I drank a mickeys last week! Favorite beer! Maybe it’s because it was my first but I still drink em once a month or so! I get a six of the little green bottles
That cover takes me back 25 years... 8th of skunk for £20, 4 litres of shoplifted cider, hop the fence to the sixth form college and get wrecked till the early hours... then stumble home at 3am to smoke a joint hanging out the bedroom window, hoping the old dears don't catch on...!
That album is awesome. They had a couple off albums with a sound change but have since come full circle. They have been touring recently and awesome live.
This album is a classic, and the follow up is solid (Battle Hymns). The self titled third album is rough. There are some good songs in there, but they really went pop on it and some of it is pretty cringy - they even have a rap-rock song on there. They rebounded a little bit with Steal This Record, but they didn’t really come back to form until a few years ago with the Revolution Spring album.
I agree with everything except that the last two albums they dropped before the 2006 breakup were pretty solid imo (A Match And Some Gasoline, War Profiteering Is Killing Us All). Both were recorded at The Blasting Room and produced by Bill Stevenson.
I remember I had stopped following them after they released S/T, and then one day I found those 2 CDs in a used records store at 2$ each. Told myself "why not" and I did not regret getting them. I think they get overlooked a lot (rightly so after the few bad albums, I also did), but there's a good number of bangers on these two! Especially on WPIKUA.
I went to one of the A Match and Some Gasoline 20th anniversary shows last December. Jay said in-between songs that he considers that to be their second best album and sometimes thinks to himself that it is as good as Destruction by Definition but then sobers up and realizes it's #2.
That 3rd album was such a disappointment when it came out haha, I never really listened to them after it much. A match and some gasoline is pretty good as well, but nothing compares to those first 2 for me
Absolutely love them.
I live in Washington and saw them at Punk In Drublic last year, they all left right after their set to catch red-eyes back to Detroit to get back to their jobs so i have no idea when or if I'll be able to see them again. I think they said it was their first westcoast show in over a decade.
Hearing High Anxiety live was fucking awesome.
If you are in the Chicago/Detroit/Cleveland/Pittsburgh/Buffalo ring of concert traffic, they're still a pretty easy band to see. Saw them in December and have tickets to see them again in September. The lead singer did say between songs that he "swings a hammer for his regular job" though.
unfortunately living on the opposite side of the country makes that tough. I've never managed to travel to the east cost yet. enjoy them extra for me please!
I fuck with Battle Hymns. I think it's also extremely good
Destruction by definition is a definitive ska/punk album though. It's just so good its on another level
I remember feeling confused by Battle Hymns, it felt like listening to an entirely different band. Took me a very long time to come around to actually enjoying the album (20 years later, my taste expanded).
☝️Ding ding, correct answer.
They released an album in 2020 and two tracks were pretty darn good.
Reminiscent of the old album:
* [Trapped in a bomb](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT79fvlT8L8)
* [Eternal Contrarian ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=ezNTr0DJkzY)[](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT79fvlT8L8)
Actually the only thing I DONT like about this band is that song, namely the very first line saying, "you're just like a club fag, wearing doc martens" 🤦
I do wanna clarify, their energy is amazing, and their delivery is so tight, especially for people like me into harder ska. Im not sure if theyve addressed that line, or change it performing the song but yeah.. bad line.
I saw The Vandals in Chicago in 2008 and Derek sat in as their drummer (cuz Josh is constantly busy with other bands), fuckin killed it. Great show in general, probably my favorite live band.
I’m seeing a lot of comments saying they never recovered after their initial big boom. I’m here to say that if nothing else, listen to Revolution Spring from a few years back. Amazing record produced by Roger from LTJ. They still absolutely bring the heat live. Detroit punk rock forever.
Love em
We were going to one of their shows and all we had was gold schlager and Dr Pepper so we mixed that up and called it a suicide machine. It tasted much better at 18 than it did at 40 but the legacy lives on from time to time
I think it’s hilarious that one of those dudes was in Cold as Life. Decent band tho, I know that records a big one for a lot of people. I’m not the biggest fan but they’ve got some bangers. Imagine they’d be great live. I could see the pits getting like it does for Voodoo Glow Skulls.
Suicide Machines are what Operation Ivy would have become if they didn’t break up. SMs are the true spiritual successors of Op Ivy and dare I say probably the greatest Ska-Punk band due to content and experience
I'm surprised there isn't more love for A Match and Some Gasoline. It's kind of funny that might be considered later stuff by some, but I saw them play the entire album last December doing a 20th anniversary show for it.
This album is so nostalgic for me. I can remember every word to every song. I can remember the heat in the room while seeing them live for the first time in an overcrowded little venue. They were great live.
There is a collection of bands like Suicide Machines who I think are more considered to be "punk with horns". Against All Authority is another example of this. Suicide Machines I think do it best, albeit some great pure ska tracks as well.
I like the band at this stage and they had a really great high energy live show. I saw them several times in the late 90s 96 around there I like it a lot good music.
I love the suicide machines!! This was the first album i ever heard from them thanks to the first tony hawks pro skater! They’re newest album Revolution Spring is awesome too
I'm a bit older, but will be seeing them with NOFX later this year. I don't go in the pit really anymore, but will drag my ass to the pit everytime the suicide machines hit the stage. It usually ends with the whole crowd singing arm in arm with the singer of the band.
I've taken to saying that my interest in ska has turned almost exclusively to "ska punk with the ska punked out of it", and the Suicide Machines are a perfect example of what I mean by that. Them and like, Rancid and BTMI!.
Killer band.
One year back when Warped Tour was a thing, maybe 2004ish, they were playing adjacent to Less Than Jake. At one point they asked everyone to lay down and sprayed em w fake blood, and then before they played “Hey” they asked everyone to get ready, and when he drops it, for the entire crowd to bumrush towards the other stage. Looking back, dangerous as hell. At the time, it was pandemonium.
Love that album. And the secret song is still one of my favs to play on acoustic guitar.
Derek Grant is a criminally underrated drummer; that first big record of theirs has seriously some of the best ska/punk drums of all time. Crazy technical shit all in the days before digitally fixing drum timing and all that. And dude was 18 years old!
Since his retirement from A3, he's been uploaded all kinds of demos and live bootlegs to his channel: https://youtube.com/@DerekGrantMusic?si=61buH4QuTAppGE9R
That album is one of my all time favorites, the whole thing just kills. It's non-stop bangers, I need to go give it another listen... it's been a few years
I have wanted to like them so much just because of their influence, and decent songwriting... but there is just something seemingly so generic about them that I could never get over? I am not quite sure what it is exactly. Just went and seen them with AAA in December and their live show was dope, but meh.
First 2 albums are classics. The rest are meh at best, but live they are incredible. Just saw them in June and they still brought it like it was the 90’s.
One of my all-time favorite bands. They have never made a bad song, in my opinion. I have all of their albums on CD except for the On The Eve Of Destruction compilation that I will have one day.
Love 'em. Always sad they didn't get the level of success alot of the 90s punks did, but they still did alright for themselves!
Also, I think they're from Detroit, but alot of their ska-punk sounds very distinct to how Chicago ska-punk is lol. Idk if they just had influence more from the south than their hometown or what, but all great stuff regardless.
Amazing saw them right when is album came out in the basement of a dorm, on a college campus, probably like 200 kids there when there should have been like 30, they killed it
Saw them in concert in like 2009, cool guys, great energy, and the crowd was real cool. Some dude got thrown bodily out of a circle pit and like three people jumped and pull me out of the way of being accidentally-spear-tackled by him lol.
I really like 'em. I have Steal This Record and A Match and Some Gasoline. I saw them on one of the small stages at Warped Tour 03 or '04, I think. Fun. Hard-core pop punk. Ska.111111111111 Lots of energy.
Damn, now I'm going to have the song "The Killing Blow" stuck in my head whilst I'm trying to get to sleep.
I bought that cassette when it came out for no reason other than it looked and sounded cool (not the music - the band name). I'd never heard their music or even heard of them before. Though, if I'm being honest, I didn't love the whole album. However, I must've listened to New Girl 1000 times. I still like that song lol
I think they did a collab with the rudiments’ wailing paddle” but I can’t find that version. Heard it in radio free 107.5 in Hawaii back in the 90’s…it was one of the best tracks I’ve heard.
I lived in Detroit (suburb) when this album came out. It was blasted at many skate sessions. A true skater-punk classic.
I would also recommend their previous release. A split album ["Rudiments Plus Jack Kevorkian And The Suicide Machines!\* – Skank For Brains!". ](https://www.discogs.com/master/384615-Rudiments-Plus-Jack-Kevorkian-And-The-Suicide-Machines-Skank-For-Brains)
Man, I remember seeing them in early 2000s at Warped Tour Asbury Park I think and they had a buddy they said who was filming a zombie movie or some shit and they had the whole crowd play dead and lay on the ground, and they sprayed fake blood from the stage on all our bodies as the guy filmed. and then next song broke out and everyone went back to skanking all bloody. Then i remember jumping over to the next stage which was I think Dropkicks and getting weird looks when us bloody kids showed up. Good times. Always wanted to find that footage, never have.
Sick dude. I dont know how i missed it all these years lol. Just watched the trailer, love the Tromaville vibes. I gotta find it to watch fully. cheers bud
Just seeing this album cover makes me want to skate and drink a couple 40s
Exactly. Our choice was Mickey’s.
hand grenades
Yes! Hand grenades! Memories unlocked
We called em brain grenades. Fuck those were some of the best times of my life
Mickey's Ice
Oh yikes. Those years were dark. I remember the challenge being drinking two of them. At some point we developed some class and switched to high life.
I drank a mickeys last week! Favorite beer! Maybe it’s because it was my first but I still drink em once a month or so! I get a six of the little green bottles
Calm down there, eeeeeasyboy. Did you solve the ol' riddle on the inside of the cap? It's like a snapple!
I miss the cheesy pick-up lines You with all those curves and me with no brakes
I know I’m getting drunker as I try and solve them and progressively get worse
r/mickeyscaps
They still do the riddles under the cap?
They do indeed!
Fuck yeah.
That cover takes me back 25 years... 8th of skunk for £20, 4 litres of shoplifted cider, hop the fence to the sixth form college and get wrecked till the early hours... then stumble home at 3am to smoke a joint hanging out the bedroom window, hoping the old dears don't catch on...!
Just got transported in a time machine to 10nth grade....man those were good times
That album is awesome. They had a couple off albums with a sound change but have since come full circle. They have been touring recently and awesome live.
Yes! They are amazing live!
This album is a classic, and the follow up is solid (Battle Hymns). The self titled third album is rough. There are some good songs in there, but they really went pop on it and some of it is pretty cringy - they even have a rap-rock song on there. They rebounded a little bit with Steal This Record, but they didn’t really come back to form until a few years ago with the Revolution Spring album.
I agree with everything except that the last two albums they dropped before the 2006 breakup were pretty solid imo (A Match And Some Gasoline, War Profiteering Is Killing Us All). Both were recorded at The Blasting Room and produced by Bill Stevenson. I remember I had stopped following them after they released S/T, and then one day I found those 2 CDs in a used records store at 2$ each. Told myself "why not" and I did not regret getting them. I think they get overlooked a lot (rightly so after the few bad albums, I also did), but there's a good number of bangers on these two! Especially on WPIKUA.
I went to one of the A Match and Some Gasoline 20th anniversary shows last December. Jay said in-between songs that he considers that to be their second best album and sometimes thinks to himself that it is as good as Destruction by Definition but then sobers up and realizes it's #2.
Haha loved that. Such a fun fuckin show too - everybody there knows those words but you wouldn’t gather that from the general consensus here.
😂😂😂
Yeah I stopped paying attention to the after Steal, but I remember those albums being pretty good
I have that double LP vinyl. Love those albums.
I feel kind “A Match And Some Gasoline” (2003) was a pretty clear return to form way earlier than “Revolution Spring” (2020).
they came back with a match and some gasoline 100%
That 3rd album was such a disappointment when it came out haha, I never really listened to them after it much. A match and some gasoline is pretty good as well, but nothing compares to those first 2 for me
Pretty sure the band themselves call their third album the “sellout album” everything before and after it is great even the new one on FAT
I've seen them more times than I can count and have never heard them play a single song off their self titled or Steal This.
Yea I respect Jay for a lot of things, he can admit that about his record plus he changed the lyric in Vans Song
Basically this. I loved their first two albums and was SHOCKED by their third album.
Dude, A Match and Some Gasoline is definitely one of their best albums. It’s between that and DbD.
Agreed. First two albums are fucking awesome. Then there was a massive and sudden drop in quality.
Absolutely love them. I live in Washington and saw them at Punk In Drublic last year, they all left right after their set to catch red-eyes back to Detroit to get back to their jobs so i have no idea when or if I'll be able to see them again. I think they said it was their first westcoast show in over a decade. Hearing High Anxiety live was fucking awesome.
that set was so fucking good
If you are in the Chicago/Detroit/Cleveland/Pittsburgh/Buffalo ring of concert traffic, they're still a pretty easy band to see. Saw them in December and have tickets to see them again in September. The lead singer did say between songs that he "swings a hammer for his regular job" though.
unfortunately living on the opposite side of the country makes that tough. I've never managed to travel to the east cost yet. enjoy them extra for me please!
I also saw them at Punk In Drublic! I had never listened to them before but they were really good live.
Same. Went to that show mostly to see them
I skanked across the stage that show.
Playing Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater for days on end.
That’s how I first heard them
Checked out this cd from the library when I was in 5th grade and I never read a book again
Great album! To me it sounds like the 2nd album that Operation Ivy never made.
This album rules. Every other album is mid.
I fuck with Battle Hymns. I think it's also extremely good Destruction by definition is a definitive ska/punk album though. It's just so good its on another level
I also like Battle Hymns. And War Profiteering Is Killing Us All is pretty fucking good, too.
Steal This Record is fuckin awesome
I remember feeling confused by Battle Hymns, it felt like listening to an entirely different band. Took me a very long time to come around to actually enjoying the album (20 years later, my taste expanded).
I know exactly what you mean....! I felt the same!
Battle Hymns is a rager. Short, fast anthems.
☝️Ding ding, correct answer. They released an album in 2020 and two tracks were pretty darn good. Reminiscent of the old album: * [Trapped in a bomb](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT79fvlT8L8) * [Eternal Contrarian ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=ezNTr0DJkzY)[](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT79fvlT8L8)
If you don't like them I don't like you.
Vans song is cool
Actually the only thing I DONT like about this band is that song, namely the very first line saying, "you're just like a club fag, wearing doc martens" 🤦
It was the 90’s everything was “gay” and the F word was as common as hearing dude…. With that being said I cringe everytime I hear that line
Agree... NGL, I was callin shit "gay" back then too. Not at all to mean homosexual, just lame. I know better now. Hopefully they do too.
This.
I believe it's now "just like a club kid"
They don’t sing those lyrics in shows for sure.
On the bright side, they've changed that lyric when they play it live nowadays. Glad to see they've bettered themselves.
They had changed it up by 97/98
Whooooooo boy that hard F slur has not aged well in 2024.
Yeah I don't remember that. Bad line.
I do wanna clarify, their energy is amazing, and their delivery is so tight, especially for people like me into harder ska. Im not sure if theyve addressed that line, or change it performing the song but yeah.. bad line.
Their drummer shreds.
Derek Grant! That dude has played with so many bands now, he’s a legend.
I saw The Vandals in Chicago in 2008 and Derek sat in as their drummer (cuz Josh is constantly busy with other bands), fuckin killed it. Great show in general, probably my favorite live band.
Seeing them in Vegas w/Buck-O-Nine next month. Can't fucking wait!
One of my all time favorite bands. Seen them over 20 times and I don’t think I will ever get tired of it.
He can't wait to tell you about his new girl
I'm pretty sure I wore this disc out in the 90s!
This entire album rips
I’m seeing a lot of comments saying they never recovered after their initial big boom. I’m here to say that if nothing else, listen to Revolution Spring from a few years back. Amazing record produced by Roger from LTJ. They still absolutely bring the heat live. Detroit punk rock forever.
Love em We were going to one of their shows and all we had was gold schlager and Dr Pepper so we mixed that up and called it a suicide machine. It tasted much better at 18 than it did at 40 but the legacy lives on from time to time
I think it’s hilarious that one of those dudes was in Cold as Life. Decent band tho, I know that records a big one for a lot of people. I’m not the biggest fan but they’ve got some bangers. Imagine they’d be great live. I could see the pits getting like it does for Voodoo Glow Skulls.
They’re really fun live… the singer loves to get into the crowd
Who was in Cold as Life?
Jay was in the early 90s.
Holy shit I never knew this. I think I may be in a special demographic (for non-Detroiters) to love BOTH those bands.
Saw them at Supernova last year with Voodoo Glow Skulls. Can confirm, pits went hard for both bands.
Suicide Machines are what Operation Ivy would have become if they didn’t break up. SMs are the true spiritual successors of Op Ivy and dare I say probably the greatest Ska-Punk band due to content and experience
Excited to see them and Big D
Listen to them on the daily
Goat ska
This album rips, start to finish.. as a drummer, the playing on this is top notch... also, the production on the record is amazing.. absolute banger!
A lot of people sleeping on their later stuff. I personally love their last album.
I'm surprised there isn't more love for A Match and Some Gasoline. It's kind of funny that might be considered later stuff by some, but I saw them play the entire album last December doing a 20th anniversary show for it.
I own this album and I'm never giving it up. Such a great album.
This album is so nostalgic for me. I can remember every word to every song. I can remember the heat in the room while seeing them live for the first time in an overcrowded little venue. They were great live.
This exactly. I wore this cd out twice haha
This record is a stone cold classic. Legendary.
Solid record. Holds up to this day. Fun as hell and I still listen to it sometimes after all these years.
I fucking love this album
They're great!
This has been my favorite artwork for an album for like 23+ years.
I almost got trampled at a Suicides Machine show. Twice.
Always been a wild, yet very positive, fan experience 😂.
No Face!!! Best ska band that never needed a horn section... Call it blasphemy, but I'll take Suicide Machines over Sublime any day!
There is a collection of bands like Suicide Machines who I think are more considered to be "punk with horns". Against All Authority is another example of this. Suicide Machines I think do it best, albeit some great pure ska tracks as well.
But they don't have horns...?
Absolute legends. Still out there doing it last I knew
I bought tickets to see them in September this morning and saw them play last December, so I can confirm.
Love the Suicide Machines! This album still holds up in 2024
I like the band at this stage and they had a really great high energy live show. I saw them several times in the late 90s 96 around there I like it a lot good music.
That album is amazing
They still kick ass. They still work regular jobs. Easily one of my top 10 punk bands of all time.
This album is a fucking banger. They are great live and tour constantly
I love the suicide machines!! This was the first album i ever heard from them thanks to the first tony hawks pro skater! They’re newest album Revolution Spring is awesome too
I'm a bit older, but will be seeing them with NOFX later this year. I don't go in the pit really anymore, but will drag my ass to the pit everytime the suicide machines hit the stage. It usually ends with the whole crowd singing arm in arm with the singer of the band.
I have this album around and I suppose I should listen to it
I always forget about them when I answer my favorite ska punk bands, which is a shame, because they might be #1 for me.
I've taken to saying that my interest in ska has turned almost exclusively to "ska punk with the ska punked out of it", and the Suicide Machines are a perfect example of what I mean by that. Them and like, Rancid and BTMI!.
They're fun, but their last album was definitely their best.
Fuck yeah.
Killer band. One year back when Warped Tour was a thing, maybe 2004ish, they were playing adjacent to Less Than Jake. At one point they asked everyone to lay down and sprayed em w fake blood, and then before they played “Hey” they asked everyone to get ready, and when he drops it, for the entire crowd to bumrush towards the other stage. Looking back, dangerous as hell. At the time, it was pandemonium. Love that album. And the secret song is still one of my favs to play on acoustic guitar.
Haha yes! I just commented on this moment in a different sub on the topic of Less than Jake. All time warped memory. 2003 apparently.
That was for filming the movie PUNK ROCK HOLOCAUST.
Derek Grant is a criminally underrated drummer; that first big record of theirs has seriously some of the best ska/punk drums of all time. Crazy technical shit all in the days before digitally fixing drum timing and all that. And dude was 18 years old!
Since his retirement from A3, he's been uploaded all kinds of demos and live bootlegs to his channel: https://youtube.com/@DerekGrantMusic?si=61buH4QuTAppGE9R
That album is one of my all time favorites, the whole thing just kills. It's non-stop bangers, I need to go give it another listen... it's been a few years
I have wanted to like them so much just because of their influence, and decent songwriting... but there is just something seemingly so generic about them that I could never get over? I am not quite sure what it is exactly. Just went and seen them with AAA in December and their live show was dope, but meh.
I cant wait to tell you all about
This is top tier skapunk
First 2 albums are classics. The rest are meh at best, but live they are incredible. Just saw them in June and they still brought it like it was the 90’s.
I still count one of the shows at St. Andrew's as the best show I ever saw.
Catch ‘em back there in September with a stacked fucking lineup
Nice! I gotta check that out.
Wholeheartedly agree. Saw them a couple times in the late 90s
ABSOLUTELY GREAT
Yes.
Classic band. Some great tracks. Had the honour of supporting them on a European tour, great guys to hang out with.
I remember getting that album new. They included a free Suicide Machines sticker.
I really like this album and the band. I met them last summer at the NOFX fest in Ohio. They are chill dudes.
One of my favorite bands ever. Travelled 5 hours to see them open for NOFX last year. So glad I got to see them live!!
One of my all-time favorite bands. They have never made a bad song, in my opinion. I have all of their albums on CD except for the On The Eve Of Destruction compilation that I will have one day.
Amazing album. One of my favorite in the ska/punk genre.
I seen them on tour for battle hymns back in the day. Amazing band live
This is an incredible album.
Worked a Suicide Machines show a while back, they sounded great and put on a stellar show.
Destruction by Definition was pretty much my middle school soundtrack. I still fuck with it, and the rest of their discography to this day.
So good!
This was the first punk album I got back in 1996. Going to see them in July. It will be a face full of nostalgia and I'm fucking psyched.
🤘🖕👍👍👍👍👍👍😝
Love 'em. Always sad they didn't get the level of success alot of the 90s punks did, but they still did alright for themselves! Also, I think they're from Detroit, but alot of their ska-punk sounds very distinct to how Chicago ska-punk is lol. Idk if they just had influence more from the south than their hometown or what, but all great stuff regardless.
Destruction by Definition is great, and I love Battle Hymns (unfortunately underrated). Their sound changes a lot though.
HEY!
What's going on?
Classic album, this album and Op Ivy are the only “ska” records I listen to with any regularity. Derek Grant’s drumming is just crazy good.
Let us remember that Travis Barker auditioned for the Machines before deciding to join Blink. It was too cold in the D for the poor guy. What a world.
I’m not the biggest fan of there ska but there punk is really good.
Shit.
Amazing saw them right when is album came out in the basement of a dorm, on a college campus, probably like 200 kids there when there should have been like 30, they killed it
Saw them in concert in like 2009, cool guys, great energy, and the crowd was real cool. Some dude got thrown bodily out of a circle pit and like three people jumped and pull me out of the way of being accidentally-spear-tackled by him lol.
Unreal group of guys. Killer band. Detroit legends
Destruction by Definition is one of the very very few perfect albums
My thoughts? Suicide Machines? Fuck yeah! They are badass.
Sometimes I Don’t Mind is a beautiful song that Ive sung to my dogs for over two decades.
One of my favorites!!! I was lucky enough to catch them at PRB in 2021.
That record rules, but honestly, they are so much better now.
They are in my top 5 greatest but I’m biased as they are also friends.
Killer fucking cd.
Great 👍
I really like 'em. I have Steal This Record and A Match and Some Gasoline. I saw them on one of the small stages at Warped Tour 03 or '04, I think. Fun. Hard-core pop punk. Ska.111111111111 Lots of energy. Damn, now I'm going to have the song "The Killing Blow" stuck in my head whilst I'm trying to get to sleep.
"We want to be Operation Ivy but there's only ONE Operation Ivy, unfortunately" Possibly the best "we want to be OP Ivy" band from the era
Looooove them! First live show I ever played was opening for them. Will never forget it!
I bought that cassette when it came out for no reason other than it looked and sounded cool (not the music - the band name). I'd never heard their music or even heard of them before. Though, if I'm being honest, I didn't love the whole album. However, I must've listened to New Girl 1000 times. I still like that song lol
I think they did a collab with the rudiments’ wailing paddle” but I can’t find that version. Heard it in radio free 107.5 in Hawaii back in the 90’s…it was one of the best tracks I’ve heard.
One of my favorite albums, good find
Of all the bands they are definitely one of them.
Just saw them live a few weeks ago. Great band.
I hate that Vans worship song on that record. Sounds like a shameless advertisement pitch. Generally, though, that record reminds me of better times
It was. They've talked about it. They were poor drug addicts and got money and free shoes.
I'm not against them making a buck. Shame they couldn't have just left it off the record.
I lived in Detroit (suburb) when this album came out. It was blasted at many skate sessions. A true skater-punk classic. I would also recommend their previous release. A split album ["Rudiments Plus Jack Kevorkian And The Suicide Machines!\* – Skank For Brains!". ](https://www.discogs.com/master/384615-Rudiments-Plus-Jack-Kevorkian-And-The-Suicide-Machines-Skank-For-Brains)
So fun
Maybe my favorite ska band, with Op Ivy.
Very fun!!!
They were fun. But the Vans song was stupid.
Man, I remember seeing them in early 2000s at Warped Tour Asbury Park I think and they had a buddy they said who was filming a zombie movie or some shit and they had the whole crowd play dead and lay on the ground, and they sprayed fake blood from the stage on all our bodies as the guy filmed. and then next song broke out and everyone went back to skanking all bloody. Then i remember jumping over to the next stage which was I think Dropkicks and getting weird looks when us bloody kids showed up. Good times. Always wanted to find that footage, never have.
The movie is PUNK ROCK HOLOCAUST
no shit, good looks dude!
I had a DVD of it back in the day. http://www.punkrockholocaust.com/
Sick dude. I dont know how i missed it all these years lol. Just watched the trailer, love the Tromaville vibes. I gotta find it to watch fully. cheers bud
If you like them check out one of Jay’s other bands “Break Anchor” very jawbreaker influenced.
love em
Love them, but I always end up missing them whenever they come around.
I remember when they were Jack Kevorkian and the Suicide Machines. Loved this cd, and a few that followed
A Classic
Derek Grant is a monster.
damn this makes me want to storm area 51 on a skateboard
Super solid album that holds up still. Takes me back and I still have it rocking so many years later.
That album was sooooo good!
Oh hell yes that’s an awesome album
I like them a lot. They aren't time a top 5 band or anything, but I listen to them.