A compilation of pure dontgiveafuck punk straight out of late-70's Orange County, featuring:
- The Simpletones, putting a sarcastic edge on 60's teen pop, making the simplest possible shouty, bratty punk
- Negative Trend / Rik L Rik's, repetitive Dead Kennedys sneer and chug
- The Crowd's propulsive, hooky Ramonesisms, by far the most melodic and exciting of the lot
The scene sounds disgusted and defiant of the area's Hollywood / Disneyland banality, while not really sounding that angry. How furious can you be when the sun always shines and there's no urban blight to be found, just a wallpaper of burgeoning suburban enclaves? Bored and lashing out against nothing is still a timeless message, tunelessly delivered, made admirable, if mostly uninteresting, by its inability to compromise 3/5
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