Friday, July 3, 2009

Didjits - Hey Judester


Purveyors of revved-up, tastelessly funny trash-punk, the Didjits were an atypically straightforward part of the Touch & Go stable, as well as an utterly manic live band. Their sound was mostly speed-blur garage-band punk with a dash of AC/DC-esque hard rock, but their true inspirations were rock & roll wildmen like Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard, not to mention the guitar heroics of Chuck Berry. Most Didjits albums were virtual catalogs of rock & roll sleaze and vice — sex, booze, drugs, violence, death, Satan, and the like — all rolled into a smart-alecky, Midwestern white-trash act. Whether he was being jokey, offensive, or just plain bizarre, lead singer/guitarist Rick Sims' sense of humor could only be described as indelicate, leading to charges of sexism and racism from journalists with little patience for tongue-in-cheek political incorrectness. In truth, they sent up white-trash culture much more than they embraced it, but did so with such gleeful immaturity and abandon that they often made things pretty convincing.-allmusic.com-





Genre: Punk
Year: 1988







Tracklist:


01. Max Wedge
02. Stingray
03. Plate in My Head
04. (Mama Had a) Skull Baby
05. Under the Christmas Fish
06. Lucille
07. Joliet
08. Axhandle
09. Balls...Fire
10. King Carp
11. Stumpo Knee Grinder
12. Dad






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1 comment:

Monkey C., Monkey Do Voodoo said...

Love the Didjits!!
I have all of their albums on nice shiney wax.