Redd Kross - S/T. 2LP
In 1979, two school-kids all hopped-up on punk-rock started their own group in their hometown of Hawthorne, Los Angeles and soon found themselves opening shows for notorious scene pioneers Black Flag.
Jeff McDonald was fifteen, his brother Steven McDonald only eleven. But that didn’t stop their group from becoming one of the most remarkable, enduring and unique outfits punk-rock ever belched up. 2024, then, marks Redd Kross’s forty-fifth birthday? An important anniversary for any group whose heart pulses at 45RPM?
This latest Self-Titled effort is an eponymous double-album, no less, packed with eighteen of their sharpest, most addictive songs yet. These years of joyful service to rock’n’roll have seen Redd Kross evolve into a killer pop-rock collective, dealing in Day-Glo power-chords, choruses as tall as skyscrapers and a lyric sheet thick with acid couplets and arch pop-cultural references.
This group is absolutely one of our store-favourites.
Track Listing
SIDE 1
Candy Coloured Catastrophe
Stunt Queen
The Main Attraction
Cancion Enojada
Good Times Propaganda Band
SIDE 2
What's in It for You?
I'll Take Your Word for It
Terrible Band
Stuff
Back of the Cave
SIDE 3
Too Good to Be True
Way Too Happy
Simple Magic
The Witches' Stand
SIDE 4
Lay Down and Die
The Shaman's Disappearing Robe
Emanuelle Insane
Born Innocent
