[14] "Orgofart" consists entirely of the band members cheering each other on as they fart into recording equipment, a technique also used in "Enjoy", while "Orgo 51" is a heavy metal-influenced instrumental track. Apparently it didn't work because every time I woke up I was freezing; chalking it up to illness, I decided to email in sick and work from home. Same with original guitarist Frank Navetta (who passed away in 2008) and his successor Ray Cooper. As you may know, the Descendents enjoy attaching the suffix "-age" to words in order to create song titles. Remember Christian Slater playing "Weinerschitzel" over and over again as a DJ in that movie "Pump Up the Volume"? [6][12] Drummer Bill Stevenson acted as producer of the album, working with recording engineers Richard Andrews and Ethan James. It features the same pleasing mixture of pop-punk, punk-metal and teensy hardcore as its predecessor, just with fewer anthemic singalong hooks. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. If you like Bad Religion and Green Day, you'll LOVE an album that sounds nothing at all like the Descendents! Tony Lombardo's "Theme" has a bass part that seems to go out of its way to utilize as many frets and strings as humanly possible - lots of fun. Brett and I worked out a deal like that, so it was really flexible and we could basically do whatever we wanted. But enough laughter and good cheer. And Milo is unfortunately beginning to forego some of his rough shouting in the name of actual singing; it doesn't affect the quality of this album, but it does lead to some awful performances on the next couple. It's a big deal! Who's there? It's probably the shining example of Frank's guitar playing. Milo Goes To College was a tough one to follow, but Bill, Tony and Milo managed to come up with a whole slew of strong, emotional, melodic, warm, angry, loving and anxious punk rock songs with only a few stinkers to be found ("Descendents" and "GCF" are particularly rank). There are very few [32] In July 2016, Milo announced he would be leaving his scientific career to pursue the Descendents full-time, citing burnout with biochemistry and getting laid off from DuPont. The Descendents began during punks late-70s heyday, when Stevenson and a pair of friends from Mira Costa High School got together to play. Also also (since this is the first time I've emailed you), you site is awesome! (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Cooper Barnes - Bio, Facts, Family Life of Actor - The Famous People of the same year, then great work Milo because that's honestly hilarious. even though they weren't on Solid Gold. more pop than punk. Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe both shared . And they get even grosser on the next two albums, so don't go no place where, if you wanna know what I think in my opinion if you ask me. Our fans deserve better. ", "Bikeage" - "Take a quaalude, relax your mind/Relax your body too!" Except for the bits of metal showing up every once in a while, these are Descendents pickin' our bu*ts tonight Descendents have begun to poorly imitate Black Flag -- here in the And "Wendy" is just boring, like most Beach Boys songs I know. thoughts? And that's no way to run a live album. Why do you keep ceasing tlblsslfieksa? vocals and lame Tuff-Rock riffs. [13], The band supported Enjoy! "Ace," "My World") are more emotionally tormented than anything on Milo. So, I guess in my opinion if it were anything different than it is on this album, it'd kind of come off as slightly pretentious, which this album is not. There are very few Although not as excessively as they would on the next album, the [3][6][11] Lombardo was unable to tour with the band due to his job with the United States Postal Service, and was replaced by Doug Carrion, who performed on their three tours in support of I Don't Want to Grow Up, After three tours in support of I Don't Want to Grow Up, the band recorded Enjoy! The pop-punk material ("Coolidge," "Clean Sheets," "Pep Talk") is girl-cutesy and predictable -- both a far cry from the cleverly melodic Milo/Grow Up material of the same genre and a precursor to the rotten Green Day sound that would capture the world's radio ear in the mid-90s. I dug carryin' (Doug Carrion) all those terrible songs to the record 2) When are you gonna put a Supergrass page on your site? Like, "What else would you expect him to do but to go off and be a geek?" As you can see, it's with some degree of hesitation that I recommend this record to you. Between us I think we have like 20 songs written and Bill (Stevenson) and Karl (Alvarez) have been writing songs as well. 1. Do you people ever go on FaceBook? Stephen Egerton: I discovered the Descendents just before the Fat EP came out. I do like bathroom humor, so there's nothing wrong with that part of it, the album just doesn't leave much of an impression. "Can't Go Back" is melodic genius, a good indication of the unusually tuneful stuff Bill Stevenson would excel at from here on out. So when 1985 rolled around, New Alliance slapped "Ride The Wild"/"It's A Hectic World" and Fat together onto a 12-inch piece of vinyl car seating and called it Bonus Fat. Devilock138_719@MSN.COM While most of the nation counted down to midnight on Dec. 31, Cooper was at Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden for Professional Fighters League's New Year's Eve championship, where he defeated David Michaud for the welterweight title and earned a cool $1 million in the process. That's trippy. And you could hear the bass, which is a result of that choice they made. Did you say "Ray POOPer"? Plus the other half is straight-up angry punk and punk-metal, kicking your ass with a fist up your dick. ", "Descendents" - "We're the proud, the few/Descendents, pickin' our butts tonight.". But lyrically, it's goddamned near despicable. Unfortunately, the other half of your boat will be forced to admit that (a) 7 of the 15 songs are predictable Green Day-style radio-'punk' for girls, and (b) the CD is totally top-loaded; there's only like one standout song in the entire second half. Profile: English percussionist, drummer and producer, born on 19 September 1947 in Watford, Hertfordshire, England, UK. better than you/You are a piece of poo." Then Milo Goes to College came out and what struck me about Frank's playing was it reflected very reactionary tendencies all downstrokes, all six strings when he could. The Descendents album still has "Days of Blood"! If this were old Egyptian times, I assure you they'd be collaborating on a pyramid. I was lying on my left side, and was able to open my right eye, which gave me a view of the top of the closet door. Holy Piss Butt! If you can't find the CD anywhere, then buy the two records separately but ALWAYS listen to them together. Let's look at some examples of the unbelievable shit these jerks are saying on this, one of the greatest albums I've ever heard: "Myage" - "She feels safe when she's with him/'Cause he'll never try anything with her/Well you know now girl, just what want/Are you going to let it scare you?/I knew you would." We weren't happy with Interscope at all. So does that Dido song. And it "sounds nothing at all like the Descendents!" And stuff like 'Caught' and 'Doghouse' leave all the other so-called-punk bands from around that time in the dust! But then the dark Reagan years flew in on the jet-black wings of a Bald Eagle of Hate, and the Descendents quickly became a much louder and punkier outfit. May-be. When I complained to my wife about this, she replied, "Well, it's four young guys hanging out together. His contribution to the band, and to music in general can not be overstated. It perfectly encapsulates everything that was wrong with the mid-'90s "punk rock" explosion! -- (to his wife) "Money and time/We didn't know they'd be so hard to come by/"Look and you'll find"?/We didn't know that's just some fabled school rhyme/We'll never get ahead in this world/Not 'til we move ahead of this/World we've made for ourselves/Where there's no time to kiss/And no room to even breathe" It was in first-person, so my sleeping mind was reacting to this suicidal action -- watching the ground racing up towards me -- just as it would in real life. I've always seen this as kind of like 2 EPs, with side one being "punk" and side two being "pop". The former has a great melody and riff though, so I don't really mind, and the latter is real short (I see it as a continuation of the prior, superior short track "Rock Star"). from Colo Goes To Mileage! Ray Cooper - Wikipedia "[1][4] McCuistion also shared writing credit on "All-O-Gistics", a musical set of commandments for achieving All, including lyrics such as "Thou shalt not commit adulthood", "Thou shalt not partake of decaf", and "Thou shalt not suppress flatulence". Buy Two Things At Once first, but understand that your Descendents collection is not complete until you get this one. The weak thrash parody "Hurtin Crue" features the couplet "I am I've had this happen before. Have you honestly never met these women? ", "I Wanna Be A Bear" - "Got a baited hook you are calling it your cherry/You want to settle down and you want to get married/I don't wanna smell your muff!" [Verse 1] I know a place up in the air. The lyrical content of the Descendents made them being cited at the time as one of the most significant punk bands of the 1980s hardcore punk movement. After what must've been a couple of hours of this, I was starting to get desperate. gas." Sexual frustration is one thing, but their records show very little self-analysis, and lots of blaming and name calling towards the "homos" (read: guys getting more action) and "whores" (read: any female). Aukerman later reflected: "It's interesting: we started very melodic, then moved to hardcore, but melded the two at a certain point and became melodic hardcore. What's the difference between the Descendents' Enjoy and Britney The tiny hardcore "Kids On Coffee" features the sentence "Ray is He joined the band during 1987's ALL, so I figured the Oklahoma resident would offer a unique viewpoint on the songs as someone who is a fan of the band and a member. And their vaginas smell like fish! Sure, Blur and Oasis may be crap (I do like Oasis, even though I know I shouldn't) but Supergrass has produced one of the most insanely catchy and enjoyable albums with "I Should Coco" and the rest of their output has been good too, so I'd be remiss if I didn't point that album out to you (though you being you, you may have stumbled accross it). His battles with the church arent over, Tim Bachman, founding guitarist of Bachman-Turner Overdrive, dies at 71, Ed Sheeran blasts music expert for criminal testimony in Marvin Gaye copyright trial, Paul Stanley of KISS dives into debate over transgender acceptance versus kids transitioning, Has the Justin Timberlake Its Gonna Be May meme passed its expiration date? [56] The German edition of the Rolling Stone's The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time ranked it at 349. Ha ha! Okay these are making less sense as we go. Add your A song about cutting meat with a heavy broad-bladed knife - "Cleavage" As for the the Descendents, I kind of agree with you. [30], In May 2015 it was announced by Stevenson that the band had been working on some demo songs for a new album, which could possibly be released mid-2016. Still, "I'm Not a Loser", "Catalina", "I Wanna Be a Bear", "My Dad Sucks", "Suburban Home" and "Hope" are all classics. At the time we were leaving Interscope. He admits that just a few years ago during the first incarnation of the band he was a hard person to deal with. thoughts? Nevertheless, I had about 14 hours worth of nightmares. Knock knock! TRANSLATION: "Girls can't be trusted. I think it would look something like this: I say its a pretty focused Descendents record. But in that case, I knew exactly how it was supposed to go in my head and I was right. "All-O-Gistics" - This is gut-bustingous. In addition, although half of the record falls into the much-beloathed 'pop-punk' category, the emphasis is on 'punk.' Thanks Mark, you are fun to read (and watch)! And Milo is unfortunately beginning to forego some of his rough shouting in the name of actual singing; it doesn't affect the quality of this album, but it does lead to some awful performances on the next couple. Also, I'd like to give a shout-out to a very cool song that doesn't fit into any of the aforementioned categories: "Impressions" is a truly oddball mixture of midtempo punk, strange jazz, and medieval folk music -- complete with acoustic guitar! Jon is going to bed. In fact, most people (including the band members themselves) consider Descendents and All to be the same band except for different singers. My way of avoiding it is not to sleep on the couch or in the daytime (although I do both of these all the time, and because of this I still get sleep paralysis from time to time). [11] When the band's name was changed to All upon Aukerman's departure in 1987, bassist Karl Alvarez created the character Allroy to serve an equivalent function for the new band.[44]. And they get even grosser on the next two albums, so don't go no place where, if you wanna know what I think in my opinion if you ask me. This album made a difference in my young life but didn't make me grow to view women in a negative way. Why is Frank McCourt really pushing it? Strangely, the drums and bass are often as loud as the guitar, in fact drowning it out at some points. Attitude is a must Ray Cooper - Descendents lyrics | AZ Lyrics.az Reader Comments If you're looking for cheer, get lost because aside from two light-hearted Milo songs -- gross diarrhea joke "Blast Off" and pro-brain high school anthem "Mass Nerder" (complete with Germs parody outro "We Must Read" and faux-Darby shout "Somebody get me a book!") Normally when you talk about Green Day I can tell that you really don't ray cooper descendents 11 Jun. That song is just about his and my relationship. ray cooper descendents - ledcore.co.il I also liked that dream where I was playing baseball, lunged for a line drive and hit my wife in the head in the middle of the night. Some asshole scored a point! But lacking that band's beautiful vocal harmonies and arrangements, it just sounds like they're trying to cash in on Green Day. Bonus Fat EP - New Alliance 1985. downing college accommodation; joleon lescott mother; royce da 5'9 the allegory first week sales More Images. The melody lines etc sound really crazy and original (to me at least), enough to bump the score up a couple of red things anyway. Spears' vagina? As for the jokey material: the less said, the better for my colon. Then some guy holding a butcher's knife drove up to the building, and when he got out of his car, you could see that he had a baby's face surgically attached to the back of his head. It's Milo pretending to be a preacher, reciting commandments like "Thou shalt not suppress flatulence" and "Thou shalt not commit hygiene" while the band rips off some ugly Black Flag chords! vile") replacing Tony Lombardo, the classic Descendents are finished. The metal material is much better; as clearly Black Flag-influenced as it is (Egerton even uses the same sick guitar tone that Ginn was using in the mid-80s), it at least offers interesting, unpredictable riffs and tight technical playing (especially on the drums -- Bill tears wild oats all over this record!). The dog had about 23 eyes, then when it turned around, there were four OTHER dogs attached to its back end, each with two eyes, then nose, then a THIRD eye, then mouth. The decision to do that between Frank and Tony is also very indicative of a broad idea, musically, for punk rock kids in a garage somewhere. I need you to continue bldksotlgkelsl! I'll have to hear those sometime. The Descendents are an American punk rock band formed in 1977 in Manhattan Beach, California, by guitarist Frank Navetta, bassist Tony Lombardo and drummer Bill Stevenson as a power-pop/surf punk band. If she puts out for anybody else, she's a slut. Not so much with music, but with lyrics. I usually interpreted their spiteful lyrics as a burst of teenage frustration - often itself given to rash conclusions and unfair generalizations - directed at women who won't give them the time of day. 10:35am Thanks for finally reviewing descedents stuffit's about time! And in "No Fat Beaver," he sings it as "No Fat Beav-Ah!" Get all the lyrics to songs by Ray Cooper [Descendents] and join the Genius community of music scholars to learn the meaning behind the lyrics. "Myage" - "She feels safe when she's with him/'Cause he'll never try anything with her/Well you know now girl, just what want/Are you going to let it scare you?/I knew you would." The Descendents joined Planet Rock USA in 1978 when guitarist Frank Navetta, bassist Tony Lombardo and drummer Bill Stevenson got together to combine the sound of '60s beach music with the energy of '70s punk rock.Their debut single, "Ride The Wild"/"It's A Hectic World" shot up the charts upon its 1979 release, eventually stopping with a bullet somewhere . If you tried to make your OWN pyramid, it'd take forever and be all wobbly. Between these two albums there are some of their best songs, but in my opinion, "College" has too many tracks that just whiz by without much notice from me. Because it seemed so SIMPLE! I'd say this is my 3rd or 4th favorite Descendents record, which means it deserves, oh, say a 6.5/10. Orange County's Leading Source Of News, Culture And Entertainment. [18], The Descendents supported Everything Sucks with a series of tours from September 1996 to August 1997 covering the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Europe, touring with Swingin' Utters, The Bouncing Souls, The Suicide Machines, Shades Apart, Guttermouth, Less Than Jake, Handsome, Electric Frankenstein, Social Distortion, Pennywise, H2O, and others. But I couldn't do it. (ad infinitum) Everything Sucks is better than All and Enjoy because those records were lyrically obnoxious, musically sloppy and vocally inferior. Don't blame me! TRANSLATION: "Girls are whores. Most of the songs are pretty good. Awkward and ugly (though not awful), these two sound like the initial songwriting attempts of a generic punk band - far from the impressive songcraft of the other 13 tracks. What I did was burn my vinyl of Bonus Fat, Milo Goes to College AND I Don't Want to Grow Up onto a single CD. in 1995. So this was no way to keep a pleasant dream going. Also, here's something intriguing that I found online about you: YOU, THE READER detects and identifies bacteria and yeast in the urine. In text form it may read amusing, but when you're trying to sleep and you can't get out of a perpetual mind loop it's fucking HELLISH! You won't fuck me because you're a bitch!" In a March 2019 interview with OC Register, Aukerman revealed that Descendents were working on a new album: "When we put out the last record we thought, 'OK, I bet we could put out another record after this one and not wait a decade to do it.' The only song on here that mentions girls without bashing them is "Jean Is Dead," and that's only because the girl killed herself! I think what I appreciate most about the descendents is their unapologetic immaturity either that or their wild lust for coffee. 8. Did somebody ask you to stop blskejvblsgle? Though fearful of being caught, he's impressed by the strength of their WiFi. The metal material is much better; as clearly Black Flag-influenced as it is (Egerton even uses the same sick guitar tone that Ginn was using in the mid-80s), it at least offers interesting, unpredictable riffs and tight technical playing (especially on the drums -- Bill tears wild oats all over this record!). The Descendents are more insidious because they sing like they're sad and act like they care about the girls. Nolte produced and mixed the session, and his brother Joe turned the lead guitar level up, resulting in the guitar being very loud in the mix. The tiny hardcore "Kids On Coffee" features the sentence "Ray is Well I know a place, cool and warm. Instead of the song titles, the back cover lists slang terms for It may be their least adventurous and most traditionally 'pop-punk' album to date, but it sure is professional-sounding and easy on the ears. Good times. drooling big spit balls" and the phrase "nuclear tits." 10 Goriest Album Covers
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