The 1986 Listening Post - D.I. - Horse Bites Dog Cries

D.I. - Horse Bites Dog Cries

#197/1342 LISTENING POST DISCOVERY

1986 Housekeeping

D.I. 

Horse Bites Dog Cries

Genre: Punk

4.5 out of 5

Highlights:

Pervert Nurse

Hang Ten in East Berlin

Obnoxious

Johnny’s Got a Problem

Wow, talk about getting it wrong the first time and then making a full recovery into snot nosed fun punk. Instead of being political or aggressive social commentary these guys find the funny and beat the tar out of it until you laugh along with the “Pervert Nurse” or “Youth in Asia”.

Solidly excellent. I did not look forward to this one since I hated their first. Glad to have this in my life now. 

https://music.apple.com/us/album/horse-bites-dog-cries/420930427

The 1985 Listening Post - D.I. - Ancient Artifacts

D.I. - Ancient Artifacts

#471/1104

November 29 1985

D.I.

Ancient Artifacts

Genre: Punk

2.2.5 out of 5

Imagine starting a punk band after listening to Dirk Wears White Six and making that the benchmark?

“Wounds From Within” is the most evident of this. 

The rest is as lo-fi punk as one can get, with songs about living in The O.C. Or surfing in HB (Orange County & Huntington Beach, respectively) and other stuff that, honestly, wasn’t all that memorable.

I could, however, hear the beginnings of  latter day punk ala Green Day & Blink 182, so there’s that. 

https://music.apple.com/us/album/ancient-artifacts/416450493