4 keepers
keeper avg .285
Because my knowledge of the thrash style doesn't go far beyond a casual knowledge of the band Anthrax (of which Scott Ian and Charlie Benante were also members) and their other "Big 4" 80's thrash metal peers I can't speak intelligently about the album's significance, but essentially the songs sound like Anthrax with a different singer. True to the ad hoc nature of the collaboration no subject is taken too seriously; the humor is juvenile, vicious, painfully politically incorrect, sometimes hilarious. Every line of the immigrant-ridiculing title song**** is offensive, a thought-crime in 2018. "Pre-Menstrual Princess Blues" is delivered in a goofy shriek as an impression of a woman during that uncomfortable time; you pretty much got that from the title. Imagine taunting someone to suicide and "Kill Yourself" pretty much writes itself, or think of any friend that changed their fun-loving ways for a girl, you got "Pussy Whipped"*****. Needless to say I'm too ashamed to print the lines I think are funny, though they're so silly they're the definition of a piss-take. The band have maintained that the nothing is meant to be taken seriously. Singer Dan Lilker has stated, "The lyrics were never intended to be serious, just to piss people off," and the purpose isn't to attack anyone in particular - as with good comedy everyone's a target, well at least "fist banging maniacs," "rednecks, jocks, macho bullshit," frat guys, and spoiled rich girls. Then "United Forces" seeks to negate all the hate:
It doesn't matters how you wear your hair
It's what inside your head
United Forces stand for all strong and fair
Black, white and yellow and red
No rednecks, no jocks, no macho bullshit attitudes
United forces can't be stopped
There's no target in particular for Sargent D, ("Sargent D and the S.O.D."**** "He'll make you wish that you didn't exist, Cause Sargent "D" is coming, and you're on his list"), but the menace is clear. "Milk"*****, the hilarious 2-minute tantrum about being out of milk (I wish I had some god damn milk, My Cheerios just ain't the same), sounded better recorded a few years later by Anthrax, but here's the original.
Bonus track cover of Inferno's "Identity"**** rages loudly against some girl that's "so dumb". That's as much of the song as I'm quoting.
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