Throwback Thursday #117!- The Adolescents- S/T ( Frontier)
One of the best of the second wave of Los Angeles punk bands from the early 80s. Upon hearing this debut, the blue album, it immediately became my favorite punk album at the time and would probably still hold true today.
The songs come fast and furiously, but despite most of these guys being either still in high school or just out of high school, the songwriting is fantastic. The Agnew Brothers, Rikk and Frank, lead the guitar attack with melodic hooks all over the place while bassist, Steve, Soto and drummer Casey Royer, hold down the surf beat. On vocals is the snarling, great Tony Cadena who sounds about a snotty as a kid can be.
There’s not a bad song on the album, but a few of the classics include "Amoeba," "Creatures," "Wrecking Crew" and the brilliant, epic "Kids of the Black Hole."
If you’re lucky you get the CD version which has the Welcome to Reality 7 inch tacked on as well as the Rikk Agnew solo record, All By Myself which apparently were songs that would’ve been on the next Adolescents record had they not broken up.
Anyway, I’m sure pretty much everybody reading this knows how great this record is, but if not, please discover this immediately.
www.frontierrecords.bandcamp.com
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