Reviewed by Allen Lulu
Released: February 1980 The Thought Criminals Speed Madness And Flying Saucers Genre: Australian New Wave Punk Rating: 2.25 out of 5 Years ago I reconnected with an old friend who was less of a friend and more of the manager of the video store I worked at as a kid. We chatted about music, I told him I was starting a band. He had a guitar, so I picked it up and played a couple songs I had written, “Prozac Grrl” and “Great Big Mardi Gras Head”. Both of them were going to be on my band’s EP. He then told me he wrote songs, too. He took the guitar and what came out was this unholy amalgam of chord changes that often made no sense and lyrics that pummeled with a melody that followed every single chord change, contained no rhymes and made little sense. It sounded like a psychopath had decided to write songs about the thoughts in his head, which were like a ball in a Pachinko machine. Unforgettable and terrible beyond redemption. That’s what this entire record reminds me of. And The Dickies. Except the second side which sounds like they listened to Dirk Wears White Sox over and over. The album would have to be crafted out of this compilation. It’s all there. Plus a lot more…
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