Awesome and the Ass Kickers – “Shut up!”
Awesome and the Ass Kickers – “Shut up!” – When it all boils down to it, to like Awesome and the Ass Kickers you have to figure out if you are pretentious asshole and a punk who has a sense of humor. I don’t say that because Awesome and the Ass Kickers is a comedy act, but more because the just go out and make music about anything (See there song “Meatballs & Spaghetti”) and don’t seem to have a hidden agenda or predisposed genre affiliations. Are Awesome and the Ass Kickers are great band who will ever sell a millions records? NO! but I get the impression that they could care less about the number of units they push. They seem to hold the spirit of punk rock close to their hearts and have never forgotten what making punk music is all about. The recording quality on “Shut Up!” sounds like a slightly better than average basement recording and the lyrics to some of their songs are pretty stupid, but I really enjoy the band as a whole. Awesome and the Ass Kickers seem to be having more fun recording this CD than a majority of bands playing a live set. Their sound is like a pot luck influence from song to song, of all the influential better known raw punk bands such as; The Misfits in their song “Nasty, nasty”, The Meatmen-in their song “Crackhead Girls”, & Murphy’s Law in their song “Happy Talk”. If you have time between your scenester weekly magazine to listen to a band that knows what raw, punk rock is all about, pick this booger, it’s a winner.
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