I am kind of an asshole. Ask anybody who knows me. I am satisfied with nothing and find fault with everything. I am charming like that. Not only do I want shit, for free, if possible, but I want that shit to be good. But still free.
Like yesterday, I pulled a 300 dollar bike out of the garbage. A pretty mint bike. And still I cursed the former owner for not filling the tires with air. You know, before they threw it out. I also, in the same pile happened upon some books (who reads?) and some albums, one of which was “Ten Inch” by the Smut Peddlers. Now that I think about it, somebody may not have been so much throwing that business away as moving it in. Anyways….
I made out like a bandit. The bike is peaches. And, as far as the album, this shit rocks pretty hard. That’s what I noticed first thing. Solid 80′s sounding California shit, sounds like the Circle Jerks and early Black Flag at times, but not just aping it. The second thing I noticed is that they know allot of medical and scientific terms. What is it with California that they put words like “recombinant DNA” in punk rock songs? The third thing I noticed is that they are probably kind of assholes.
I ain’t faulting them, punk rock has been pretty annoyingly liberal for some time. However I have nothing against some of the folk they target on this album. Illegal immigrants don’t bother me, they work hard and their accents are a source of easy humor for me. I like bums, I would be one myself only I find it difficult to ask for change, or anything else, nicely. I don’t hate alcoholics, as a matter of fact, and I am speaking as somebody who has dabbled in the drunkard’s way, alcoholism takes allot of fucking work. Test it out: drink nothing but booze for a week and see how much you can get done as far as conducting your life. Alcoholism takes allot of moxie, allot of go-getten. Allot of booze.
So yeah, I’m guessing these cats are assholes. But so am I. And probably so are you. If you want to make friends, go join the choir. You want some knock-somebody-down music, get something by The Smut Peddlers. Try and git it for free.
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