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The Vandals
Hitler Bad, Vandals Good
Release Date: 1998 06 23
Label: NIT Productions
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Sixteen years ago, these greater-L.A. punks released an EP everyone laughed along with (the first non-Bad Religion record on the mighty Epitaph), with its novelty underground radio hit "Urban Struggle (I Want to be a Cowboy)." Who'd have thought the Vandals would still be around, making the same herky-jerky punk, with the same sense of humor? There have been times over their LPs that they've gotten a bit coarse (but remained funny, like the sexual double-entendre here of "Cafe 405"), but their lyrics could make the straightest financial analyst laugh. "My Girlfriend's Dead" is hilarious, a nutty solution for someone who's been dumped and hates being asked what happened ("I say it's leukemia or sometimes bulimia or a great big truck ran over her")! Not only are the words funny, but just as "Urban Struggle" lampooned Western movies' music and archetypes, "Money's Not an Issue" briefly sends up the worst big oldies band ever, Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons, and "Too Much Drama" trashes TV sitcoms. And who wouldn't get some guffaws at the ridiculously oversentimental The Sound of Music getting its comeuppance (ever read the story of the Von Trapps fighting over control of their resort in the U.S., and what a jerk their stepmom really was?!) on this snotty cover of "So Long, Farewell," similar to what Vandals did to a Grease song last time? And doesn't "F'd Up Girl" give the finger to Billy Joel's "Still Rock 'n' Roll to Me"? Ha ha. Jack Rabid, All Music Guide

Tracks:
TitleComposerTime
1People That Are Going to HellFitzgerald2:14
2Cafe 405Freese2:11
3My Girlfriend's DeadFitzgerald2:40
4I Know, Huh?Escalante2:55
5Money's Not an IssueFitzgerald3:00
6I've Got an Ape DrapeEscalante3:30
7If the Gov't Could Read My MindFitzgerald2:22
8Too Much DramaHolland, Escalante, Freese, Fitzgerald2:45
9Come Out FightingThirsk2:52
10Euro-BargeFreese1:53
11F'D up GirlFitzgerald2:36
12Idea for a MovieEscalante2:39
13OKQuackenbush2:05
14So Long, FarewellRodgers, Hammerstein2:51







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