1. Say No! To Authority
2. Wanna Die
3. Society
4. California Sucks
5. Murder In The Brady House
6. I Can't Stand Myself
7. My Song
8. High Ambitions
9. March Of The Lawnmowers
10. Leave Me Alone
11. Don't Touch My Car
12. 7-11
13. Cows
14. Work
15. Wavin Gerbs
16. Liar
17. O.M.W.
18. Clean-Cut Asshole
19. Raining Needles
20. BPD
21. Experience The Ozzfish
22. Jockpunk
23. K-Mart Blues
24. Bates Motel
25. Hardcore Hippie
26. What Is Right
27. Yeah Baby!
28. In The Hospital
29. I Feel Like Shit
30. I Hate Led Zeppelin [Demo Version]
31. American Suicide [Demo Version]
32. A Political Song For Screeching Weasel To Sing
33. Twinkie Warfare
34. Stoned And Stupid
35. Life Sucks (And So Do You)
36. I Wanna Be Naked! [Demo Version]
37. My Right [Demo Version]
38. Hey Suburbia [Demo Version]
39. Ashtray [Demo Version]

This often overlooked hardcore punk band have had a long and confusing history of breaking up, and getting back together, and then changing various members around, and so it's no wonder that people hardly ever seem to know what they're up to.

But in this re-release of their self-titled album of 1987, Screeching Weasel really let rip to let everyone know exactly what they're all about. And that's hardcore, rough-edged punk with a really twisted sense of humour.

In the first 27 tracks of the album (the original album), Screeching Weasel mix up their short, violent, anger-riddled angsty songs like 'Say No To Authority' and 'Society' with some laugh-while-you-mosh oddities like 'Murder In The Brady House', 'March of The Lawn Mowers' and 'Cows' (about having a fear of cows).

These tracks burst out in such short songs that they have an immediate and powerful impact, and their political and anti-societal rantings are definitely their best works, in which they pick on almost every American institution there is, like the 'jocks, the 7-11, California, society in general, the authorities, basically anything that pisses them off. Yet all the time their irrepressible sense of humour saves things from getting to boring. By doing songs about putting hamsters in microwaves and killing sprees and drug addictions in the Brady House.

The second half of the album is a selection of poorly produced and sketchy but very raw demo tracks and bonus tracks, which gives the end of the album and edgy feel.

Screeching Weasel are definitely one of the best punk bands around with their irrepressible punk ethos and twisted sense of humour and this album is a brilliant production giving a real insight into them and also what real punk musicians can produce at their best.

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