Cheap talk... CJ Ramone plus a member of OUT COLD who previously played with GG Fuckin Allin. Guest appearances by Walter Lure (HEARTBREAKERS) and Daniel Rey (producer, co writer with THE RAMONES, former member of Manitoba's Wild Kingdom aka THE DICTATORS).

Real talk... Best ex-RAMONES release to date. Anyone who heard CJ's Johnny Thunders styled snarlwhine over The Ramones' cover of MOTÖRHEAD's "R.A.M.O.N.E.S." knows the dude can handle the mic. Music wise it's a lot like the previously mentioned track but with a touch more swagger. You got the stripped down rawness of bands like THE RAMONES and MOTÖRHEAD and even a touch of the mighty DICTATORS but with summa that Thunders styled raw dawg rock n roll flair.

Just good trashy rock n roll all over this one with a good amount of snarl and bite from several surviving members of da first church of rock n fucking roll. A solid sense of when to not think too much about the words and when to think a lot about the style. Some of this will stay in your head no matter how D-U-M-B (everyone's accusin' me) some of it is. But, what the fuck!?!?!?! Do you want Foie Gras or a Big Mac? I choose the latter!

Why? Because, even as I become a dreaded thirtysomething, I will always love stupid teenaged rock n roll in all it's fine forms. Because I "remember lyin in bed with the covers pulled up over my head, radio playin so no one can see". Because intellectuals are finks and frauds. Because I still believe you can juice more out of a 4 track with your heart and soul thrown into it than you can in a bajillion track studio. Bad Chopper's previous incarnation as The Warm Jets proved that with their excellent 45 featuring a more raw version of "Diabla". So did The Electric Eels fer that matter and I doubt they even used a 4 track.

Regardless, you can keep your scales and first class production jobs. Hell, have all the ZEKE's and what have youz. I will take this scrappy affair and enjoy that my faith as a "truefan" has been restored yet again by another fine release from Acme. I hear pre orders of the vinyl version get autographed copies. Sold!

- Two Tub Tony

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