Joe Queer率いるUSラモーンポップパンクバンドの1996年リリースの最高傑作5thアルバムがイタリアRadiation内新レーベルHEY SUBURBIAよりカラービニールアナログリイシュー。
GREEN DAYやOPERATION IVYも輩出したLookout! Recordsよりリリースされた大名盤5thアルバム。ラモーンズとビーチボーイズの融合を目指して制作され、タイトルトラックとなったビーチボーイズのカバー"Don't Back Down"をはじめサーフテイスト強めの全曲名曲ラモーンポップパンクの雨あられ。B5"Another Girl"からB6"Love Love Love"への流れは鳥肌ものです。プロデュースはMass Giorgini御大。
発売・販売元 提供資料(2022/11/22)
It doesn't get any better than this. On Don't Back Down the rip-roaring punk songs with no melody ("No Tit," for instance) are more than counterbalanced by the many mind-blowingly catchy songs ("Punk Rock Girls," "Number One," "Janelle, Janelle," ad nauseam). Some of the songs, dare it be said, even surpass many of Brian Wilson's perfect pop songs. Whereas the Ben Weasel-fronted group the Riverdales aspire to be nothing more than Ramones imitators, the Queers successfully use the musical vocabularies developed by the Ramones (as well as Brian Wilson and others) and take their songs to new levels. ~ Kembrew McLeod
Rovi