Having said that, Karl Alvarez's "I'm The One" and "Thank You" should be buried in a hole out in the desert and left there to die screaming. The only thing I wrote on the whole record was the little guitar thing at the beginning of One More Day. It was the vocal melody to one of my other songs. Milo sounds like Greg Graffin with a cold. Its too good lyrically to be a 4. It was rumored that Epitaph would not sign All without getting the Descendents as well,[19] but Stevenson explained that the arrangement was made because Epitaph head Brett Gurewitz would allow both bands to make albums at their discretion: When we signed with Epitaph it was for both bands. Look, I've made more poop jokes than Mark David Chapman's killed Beatles, but even I find these constant fart references to be a real turn-off. Unless it really is just a Green Day/Bad Religion split-single that somebody put in the wrong album cover. Jon is looking at these sales reports Fullman just put on his desk and feeling pretty good about the '09 DustBuster Micro launch. Eugene Mirman's currently says, "Eugene Mirman often dreamed of trainasldkfjsdgifdgthisifgl" It's just a silly, simple little thing that people do all the time. Make of that what you will, but then put on Rocks Your Lame Ass!, and then this record, and youll see what I mean. I need you to continue bldksotlgkelsl! The Bonus Cup became a part of everyday Descendents life. Huge amounts of little, I'd demand! His guitar playing is never, at any time, connected to a technical idea. A few sexist lyrics remain, but they're at least consigned to a side one ghetto, leaving side two completely sweet, sad and mature. Add in Aukerman's in-your-face hilarity and fuck-off stance, and it's punk rock that wears both its adolescence and brains on its sleeve. The character was created by Rodger Deuerlein, a classmate of Aukerman and drummer Bill Stevenson's at Mira Costa High School who taunted Aukerman by drawing comic strips and posters depicting him as the class nerd. There's a mistaken notion out there that Southern California's Descendents recorded the awesome Milo Goes To College LP and then turned into All. It's connected to the song, the meaning, the lyricsthat's what he's playing. -- "Somebody tell me what to do. He admits that just a few years ago during the first incarnation of the band he was a hard person to deal with. The film features interviews with Hoppus, Dave Grohl of Nirvana and Foo Fighters, and Mike Watt of Minutemen. Devilock138_719@MSN.COM I never really paid attention to the lyrics much, and certainly never picked up on their misogynist side. Jim Hull Aside from the concept of "All", other songs on the album such as "Coolidge", "Pep Talk", and "Clean Sheets" dealt with themes of broken relationships, while "Iceman" was loosely based on the play The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O'Neill. Brett and I worked out a deal like that, so it was really flexible and we could basically do whatever we wanted. Now then, I present to you two days of Jon Wurster's 'status' updates, in chronological order: - This is uproarious. The coparents, who split in 2006, posed together with their son while celebrating his 18th birthday on Saturday. more pop than punk. came out during Green Day's first peak. If you can't find the CD anywhere, then buy the two records separately but ALWAYS listen to them together. -- "Goosebumps been gone for way too long/Couldn't get it for free, couldn't do it for the money/It just disappeared, spent a lot of barren years/And if it doesn't work out, you can just set it down for later/Nobody ever said you'd be dead forever", Karl Alvarez - Apparently the failure of his marriage has made him cynical towards everything else in the world as well: And I don't mean the rock group who did "Don't Stand So Close To Me '86." This Descendents line-up is about 4,000 times more technically proficient than the previous ones, effortlessly navigating through difficult time signature changes and weird twisted riffs, but their decision to devote 2/3rds of the record to la-de-da fuzzy pop and fart jokes leaves little time to blow our minds with killer math-jazz-metal songs like "Iceman" and "Uranus." The cassette and CD versions added two additional tracks: "Orgofart" and "Orgo 51". It features the same pleasing mixture of pop-punk, punk-metal and teensy hardcore as its predecessor, just with fewer anthemic singalong hooks. If you like Bad Religion and Green Day, you'll LOVE an album that sounds nothing at all like the Descendents! Normally when you talk about Green Day I can tell that you really don't After this, he moved to Los Angeles, California to pursue his career in acting. Jan. 5, 1986 12 AM PT. [7] The illustration was done by Jeff Atkinson, based on earlier caricatures by a high school classmate of Aukerman's named Roger Deuerlein, who had drawn comic strips and posters depicting Aukerman as the class nerd.[2]. Milo sounds like Greg Graffin with a cold. I was stubborn and selfish, he says. Unfortunately, while the Descendents have better Have you seen the Ghost of John? she ignores his flirtations. The only fish I smell is on the back of my boat." HO HO OHOHOH! So by the time I woke up (still freezing), I was certainly in no mood to be on the television, which is why you didn't see me on Red Eye tonight. Although Cool To Be You is indeed the least melodically inventive and most stylistically derivative release in the band's entire discography, it also perversely features their most honest and heartbreaking lyrics ever. I suppose it's possible I'm just not picking up on their irony, though. More like Please, I'd Like To WAKE Up, if you ask me!!! Out there, everybody has their own little area.. [7][40] "'Merican", their first overtly political song, addresses positive and negative aspects of American history, celebrating cultural figures such as Otis Redding, Duke Ellington, and Walt Whitman while condemning slavery, Joseph McCarthy, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Vietnam War. Reader Comments It would be hard ever to accuse the Descendents of stagnating. (1982): Ray was strongly influenced by Frank. think your 6 is generous. But I couldn't do it. I wasted years of my life trying to Buy Two Things At Once first, but understand that your Descendents collection is not complete until you get this one. As for the Green Day comparisonstheres no question that there are similarities, but Egerton and Stevenson had been working with DFWs own Hagfish (who adore Descendents) on tunes from Hagfishs Buick Men! For example, mine right now says, "Mark Prindle is beginning to look a lot like Christmas." Now I hear his new series "My Own Worst Enemy" is going to be cancelled. There's no attempt to return to the crazy jazz-metal of their previous album, but if you hated that one's fart jokes and poor pop-punk as much as I did, Everything Sucks is like to float at least half your boat. gas." God no. Who's there? As for the the Descendents, I kind of agree with you. Descendents - Wikipedia Fuckin' bitch! Knock knock! Fuckin' bitch!" I could see the waking world. WHY COULDN'T I ENTER IT!? -- (to his wife) "Money and time/We didn't know they'd be so hard to come by/"Look and you'll find"?/We didn't know that's just some fabled school rhyme/We'll never get ahead in this world/Not 'til we move ahead of this/World we've made for ourselves/Where there's no time to kiss/And no room to even breathe" too. The songs were only seconds long, but that was all the time we needed to make the point. ", "I Wanna Be A Bear" - "Got a baited hook you are calling it your cherry/You want to settle down and you want to get married/I don't wanna smell your muff!" 7. The awful hair metal "Sour Grapes" is even more misogynist than "'80s And where are the HIVES??? How Palm Springs ran out Black and Latino families to build a fantasy for rich, white people, 17 SoCal hiking trails that are blooming with wildflowers (but probably not for long! )'s confused anxious punk sloucher "Doghouse." So I thought to myself, "What would it be like if some of our OTHER favorite bands enjoyed this gag?" I dont want a bed. In tribute to Thanksgiving, I'm now going to get quite drunk for a few hours before completing this review. I noticed that my dream was starting to repeat, and then.. Well, that's when I became incapable of waking up. "[4] Aukerman later recalled: "We started drinking too much coffee; 'cause of that and the addition of me, the music became very quick and all about bursts of energy. ripped off by Green Day) and Bill's gorgeous "Cheer" - and both are way "Pervert" - "Don't you sometimes wonder what I want/Don't you sometimes think I just want your cunt/I'd hate to think that romance is just a pose/But all I want to do is rip off your clothes." It was fun forgetting about getting fired for a few hours. (ad infinitum) The browser you are using is not supported. And friends, he adds, is what makes one bands music different from anothers. Am I going to die?" I have been writing and Stephen (Egerton) has really picked up the mantle, too. "[1] Ned Raggett of AllMusic in his review of Milo Goes to College called it "an unpretentious, catchy winner. Also, here's something intriguing that I found online about you: YOU, THE READER detects and identifies bacteria and yeast in the urine. Though fearful of being caught, he's impressed by the strength of their WiFi. So when 1985 rolled around, New Alliance slapped "Ride The Wild"/"It's A Hectic World" and Fat together onto a 12-inch piece of vinyl car seating and called it Bonus Fat. Did somebody ask you to stop blskejvblsgle? doesn't sound like Green Day except for the intro of Tack. Critics have cited that their earlier music style which reflected hardcore punk being influential to modern day skate punk and pop-punk. putting out terrible records! The Descendents are an American punk rock band formed in 1977 in Manhattan Beach, California, by guitarist Frank Navetta, bassist Tony Lombardo and drummer Bill Stevenson as a power-pop/surf punk band. thoughts? But I couldn't do it. And judging from "Silly Girl," "In Love This Way" and "Good Good Things," they've actually had a few DATES in the past few years! with jazzy influences are undermined by disgusting set-ups, amateurish And stuff like 'Caught' and 'Doghouse' leave all the other so-called-punk bands from around that time in the dust! Gloating about his accomplishment, he sang a taunt with the lyrics "I am better than you / You are a piece of poo / 1420". HI HI IHIHIH! There are 10 people living in one room 10 miles from here, he says. "[5], After a six-month trial with a female singer, Cecilia Loera, they recruited Milo Aukerman as their new vocalist. It made me bitter at the time, too. social satire (hard rock guy lashing out at new wave girl) were it not --"She made up her mind/I lost my wife, my lover, my best friend/And I don't think/I'll ever be right again" The few songs that don't sound like Al Goldstein wrote them are just your basic naive teenager social commentary, but it's interesting to note that two of these lyrical departures ("M 16" and "Statue of Liberty") are also the only songs that seem out of place on this record. Eventually, he joined that band as their permanent drummer--hes even included on the latest Black Flag release, the all-instrumental EP The Process of Weeding Out.. I first stumbled on your page searching for "Ramones Record Reviews" in the 10th grade (in 2003, I can't believe your page escaped my schools filters) and I've been coming back over and over again since. I don't like music! Frank sings side A with a voice and melody straight outta Compton 1964 as Tony picks some surf-spy bass behind him, and then Tony sings side B like the biggest nerd on the beach as Frank scraggles up and down his guitar neck as fast as his little feet can carry him. I haven't even seen it yet. It was a real sweetheart though, and loved to give hugs. I was told it was because of the economy but I think it had more to do with wearing the mesh pants on 'casual Friday'. with jazzy influences are undermined by disgusting set-ups, amateurish Yes, the first song is atrocious, and yes the lyrics to "Pervert" effectively ruin an otherwise solid punk-metal rocker, but Good God are there some wonderful tunes on here! They're assholes. I see your point about the sugary poo songs like 'I'm The One', but the guys playing the instruments are so good! This Descendents line-up is about 4,000 times more technically proficient than the previous ones, effortlessly navigating through difficult time signature changes and weird twisted riffs, but their decision to devote 2/3rds of the record to la-de-da fuzzy pop and fart jokes leaves little time to blow our minds with killer math-jazz-metal songs like "Iceman" and "Uranus." I think it would look something like this: He is a top session musician who has played with the most successful acts of 60's and 70's British rock such as The Who, George Harrison, Eric Clapton, Elton John & Rod . ray cooper descendents - ledcore.co.il The Descendents joined Planet Rock USA in 1978 when guitarist Frank Navetta, bassist Tony Lombardo and drummer Bill Stevenson got together to combine the sound of '60s beach music with the energy of '70s punk rock.Their debut single, "Ride The Wild"/"It's A Hectic World" shot up the charts upon its 1979 release, eventually stopping with a bullet somewhere . A song about a popular science fiction franchise - "Vage" Steve I was told it was because of the economy but I think it had more to do with wearing the mesh pants on 'casual Friday'. Let's look at some examples of the unbelievable shit these jerks are saying on this, one of the greatest albums I've ever heard: Explore releases from Ray Cooper at Discogs. Your dreams sound pretty spooky. The tempos are up, the guitars are fuzzy, the bass is loud, the vocals are more melodic than before while retaining that rough punk edge, and nearly every song boasts a vocal hook that is impossible to remove from one's head (examples: "Now you're gone and I'm alooooooone!," "Sheeeee don't need no one! The Descendents album only SOUNDS like shit! And Milo is unfortunately beginning to forego some of his rough shouting in the name of actual singing; it doesn't affect the quality of this album, but it does lead to some awful performances on the next couple. [2] By the end of the year they had failed to attract any more band members, so Nolte left to join The Last with his brothers. And their vaginas smell like fish!" better than you/You are a piece of poo." The Descendents' Enjoy! Foolishly, I went back to sleep. I mean, I've got a Ph.D in biochemistry how uncool is that?[1]. -- (to his daughter) "Come on baby, we gotta get our clothes on/There'll be no easy days 'cause I've got no degree/You'll see your brother in a week or three/Here's a picture of me, just don't let them see/'Cause they're not that fond of me" Normally when you talk about Green Day I can tell that you really don't It features the same pleasing mixture of pop-punk, punk-metal and teensy hardcore as its predecessor, just with fewer anthemic singalong hooks. I know! thoughts? 10. I would hate to think of locking myself into a particular style, he says. The distorted guitar and drums are gigantically raw and loud, and Milo's charismatic shout-singing sounds like a cross between Ron Reyes (Black Flag's second singer) and Dez Cadena (Black Flag's third singer). Okay these are making less sense as we go. ray cooper descendents - wirewellelectronics.co.uk Descendents, Kim, Doug Carrion, Ray Cooper, Bill Stevenson, Milo I think it would look something like this: A song about cutting meat with a heavy broad-bladed knife - "Cleavage", A song about a popular science fiction franchise - "Vage". I usually interpreted their spiteful lyrics as a burst of teenage frustration - often itself given to rash conclusions and unfair generalizations - directed at women who won't give them the time of day. Knock Knock! 4:13pm, Jon got fired from Black and Decker today. I will kill and I'll destroy!," "My day will come - I know some day, I'll be the only one!," etc). I tried to wake up - I tried seriously to wake up, probably around 30 times in a row. with jazzy influences are undermined by disgusting lyrics, amateurish -- (to his wife) "Money and time/We didn't know they'd be so hard to come by/"Look and you'll find"?/We didn't know that's just some fabled school rhyme/We'll never get ahead in this world/Not 'til we move ahead of this/World we've made for ourselves/Where there's no time to kiss/And no room to even breathe". I haven't had dreams quite like that, but I have had several in which I couldn't move, and was trying to get off my bed, and fell on the floor, hopelessly writhing about trying to get to my feet, only to wake up to find I hadn't moved at all, and then still unable to move for a few seconds until I'm fully awake and make a concerted effort to move my arms. "Van" - This is humumorous. [15] In a June 1987 interview with Music magazine, Stevenson elaborated on the "All" concept: I'm really into "ALL"' and I've waited a long time to unleash the whole concept on people. A song about tailoring a suit - "Sewage" I havent slept in a bed since I was 18. lyrics in the English language as life-denying as "I wanted her cherry/I Your email address will not be published. "[2], Everything Sucks was recorded in June and July 1996 at The Blasting Room, a studio built and run by Stevenson in Fort Collins, Colorado. What do you expect?" Filmage: The Story Of The Descendents / ALL, "Frank Navetta of the Descendents (-2008)", "Descendents Played Their First Hometown Show in Almost Two Decades This Week", "Descendents' Milo Aukerman: You're Never Too Old to Think Farts Are Funny", "Three punk rock vocalists with PhDs talk new music, tacos and politics ahead of the Sabroso fest in Dana Point", "Descendents Return with New Album '9th & Walnut', "TOM DELONGE'S TOP 5 MOST INFLUENTIAL BANDS", "Offspring the Fifth Best Punk Band Ever? And the nightmare would continue until I finally realized I wasn't awake, at which point I would re-open my right eye, only to be terrified by the sight of the top of the closet door -- meaning that all my physical efforts were in fact psychological. In a March 2019 interview with OC Register, Aukerman revealed that Descendents were working on a new album: "When we put out the last record we thought, 'OK, I bet we could put out another record after this one and not wait a decade to do it.' Ahh I thought I'd never see anything like it! Add your Before I knew about the condition it was pretty scary (like when I heard someone writing something on my computer though I knew my wife wasn't home, or when I felt (couldn't see) a small girl standing beside the bed, and then starting to move her hands up and down the bedsheet (and this was before The Ring) it was horrible. As you may know, the Descendents enjoy attaching the suffix "-age" to words in order to create song titles. TRANSLATION: "She wants to fuck me, but she's a little baby, afraid to fuck me. Examples include "Bikeage," "Cameage," "Myage" and "Tonyage" (and jokes on this pattern include "Marriage" and "Coolidge"). It's somebody asking, "All?" TRANSLATION: "She wants to fuck me, but she's a little baby, afraid to fuck me. These songs are standouts because, unlike so much of the record, they focus on punk disillusion instead of Raspberries-level la-de-da jingle writing. I said 'Okay, what kind of Milo do you want?' This album Karl Alvarez - Apparently the failure of his marriage has made him cynical towards everything else in the world as well: Shit! Steven Blush, author of American Hardcore: A Tribal History, remarked that their "cheeky love songs disguised as hardcore blasts became the most aped formula in rock. -- (to his daughter) "Come on baby, we gotta get our clothes on/There'll be no easy days 'cause I've got no degree/You'll see your brother in a week or three/Here's a picture of me, just don't let them see/'Cause they're not that fond of me" I dont have any material goals.. The Descendents began during punks late-70s heyday, when Stevenson and a pair of friends from Mira Costa High School got together to play. -- "Why do I daydream? But lyrically, it's goddamned near despicable. That Julie was nice. He brought a dimension that impacted the band that's still part of our musical vocabulary. Weve got it easy. And then he died. The Rolling Stones - "Angieage" But if you really pay attention to the garbage they're singing, it's clear that they view every girl as either a tease or a whore. Shit! The album was recorded primarily during a 2002 session featuring the original lineup of Stevenson, Frank Navetta, and Tony Lombardo, with Milo Aukerman recording his lead vocals for the album at home in Delaware during the COVID-19 pandemic. I, Doug Carrion who? The key is to call them Shop for Vinyl, CDs and more from Ray Cooper at the Discogs Marketplace. Then I stopped thinking to myself, and began thinking to other people. EEEEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHHEEHEEH!!!!! As a sexually frustrated teenager, I felt all the same emotions as these guys, but I tended to bottle it up inside - mad respect for anyone willing to throw all that shit out into the open and say, "Yeah, I'm pissed off that I can't get laid. Which would be an appropriate day to cash in, I suppose, bu This is aggressively performed and unpolished music that just happens to also be as tuneful as all patootie. I voted Dewey! The metal material is much better; as clearly Black Flag-influenced as it is (Egerton even uses the same sick guitar tone that Ginn was using in the mid-80s), it at least offers interesting, unpredictable riffs and tight technical playing (especially on the drums -- Bill tears wild oats all over this record!). Orange County's Leading Source Of News, Culture And Entertainment. thoughts? See also ray cooper descendents - arkitech.it You'd be better off 15 songs in 23 minutes worth of fist up your dick, to be exact! This time you are dead on though. I still wasn't able to wake up, but at least I had moved. So by the time I woke up (still freezing), I was certainly in no mood to be on the television, which is why you didn't see me on Red Eye tonight. It's very clear that they CONCLUSION: A couple of brave attempts to infuse the Descendents sound Our fans deserve better. Ha ha! Ray Cooper - Wikipedia Wouldn't it be chilly with no skin on? Long white bones with the skin all gone? [11] When the band's name was changed to All upon Aukerman's departure in 1987, bassist Karl Alvarez created the character Allroy to serve an equivalent function for the new band.[44]. "GCF" - "I like lust and sexual thrust/I like good clean fun!" DESCENDENTS HANG OUT IN NEVER-NEVER LAND - Los Angeles Times "All" - This is hilarious. Can you imagine how gigantic your urethra would be after 23 minutes of fist up your dick? over two guitar chords! on cassette and compact disc. The Mentors, Meatmen and GG Allin are more blatantly misogynist, but that's what makes them harmless and funny. I'll be glad when this Average-Joe-But-Still-Romanticized-Version-of-America-Non-Actor-Semi-Reality-Show fad is over with. Then something changed, Looking for fun this Cinco de Mayo weekend? This is a very good album, filled with terrific melodies both dark and light. There's a drawing of toilet paper on the cover. 8:01pm Milo Goes To College was a tough one to follow, but Bill, Tony and Milo managed to come up with a whole slew of strong, emotional, melodic, warm, angry, loving and anxious punk rock songs with only a few stinkers to be found ("Descendents" and "GCF" are particularly rank). Just because we've gone away Ray Cooper | Discography | Discogs This album is one of the most singalongable and (rightly) beloved products in punk rock history. But no more of this "music" talk. Here's a great song I just heard on the radio: * Two Things At Once CD - SST 1988 * Plus, why is nobody collaborating? Sheeee don't need no one!," "I don't know why-y/it's so-o/but it's true-ue!," "I'm a boy and not a toy! --"It's no place for a mongrel mutt like me/Mating rights go to the best of breed/Just a lot of sad people caught in between desire and despair/I guess I'll see you there/At the lost and lonely/Dog and Pony Show" Oh, if only they'd devoted more of the record to departures like this one. But not before the Descendents churn out one more terrible record! I think "My World" is my favorite though - a perfect summation of the loner's resigned arrogance and comfort with his "me against the world" stance.