| Jfa / We Know You Suck |
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| Album: | We Know You Suck | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Jfa | Added: | Feb 2003 | |
| Label: | Alternative Tentacles Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2003-03-17 | Pull Date: | 2003-05-19 | Charts: | Loud |
| Week Ending: | May 18 | May 11 | May 4 | Apr 27 | Apr 20 | Apr 13 | Apr 6 | Mar 30 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Oct 06, 2010: | Pee Pirates In The Playoffs, Why Did We Take All Those Laxatives Beach Blanket Bongout | 4. | Jun 07, 2006: | Brownian Motion Impromptu Hardcore Special Beach Blanket Bongout | |
| 2. | Jul 04, 2007: | Brownian Motion Middle America | 5. | May 13, 2006: | Scatterbrain Radio Beach Blanket Bongout | |
| 3. | Jun 17, 2006: | Biff Bang Pow Kick You | 6. | Aug 31, 2005: | Tucson Oh Tucson, What Did I Do To Deserve You? Beach Blanket Bongout |
| Album Review |
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| Your Imaginary Friend Reviewed 2003-03-05 | ||
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Proto skate punk- early hardcore from Phoenix (Tempe actually). Teenagers who captured the essence of being a punk with a skateboard in the grueling heat amongst suburbs, frat boys, and retirees. Jody Fosters Army had all the speed and tightness of Dischord DC bands with the power and spirit of LA hardcore. Don played a searing surfy guit more along the lines of East Bay Ray (the DKs). The drummer Bam Bam (who was about 15 I think) loved all things metal. The bass is plunky and played with precision- Michael always seemed to be the “responsible” one in the band (all punk bands needed one to survive, feed themselves). Brian had the quintessential hardcore vocal delivery (thank god for lyric sheets). It all came together with a bang. A huge draw, JFA shows were teaming with kids with Independent t-shirts and X’s on their hands. I’ll stop here before I reminisce more than the folks in the liner notes. However, I cant resist scoring mucho punk rock cred points here: my old band (a lablemate of JFAs) makes the flyer on the very back, right below “meat puppets”. 1) upbeat 2) theme song 3) brief song about sadistic ranchers on AZ/Mex border who would torture the undocumented hired help 4) super brief 5) fucking every AZ punker’s theme song ca ’82: “the hippies they hate us, we take their chicks, they beat us up, but theyre still the dicks. DICKS!” 6) driving hardcore 7) smoking 8) slow/fast 9) KROQ Rodney fame song, FCCs, see #28 10) cool breaks 11) FCC, slow/fast 12) surf classic, ventures 13) driving 14) another surf classic 15) fast 16) title song, FCCs 17-19) fast 20) ode to the freeway that used to end at Phoenix, just west, instrumental 21) FCCs 22) fast /breaks, FCC 23) almost captures the live effect 24) classic crowd pleaser- I got my nose cracke in the pit once to this 25) this appeared on “this is phoenix not the circle jerks”comp 26) swingy slow/fast 27) great intro 28) “hit”with FCC well buried 29) from the above comp 30) smokin’ 31) FCCs 32) cleaner Peanuts theme 33) third and last comp (above)song, this song ended that comp and it ends this | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Out of School | 17. | Too Late | |||
| 2. | Jfa | 18. | Sadistic Release | |||
| 3. | Do the Hannigan | 19. | Axed at Howard's | |||
| 4. | Count | 20. | I-10 | |||
| 5. | Beach Blanket Bongout | 21. | Guess What? | |||
| 6. | Cokes & Snickers | 22. | Bouncer | |||
| 7. | Kick You | 23. | Middle America | |||
| 8. | Great Equalizer | 24. | Lowrider | |||
| 9. | Preppy | 25. | Out of School (Live) | |||
| 10. | Little Big Man | 26. | Great Equalizer (Boomer Vers | |||
| 11. | Johnny D. | 27. | Skateboard (Live) | |||
| 12. | Walk Don't Run | 28. | Preppy (Topsider Version) | |||
| 13. | I Don't Like You | 29. | Standin' on the Verge (Live) | |||
| 14. | Baja | 30. | Teen Idol | |||
| 15. | Skateboard | 31. | Johnny D. (Live) | |||
| 16. | We Know You Suck | 32. | Charlie Brown (Schroeder Ver | |||
| 33. | Do the Hannigan (Live) | |||||