VINYL FORMAT. This album was originally released on cassette in 1986 as We Aren't The World. Like an earthquake, an explosion of underground counter-culture youth bands erupted in Los Angeles during the summer of 1977. Seemingly from out of nowhere, L.A. became the epicenter for arrogant, anti-industry, full of attitude rock bands like the Zero's, the Dils, the Germs, the Dickies, the Weirdos, the Plugs, the Flesh Eaters and X. It was the birth of a scene that captured the attention of both the internatio...   [ read more ]

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This first release by the California-based Dickies contains songs best described as percolating, hyperactive cartoon hardcore, colored with a noticeable bit of Ramones influence. All the songs on this album are frantically fast and very short; over half the selections here have durations under two minutes, and only the instrumental number "Rondo" is longer than three minutes. Most of the tunes here have agreeably goofball lyrics that are often only semi-intelligible. Chucklesome touches such as do...   [ read more ]

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The Dickies march boldly past the three-minute song duration mark on their second release. Tempos for the most part here are a little less frantic, allowing the inherent tunefulness of these songs to come through more clearly. A few selections, particularly those with monster movie lyrics, are set to noticeably slower music; one of these numbers, "Attack of the Mole Men," sports highly unusual chord progressions and comes as close to being a big production number as the group ever gets. Comparisons t...   [ read more ]

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