Mommy's Little Monster by Social Distortion (CD, Jul-1995, Time Bomb Recordings)

Detailed item info

Album Features
UPC: 709304350025
Artist: Social Distortion
Format: CD
Release Year: 1995
Record Label: Time Bomb Recordings
Genre: Hard Rock, Rock & Pop

Track Listing
1. The Creeps
2. Another State of Mind
3. It Wasn't a Pretty Picture
4. Telling Them
5. Hour of Darkness
6. Mommy's Little Monster
7. Anti-Fashion
8. All the Answers
9. Moral Threat

Details
Playing Time: 27 min.
Distributor: BMG (distributor)
Recording Type: Studio
Recording Mode: Stereo
SPAR Code: n/a

Album Notes
Social Distortion: Michael Ness (vocals, electric guitar); Dennis Dannell (electric guitar); Brent Liles (bass); Derek O'Brien (drums, percussion).Additional personnel: Chazz Ramirez (organ).Producers include: Social Distortion, Chaz Ramirez, Thom Wilson.Recorded on December 24, 1982.Personnel: Mike Ness (vocals, guitar, electric guitar); Derek O'Brien (vocals, drums, percussion); Dennis Danell (guitar, electric guitar).Recording information: Casbah, Fullerton, CA (1983); Casbah; Fullerton (1983).A casual listen to this debut album by the long-running California punkers suggests a band very much of its time, but if you listen carefully you can already hear what ultimately set the group apart from the rest of the hardcore pack. Sure, leader Mike Ness tended to bark out his lyrics rather than sing them, and sure, the rest of the band had learned every move from the Ramones/Pistols/Clash playbook. But even at this stage, the group already had a sense of humor (the title song), a musical palette that went beyond punk (you can hear the early Who here at times, not to mention echoes of the bluesy side of the Stones), and a bit of honest emotion; whether this was a result of Ness's drug dependency demons or not, these songs are never generic punk rants--they're an expression of somebody's actual feelings.