Screeching Weasel

Kill The Musicians (Lookout!)
by Chaz Thorndike

Whichever side of the fence you’re on for the “Screeching Weasel sold out” mudslinging is your own business. Seeing as how this is THE final SW release (yeah, we’ll see) and has so much old shit you can’t find elsewhere, y’all might think seriously about getting this (or at least taping it off a punk novice you befriended for purposes just like this). Lots of B-sides, songs from comps and other stuff, all lovingly chronicled by Ben Weasel.

Yeah, so Ben Weasel has a new band, Riverdales (not The Riverdales), so why not re-release all the old Screeching Weasel shit once-and-fucking-for-all as an introduction to the new chapter of Ben’s punkness and finally write THE END to the SW saga. Kill the Musicians has 31 songs. Some of them are covers. Some aren’t. Some were written to sound like other bands, or in response to other bands. Some songs were changed so many times by the time you actually heard them, you might not even recognize the originals. These are the originals. The last few songs are live. If you want to know more, Ben tells all in the liner notes. This disc charts the whole birth-life-death of a great punk band in all its sloppy glory. Now all the come-latelies can quote the history like they did when Ramones Mania came out. Now I can stop paying collectors so much for the rare stuff, ’cause I love old SW and now I have it all. End of story.