JUST GO DESTROY
(EVERYTHING IN SIGHT)
Various
Artists Dionysus ________________________________________________________
There’s a great scene in George Romero’s new zombie gutcruncher Land of
the Dead in which far-too-sexy hooker Asia Argento is tossed into a sort
of gladiator ring/geek pit to fight with a pair of hungry corpses. And
there’s music cranked over the scene, which as I recall is rap en espanol
or something, but if the world was really coming to an end, and the dead
were indeed rising from their graves to eat us alive, I believe the
soundtrack would be closer to the electrified freakpunk from Japan that’s
compiled on this CD. With the exception of Baby Mongoose’s weirdo-Devo
track “It’s Easy But It’s Impossible,” all the bands on Just Go Destroy
have the desperate-but-who-cares abandon of a man tapdancing on the nose
of an unstable A-Bomb; The Have-Nots, Coattail Rider and The Kill Times
fire off sludgy, ten-thousand-pound leather rock garage riffs on “Get
Happy,” the Devil Dogs-ish “Still Alive,” and “Let’s Get Suicide” (yeah,
that’s what it says), while No Evacuations and Ragsteen dig more metallic
veins with the cold fusion flameout “Hate of the City” and “Go Go
Express,” respectively. There are even a few nods towards Back to the
Grave-style trashpunk (Google-A’s charming mangle of The Pleasure Seekers’
“What A Way to Die,” and The Faceful’s “Take Me to the High,” which fuses
Love’s “Feathered Fish” with Guitar Wolf), junkyard funk from Das Boot on
“Dead Soul Supermarket,” straight-faced Rancid/Green Day rips by Naked
(“The Same (Show Your ID)”) and Crispy Nuts (yikes), who create a musical
bridge from Tokyo to Dublin with the boyo-singalong “Regulations.” This
genetic genre mutation may sound like a car crash at the punk rock United
Nations to some, but to me, it sounds kinda like the future, especially if
current events keep on their current beeline for doomsday. So I guess that
it’s some consolation that we do happen to survive the apocalypse, at
least we’ll have something to listen to.
There’s a great scene in George Romero’s new zombie gutcruncher Land of
the Dead in which far-too-sexy hooker Asia Argento is tossed into a sort
of gladiator ring/geek pit to fight with a pair of hungry corpses. And
there’s music cranked over the scene, which as I recall is rap en espanol
or something, but if the world was really coming to an end, and the dead
were indeed rising from their graves to eat us alive, I believe the
soundtrack would be closer to the electrified freakpunk from Japan that’s
compiled on this CD. With the exception of Baby Mongoose’s weirdo-Devo
track “It’s Easy But It’s Impossible,” all the bands on Just Go Destroy
have the desperate-but-who-cares abandon of a man tapdancing on the nose
of an unstable A-Bomb; The Have-Nots, Coattail Rider and The Kill Times
fire off sludgy, ten-thousand-pound leather rock garage riffs on “Get
Happy,” the Devil Dogs-ish “Still Alive,” and “Let’s Get Suicide” (yeah,
that’s what it says), while No Evacuations and Ragsteen dig more metallic
veins with the cold fusion flameout “Hate of the City” and “Go Go
Express,” respectively. There are even a few nods towards Back to the
Grave-style trashpunk (Google-A’s charming mangle of The Pleasure Seekers’
“What A Way to Die,” and The Faceful’s “Take Me to the High,” which fuses
Love’s “Feathered Fish” with Guitar Wolf), junkyard funk from Das Boot on
“Dead Soul Supermarket,” straight-faced Rancid/Green Day rips by Naked
(“The Same (Show Your ID)”) and Crispy Nuts (yikes), who create a musical
bridge from Tokyo to Dublin with the boyo-singalong “Regulations.” This
genetic genre mutation may sound like a car crash at the punk rock United
Nations to some, but to me, it sounds kinda like the future, especially if
current events keep on their current beeline for doomsday. So I guess that
it’s some consolation that we do happen to survive the apocalypse, at
least we’ll have something to listen to.