Sunday, April 7, 2019

Trauma School Dropouts - Beach Party Dragstrip (1995)


Listened to this one obsessively for a long time, the first Trauma School Dropouts full length was the intersection of drive-in movies and punk culture in one neat package. Catchy riffs, great singalongs, and memorable lyrics throughout this album really hit the spot as a young punk just learning about the local scene and I still look fondly upon this and listen to it enthusiastically from time to time.


Trauma School Dropouts were preceded by Plaid who had a similar sound, though a little less nose-in-the-air punk than a grungier song structure, and evolved into Nogoodnix which was more Irish pub punk kinda stuff. Vocalist Duane Beer is in the horror punk band Blase Debris now, and I'm unsure what everyone else is up to really. TSD had some good compilation tracks too and a pretty solid follow up album, but this one stands the test of time for me.

Tracklist:
  1. Psycho Babble Intro
  2. Late Nite Television
  3. Love Still Kills
  4. Typical Drugs
  5. Exploding Boy
  6. Mailorder Bride
  7. Teenage Abduction
  8. Miss Liberty
  9. Creepshow
  10. My Kinda Girl
  11. Bikini Beach
  12. Violent Years
  13. Material Girl
  14. Loser Friendly
  15. Goin' Black
  16. Dick-N-Hand
  17. Test Tube Revolution
  18. Trauma School

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