You already know this one, right? If you're a North American, then you've flipped by Live At Rhino Records in at least a dozen cut-out bins over the years. Maybe you snagged a copy for $3.99 in a mall somewhere when you were a teenager because you recognized the name of the band? Maybe you figured if it was that readily available then maybe that meant no one wanted it because it sucked and you bought a copy of Panorama instead (*cough cough* *that was me*). Anyway, shit jams, and it's cool to hear ANGRY SAMOANS in their infancy as an early SoCal punk band before being a "hardcore" punk band was even really a thing. VOM and RAMONES covers and a version of "My Old Man's A Fatso" that's so much rougher (and better) than the Back From Samoa version that I almost don't even want to crank that LP to check and see if I'm crazy or not. Essential jams....? Nah. But goddamn the things that might have been different if I had skipped that CARS tape when I was a junior in high school. "Gimme Some Slack" still jams, but "You Stupid Asshole" would have made a serious impact then. Still does now, but really would have then, you know?
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