I think we used to play some of their stuff with that irish band in Madison, but I never heard the originals.

aka the story of your life

I'm guessing it was the speaker system since it was a bowling alley. Of the two I deal with on a regular basis, one is ran through a recently installed sound system for a small venue, while the other is in a typical drunks bar that opens early and has the latest last call. The sound quality only seems to be really awful in the music venue when someone tries to crank it up over the crowd noise.

I know.


The best part is being in a bar somewhere years later, hearing an unfamiliar song, and suddenly realizing I know the chords and the words.

This needs to end up on Alex Lifeson's headstone once he's passed away.

I hope it also has a marble bust of his head circa 1980 when his mullet peaked.

Great singles, mediocre albums for the most part. I really like Mike Ness' solo country/rockabilly records though.

Agreed.

I'd take Rancid over Social D anyday. Not that I want to start beating that horse again.

to echo what others have already said, i've always dug their singles, but could never get into their full albums. same with ness solo, though his cover of "don't think twice, it's all right" might be my favorite of all.

I feel like this is the music that all the Rockabilly dudes I knew around age 19-22 would listen to. Being that I knew Rockabilly mostly from the Quadrophenia movie, I never got it. I thought those dudes were supposed to like Gene Vincent.

but then, most of the Rockabilly people I've known in my lifetime were trying very hard to cover up the fact that they were raging pussies by getting dumbass dice tattoos and hanging around people that know how to work on cars.

I dunno, I never disliked this band, but I never saw much in 'em, either.
I guess Springsteen just played a tune of theirs with Ness onstage in LA.

"Somewhere Between Heaven And Hell" is a fabulous rock and roll record.

Their albums are admittedly spotty, but they're great live. I'm stoked to see them next month.

This is shocking, me, MACHINE. You gotta revisit. Ball and Chain, Ring of Fire and I Was Wrong are all pretty much exemplary of your downwardly immobile lifestyle.

I forgot about 'I Was Wrong', that song's pretty good. But holy fuck do I ever hate 'Ring of Fire'. That's icepick in the balls painful for me.

I have a vague memory of seeing them at the Hollywood Palladium in the early 80's... I think with TSOL, maybe the Dickies. Ness was obviously very very loaded and damaged. They (and especially he) were great.. and I've always really really liked them, everything they've put out, and I turn them up very loud immediately. I like their Ring of Fire better than Cash... I know that's heresy too.

Social D is better than Cash.

The Dave Clark Five is better than the Beatles.

Odessey and Oracle is the greatest album ever made.

Jeez, the same week that PopTodd evokes the hoary spirit of Spooky Tooth. All of Obner enters its mid-life crisis.

Spooky Two is pretty awesome.

dan sartain is playing with them in july and i really want to see him but don't know if it's worth the $28. any advice?

the action design is opening, who seem ok.

i haven't read any of the rest of this thread but i thought i should mention that i listened to White Light White Heat White Trash every day for three months in 2001

The S/T and "Cold Feelings" made my respective Listmanias. I like 'em enough.

Wait, what irish band in Madison?

An Irish band from Wisconsin playing Social Distortion covers of songs they've never heard before sounds either kinda great or kinda terrible and I'm really having trouble figuring out which.