Chainsaw – “Polaride Pictures” 7″ (1978)
Well, here’s another fine slice of moron Punk for you, dredged from the $0.99 cent bin to my turntable to you. Actually, I was pretty stoked to find this one about a year ago, as the criminally out-of-print “We Are Not Very Nice” CD that came out back in 2001 has been one of my picks for the decade. This is another one of those bands that people would have written off as “fake” back in the day, with the lead singer and guitar player getting their start in the glitter band Christopher Milk prior to starting this project. However, like many “fake” bands from that era, the results are far more amusing in 2009 than many of their contemporaries. Were these guys trying too hard? Hell, no! They were busting their asses—but to no avail! While older guys were obviously writing these songs, the lyrics sound like they were written by a 13 year-old kid, and that works for me quite nicely, thank you very much. All songs should be this good, bitching about those annoying popular kids with perfect teeth and all. Would it be mean of me to suggest that this band may not have been the sharpest tools in the shed? Perhaps, but you can tell they were really trying their hardest to be bad-ass Punks and every one of these songs is completely hilarious and retarded. The tracks from the original 7” are below and I graciously offer you the CD for download, complete with fake “live” recordings that sound like they dubbed the applause from a baseball game at Yankee Stadium and broken glass sound effects for an audience. Another criminally underrated masterpiece that deserved more love from an audience with a sense of humor.
THE TRACKS:
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