The Descendents – Milo Goes To College
7″ – The Thermals – Now We Can See, My World (On White Vinyl)
After working a 10 hour day at Bloomsday listening to Classic Rock cover bands in one area and running a booth that played the Rockey Theme Song and The Chariots of Fire theme song on repeat for all day I needed some punk rock. Milo Goes To College was my first introduction to The Descendents and one of my first introductions to Punk Rock music that wasn’t mainstream or played on the radio. That makes this album very important to me because it opened up the door to myself realizing that there is great music that will never get played on the radio. Before music was huge on the internet it was always true treasure when you found one of those albums or bands. The blueprint for almost every pop punk or emo punk album that came out after (Green Day, Blink 182). This early 1980′s release by the Descendents is bratty, catchy and till this day leaves a mark on punk rock and culture. A few years back you could not get away from the opening of “Suburban Home” thanks to a Tony Hawk video game commercial (I think every kid that saw the commercial or bought the video game wrote “I wanna be stereotyped I wanna be classified” on there Facebook or Myspace pages that year) or the reference to Kabuki Girl from the NOFX song “13 Stiches”. Bottom line this is a must listen Punk Rock album that I hope I can rock out to when I’m 70!
The 7″ I picked to listen to today is “Now We Can See” and “My World” by The Thermals. What a great band from Portland. From the opening “Oh-way-oh-a-whoa” this song is a perfect indie pop song. I spent most of last summer listening to this on my walks to work. I think when I was going through 45′s today looking for the perfect one that’s why I picked it (It’s almost summer time). I did not listen to the b-side of this 7″ as it was the demos of the same songs and I rather just listen to the finished product in this case. The 7″ is on sweet white vinyl.
The Descendents – Milo Goes To College (Track Listings)
Side 1
1. Myage
2. I Wanna Be A Bear
3. I’m Not A Loser
4. Parents
5. Tonyage
6. M 16
7. I’m Not A Punk
8. Catalina
Side 2
1. Suburban Home
2. Statue Of Liberty
3. Kabuki Girl
4. Marriage
5. Hope
6. Bikeage
7. Jean is Dead
– Matt
