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Release date: September 2001
1. Road To Rock
'N' Roll
2. I'm Not Right
3. 'Cause You Don't Know Me
4. Dead end City
5. Don't Give A Fuck
6. In My Heart Tonight
7. What Have I Done?
8. Ready To Go
9. Proud Mary
10. I Know Your End
11. By My Side
12. Don't Look
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Reviews:
Review taken from Vinyl-A-Go-Go:
First off, it should go without saying that every single Stardumb release
comes complete with top-notch packaging-including killer inserts with
gorgeous pictures, lyrics and more; as well as some of the thickest, rockingest,
blasted-out recording pop-punk/rock and roll has to offer. In other words
you get quality from Stardumb, something you can’t always count
on in underground rock and roll.
Now let’s jive about The Peawees. This band lives to rock and roll,
and I imagine they need to rock and roll to live as well. It’s in
their veins, that much is certain. Dead End City starts out with a radio
announcer amping the crowd up for, "the guys who rock the most,"
who then proceed to do just that. Here’s the smack on The Peawees,
don’t think pop-punk. If anything think rock and roll. Or better
yet, think four-bad-ass, greased up, Italian rock and roll mother-fuckers
who dig the Fifties, despise life, and only survive by playing rock and
roll. This is amped up, rock-a-billy, mangled with the sonic attack of
The Ramones and their ilk. At times they drop the rock-a-billy feel and
just fuck it up three-chord style like any other pop-punk band, but for
the most part they’re able to rise above the typical stuff. The
vocals are gruff, gravely, and rock and roll as all hell, as are the leads.
This is some smoking stuff. Think of the hottest rock and roll leads you’ve
ever heard and rock them out a bit. But don’t rock the thing out
too much. You who know me know I despise ROCK, I like rock and roll. I
like things that go pop. This goes pop. It’s like Stray Cats, with
three bashing chords and lots of balls, as well as plenty of hooks and
all other manner of things that get stuck in between your ears. The pinnacle,
according to me, is "’Cause You Don’t Know Me."
This little puppy swings like a true Fifties rocker, and has more rock
and roll guts and oompf than most bands can muster on their best night.
I must have chanted the chorus in my head six thousand times during my
twelve hour shift that consisted of loading hundreds of boxes onto the
backs of trailer trucks. It kept me sane. This song’ll have you
swaying your hips, shimmying your feet, and pumping your fist all night
long. I can make my argument for the coolness of this album based on this
song alone, so I will.
Other tracks I dig include "Don’t Give a Fuck" (the new
"fuck you" anthem of the year), as well as "In My Heart
Tonight" (rerecorded version of their hit off of The European Poppunk
Virus compilation, also on Stardumb Records) which is a great rock and
rolling love song about being stuck at a brain-numbing drunk party wishing
you were with your girl, which is a great thing to write a song about.
"Ready to Go," sports a slayer of a chorus, that runs out from
behind a car and slams into your eardrums, causing your hips to shake
and a huge grin to spread across your rock and roll loving face. It’s
an ode to what The Peawees love best, rock and roll. I’ll put this
review to rest with the following lines from that murdering chorus:
"Everybody c’mon c’mon let’s go/everybody can forget
this fuckin’ world/I don’t care ‘cause I love this way
of life/and I love to see you dance to this song". My sentiments
exactly…
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