Culture Is My Enemy

THE GREATEST BAND EVER. THE AMERICAN DREAM, CONCEPTUALIZED





IN STUPID 3-MINUTE-LONG ROCK SONGS.


Drunks With Guns -

"Zombie"

"Leprosy"

"Wonderful Subdivision"

"Drug Problem"

"DWI"

"Life Of Crime"
(Weirdos cover)

Giving Drugs To Little Kids

Joe Stumble used to have this one up on Last Days of Man on Earth, but it's gone now, so I figured I'd step in. Plus Joe's living in New Zealand now or somewhere far enough away where he can't punch me... even though this may or may not be a real copy of the first Drunks With Guns 7" (I think it's the bootleg version that came out a couple of years later) (*turns out it's an original), it still goes that each Drunks With Guns single that came out between '85-'89 was by itself the greatest non-hardcore 7" of that half-decade, and if that doesn't make any sense the way I wrote it then you're all a bunch of friggin' dorks... I doubt that I'll be keeping this one up for long, so grab while the grabbing's good.




Drunks With Guns -

"I Got The Gun"

I Can Move Just About Anything

"Scumbait" in this case refers to labels that would brag about low pressing numbers (like the old Noiseville ads that didn't even bother mentioning anything about the bands, merely putting "only 300 pressed!" or "800 pressed!" as a description) as bait to record collectors, something that hit a peak back in the late 80's/early 90's, just in case anyone thinks that record-flipping is something new... so what do we have here: a pretty boring sleeve, although the liner notes are alright, and while this was released in 1990, most of the tracks reek of afterthoughts and 80's leftovers... Feedtime is described in the notes as "quite possibly the greatest band in the world from 1985 until 1988, and the best Australian band since AC/DC", which is pretty much right on the money (although X weren't that bad either). The Feedtime track is okay, and probably better than "Take The Buick", the other Feedtime U.S. 7" compilation track with a similar title... the Bastards track was apparently their first ever, and sounds downright poppy alongside the likes of some of their other stuff like "Shit For Brains" and "Hole". Oddly enough, it's similar to some of Feedtime's more pensive LP tracks... unlike some people, "Drunks Theme" was never one of my favorite Drunks With Guns songs, but since it's got the great bassline and awesome snare sound that a lot of great Drunks tracks have, I'm not complaining. Keep in mind, I've still got the first Drunks 7" lined up to be ripped and posted eventually... the Venom P. Stinger track isn't all that interesting, so I left it off. You can still probably track down one of these records yourself (I mean, 1500 copies made, that's more than the last Saliva record sold) if you really need to hear it.




Bastards -

"Parade"

Drunks With Guns -

"Drunks Theme"

Feedtime -

"Plymouth Car Is a Limousine"

We Totaled Your Car

I think the cover photo on this one-- the fourth or fifth "official" Drunks With Guns single, depending upon where you look it up-- is the same photo that's on the back of the first Drunks With Guns single, which I have right over here but I'm not gonna bother getting up to check... in any case, DWG are easily one of the top five or fifteen greatest rock outfits of the past quarter century, by any normal way of thinking... non-essential tidbit: the name, Drunks With Guns, was said to signify how in America "anyone can get their hands on a gun, a car, and a six pack in 20 minutes"... fukkin'-A right... "Drug Problem" in this case means you bought a bunch of drugs that didn't work... lotsa "increased rhythmic skill" on this one-- in fact, Schooly D should've maybe sampled some DWG drum/bass lines instead, and saved himself a pile of trouble.




Drunks With Guns -

"Drug Problem"

"DWI"

"A Beer"