating | Release Date | Rating Date | Name5.0 classicLeftover Crack Fuсk World TradeNOFX The Decline4.5 superbDischarge Hear Nothing See Nothing Say NothingLess Than Jake GNV FLAReagan Youth A Collection of Pop ClassicsScreeching Weasel Boogadaboogadaboogada!Though not what most people would expect from Screeching Weasel, who fell into a comfortable pop punk niche throughout almost all their other albums and releases, Boogadaboogadaboogada! is a great album that is often overlooked because of the vast differences it has from all of Screeching Weasel's albums. This album is an interesting and effective mix of 80's skatepunk and more melodic bands such as The Ramones, and the early/mid 80's hardcore that Ben Weasel and company were exposed to in Chicago. Bands like Negative Approach and Articles of Faith who inhabited the Chicago hardcore scene obviously left their mark on SW by way of their lightning fast beats and pure aggression. But unlike those bands, Screeching Weasel doesn't take themselves too seriously. Screeching Weasel's lyrical content is what Ben Weasel describes as "Anti Everything." Many songs on this album are obviously just for the sake of pissing people off. Titles like "I Hate Led Zeppelin," "I Wanna be Naked," and songs that take jabs at skaters("We Skate"), politics("Nicaragua"), and the suburbs("Hey Suburbia") show Screeching Weasel to be exactly what they wanted to be seen as: Bored kids who like to piss people off. This is the most striking difference between Screeching Weasel's later albums and this one. Most of the songs on the later albums are concerned in some way with girls, and although there are a few such songs on Boogadaboogadaboogada!, they are defintately few and far between. The music is also much faster than on most later albums, using a lightning-speed 4-4, rather than the slower one that would be more familiar to fans of later albums. This album is proof that different doesn't equal bad, it's just different. Just because it's different than the rest of the albums doesn't mean it's bad. This is an excellent album for what it is, a late 80's skate punk record. And Screeching Weasel's later albums are excellent for pop punk as well.The Thermals The Body, The Blood, The Machine4.0 excellentAJJ People Who Can Eat People are the Luckiest PeopleNegative Approach Total RecallThe Arrogant Sons of Bitches Three Cheers For Disappointment3.5 greatGorilla Biscuits Gorilla BiscuitsThe Gorilla Biscuits are a band who, in my opinion, don't get the credit they deserve from fans of american hardcore punk. Second only to Minor Threat in the East Coast Straight Edge movement, their music was in many ways ahead of it's time. The Gorilla Biscuits formed in 1987, a few years after the majority of prominent hardcore bands in America had come and gone, which is unfortunate because they most likely would have been hugely popular had they been conceived a few years earlier. The Biscuit's music for this release is as much in the metal category musically as hardcore punk band. What reallly makes the distinction between the two is the lyrical themes of the songs, and the vocal style that singer Civ came to be known for. The music is standard fast, agressive power chords and 4-4 drums, but the Gorilla Biscuits have a way of making it seem uniquely their own when they play, unlike so many generic hardcore bands that the 80's had to offer. The hybrid of punk and metal was a premonition of things to come, with so many bands in the 90's and 2000's running with that combination and making it something all their own again, just as the Gorilla Biscuits had years prior.MDC Millions of Dead CopsPoison Idea Feel the Darkness2.5 averageThe Casualties Under Attack
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