Play your whinny tunes and be proud of your wimpiness. Quit it with the moronic song titles. It’s not clever. it’s pretentious: Anyone can come up with them.
Stuff here steps outta the confines of fill-in-the-blanks punk, Oi!, and ska. Most kick in three songs, so you actually get a feel for what they’re about.
Whether an icon in the straight-edge movement, the tough-guy movement, or the street-thug subgenre of hardcore, Slapshot is revered as one of the best.
I’d say the Heartdrops were giving the Dragons a shout-out on their closing number, “Come on Strong,” but then I realized that the producer was Dean Rispler.
Like a punk Atari Teenage Riot at times, or what Red Aunts, Bratmobile, and all that noisy grrl punk stuff might’ve been if I hadn’t hated most of it so much.