Thursday, December 17, 2020

The 1981 Listening Post - Adolescents - The Blue Album

 Adolescents - The Blue Album        


#94

April 22 1981

Adolescents

The Blue Album

Genre: Hardcore

3.5 out of 5





This is the classic, right? One of the granddaddies of the movement? 

Okay, I’ll be back in a half hour. (Maybe sooner)


Where Dead Kennedy’s took a political position and incorporated surf rock into punk and X was basically a cow-punk band that decided to be beat poets, this is just thrash. No nuance, no fun. I don’t know why it’s so heralded. Sure, “Kids of the Black Hole” isn’t terrible. But that’s because it, and “No Friends” relie so hard on their bass-lines which are each searching for a melody to belong to. 

The rest?

Meh. It’s boring. 




https://music.apple.com/us/album/adolescents/498658997

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