Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash
High-speed, beer-soaked punk from a Minneapolis basement. A chaotic collision of snotty aggression and flashes of genuine, weary heart.
August 25, 1981 · What Goes On Records
High-speed, beer-soaked punk from a Minneapolis basement. A chaotic collision of snotty aggression and flashes of genuine, weary heart.
August 25, 1981 · What Goes On Records
This is the sound of four kids in a Minneapolis basement trying to play faster than their equipment allows. It is a glorious, unrefined mess that captures the specific frustration of midwestern youth in the early eighties. While the speed suggests hardcore punk, the underlying structures reveal a band that actually cares about melody and hooks, even if they are currently burying them under a layer of distortion and cheap beer. It feels like a house party that is about to be broken up by the police, yet everyone is having too much fun to care.
How does Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash sound next to the rest of The Replacements's catalogue?
Aggressive saturates this record far more than the artist's norm.
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