It loiters like a lo-fi Punk Rock version of those heavily stoopid medley records that lurked the highways and byways of the top twenty some decades ago. Such as "Hooked On Classics", "Stars On 45", with the reprehensible Jive Bunny.All of whom saw it,somehow, fit to collect all that terrible music from those 'Not Available in Shops" adverts aimed at those poor victims in their 'golden'years, and added a flaccid four to the carpeted floor Discobeat over the top of 'em. A similar thing was done by the Residents for their 'Diskomo' 12", to Disco-up the 'Eskimo album for the general public. It still managed to clear any dance-floor except for the enlightened few. A similar effect would no-doubt occur if Die Öwan's 100 songs were played to one of those 'New Wave' disco's that popped up at the end of the 70's.
No Disco Beats for Die Öwan however, just a torrent of drumbox driven classic Punk intro's and amputated song parts mashed up with a few dozen originals to create a tumult of hurried cutting room floor edits instigated by a Japanese Dee Dee Ramone delivering a heavily accented 1-2-3-4 and we're away! Beginning with the famous two note intro to The Clash's "Career Opportunities",and then we can play "Name That Tune" with the next 46 minutes,starting with a joyously incompetent version of "21st Schizoid Man", and wait.....isn't that "Smoke On The Water? Guesswork is needed, especially as the tracklist is impossible to read........but, that's how I like it.
This is certainly NOT available in Shops and its certainly NOT on K-Tel,or even Ronco, but this is the Hooked On (Punk) Classics for the Baby Boomer generation, as we are now,sadly, including myself, approaching one's Golden Years. Sadly i was a couple of months too early to be born within the Generation X bracket,sounds better dunnit? Quelle Dommage!? So one consoles myself with the joyous fact that I'm not part of these Ridiculous Gen Z fools,who missed everything because of their mental health acronyms and blame everyone else for destroying their future,whilst doing, precisely, NOTHING.
I suppose the little Twats have got a point,especially as we (Humanity) are destined to be the only civilisation in history to become extinct because it wasn't cost effective to survive.Alas,while the rocks crumble our kids seem content to point the finger slagging boomers off for not fixing it. That's new kind of Stoopid......but they (Gen Z) can still Fuck Off,like Greta Thunberg apparently has...in-between the odd-Anti-Israel Rally.
Tracklist:
A 100 Songs
B 100 Songs
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