Thank goodness the dour art-damaged early-80's are over, allowing us the emotional distance to observe bands like
Danny & the Parkins Sisters from a safe distance. The
Mein Leben ist Scheiße Welt mindset on such tracks as
This World is Bleak,
War (Is On Your Doorstep) and
On My Block (with its deliciously overwrought delivery of such couplets as
Black boots/Bag o' loot/No one's gonna/Tell you the truth!) is enough to make you mainline
Percocet. My own vinyl copy of this 8-track post-punk (but seemingly pre-rehearsal) masterpiece can now be sold to the highest bidder thanks to
Chapter Music reissuing it on CD (yes, this occurred a year ago but don't mock me for only discovering this now--I've been very busy), even seeing fit to pad it with 10 extra tracks of live recordings and demos (such as
We Are Indians, which has all the political correctness of a
Sondra Lee dance routine). Buy this CD and relive the heady days when underground music was gleefully giving
Reagan the finger with every note they played.
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