Dumbo: All the Songs from Walt Disney's Dumbo

 Dumbo:  All the Songs from Walt Disney's Dumbo

1959

Disneyland Records

Format I Own it on: Vinyl

Track Listing: 1. Main Title  2. Look Out For Mr. Stork  3. Casey Jr. / Song Of The Roustabouts  4. Baby Mine  5. Pink Elephants On Parade  6. Dumbo And Timothy  7. When I See An Elephant Fly  8. Finale


Ahem...

Dumbo 

by Jamin (age 8)


 "I like Dumbo. It is a good movie. I like the box because it is big and plastic. 

 The best part about the movie though is the catalog inside...It gives me lots of things to bug my parents for...

MA!!! CAN WE GET THE "FULLER BRUSH MAN"?!?!? PLEEEASE?!?!? IT'S ONLY $59.95!!! 

WHAT DOES "FULLER BRUSH" MEAN? MA, WHAT IS HE?!?! WHAT'S IT ABOUT?!?! CAN WE GET "CONDORMAN" THEN?!?!?

And as much as I like videotapes, I like records too. They're bigger. Charleston Chews are also a bigger candybar than a Snickers. Therefore, I always get those too.

 I'm  gonna see how long I can make one last. I'm just going to take one bite out of it everyday for the next couple months then I can technically have a candy bar every day.  

Oh yea. My favorite part is the "Pink Elephants" song. That part of the movie makes me want to get drunk. I can't wait until I'm 21 so I can start drinking until I have terrifying hallucinations..

I also like "Look Out For Mr. Stork." My parents had "the talk" with me the other day, and I now know that when a man loves a woman very much, then they put on some Marvin Gaye and call up the Stork who then brings them a baby. But sometimes the Stork will deliver the baby to the wrong house and that's why there are always dads on Maury who yell, "The baby's not mine!!!"
 

It's because the Stork delivered it to the wrong house. That's all. But as you can see from the episode above, sometimes you have to test 3 or 4 times to find out which one's the real daddy. 

I wrote a movie too. I'm hoping to send it to Steven Spielberg or George Lucas so they can turn it into a real film. It's a completely original script called "Silly the Elephant":

 (Scene 1: Silly is an elephant in the Iosco County Fair. He is being poked and prodded at by mean kids like Warren Yeager. )

Silly: I wish I didn't have to be stuck in this carnival. I wish I were a bird like you, Blackie. Then I could fly right out of here. 

 Blackie the Crow: Sho' nuffin' howdy! 

(gives Silly a coat made of feathers)

Blackie: Alls you have'ta do is shake back n' forth and the feathers will sure nuff'n lift you off the ground, Silly!

(Silly puts on the coat and shakes back and forth and lifts off the ground. Y'see, the back and forth movement of the feathers acts as a sort of "Wing" and we all know if you have wings, especially ones with feathers on them, you can fly. Silly flies high above the circus tent and Warren Yeager is so startled by the sight he trips and falls in a trough of water...)

"HAHAHA!" says the crowd, painting and laughing at Warren and ruining his life forever. (Which is good, because he's a real meanie!) Then the Circus Strongman comes and spanks Warren mericlessly.

Warren: I'll never pick on Jamin...errr, I mean Silly ever again!

(Camera cuts to the sky where Silly and Blackie are flying, free of care. They fly to Big Bob's Restaurant to get some pizza.)

Silly: C'mon! Let's get some pizza, Blackie!

Blackie: No, sah! I only eat worms!

Silly: Worms?!?! Gross!!!!

Blackie: Y'know what they say! A worm a day keeps the doctor away!

(audience erupts into uncontrollable laughter at the funniest joke ever told)

THE END

I submitted my script to Mrs. Wolf, so hopefully Mr. Spielberg will find out about it soon and make it into a major motion picture and then I'll be rich and famous. Once you're rich and famous you can pretty much buy any Gobots you want. You don't even have to ask your Mom anymore....

Here's "Baby Mine" by Dumbo....Enjoy...

Dropkick Murphys: The Meanest of Times

Dropkick Murphys: The Meanest of Times

2007

Born & Bred Records

Format I Own it on: Compact Disc

Track Listing: 1. Famous For Nothing  2. God Willing  3. The State of Massachusetts  4. Tomorrow's Industry  5. Echoes On "A." Street  6. Vices and Virtues  7. Surrender  8. (F)lannigan's Ball  9. I'll Begin Again  10. Fairmount Hill  11. Loyal to No One  12. Shattered  13. Rude Awakenings  14. Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ya  15. Never Forget



I don't know what inspired me pick this up really...Once again, I skipped a Dropkick Murphys album...

Yup. 2005's "The Warrior's Code." Never heard it. Maybe it was the butt-ugly cover that made me pass it by...Maybe I only want a new Dropkick Murphys album every four years and not every two years...Who knows...I'm sure I'll get around to checking it out eventually...

Anyway,  I was at a Target or something in 2007 and saw a DKM CD and was like, "Y'know...I could listen to some new Dropkick..."

Oddly enough, whenever I put this on and hear the school-bell ring and that country-ish guitar lick, I always kinda wish I would have picked something else to listen to...But then a funny thing happens...When it gets to Al Barr's verse, suddenly the whole band seems to lean into it and the thing starts rocking...By the time I get to that final, "The bells of St. Maaaary's were ringing..." I'm 10,000 percent sold...Fuck yes.

"Mother McGillicutty! It rocks so much!"

Y'know what? I love this album. I didn't think I'd ever say that about a DKM album post-"Do or Die" but these guys have nailed the formula...Al Barr is basically in the role that Ken Casey played on "Do or Die"...The counter-point...The exciting punctuation mark...I love how he's used here and for the first time, I can say with no hesitation that Al is a great addition to the band...The sound seems harder, grittier, and more rocking...They've reached the perfect harmony between hard rock, punk and Celtic music...It doesn't seem as segregated as it once was, where it was like, "Oh here's a hardcore song! Oh, here's an Irish song!" On this album it's hard to pinpoint where one influence ends and another begins...In other words, they've gained their own very distinct style...

  Highlights: "State of Massachusetts." Where you take one look at the title and ready yourself for another "Massachusetts! It's All Here!" tourist-board romp, but they flip your expectations by making it about the State of Massachusetts taking kids away from an unfit mother...And even with that subject matter it's somehow not maudlin or manipulative at all! It's catchy, tough with a "that's life" tone...

 The other big one here is "(F)lannigan's Ball," which is another shoo-in for all-time best Dropkick Murphys song, where they team up with Irish/punk forebears Spider Stacy from the Pogues, and Ronnie Drew from the Dubliners...Man, Ronnie Drew has the best vocal delivery I've ever heard...His voice is so dry, like he hasn't had a drink of water in 50 years...Calm, relaxed but with a skull-rattling deepness...Loud yet subliminal...Love love love his performance here, which I believe was one of his last since he passed away not too long after this...

Very few out-and-out misfires: "Tomorrow's Industry " is just a little awkward, but not actively awful...The only out-and-out awful song is "Shattered" where I can't help but picture Ken Casey as an old gypsy looking into a crystal ball and raising an eybrow, "People aren't always what they...seem..."

I fucking hate his delivery on that song...Still it's a small hiccup and the rest of the album is very enjoyable when I'm the mood for arena-punk...Easily the second best DKM album I've heard, although keep in mind I've only heard half of their albums...They've put out a couple new ones since this, but I haven't checked them out yet...When I do, I'll do posts on them...For the time being, this wraps up the Dropkick Murphys section...

Here's "(F)lannigan's Ball" by Dropkick Murphys...Enjoy...

Dropkick Murphys: Blackout

Dropkick Murphys: Blackout

2003

Hellcat Records

Format I Own it on: Vinyl

Track Listing: 1. Walk Away  2. Worker's Song  3. The Outcast  4. Black Velvet Band  5. Gonna Be a Blackout Tonight  6. World Full of Hate  7. Buried Alive  8. The Dirty Glass  9. Fields of Athenry  10. Bastards on Parade  11. As One  12. This Is Your Life  13. Time to Go  14. Kiss Me I'm Shitfaced


The Dropkick Murphys put out an album called, "Sing Loud, Sing Proud!" in 2001, but I was still feeling burned by "The Gang's All Here" so I skipped it...

Then one day when I was listening to the radio, in between the latest (s)hit by Alien Ant Farm, I heard a very enjoyable song called "Walk Away"...

...The song was good enough for me to give the poor ol' Dropkicks another chance...I found a vinyl copy for a super reasonable price at PDQ Records (new vinyl at reasonable prices? Those were the days!) and picked it up...

(I was wondering if PDQ was still around or not...When I first moved to Tucson in 2001, it was a pretty great place, but then it seemed to hit the skids...Different owners re-opened it and it was the most-picked over, over-priced place I'd ever seen (Look! 5000 copies of "Hotel California"! Billy Joel's "Glass Houses"! Eight bucks? Why not!?!?!)...Then I heard it had finally closed down...But then last time I went to Tucson, it kinda looked like it was open again...Nobody was there, but it looked like it might still be functional...Just a minute ago, I decided to finally look it up and found a Tucson Weekly article from December 2014 (where I swiped the above photo...Robble! Robble!) saying it was reopened by the original owners...Hrmmm...Might have to check it out again next time I'm in Tuck-son...)

Anyway, I couldn't believe how much I enjoyed this "Blackout" album...There's no overarching concept (unless you count their usual "hard-working man" stance as a gimmick) and although Al still isn't the most exciting or charismatic vocalist in the world, he sounds fine here...He's no longer trying to fill Mike's cartoon-y shoes...He just uses his everyman voice in an everyman manner and the album comes across as a bit more blue collar hard rock than skin-head oi punk...Only "World Full of Hate" is turd-flushingly unbearable (An acoustic ballad?! Sung by Al Barr?!?!??!!!), which is a huge improvement from "The Gang's All Here"...

Oh, and the Celtic influence is back...Wisely, Ken is given the lead vocal spot on most of Irish tracks and boy, are they good...Their majestic take on "Fields of Athenry" is quite an impressive production...A muted intro that erupts into a massed army of vocals, towering guitars, a skyful of bagpipes...I'd say this makes my shortlist of favorite DKM songs...They're so good at this sort of thing it's ridiculous...

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All around pretty solid stuff...Outside of the tracks I mentioned above, there's nothing too Earth-shattering, but it all rocks sufficiently and I like this ten times more than "The Gang's All Here"...I think they were heading in the right direction again...I think all they really needed to do at this point to be great again was to rough things up a bit...It feels a little clean, especially with all the acoustic and traditional stuff on here but I think the band's spirit pulls it through...Fun stuff but I personally think they got even better after this...

Here's the "Fields of Athenry" by Dropkick Murphys...Enjoy...
 

7/8/8/8/8/8/8/8/8/-0

Dropkick Murphys : The Gang's All Here

Dropkick Murphys : The Gang's All Here

1999

Hellcat Records

Format I Own it on: Compact Disc

Track Listing: 1.  Roll Call  2. Blood and Whiskey  3. Pipebomb on Lansdowne  4. Perfect Stranger  5. 10 Years of Service  6. Upstarts and Broken Hearts  7. Devil's Brigade  8. Curse of a Fallen Soul  9. Homeward Bound  10. Going Strong  11. The Fighting 69th  12. Boston Asphalt  13. c  14. The Only Road  15. Amazing Grace  16. The Gang's All Here


I remember this album coming out when I was in college...I liked the previous year's "Do or Die" and then when I caught news that a new album had dropped I was stoked...Then a friend of mine warned me they had changed vocalists...Mike McColgan was out and Al Barr was in..."Ah, what the hell, " I said to myself, "I'll check it out..." I plunked down my $18.99 at Camelot music and walked away with "The Gang's All Here"...

To me, the big change here is that all the Irish malarkey is gone and replaced with a military theme...Not a modern military theme, mind you...There's no depleted uranium or ISIS here...Just cannon balls and muddy, bloody trench warfare...It's actually a really cool concept that yields some fantastic results ("Wheel of Misfortune," "Devil's Brigade," "10 Years of Service")  and some corn ("The Gang's All Here," "The Fighting 69th") but man, is Al Barr ever a boring singer...He's more of your standard gruff shouter that attempts McColgan-esque cartoonishness here and there but loses his nerve every time...Ken Casey has suddenly become the most charismatic person in the band, stealing the album with his gritty love-song "Upstarts and Broken Hearts " and his fucking awesome portion of "Wheel of Misfortune" which wrings a ton of drama out of a violin appearance... You have to ask yourself, was Al really necessary? Couldn't Ken just become the singer and have one of the existing band members handle backups? Oh well...Again, Al's not bad, he's just not especially interesting either...A non-entity vocal-wise...

 That said, "Boston Asphalt" is a damn classic...Even Al seems perfectly at home here...Maybe this was the best use of his skills...No method singing for some high-concept, just bruising, plainspoken street punk...Yea, he nails it here...Thankfully, DKM would ease up on the concepts a bit after this album and Al would fit in a bit more...

 To be honest, I kinda checked out on the band after "The Gang's All Here"...My DKM collection has a lot of holes in it after this album, as you'll see in the upcoming days...I'd say check out this album for "Boston Asphalt," "Upstarts and Broken Hearts," "Wheel of Misfortune," "Devil's Brigade," "10 Years of Service" and the bonus track of nagging voicemail messages (which manages to be the most entertaining part of the whole album)...Actually, now that I think about it the voicemail messages are entertaining enough to warrant a purchase...They make me really glad that I'm not Rick...

Here's "Boston Asphalt" by the Dropkick Murphys...Enjoy...

Dropkick Murphys: Do or DIe

Dropkick Murphys: Do or Die

1998

Hellcat Records

Format I Own it on: Compact Disc

Track Listing: 1. Cadence to Arms  2. Do or Die  3. Get Up  4. Never Alone  5. Caught in a Jar  6. Memories Remain  7. Road of the Righteous  8. Far Away Coast  9. Fightstarter Karaoke  10. Barroom Hero  11. 3rd Man In  12. Tenant Enemy #1  13. Finnegan's Wake  14. Noble  15. Boys on the Docks (Murphys' Pub Version)  16. Skinhead on the MBTA

This album is great/ridiculous...I have no idea why it's so dumb/awesome...Cut the soap!

I almost feel that they should get more credit than they do for creating this...There were definitely some Celtic influences in punk prior to this, the Pogues spring immediately to mind, but this is nothing like the Pogues...It's like they took the cartooniest, Lucky the Leprechaun-iest aspects of the Pogues (and Irish culture via American pop culture) and mixed it with skin-headish oi punk and came out with a combination so head-smackingly obvious that I can't believe  nobody quite did it before...Think AC/DC's "It's a Long Way to the Top," with elements of the Business and maybe the Skids and you're probably there...

 

Like a lot of people, I first heard these guys on the inaugural "Give 'Em the Boot" compilation...Holy shit, I loved this comp...Like anything associated with Rancid, it's kinda dumb and comical but also exciting and anthemic...Everything was big...Big, blustery songs with big shouted choruses and big walls of distorted guitars and drums...The whole thing just felt like a huge event for some reason, with lots of hungry bands giving it their all...It won me over to such an extent that I ended up buying an album by just about every band that was appeared on it (although, I'm currently in the process of buying every album by every band that ever existed, so I guess that's not saying a whole lot, but...)...Bottom line, I loved it all, but the highlights for me were Choking Victim and some amazing tough-guy Irisish bagpipe-punk song called "Barroom Hero" by a band called the Dropkick Murphys.or something..It was so over the top, so catchy and so completely rocking that I couldn't resist it...

I went out to find their stuff, but there was nothing! I mean nothing on the music shelves at any record store I went to, but I didn't stop looking...Eventually, about a half year later, the band released "Do or Die" and it completely knocked me out..."Barroom Hero" wasn't even the best song!! Every-single-track-ruled...It was one of those albums where you go, "This one's my favorite song! No this one! Oh, geez, I forgot about this one! This one has to be my favorite!"

Listening back on it, there are a few weak tracks, "Fightstarter Karaoke" is pretty fucking dopey, "Tenant Enemy Number 1"'s slower, vampier style is somewhat beyond their reach, but the rest of it? They kill it...I love the when Mike McColgan and Ken Casey trade vocals...Ken has a raspy, weezy punk delivery and Mike sounds like the biggest leprechaun who ever lived, with his bellowed, super-fake Irish brogue...The contrast is just so perfect...I always say if you want to make your band instantly more exciting, just exchange vocals...Even if one of the singers isn't "lead singer material," the call-and-responsiveness of it will never fail to draw listeners in...

 Now, don't get me wrong, there are some fan-fucking-tastic originals on here ("Never Alone," "Boys on the Docks," the SLF-tribute "Get Up "), the band is always at their best when they oi up some traditional song and my two favorites on this album are indeed, two of the traditional numbers..."Skinhead on the MBTA" is a rewrite of the old "Charlie on the MTA" folk-tune, but the band turns Charlie into a skinhead oi-boy and update Metropolitan Transit Authority to Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, reflecting changes made since the original..I could listen to this song a 100 times and it still wouldn't be enough...

But the album's real-deal highlight (and possibly the best thing the band ever did) is their rousing, epic recording of the trad. Irish folker "Finnegan's Wake"...It just rocks so much and is so fucking brilliant...Like shooting a gallon of hot Irish coffee right into your veins...You MUST sing along when this comes on...You have no choice in the matter...You go to the closet, put on your biggest pair of leather lungs and throw your fist in the air, when this comes on...

I still think this is far and away the best album the band ever released...After this album, Mike McColgan left and they replaced him with the bland Al Barr...But we'll get to that other stuff soon...Let's enjoy the McColgan era while we can...

 Here's "Finnegan's Wake" by the Dropkick Murphys...Here's to ye health...

Dolemite Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Dolemite Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

1975

Generation International Records

Format I Own it on: Vinyl

Track Listing: 1. Dolemite  2. The Queen  3. Do You Still Care  4. The Rumble  5. Mayor's Get-Away  6.  Power Of Your Love  7. Willie Green  8. When We Start Making Love  9. The Hitmen  10. Ghetto Expressions  11. Time Is On Our Side  12. Creeper  13. The Jive Jungle  14. Flatland




Oh man, I've always been a lifelong Rudy Ray Moore fan... I believe I've covered this particular obsession in detail here... 

So yea, it's no surprise that when I run across a Rudy Ray Moore record it's coming home with me...I mean, check out that cover! Look at that fist! 

Try to work out the physics in your head! You can't! His head is just bent as hell, the arm and fist all have absurdly forced (and skewed!!) perspective...The whole mess is just glorious...But if it was right, it wouldn't be Dolemite...The dude was putting up his own money! He couldn't afford Drew Struzan! He had to hire some guy who had no idea how anatomy or perspective worked and ended up with one of the most memorable movie posters of all time! Same goes for his film's soundtracks which Rudy usually handled himself...To be honest I kinda forgot that he didn't sing the stuff himself like he did in some of his later films...The album's music is credited to Soul Rebellion Orchestra as conducted by Rudy Ray Moore but he actually has other people handling the vocals...Motown's Mary Love handles the slow-jams, Revelation Funk (?) handles one and two are sung by CARLY SIMON'S AND JAMES TAYLOR'S YET-TO-BE-BORN OFFSPRING, BEN TAYLOR!!!

Nah, it's just some other unknown guy with the same name...Rudy's ballsy, low budget style has always manged to coat all his productions in an extra grimy layer of funk...You can't touch this record without getting funk all over your hands...I guess the genre would be called "Blaxploitation Soundtrack" music...Lots of wah wah'd guitars, honking horns and rutting bass-lines...Some of the slower stuff, such as Ben Taylor's "Do You Still Care" sounds like it's on the verge of going out of tune, perfectly capturing the warped wobble of cheap film stock and sticky cinema floors...Or maybe it's just my copy...

 The album's at its best though during the brief, whikka-whikka introduction snippets such as "Willie Green," "The Hitman" and "Creeper" which is nothing less than the theme song for the greatest character to ever grace the silver screen...Ladies and gentlemen, I speak of no other but the legendary Hamburger Pimp himself...

Sheeeyiiiit...I ain't sayin' nothing...

The one criticism I have is the utter lack of the hoarse, shouted, comedy stylings of Rudy Ray Moore...No snippets of the film's legendary dialogue or comedy routines until the final track "Flatlands" where Rudy gives one of his legendary epic-length Dolemite boasts...My God, he seriously refers to himself as "the baddest rapper known from coast to coast" on this...Yes, Rudy Ray Moore was rapping back in 1975...Hell, as far as I can tell he was rapping as far back as 1970 when the Dolemite character first appeared on record...

Recommended if you're a Rudy ray Moore fanatic or have a deep taste for blaxpoitation soundtracks...Keep in mind, Rudy couldn't afford Curtis Mayfield or Isaac Hayes, so this is to blaxploitation soundtracks what Dolemite is to blaxploitation films..A more head-scratching, lower budget variation on the theme...Even if you haven't seen the film, when you play this you'll still somehow be able to see the boom mic, if that makes sense...

Alright, you born insecure, rat soup eatin' motherfuckers, let's listen to a track by the bad man himself...Here's "Flatland" by Dolemite...Can you dig it?

Discharge: Decontrol EP/Never Again EP

I'm just going to knock both of these Discharge EP's out at once...I don't have a ton to say about Discharge, cos their early stuff always sounds exactly the same...Same sound, same doomsday haiku lyrics...I probably said all it all before in my previous Discharge post...But I've picked up a couple of their EP's since then...So without further ado...




Discharge: Decontrol

1980

Havoc Records

Format I Own it on: Vinyl

Track Listing: 1. Decontrol  2. It's No T.V. Sketch  3. Tomorrow Belongs to Us



1980 7-inch EP by guttural nuclear apocalypse punks Discharge...This is the earlier stuff so it's maybe a hair less punishing than their slightly later stuff, but it'll still blast your head off...And is that a tinge of optimism I hear in "Tomorrow Belongs to Us"?

All this old Discharge shit is fantastic if you're into bleak, early UK hardcore...The drums just run roughshod over everything, the guitars and bass are just big slabs of concrete as Cal Morris hoarsely shouts simple, repetitive slogans over the whole mess...The whole thing really only topples over on "Tomorrow Belongs to Us" where everything eventually gets out of sync..The title track is the big draw here, Discharge at their blast-furnace best...

Here's "Decontrol" by Discharge...Enjoy...

Discharge: Never Again EP

1981

Havoc Records

Format I Own it on: Vinyl

Track Listing: 1. Never Again  2. Death Dealers  3. Two Monstrous Nuclear Stockpiles


This is a 3-song 7-inch EP...Just to confuse everybody they released a full-length compilation with the exact same name and cover...Which would be alright if it had these songs on it, but it doesn't so you can't even justify it as an expanded edition...

Alright, here's what I like so much about Discharge...As someone who plays music, I can tell you that playing music is a lot of fun...But you would never know that in a million years listening to Discharge...As far as I've heard, there's not even a split-second of fun (let alone humor) in the band's discography (unless you count a few instances of gallows humor in "Hear Nothing..."'s cover art), but in an odd way I find their one-minded bleakness somewhat amusing...I mean, c'mon! A song called "Two Monstrous Nuclear Stockpiles"? It's so distinctly Discharge-y that you can't help but chuckle...

On the other hand, you have to admire the fact that they're so worried about our well-being...These guys really fucking care if you or I or our children get toasted in a nuclear holocaust...In fact, it's all they can talk about...You'll never find any "woe is me" in a Discharge song...Only "Woe is us" and they always bring plenty of woe to go around...Again, this is all just one big ferocious blast...It's not as tight as "Hear Nothing..." but it's not as loose as "Decontrol" either (although you kinda wonder if "Death Dealers" isn't going to collapse within its first fifteen seconds)...

If you're into hardcore or punk/metal even a little bit, Discharge is a must...I can't think of many bands that were as raw or brutal as Discharge were in the early 80's...

Here's "Never Again" by Discharge...Enjoy...

The Dils: I Hate the Rich/You're Not Blank

The Dils: I Hate the Rich/You're Not Blank

1977

Superior Viaduct Records

Format I  Own it On: Vinyl

Track Listing: 1. I Hate the Rich  2.You're Not Blank



Oooo...What pretty blue vinyl...

Ultra early US punk...Not the formative New York stuff, but the UK-influenced California stuff...I think I briefly discussed these guys before in the Dangerhouse Records post... These guys barely existed, lasting only a couple years and a couple of singles., but everything they did was top-notch...Wiry, political punk that was always catchy...

This is a reissue of their very first single...Two tracks in about three minutes..."I Hate the Rich" is notable in that the first verse is dedicated to hating the rich (for the usual reasons) , but the second verse is dedicated to hating the poor for always groveling and wanting to be rich...

The big draw here though is the B-Side "You're Not Blank" which is one of the catchiest of the early 80's punk single, with a glorious blink-and-you-missed-it chorus...The recording is really interesting too...The drums are very sparsely performed (contrast this with the usual constant drum assault you get in most punk) leaving the snarling guitars and vocals to take center stage...Just amazing, exciting stuff...Super super classic...

Let's check it out...Here's "You're Not Blank" by the Dils...Enjoy...