While Flibbidydibbidydob is a cool novelty item with its share of strong songs, it’s Snuff Said… whose absence makes any pop punk collection incomplete.
Fat Wreck have reissued their obscure Snuff Said… LP (including the first 7″) and an EP of cover tunes of everyone from the Who to GBH, Flibbidydibbidydob.
Playing this one slower than it should be. The grind gets heavier, the already low Satan-meets-Tom Waits-on-a-bad-day growl bottoms out in a pit of gravel.
Produced by one of the best, Waldemar Sorychta, Passage alternately chops like a deranged axeman, and flows smoothly and steadily like a glacier melting.
Cruising in the pipeline of the current surf instrumental revival. There’s no attempt at a new twist, just something to remind you how vital this music is.
One hot minute, it’s incantantory punk and Kate Pierson (or Cindy Wilson) the next, it’s string-mopped U.K. hee-hey with a sickly-sweet Pixie-sticky bassline.
Even after every ‘zine with any taste gushed over #1 Chicken, the banshee bitches didn’t let it go to their heads and, like, learn how to play or anything.