Angry Samoans: The Unboxed Set
1995
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Triple X Records
Onetime rock critic Mike Saunders, whose claim to posterity (and the explanation for his nom de rock) is having coined the phrase “heavy metal,” spent the entire ’80s playing in LA’s rude, stupid and rarely funny punk joke Angry Samoans. Amazingly but efficiently, The Unboxed Set.
Format I Own it on: Compact Disc
Track Listing: 1. Right Side of My Mind 2. Gimme Sopor 3.Hot Cars 4. Inside My Brain 5. You Stupid Asshole 6. Get Off the Air 7. My Old Man's a Fatso 8. Carson Girls 9. I'm a Pig 10. Too Animalistic (live) 11. Right Side of My Mind (Live) 12. Gas Chamber 13. The Todd Killings 14. Lights Out 15. My Old Man's a Fatso 16. Time Has Come Today 17. They Saved Hitler's Cock 18.Homo-Sexual 19. Steak Knife 20. Haizman's Brain Is Calling 21. Tuna Taco 22. Coffin Case 23. You Stupid Jerk 24. Ballad of Jerry Curlan 25. Not of This Earth 26. Different World 27. Electrocution 28. It's Raining Today 29. Unhinged 30. Psych-Out 129 31. Somebody to Love 32. I Lost (My Mind) 33. Wild Hog Rhyde 34. Laughing at Me 35. STP Not LSD 36. Staring at the Sun 37. Death of Beewak 38. Egyptomania 39. Attack of the Mushroom People 40. Feet on the Ground 41. Garbage Pit 42. (I'll Drink to This) Love Song 43. Lost Highway
Holy hell, this is a good thing...Clocking in at 75 minutes and featuring the band's entire discography up this point...
I first heard of these guys via an advertisement in some Heavy Metal magazine. I think Triple X records was reissuing their albums on CD at the time and I was immediately fascinated by the various album covers (particularly 'Back to Samoa') in the ad. For the longest time I could never track down the albums, but eventually I got to hear the Samoans and somehow it was everything I expected it to be...Fast, antisocial, and Metal Mike sounded like a reedy, true-to-life asshole (I mean that in the best way possible)...
The band's sound changed a lot over the course of their first four releases, so it's probably easiest if I handle this album by album...ahem....Here goes...
Inside My Brain
1980
Wow, what an album cover! Is that for real? Ouch!
Originally this was a nine-minute, six-song mini-album, but the version included here is the expanded 11-song version that was released in the 80's, filled out with a couple live tracks and three demos that hold their own against the band's best material.
This album kind of reminds me of a hardcore version of The Dictators for some odd reason...Maybe it's the politically-incorrect irreverence, the snotty, artless vocals or maybe just the title 'Carson Girls'? Actually, now that I think about it, I think the resemblance goes beyond the song title...'Carson Girls' really is a dead-ringer for the Dictators....Who knows...Bottom line it hits the same sweet spot for me....You kind of get the feeling they didn't know what they had...With this much attitude and with such shocking imagery (cover and lyrics) the song's didn't really need to be this catchy...To be honest, a lot of time with hardcore albums, it takes me a few listens for the songs to sink in, but I could have sang this right back to you after the first listen...Although, it's more proto-hardcore now that I think of it...This doesn't really have the muscle-headed aggression that later became synonymous with the genre.
Defining moment: 'Get Off the Air' where they mercilessly heap verbal abuse on beloved KROQ DJ Rodney Bingenheimer...
Here's 'Carson Girls' by the Angry Samoans...Enjoy...
Back From Samoa
1982
...and it turns out all that speedy, smart-ass punk on 'Inside My Brain' was just a warm-up for 'Back From Samoa,' which is hands-down, one of the fastest, funniest, middle fingers to the world ever recorded...Easily the band's best record...
You can tell it's a whole different ballgame as soon as 'Gas Chamber' kicks off...More frantic, pissed-off and claustrophobic as Metal Mike desperately yelps, 'I'm in my room all the time, I'm trapped inside this fucking mind!' Teen-angst so painfully realized and vivid it's hard to believe songs like this and 'My Old Man's a Fatso' were coming from a guy pushing 30...
Defining moment: It's hard to choose between'Ballad of Jerry Curlan,' which is a thought-provoking character study of an upstanding, sensitive young man who also pukes though his nose while drinking toilet-water...and that's one of his milder habits...Boy, this is a song that would have people up in arms if they knew it existed...Balls-out performance and you can practically hear the singer's tonsils shredding during the rousing coda...Bravo...
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...on the other hand, we have the enduring anthem 'Lights Out'...The call and response vocals, drop-out guitar and eye-gouging lyrics have undoubtedly stood the test of time and it's still as exciting as the day it was released (not that I heard it on the day it was released...I was probably watching Mr Rogers when this album dropped...But still, I can
Anyway, Here's 'Lights Out'...
Yesterday Started Tomorrow
1986
The band switched gears a bit on this 1986 ep...The album usually gets a bad rap, but I don't really know why...Maybe most fans of breakneck punk aren't fans of Nuggets-style garage rock? Hard to say...Since I'm a fan of both, this isn't a stretch for me...
The opening track 'Different World' is catchy pop-punk, not quite as fast and furious as 'Back From Samoa' but it would have sounded fine on 'Inside My Brain.' But suddenly 'Electrocution' comes on and it's trippy, garage-psyche in the vein of the Electric Prunes...And add some electric jug to 'It's Raining Today' and you have the 13th Floor Elevators. Hell yea, I'm all for it...The only thing that doesn't do it for me is their dull cover of Jefferson Airplane's 'Somebody to Love.' They were more successful at capturing that elusive 60's spirit on the originals...
But yea, I like 'Yesterday Started Tomorrow' and I enjoy it more and more each time I play it, so
nyahh!
Here's 'Different World' starring Sinbad and Dwayne Wayne...
STP Not LSD
1988
The 'Unboxed Set' ends with the original Samoans swan song, 'STP Not LSD,' which is a pastoral collection of swan's swinging...or quacking...I don't know what noise a swan makes, really...
This album continues 'Yesterday Started Tomorrow's sound, but expands upon it in odd ways...There's a hicky, almost cowpunk feel on some of the tracks ('Feet on the Ground,' the title track and 'Wild Hog Rhyde,' (which is a better song than its title suggests)).
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The real reason I love this album though, is the fact that there's a song about 'Matango' on here! That was one of my favorite movies as a kid! Once a year on Channel 5 they would have a horror movie week, where they would play random Hammer Horror films and 'Matango.' Except it wasn't called 'Matango' then...It was called 'Attack of the Mushroom People'...I tried explaining it to people for years and everybody thought I was making it up or plain old lost my mind...But this was my proof of its existence in that pre-dvd era...
I greatly enjoy the 'STP Not LSD' album, but I can see how it might not be for everyone, especially Angry Samoans fans who felt burned with 'Yesterday Started Tomorrow,' since this is probably even further removed from their early work than that ep was...60's psyche-rock fans who like it rough might want to check this out though...
Here's 'Lost Highway' by the Angry Samoans....
They sure fit a ton of great shit on this single disc...I recommend 'Unboxed Set' to any self-respecting punk enthusiast...Even if everything on here might not be your cup of tea, it's still a bottomless cup of coffee and the pysche stuff is worthwhile once you get over the shock...I feel like going out swinging, though...Here's 'Gas Chamber'...
The Unboxed Set contained one of the greatest punk rock records ever made in its entirety. That would be Angry Samoans' Back From Samoa. If the rest of the collection were made up of armpit fart sounds, it would still have been a damn fine release. Fortunately, there was lots of other good stuff too, but let's go back to the beginning...
Angry Samoans were formed in the LA area by rock writer 'Metal' Mike Saunders way back in 1978. Saunders was already a veteran musician by this point, unlike most of very young punk and hardcore upstarts of that era. The sound was a mix of garage rock and hardcore punk. The band put out three classic LP's and one excellent EP in the 80's. In 1995 Triple X did the punk world a great service by compiling all of those releases on a single compact disc. The title was a jab at the bloated, multiple CD box sets that were all the rage at the time. While vinyl snobs would still want to hunt down the individual records, The Unboxed Set was a gift for most punk fans.
The collection was arranged chronologically, so 1980's Inside My Brain was up first. This was originally released as a six song EP, but later had five songs added and was sold as an LP. It contained what was arguably the Angry Samoans' best known song, 'Get Off the Air'. That song was highly critical of, and very insulting to influential DJ Rodney on the ROQ. While it gained the band a level of infamy, it also got them banned from some of LA's most prominent clubs for a couple of years. The bonus tracks included a couple of live cuts and a demo version of 'My Old Man's a Fatso'. This was probably Angry Samoans' second best known song, and was later famously covered by The Queers.
Next up was the previously mentioned 1982 masterpiece Back From Samoa. Rarely had 14 songs in 17 minutes sounded so good. Even the cover art was classic. This was Angry Samoans at their most vicious. The songs were short, fast and venomous. 'Lights Out' was a great track about following the in-crowd, even if it meant poking your own eyes out. 'My Old Man's a Fatso' (here in its shorter, faster form), told the ageless tale of father/son conflict. 'Time Has Come Today' was an almost unrecognizable cover of The Chamber Brothers 60's hit. 'Homo-Sexual' was a song completely free of a modern sensibility or any trace of political correctness. On 'They Saved Hitler's Cock', well, the name pretty much said it all. 'Ballad of Jerry Curlan' was the epic at just over three minutes. It was pretty much an extended Tourette's attack, and was essential, like every other track.
On the 1986 EP Yesterday Started Tomorrow, Angry Samoans slowed things down a bit and took a more psychedelic approach. The songs were longer, slower and gloomier. While all of the six tracks were solid, their twisted cover of Jefferson Airplane's 'Somebody to Love' was the highlight. Last up was 1988's STP Not LSD. On this album the band returned to their garage rock roots, while still incorporating psychedelic elements. The title track would have you involuntarily singing along in no time.
'Death of Beewak', 'Egyptomania' and 'Attack of the Mushroom People' were great examples of the band at their most weird and wonderful. 'Garbage Pit' was another highlight. The album closed with the one-two punch of '(I'll Drink to This) Love Song' and 'Lost Highway'. Both songs were a subtle nod to vintage country.
Fast forward twenty years. Angry Samoans are still playing, and this compilation is a classic in its own right. It's 43 mostly excellent tracks in 75 minutes. While the band was influential, they tend to get overlooked among the first wave LA groups. If you're not familiar with Angry Samoans, you owe it to yourself to seek this out. No respectable record/CD collection is complete without a copy of The Unboxed Set.