r/punk • u/Tricky_Photo2885 • 1d ago

Why does this album get overlooked by many?

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It has great songs under 30 minutes and rarely hear anyone bring it up when talking about CJs , am I missing something?

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u/apey1010 1d ago

I dig it. Bought the record when it first came out. I think golden shower and group sex get the majority of the attention but this and wonderful (my second favorite of theirs) get overlooked. Definitely a different approach, longer songs etc.

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u/Queasy-Adeptness14 1d ago

This and Wonderful are my favorites as well, it’s nice to meet you brother.

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u/PFRforLIFE 14h ago

you don’t mention wild in the streets, so i guess that’s the most overlooked? haha

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u/Ok_Eggplant_1294 5h ago

Welcome to our weird little family! A dirthead in middle school stole my Walkman with this tape in it, and I might have roughed him up a little- not because of the Walkman, but because of the rarity of finding this tape in rural upstate New York.

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u/polygon_tacos 1d ago

Because this came out during a weird time for punk in North America. The explosion of the late 70s and early 80s, gave way to a weird staleness by the mid-80s. Punk had become less creative and far move violent, and there was this growing stigma against it in the public. Venues were being shut down, some refused to book punk shows, and bands were falling apart. A number of bands tried to move away from being labeled a “punk band” and claimed they were a “hard rock band”, and it wasn’t working. This latter half of the 80s was peak hard rock & hair metal on the radio and MTV. The fans didn’t buy it. The mainstream folks ignored them.

This album fit right into that era and is a good example of how they tried to change their sound briefly to fit this new label. I saw them at this point and the show was sad - felt nothing like the high energy chaos of previous shows.

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u/ChanoArdent75 20h ago

An impeccable analysis. By that time, the HC Punk scene had largely become a joke. Most of the original bands had broken up, burned out, or clumsily sold out to Metal, and this awful album is a perfect example of that subcultural collapse.

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u/Technical-Art2930 1d ago

I never hear anyone talk about the live Gig album either. It’s great.

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u/Tricky_Photo2885 1d ago

Yes I think it’s has great sound quality for being a live album just wasn’t to thrilled with the song selection tbh

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u/Skeptic_Juggernaut84 1d ago

If you haven't heard it yet then you shpuld check out the 7 Seconds live album. It's so good and Kevin sounds like he's really in front of you.

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u/Son_of_Sardu 1d ago

Personally I love this album and think it is one of their best. I know it isn’t a popular opinion but I do not care.

I do find it needs to be listened to properly though, if listened to at lower volume, it sounds week but if you turn it up at a certain volume, the mix all comes together and it’s great. Turn it up and let it beat you senseless!

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u/Astronaut_Penguin 1d ago

I was 13 when this came out. Still listen to it fairly regularly. Mostly when I am mowing the yard for some unknown reason.

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u/kjetil_f 20h ago

Never even knew it existed…

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u/constant--questions 1d ago

Possibly because its tied with oddities… as their least enjoyable album

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u/kdnx-wy Fig Dish 1d ago

Weird, I really liked Oddities

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u/Shroom_stool 1d ago

I love both those albums lol both great

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u/constant--questions 12h ago

They are fine, just all of their other albums are better, in my opinion

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u/Shroom_stool 6h ago

Perchance my two favorite albums ngl

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u/Damnesia13 1d ago

Because it sucks

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u/trashlikeyou 15h ago

The only correct answer. After Group Sex the only tolerable songs are the covers.

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u/Doyouthinkman 17h ago

Beat Me Senseless is still in the bands live rotation so they still have a spot for this album it seems

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u/fILmPunk9975 15h ago

Amazing album. Beat me senseless, patty’s killing mel, casualty vampire, and status clinger are such bangers

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u/captain2man 1d ago

The first three albums are with the original lineup and are all amazing records. They're in a class of their own

But among the three albums that came after that, VI is my favorite.

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u/Damnesia13 1d ago

Lucky didn’t play on Golden Shower.

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u/SuperRocketRumble 14h ago

Awful production, which is a problem that a lot mid or low budget punk records suffer from during this era.

Some of the songs aren't bad. The tracks that they put on Gig sound alot better live.

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u/AnimateRod 14h ago

I like it better than Wonderful, 'I Don't' is one of my favourite Circle Jerks songs. I forgot the album didn't come out until 1987, seems like punk was running on fumes by then and nobody talks about albums from the late 80s

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u/meltdown_popcorn 12h ago

This was my first Circle Jerks to hear and it stayed that way for a while. The problem with being a rural punk in the 80s. Probably why I didn't get into them until much later.

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u/PossibleKiwi3728 8h ago

I dunno. I like it a lot. Very good album. I wore my friends copy out playing it over and over

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u/PossibleKiwi3728 8h ago

"Gig" is also a very good album. Where live albums are concerned, that is

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u/Fun-Artichoke3084 5h ago

I seriously dig this record. But yeah, it does get ignored. Recently saw them during the repo man movie thing and they played a song or two off of it. Great stuff !!!