Mean Jeans - Are You Serious?
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The RamonesThe Nobodys
The Spits
Release Date
12/09/2009
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Dirtnap RecordsTracklist
1. Born on a Saturday Night2. Steve Don’t Party No More
3. Rats Roaches and Jeans
4. Party Animal
5. No Brainer
6. Outta Smokes
7. Case Race
8. Slime Time
9. Total Creep
10. Throwin Stones
11. Space Trash
12. 2 Much Cocaine
13. Let’s Pogo B4 U Gogo
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For the longest time lazy journalists and music fans alike had it easy when they wanted to describe pop punk bands like Screeching Weasel, The Lillingtons, or The Riverdales. All they had to do what was fill in the blanks. The _____ sound like The Ramones but with a bit of _____ mixed in. _____ ______ combine the _____ of The Ramones with the ____ of _______. Simple as pie. With Portland, Oregon’s Mean Jeans it just got easier. Mean Jeans sound like The Ramones... a lot like The Ramones. Drummer Jeans Wilder hammers away with the speedy precision of Tommy and Marky. Billy Jeans plays those same three chords, just like Johnny, and howls away with romantic abandonment just like Joey. Howdie Doodat, on bass, has one of the best punk rock nick-names since Pat Smear’s days in The Germs.
On their Dirtnap debut Are You Serious? the boys use this all to their advantage putting out a fresh, fun, f---ing awesome punk rock record. Brash, bratty vocals, silly lyrics, songs clocking in under a minute, power chords, references to pizza, partys, and rock and roll... it's all here, and it hasn't been done this well since The Ramones. Highlights include opening stunner “Born on a Saturday Night”, the anthemic “Steve Don’t Party No More” and the really-actually-could’ve-been-a-Ramones-song “Throwin Stones.” The album’s only one real miss is a 30 second departure in the middle of “Total Creep” that could only be compared to punk rock blue balls.
The album fishes up with another tribute to The Ramones in “Let’s Pogo B4 U Gogo” which you can sing along to before you’ve even heard it. Then comes the only problem with any truly great punk rock record: It’s over way too soon.
--Scott Barrett
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Minnesota
Well, I'm happy you liked this album... but I thought it was garbage. Why listen to a Ramones wannabe band when you could just as easily go listen to the Ramones?
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Brooklyn, NY
9/10 times ripping off one of my favorite bands would mean immediate disapproval, but this record is too damn fun to ignore. plus most of The Ramones are dead, and somebody needs to carry on their legacy that's not just doing it to sell books or CBGB t-shirts.
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