Not so much with music, but with lyrics. AAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAH!!!!! I haven't heard the 'Bonus Fat' E.P., but maybe I'll pick that up instead of another copy of 'Milo Goes to College'. The cassette and CD versions added two additional tracks: "Orgofart" and "Orgo 51". Oh! CONCLUSION: A couple of brave attempts to infuse the Prindle schtick Add your 3. Jon is hiding in the bushes behind the Wendy's near New Hope Commons. Besides Marilyn Monroe, I'm their first-ever centerfold with a penis! If she puts out for anybody else, she's a slut. 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." 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 (!!!!!) That's no way to bruin a live album. vocals and lame Tuff-Rock riffs. It's feeding the song and the band as a whole and how we work together that makes the song interesting. Goes Out newsletter, with the week's best events, to help you explore and experience our city. Now I'm happy it worked out the way it did. jokes. Let's examine each songwriter's lyrical contributions separately, now that we've established that the riffs (aside from a couple of Bill's) are all pretty negligible. [3][4] Following the tour both Carrion and Cooper left the band, and were replaced by Karl Alvarez and Stephen Egerton, respectively, from the Utah band Massacre Guys. Steve I think it would look something like this: That showed a certain evolution of the band. Its too good lyrically to be a 4. You'll hear the first two songs and think, "How did Green Day sneak into the pressing plant and put two of their cheery bullshit 'pop-punk' songs onto this Descendents record?" Must be what Hell is like, all terror with no payoff. 2. TRANSLATION: "Girls can't be trusted. -- "Listen up man, I'll tell you who I am/I'm just another stupid American/But you don't want to listen, you don't want to understand/Just finish up your drink and go home" With the singer's nose lodged up somebody's anusbottom? I dug carryin' (Doug Carrion) all those terrible songs to the record Oh, if only they'd devoted more of the record to departures like this one. "[5], After a six-month trial with a female singer, Cecilia Loera, they recruited Milo Aukerman as their new vocalist. 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 know Jonathan Richman's met these women, 'cause he's sung about them The recording sessions for Cool to Be You took place with Aukerman in February 2002 at The Blasting Room in Fort Collins, Colorado, with additional recording done in April at Planet of Sound in Wilmington, Delaware, and were produced by Stevenson. Luckily, I was right as the guitarist spoke at length about the difficulty of honoring the legacy of Navetta and Cooper while maintaining his own musical voice. (1987) and Hallraker: Live! 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. My wife is out of town for work, and NYC is suddenly freezing, so I was sleeping on the couch right next to the heater. I took it all in and loved it for what it was. drooling big spit balls" and the phrase "nuclear tits." That was the first song I wrote as a complete thing lyrics, drum parts, everything. 2:03am, Jon 's at Mike's Tavern. The CD is 29 minutes long (only one song exceeds 3:00) and sounds fantastic. Add in Aukerman's in-your-face hilarity and fuck-off stance, and it's punk rock that wears both its adolescence and brains on its sleeve. Normally when you talk about Green Day I can tell that you really don't 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. I'm not denying that they're subconsciously misogynistic or anything of the sort, but that's the whole charm of the album. -- "You got a loving family/To give you everything you need/My family loves each other so much/We live a thousand miles away and never stay in touch" Descendents have begun to poorly imitate Black Flag -- here in the That was a nice homage I thought. I'm very concerned about the emotions of boats, what with global warming and the pirates. 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. near-unlistenable by Milo's humiliating mid-song attempt to be Henry 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. Ha ha! -- (to his wife) "Money and time/We didn't know they'd be so hard to come by/"Look and you'll find"?/We didn't know that's just some fabled school rhyme/We'll never get ahead in this world/Not 'til we move ahead of this/World we've made for ourselves/Where there's no time to kiss/And no room to even breathe" A few sexist lyrics remain, but they're at least consigned to a side one ghetto, leaving side two completely sweet, sad and mature. [7], For the release of Cool to Be You the Descendents signed to Fat Wreck Chords. Reader Comments On December 16, 1987, during the recording of the first All album Allroy Sez, Pat McCuistion died when his fishing boat sank during a storm. Madonna's vagina? Gather around everybody, for I'm going to tell you about the jokey material, and of my intensive loathing for it. -- "Listen up man, I'll tell you who I am/I'm just another stupid American/But you don't want to listen, you don't want to understand/Just finish up your drink and go home", Bill Stevenson - Still struggling to make a career in music while dealing with family issues Mmm, I could go for some fat leftovers right about now. I could see the waking world. WHY COULDN'T I ENTER IT!? At different points, I was passed out in Carl Schurz Park, dazed in my childhood room surrounded by mold and filth, pleading to my father for help, trying to explain to the police that I needed assistance, etc. CONCLUSION: A couple of brave attempts to infuse the Descendents sound Here are our top 10 picks, Aerosmith is saying farewell with Peace Out tour, which hits L.A. in December, Michelle Obama didnt just attend a Springsteen concert in Barcelona. And I don't mean the rock group who did "Don't Stand So Close To Me '86." In addition to percussion, Cooper studied classical piano, strings and woodwind, as well as theatre. [6][12], The lyrics of "Hrtin' Cre" derived from a high school classmate of singer Milo Aukerman who had earned a score of 1420 on the SAT, gaining him entry into the United States Military Academy. Statue of Liberty, Milo Goes to College (1982): You can imagine this song in a slower, cleaner context. ", "GCF" - "I like lust and sexual thrust/I like good clean fun! got sour grapes." Green Day songs. All is literally a multiple-personality disorder, swerving recklessly back and forth between cloying pop-punk, intriguing jazz-tinged metal, and godawful novelty songs. Oh! TRANSLATION: "Girls are whores. Bill Stevenson - Still struggling to make a career in music while dealing with family issues You put the Vines and the Strokes and GARBAGE on your page for gooness sake's where are the HIVES!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?! Having said that, Karl Alvarez's "I'm The One" and "Thank You" should be buried in a hole out in the desert and left there to die screaming. And Milo is unfortunately beginning to forego some of his rough shouting in the name of actual singing; it doesn't affect the quality of this album, but it does lead to some awful performances on the next couple. 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. Instead of the song titles, the back cover lists slang terms for This, the first of two Descendents live albums, features in-concert performances of two Bonus Fat songs, five each from Milo Goes To College and All, and four each from I Don't Wanna Grow Up and Enjoy. I tried to wake up - I tried seriously to wake up, probably around 30 times in a row. 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. The only song on here that mentions girls without bashing them is "Jean Is Dead," and that's only because the girl killed herself! -- (to his deceased father) "Spent the last years in denial of my grief/Because you hated me, anyone could see/I'll always wonder what I meant to you/And why you hated me, what I did to you" 1. "Kabuki Girl" - "Your face is white your hair is black/You'll probably stab me in the back." To play hard, play fast came out during Green Day's first peak. Good times. I think you should have given this a 2-dot rating. That's basically a live recording. While I'm not giving it a 10 or anyting, "Cool To Be You" at least gets a 7.