...REVIEWS !!
TEENAGE REJECTS - Teen Trash Vol.2 7"
WAYBACK MACHINE (USA) DEC 2002 Hold on... Volume TWO? Huh. I musta missed Volume one. And after hear this blistering single (is it really a "single" if it's recorded at 33-1/3 rpm?) I'm eager to hunt down the first volume, whatever and wherever it is. Anyhow, these guys sound like TEENGENERATE, if TEENGENERATE weren't Japanese. You can actually sorta understand the lyrics! Fast and stupid and if you're not careful, you'll hit your head on the ceiling listening to this record. Don't say I didn't warn ya(kopper)
LONG GONE LOSER (OZ) OCT 2002 I've said it before and I'll say it again. god knows where Alien Snatch are digging up their bands but they seem to find the cream of the crop. Devil Dogs / New Bomb Turks fans take note cos here you'll find six tracks of fast dirty garage rock n roll that kicks you right in the crackers and leaves you wantin' more. A must have if you dig it fast as fuck and rawer than hell.(damo)
HIGH HEELS SLUTS (BELGIUM) SEP 2002 This fine German label had already kicked off this Teen Trash series in a great way by releasing the debut 7" of the HIGHSCHOOL ROCKERS, the TEENAGE REJECTS pull it off in an equally superb rawking way. Cuz punkRAWK is what it's all about! This Wisconsin threesome gets loose on not less than 6 wild fuckers (mostly hardly reaching the 1'00" border), served in a raw, pissed off, fucked up way that releases both band and listener from a stack of frustrations and provides you with an overdose of teenage kicks. I bet you're not surprised that the TR also got a 7" on Rip Off, are you?! It's the same snot'n'stench you get from the likes of a fucked up MOTARDS, LOLI & CHONES, RIP OFFSor SWINDLERS attack. No time for gasping breath, just twist a couple of arms'n'legs in a wild pogo and you'll find yourself a happy man!
VINYL-A-GO-GO
(USA) AUGUST 2002 This is such a no-brainer you don’t even have to
borrow a head to know you need to snatch this record before it’s hugging singles
in Steve The Peeve’s record box, he being your worst enemy and seemingly a much
more hip and in the know rock and roller than you (you hate him but aspire to
be him…minus the dickishness).
Now listen up you
headless, rock and roll craving, candy-not-eating (as you’ve go no head to eat
it with), balled-up garage-wad. Reasons to beg, steal or borrow and never return
this record: A.) Hot 00’s-garage-ed band still coasting on the rampant success
of a most infectious Rip-Off records single but demised as we speak B.) Hot,
Hot picture sleeve by Rev. Norb C.) Hot, Hot, Hot thick-as-a-countertop, knife
some jelly on and lick the edges, European vinyl released by Germany’s heppest
label for sniffling rock and roll teens craving extraterrestrial pussy. This
record is so fucking brilliant based solely on A through C that I don’t even
need to smack wax to turntable in order to give it my oft-maligned, one-trick
pony riding, not so solid seal of approval. Not wasting my time listening to
it gives me more time to drink Coca-Cola, lick girls and candy bars, eat raspberry
pie, jack off from pure boredom and do all of the other things I need ten extra
minutes to do. So fuck you, buy it.
ALRIGHT! Luckily for you I just dumped my girlfriend and I got no more making
out to do, so I’ll listen to the thing and give you the skinny. The TEENAGE
REJECTS don’t dedicate grooves to dead-air, so all the 80 mile-an-hour, mangling,
head splitting, teenage scratching melts together like yesterday’s Swedish Fish
on the seat of tomorrow’s ride home. If you’d like a vague idea of what the
Rejects sound like I’ll tell you this: if you’ve heard all of the Rip Off Records
bands you’ve heard one of them, or at least you know pretty much what to prepare
for. Raw, dirty, ear-jabbing rock and roll played so fast that your fingers
bleed and you wonder how hot rock and roll leads can be caught on tape when
they’re flying around the room that fast. To further conjure up the Rejects
for you I give you song titles: "She’s My Girl," "Wanna Kill,"
"Stupid Fukk" (ha! They’re so stupid they can’t even spell, me too!),
"No Money" (me too!), "We Don’t Like You," "Losin’
Control." Anthems of stupidity for ever perpetually bored-wasted teenagers
to hum inside their hollowed out heads while peeling on their spunk encrusted
Levis and jamming on their punk-damaged chucks. Anthems delivered with a solid
wall of barely tuned, crackling guitars and covered in acidic snot-drenched
attitude. All this screeching is made possible the numb-brained idiots known
as the Teenage Rejects, three poor, bored, sniveling teenagers too stupid not
to keep playing. Dupe this to your dad’s taped up Rolling Stones tape, down
a can of Coca-Cola, pop it in your duct taped tape deck, and go chase some action.
Or at least trash another humid afternoon at the strip-mall frightening old
folk with the sound of today’s punk(Lewis)
SHREDDING PAPER #13 (USA) Summer 2002 Punk rock! straight outta Wisconsin, apparently taken from from the same recording session for a RIP OFF 7" but these definately aren´t just outtakes. Short, simple but sweet and catchy as all out. very cool indeed. Fun for the entire family (David)
MAXIMUM ROCKNROLL ...? # 229 (USA) JUNE 2002 Oh, Wisconsin, you never let me down. The TEENAGE REJECTS deliver six fast and catchy songs, ranging from 50 seconds to the epic two and a half minute "We Don't Like You." LOLI & THE CHONES name-checked in the press materials as well as on the back cover (via swank T-shirt) and the vinyl backs it up. Get down and get with it! (DD).
UP YOURS! (BELGIUM) MAY 2002 Alien Snatch Records came to my attention a couple of years ago by a bunch of 7"s releases (with amongst all the infamous HIGHSCHOOL ROCKERS!!!). With the labels 2002 Singles Attack a new breed of US-punkrawkunits has been launched on Europe. After a while in the US Mr. Alien Snatch returned with some of the best, current punkrawk'n'roll combos in his sack. Snatch 013 is THE TEENAGE REJECTS from Wisconsin. A 6-song ep from the same session that also featured their RipOff Records 7""are exposed on th second release in Alien Snatch 'Teen Trash Series'. Unfortunately the band isn't any longer going, but some of them are resurfaced in a unit called The CATHOLIC BOYS. But let's get back to the basic, urging, pure teenage punk in all simplicity. The tunes cuts into your ears like spicifically sharpened razorblades, they run on an hyperactive , bouncing beat and bring to mind the efforts done by LOLI & CHONES or the early 7" from The DUMMIES. Since these folks are from the Wisconsin region, the local punk-godfather, Reverent Norb (from Boris The Sprinkler) pick them up and took care of the sleeve design. This unit is together with The STRONG COME ONS, The DERKS, The LEGHOUNDS, The MISTREATERS and The KILL-A-WATTS one of the best things to have popped out of the Midwest recently. Pick this raw, yet unpolished beauty up and play it over and over and over and over on your player, you'll love it; just like I do!!
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GENERATION (USA)
APRIL 2002 Question #1:
Since Alien Snatch Records is based out of Germany, hence the owner’s aren’t
likely to be native English speakers, do you think that they intend for their
name to imply an alien taking something (i.e. "snatching" it) or are
they simply named after an alien’s pussy? Question #2:
Does anyone out there know if the katakana words that are plastered all over
the sleeve actually mean anything? I wasn’t able to find any of it in my Japanese
dictionary and I suspect that they just threw a bunch on at random since it
looks cool. Question
#3: What’s in Wisconsin’s
PBR supply these days that’s causing them to churn out so many great bands?
Case in point this second, and best, posthumous release from the Teenage Rejects.
There’s six songs on here that rocket by with the same retarded juvenile abandonment
on display on their Rip Off seven inch. Sheer volume isn’t the only reason why
this one gets the nod from me however. You’re rock n roll soul is hopelessly
beyond redemption if the LOLI & THE CHONES inspired chorus of "We Don’t
Like You" ("F.U.C.K.Y.O.U/We don’t like you/Fuck You.") doesn’t
make you grin from ear to ear the first time you hear it. Pretty much everything
on here either matches up to or surpasses their prior effort. It’s been a good
month for singles indeed.(SS)
BLANK GENERATION (USA) APRIL 2002 Boneheads! The Adolescent Rejects! Those Wisconsin chuckleheads who’ve spent most of their teenage years hassling Greg Lowery for record deals and naked pictures of Elka Zolot have put out their second (yeah…that’s right) 45 on ALIEN SNATCH out of Germany. Six snotty punk rock tunes ala the ANGRY SAMOANS with plenty of Rip Off Records influence…yeah, send much $$$$$. (JD)
BLANK GENERATION (USA) MAY 2002 One teenage powerhouse that exploded far too quickly, if you ask me. It’s a shame, but at least we get to grab their stellar posthumous material—and this one’s at least a few notches above their smokin’ debut single on Rip Off. Loud guitars, bombastic drums and a swab of snot stuck in every groove. If you’re wise, you’ll bite your lip and jump on the grenade. GET! (EL)
SMASHIN TRANSISTORS (USA) APRIL 2002 Young, dumb and fulla cum these Neenah, Wisconsin post-adolescents triple their can of cheap beer in one hand and live grenade in the other sound of their Rip-Off debut simply but putting more songs on the record. It was that simple and simple is the key word here. Obnoxiously fast and knowing that using more than three or four chords would simply be clutter the Rejects show why they were the bane of their High-School guidence counselors. Then again, that probably all started when they took that "career profile" thing people take in High School and their results came back as liquor store clerks and glue sniffers. Hell, they were such wrecks they couldn't even the band together...This is, as ROCK LIT. cats would say, a posthumous release. It's like the ANGRY SAMOANS coming into someone's house, they got cowshit all over their boots but ain't gonna take them off or even wipe them on the Welcome map cuz they don't give a fuck
FLIGHT13 (GERMANY)FEB 2002 Die Vorliebe von Label-Chef Daniel für Trios geht auch bei diesem Release weiter. Richtig so, was braucht´s mehr? Nach ihrer Debüt 7" auf Rip Off legen die 3 Teenager nun 6 neue Knaller nach. Titel wie "Wanna kill", "no money" und "We don´t like you" machen klar, wo´s lang geht, nämlich angepißter 3-Chord-Punkrock, wie er auch schon Anfang der 80er in den Staaten gespielt wurde. Das alles in ordentlich trashiger Produktion !
CHOKE #7(AUSTRIA) JUNE 2002 Hatten noch bei Teenage Trash Vol.1 die doofen HIGHSCHOOL ROCKERS die Ehre (Wartet nur Jungs, die Retourkutsche kommt schon noch!) haben diesmal die superrockenden TEENAGE REJECTS den Zuschlag bekommen. Die drei Jungs mit RIP OFF RECORDS fame braten dem geneigten Hörer sech trashige high speed RnR Stücke um die Ohren das es nur so pfeift. Meine persönliche Highlights dieser 7" sind "Wanna Kill", "No Money" und "We don´t like you". Diese heisse Scheibe ist limitiert auf 500 Stück und handnummeriert. Also zuschalgen bevor alles zu spät ist !! (chris reeky)
OX MAGAZINE #46 (GERMANY) MARCH 2002 Im Rahmen der "Teen Trash Series" von ALIEN SNATCH! Records ist mit der 6-Song 7" der TEENAGE REJECTS jetzt Vol.2 erschienen, wobei die Aufnahmen aus der selben Session stammen wie die der 7" auf RIP OFF Records. Und ja, hier werden keine Gefangenen gemacht: hektischer, snotty Punkrock, der shaket und kickt und dessen Erhebung in den Adelstand einer RIP OFF-Veröffentlichung nicht von ungefähr kommt. Wilde Gitarren in garagiger aber nicht trashiger Produktion, so muss es sein. Woher kommen die eigentlich ? Das Cover verrät in dieser hinsicht gar nichts. (7/10) (Norbert)
DIG IT! (FRANCE) MAY 2002 *Les trois gamins de TEENAGE REJECTS viennent eux aussi du Wisconsin et ont réussi à caser six titres sur ce EP (Teen Trash Series Vol.2). Faut dire que ça va vite et qu'ils mettent moins de deux minutes à exécuter un morceau qui en prendrait quatre à n'importe quel groupe garage-punk (à part peut-être TEENGENERATE) normalement constitué. Leur trip c'est le punk lo-fi insolent ("We don't like you, fuck you !") et pied au plancher déchiré par les rodomontades perçantes d'un (excellent) guitariste solo. Ils ont déjà sorti un single sur Rip Off Rds et Maximum Rock'n'Roll les compare à LOLI & CHONES. (GD)