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RIVER
CITY REBELS
NO GOOD, NO TIME, NO PRIDE
VICTORY
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River City Rebels’ third Victory Records release, No Good, No
Time, No Pride, takes me back to the early 90’s when ska punk
rock first emerged from the West Coast scene. That was back when I was a
kid,and telling authority figures to fuck off was a form of rebellion from
this tight ass society. When you listen to this album you can tell that
the six members of RCR have their fists in the air and boot up the ass of
bourgeois capitalism. It’s hard to believe they are from a small town
outside of Burlington, VT and met and formed when most of them were still
in high school three years ago. |
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RCR are: Dan “Bopper” O’Day (vocals/guitar), Chris Jukosky
(bass), Chris Hamm (guitar), Erik Shmidt (drums), Brandon Rainer (trombone),
and Rylan Perry (sax). River City Rebels proves that a band can still make
great punk rock music with only 3-chordes, 3 minute songs, and a horn section.
This band sounds like a combination of early Rancid (…And Out Come
the Wolves) instrumental stuff with sax and trumpet plus down in the gutter,
we’re all wastes of life type lyrics of D Generation.
No Good, No Time, No Pride is the kind of album that would smile
and trick you with its upbeatness while telling you to fucking kill yourself.
The first track, “Such A Bore”, is targeted towards all the
“khakis and crewcuts fools and tools” telling them to just “go
hang yourself.” “Rotten Brain” is an upbeat tune which
ends with Bopper screaming “forty years old you still live at home.”
Other songs take a stab at capitalism and the American way like “U.S.
Crush” and “Johnny aka”. “Pass the Basket”
teaches us that we can’t buy religion. And “No Pride”
mocks the middle class for being slaves to our society.
In true punk anti-authority/establishment do it yourself fashion, you’ll
want to make photocopies of your ass and give your local representatives
the finger after listening to this album.
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