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If you want to enjoy the Angry Samoans, you will not need to look any further. For those of us who were fans in the 1980s, it was a chore to gather up the 45s, EPs and actual LPs that were required for a complete collection, but here you can almost accomplish it with the purchase of a reasonably priced single-disc CD. This disc includes, in their entirety, “Inside My Brain” 1980, “Back from Samoa” 1982, “Yesterday Started Tomorrow” 1986, and “STP not LSD” 1988. What your collection will lack (and I may be missing something else) are the scathing “Poshboy’s Cock” which was written in anger and disgust at the “punk–rock establishment” of 1981 Los Angeles (what a delicious irony), and the manic hyper–tempo “Pictures of Matchstick Men” cover which ran about a minute, if I remember correctly. It is fascinating to me how America and England cross–pollinated each other musically after World War 2. Working class Englishmen such as the Rolling Stones absorbed the deep black American blues roots and rockabilly and sold it back to Americans as the “British Invasion” and other 1960s music. Punk rock itself may be said to have started in England in 1976, but you cannot deny the influence of bands like the Stooges and NY Dolls. California teenage bands that sprang up in the late 1970s–early 80s were another step in the evolution of that genre. At the top of the heap in sophistication, no doubt, were bands like Dead Kennedys and X, but lower in the pile was where the real venom and teenage angst was. The Angry Samoans were masters of the tight, amphetamine–crazed, 1–minute song, and energy was everything. Beginning with their crown jewel “Right Side of My Mind” this set also includes the lunatic masterworks “They Saved Hitler’s Cock”, “You Stupid Jerk”, and “Homo–Sexual”. No punk rock collection is complete without this insanely fast (43 tracks total, you do the math), furious, politically incorrect, angst–ridden masterpiece. Highly recommended.Read full review
The complete discography for $10 is a steal! Been playing it all week.
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