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[Full Album] LAGWAGON | “Trashed"
Added 2024-07-01 18:36:38 +0000 UTCWhen I first heard Lagwagon's "Give It Back" recently, I was eagerly awaiting the opportunity for this episode to happen. You guys finally made it happen for Episode #6! This is the first time an album has come in second place, and then won the following month. Hell yeah!
This album is such a cool take on the "skate punk" sound I think I'm more familiar with, but kicked into overdrive with absolute genius riff-writing, harmony usage, and honestly - some of the boldest bass playing I've heard since I discovered Iron Maiden. As a bassist, Jesse Buglione not only understands the riffs, but dances around them with such a fresh-yet-unorthodox approach. This also might be one of the most beautifully-mixed fingerstyle bass tones I've heard on a rock album - which is rare. As playful as "Give It Back" was, these guys are equally masterful at serious, epic anthems and are just ridiculous musicians. Let's get Trashed!!!
TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - Intro
1:37 - “Island of Shame”
6:56 - “Lazy"
10:27 - “Know It All"
16:41 - “Stokin' the Neighbors"
23:41 - “Give It Back"
30:23 - “Rust”
37:44 - “Goin' South"
43:02 - “Dis' Chords"
52:07 - “Coffee and Cigarettes"
56:44 - “Brown Eyed Girl"
1:03:15 - “Whipping Boy"
1:07:57 - “No One"
1:11:21 - “Bye for Now"
1:15:37 - “Back One Out"
1:17:16 - Final Thoughts
Comments
Oh btw, I've got this software to scan my own album rips and it gives me the tempo and the key it is in, and usually it's right, tempo wise, as I focus more on that (I play mainly drums and some guitar), tuneXplorer says Whipping Boy is in A, make of that what you will hehe.
Floyd Hill
2025-07-26 17:19:24 +0000 UTCThe real name of the genre is melodic hardcore, at least back then it was named as such, but somehow the terms skate punk and punk revival became attached to the music that was sometimes played in some kid's court cos they also had a vert (Todd Congelliere of FYP/Toys That Kill and the guy behind Recess Records) was a pro skateboarder in the 80's and early 90's, and their sound was nothing like this, they were pure hardcore punk, until sometimes after the album mixed by Chris Hannah that got them some following (Dance My Dunce) in 94, 94 being such a magical year for so many punk bands, they then started to sound like a mix between their old self, NOFX and even heavy grunge at times until they stopped in 2000. Suicidal Tendencies is a band very much linked to skateboarding but they have one hardcore punk album, their first one, and already their lead guitarist was being so damn talented it was impossible they could continue to write simple tracks so they were one of the first crossover thrash bands (bands mixing hardcore punk and thrash metal) although they did continue to make purely punk tracks and albums (there's a song from Suicidal in THPS 1 that is from a 1998 album that is very Vandals like) and also had a gang called the Suicidals (it's what Fat Mike refers to in 13 Stitches when he says "when a Suicidal threw me into a post"). The seminal best hardcore punk band I associate to skateboarding, one of their biggest songs being Skate and Destroy is The Faction, their compilation CD "Collection 1982-1985" is as essential as Milo Goes To College to me, all their stuff was only on vinyl back then, like 7 Seconds, but unlike 7 Seconds they broke up by late 85, but they wrote about 40+ songs in those 3 years, there's stuff they wrote that isn't on that compilation but that CD has the essentials and is affordable still. When I hear Pennywise's first EP and hear "Gone", it reminds me of The Faction a lot so I can see a lineage but skate punk is a kind of an opaque term that isn't very specific that applies to bands that sound very different from say Lagwagon to AFI (1993-1997 AFI) to Satanic Surfers to 88 Fingers Louie, Suicidal Tendencies, The Faction, some NOFX from a certain era, even outright hardcore bands like Gorilla Biscuits from the cold northeast gave birth to melodic hardcore among other bands in the late 80's, which many bands took into many directions. It's very interesting how after 30 years of listening to anything from the pop punk albums from Screeching Weasel (who can play a lot of different styles, including "skate punk" to Death Metal and the heavier side of Thrash along extreme styles of hardcore punk like Powerviolence (Spazz, band made by ex No Use For A Name guitarist Chris Dodge after leaving the band after their second LP and Charles Bronson which is like early FYP on meth), you start to see that some labels we had weren't really real, there's no way I'd put Bad Religion into the same Venn Diagram as Venerea or MxPx.
Floyd Hill
2025-07-26 17:02:55 +0000 UTC
