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Babysitters on
Acid
The Lunachicks
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Quite befitting of their name, these ladies Rock hard and offer no apologies… Presumably for falling off… whatever wagon it was that they fell off to become the mischievous band of malcontents known simply as The Lunachicks. And judging by some of these lyrics… they are, in no uncertain terms, completely gone. But they can play… or at least they try like Hell even if the results are less than stellar. This was back when they first got their start, "Babysitters on Acid," first released in 1990 which is hard to believe, and features the band as a five some and doing some rather disgraceful deeds with their instruments… oh wait a minute, they're playing them! I like the opening track, "Jan Brady," which you already know is going to be some goof on everybody's favorite middle child from the '70s… and then we've got the title track which reminds me of an old school Joan Jett before fame and fortune set in, during the seedier moments but of course all around, this is a much rawer form of production than anything we've heard from these guys since… I mean "girls." This nearly has an anthemic quality to it, this song, but well, there's nowhere to really go with it I suppose but hey, who knows what they do when the couple leaves them in charge? "Makin' It" is one of the more disgraceful variety-and variety being the key term here as we're talking about "makin' it (with other species)" and we need not let our imagination wander too long before getting the slant here, right? I'm beginning to see why the demand was here for this reissue-The Lunachicks, let's face it, if they had no talent, an arguable point to some I'm sure, but they wouldn't have existed all this time to still make records. So here's where it all began for 'em and it's as loud, snotty, discontented and altogether sloppy as you'd expect a debut Punk recording to sound like… and kinda gives new meaning to talking out your other end. Released by Go Kart Records - 1990 Reissue Review by Vinnie Apicella
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