Adolescents - "Adolescents"

I love this first Adolescents record! Young, snotty, pissed, bratty, aggressive, and full of teenage angst! I mean, what's not to like? It's so Orange County/Los Angeles in the early 1980's that there's no way this record could have been made anywhere else or at any other moment in time. Yet these songs still sound relevant today... "L.A. Girl" and "Creatures" are the two jams I like the most. You can't really beat lyrics like... "I'm not accepted by my peers - so what! I could care less about the queers - they're fucked!" This record is hitsville! It makes me wanna start flipping the bird way more. If you dig on this record, also pick up their "The Complete Demos 1980-1986". Oh and get this... the dude who plays guitar on this, Rikk Agnew, went on to play on Christian Death's - "Only Theatre of Pain". Now I'm gonna go down the street and stuff my face with some killer fish tacos. Southern California rules!   

(Download - "L.A. Girl")

(Download - "Creatures")

Comments

[conrad]

I have fond memories from high school of playing volleyball with cute girls while listening to "Amoeba" on a boom box. Ahh, O.C. punk!

[Ryan Mc]

Growing up in OC this was our soundtrack to skating around fucking shit up. Although I was realy hoping you would post the song "No Friends", the song "LA Girl" is good enough. This record never gets old and is still better than any hardcore punk record that has come out of OC. Well Zack De La Roacha's "Inside Out" was pretty badass.

[mike sims]

bands dont use the word QUEER enough!

[patrick]

sweet. a punk band again!

[cr]

kids of the black hole

[Alex]

I know this is unrelated to the post, but I was searching on amazon and came across a Stooges box set called Heavy Liquid. I was just wondering if anyone had any info if it was good or not, cuz the Fun House Sessions are out of print.

[Ryan]

tofu tacos

[.]

i went to go buy a cd yesterday. amoeba didnt have it..the lady said it was because it was on some buddyhead blog and so a bunch of kids came and bought the few that they had..because it was posted on here.... i didnt know there was a buddyhead blog..and now i do, so fuck you for making it impossible to get an album...now i have to pay shipping fees and order it off line.

[Robby Stalk]

What album was it? I didn't know that many people were reading this page...

[Llamar Vannoy]

Hey have you heard the new Adolescents CD, OC Confidential yet? Not quite the blue album, but dammit all if it don't rock my socks off!

[happy houser]

grrrrrrrrrrreat again. Amoeba was a teenage hit here too.

But...you guys surprise me!!! no one in this one shows off about drugs that he never took, or didn't knew how to?. i'll check back later.

[Ellise]

Yes, this is awesome and how about posting some Christian Death songs now that you mention them, Yey

[Michael]

Does anyone remember that horrid band (Maybe they still are a band) called Manic Hispanic who covered "Amoeba" (it was called "Amigos" if i'm not mistaken).

This band brings back old memories of surfing and watching ...Lost videos.

[Harold Faultymeyer]

Ummm...the cover or redo was called "Amigos," Manic Hispanic are still together (they just had a new CD come out called Grupo Sexo) and their shtick is taking classic punk songs and putting a "vato" spin on them...

The punch line here is Steve Soto, original member of The Adolescents and playing in the current Adolescents line up, is a member of Manic Hispanic...
(insert suspenseful music stab here...)