Feral Kid (2022, Reissue)
This is a reissue of a 7" that originally came out in 1981. It's apparently quire rare and sought after and if the sales history on Discogs is to be believed, it has regularly sold for many hundreds of dollars the few times it's actually been sold. Well, much to the dismay of those that shelled out major cash, you can now grab it for seven bucks. Score.
Musically, it's OK. I like it better than I do most snotty punk rock of this era. People throw around phrases like Killed By Death style and while that means very little to me, I know there are others that base their entire existence around those words. The songs are catchy for the most part with slightly nasally vocals, but there's enough melody there where the record doesn't sound like a parody of itself.
Of the three songs, I like the last one, "Who Needs a Woman Like You," the best. It's not super different from the other two, but there's some fun saxophone going on that makes the song stand out more to me. I'm not really the target demo for this record. I'm old and like old music, but I'm not as old as the folks that came up in this scene, so it tends to sound dated to me and I have no personal connection to it from my youth. As songs, they are perfectly serviceable old, catchy punk songs, but it's not the sort of thing that I tend to gravitate towards.
Antler Joe and the Accidents - Go Commercial!:
https://feral-kid-records.bandcamp.com/album/go-commercial
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