Sull'altra recensione sostenevo che "Lars Frederiksen And The Bastards" fosse superiore a quest'album, "Viking".
Bene, riascoltandolo mi sono dovuto ricredere... Non so... Nessuno probabilmente è migliore dell'altro, ma questo è sicuramente più vario e con una produzione migliore del suo predecessore.
Dico vario perché insomma, tracce esclusivamente Reggae come "The Viking" non si trovano in "LFATB", o tracce esclusivamente Horror come "Maggots" e "Mainlining Murder", una delle loro più riuscite di sempre.
Come nel lavoro precedente, non mancano le cover, qui solo una, "For You" degli Anti-Nowhere League, le sparate Street/Hardcore come "Bastards", "Skins, Punk & Drunx", "Streetwise Professor", "Fight", "The Kids Are Quiet Under The Sharmon Palms".
Inoltre nell'album troviamo un vecchio demo dei Rancid, "Do You Want To Dance With Me", qui rinominato "Little Rude Girl", e due collaborazioni, ossia "Switchblade", composta insieme allo Skinhead Rob e la quasi ballata "My Life To Live" cantata e suonata insieme all'inseparabile amico Tim Armstrong, gia produttore dell'album precedente.
Nella versione UK di questo album è presente la bonus track "Road To Hell".
Alla prossima .!..!
Elenco tracce testi e video
02 Skins, Punx and Drunx (01:04)
I grew up with black kids, I call 'em my friends,
vietnemese and the mexicans, your parents
fuckin' hate me you know I hate them too.
I roll with teh freaks and the misfits, every colours in my crew.
I'm down with S.P.D. [x2]
So Don't You Fuck With ME!
Don't Fuck with me man!
I never knew my father, barely knew his name,
he left my mother alone, I took the blame.
Black white yellow and brown kids, mowhawks of green.
If you're claiming S.P.D., then your on my team!
I'm down with S.P.D. [x2]
So Don't You Fuck With ME!
Don't Fuck with me man!
06 Marie Marie (01:55)
Marie Marie
Playing guitar on the back porch
I sit in my car
While she sings so sad
Marie Marie
Marie Marie
It's so lonely in these farmlands
Please come with me
To the bright lights downtown
Marie Marie
I said, "Hey, pretty girl Don't you understand
I just want to be your loving man"
Marie Marie
The sun is down in the corn fields
The evening is dark
And you sing so sad
Marie Marie
Marie Marie
I got two weeks in back pay
There's gas in my car
And your folks say I must go
Marie Marie
I said, "Hey, pretty girl Don't you understand
I just want to be your loving man"
Marie Marie
Playing guitar on the back porch
I leave in my car
While you sing such a sad song
Marie Marie
07 Little Rude Girl (01:17)
[The same song as the Rancid's "Do u wanna dance with me" but a little bit shorter]
Hey you in the red dress,
I know you're not trying to impress me.
In line from a distance,
Too scared at all to ask your name.
All alone in a hot summer night,
And I regret to this day,
That I never got your name.
Do you wanna dance with me?
Do you wanna dance, rude girl?
Do you wanna dance with me?
Do you wanna dance, rude girl?
Waiting so patient.
Waiting, waiting for an invitation,
From excursion.
Tell my friends a different version.
All alone in a hot summer night,
And I regret to this day,
That I never got your name.
Do you wanna dance with me?
Do you wanna dance, rude girl?
Do you wanna dance with me?
Do you wanna dance, rude girl?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah...
My little rude girl.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah...
13 Blind Ambition (00:20)
services rendered and the fear is delivered
and the chemical weapons are concealed in another
Blind ambition, blind ambition
Blind ambition, blind ambition
run for your life its a nuclear winter
and its all lost and theres no-one there to save ya
Blind ambition, blind ambition
Blind ambition, blind ambition
15 Streetwise Professor (03:10)
Let's go!
From the raggamuffins of Kingston, Jamaica
Paris, France, New York City soul takers
Tokyo clubs thousand dollars whores
Well, I am the volsung from sea to shore
All i know rock and roll ,
One more show here I go
Yes, I can understand
Well I'm so bad
I'm one hell of a man ...
Well I don't need a lecture
I wont confess so i dont need a preacher
Hey girl, I just wanna undress ya
'Cause I am the streetwise professor..
Well I run with heatheans crooks and cons
Where the blocks are hot I got bullets for some
I play my guitar until my fingers go numb
Draped in bounty hunter well here I come..
All I know rock and roll
One more show here I go
Yes, I can understand
Well, I'm so bad
I'm one hell of a man ..
Well I don't need a lecture
I wont confess so I dont need a preacher
Hey girl I just wanna undress ya..
'Cause I am the streetwise professor.. [x2]
Alright this song is for the fucking rancid punx
The D.M.S. crew, the skunxs, the U.S. fucking thugs
Black hearts, Alleyway crew, O.B.H.C, K.O.B,
Most hated rekless con club, the wolf pack, soul assasins,
Zombie reci and the fucking crew, the transplants.....
To all the people who's givin' me love and support,
and south London, Kingston, Jamaica, Atlanta,
New York, L.A., all of Orange County, Boston,
Campell, East Bay, San Fransisco, Arlington beach,
Santa Cruz, Oakland, syco, fresno, Tokyo,
Chicago, Anisaka, the worldwide son of moterfuckers,
to all my real friends you know who the fuck you are .....
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