Back from Samoa

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Back From Samoa
Studio album by Angry Samoans

Publication
(s)

1982

admission

1982

Label (s) Bad Trip Records

Format (s)

LP , CD

Genre (s)

punk

Title (number)

14th

running time

17:38

occupation
  • Mike Saunders: vocals, guitar
  • Gregg Turner: vocals, guitar
  • PJ Galligan: guitar
  • Todd Homer: vocals, bass
  • Bill Vockeroth: drums

Studio (s)

Quad Teck Studios (Los Angeles), Mystic Sound (Hollywood)

chronology
Inside My Brain
1980 		Back From Samoa Yesterday Started Tomorrow
1986

Back from Samoa is the second album by the American punk band Angry Samoans . It was released in 1982 on the band's Bad Trip Records label.

Track list

  1. Gas Chamber (Saunders / Turner) - 2:09
  2. The Todd Killings (Saunders / Turner) - 0:38
  3. Lights Out (Saunders / Turner) - 0:52
  4. My Old Man's a Fatso (Saunders) - 1:32
  5. Time Has Come Today ( Joseph Chambers / Willie Chambers ) - 2:07
  6. They Saved Hitler's Cock (Jeff Dahl / Homer / Turner) - 1:40
  7. Homosexual (J. Falwell) - 0:52
  8. Steak Knife (Saunders / Turner) - 1:00
  9. Haizman's Brain Is Calling (Saunders / Turner) - 1:56
  10. Tuna Taco (Homer) - 0:38
  11. Coffin Case (Saunders) - 0:39
  12. You Stupid Jerk (Saunders) - 0:23
  13. Ballad of Jerry Curlan (Galligan / Turner / Vockeroth) - 3:08
  14. Not of This Earth (Saunders / Turner) - 1:11

History of origin

The recordings were made in the renowned Quad Teck and Mystic Sound Studios in Los Angeles. The cover was designed by photographer Ronn Spencer, who u. a. also worked for the Sex Pistols and now teaches graphic design and photography at the University of Arizona . Spencer ran a label called White Noise Recordings in the late 1970s, on which the Angry Samoans predecessor band VOM released.

A short time after the album was released, the band released older versions of some tracks from Back from Samoa as an EP called The Deprtaved under the pseudonym The Queer Pills with a fictitious label . The album, originally only as Vinyl - LP existed, was in 1990 by Triple X Records reissued on CD.

Individual titles

Lights out

The song Lights Out was covered by numerous bands, such as the Spermbirds (1987), The Accüsed (1988), The Mighty Mighty Bosstones (1993) and Pig Destroyer (2012).

They Saved Hitler's Cock

At They Saved Hitler's Cock has Jeff Dahl co-written, which also for the song Ballad of Jerry Curlan has recorded the bass. The song brought Gregg Turner into professional difficulties when he was recognized by several students as a former Angry Samoans musician during his time as a mathematics teacher at a college in Santa Fe , whereupon they intoned the title of the piece to the confusion of their classmates. Since the school management was not aware of the connections, Turner was called in to explain himself.

Ballad of Jerry Curlan

The piece Ballad of Jerry Curlan goes back to a former classmate of Gregg Turner's little brother Ron. Jerry Kurlan (the name was changed slightly for legal reasons) was presented by Turner's mother to the band members as a shining example in terms of lifestyle. In the song, the band contrasts statements made by their mother, which are sung by Saunders, with their own assessments of Kurlan's character, which the band shouted in the form of increasingly abstruse insults.

reception

The tastelessness and aggressiveness of the lyrics were highlighted in a positive and negative way. LA Weekly highlighted the band's humor and picked Back from Samoa at number 20 on their list of LA's greatest punk albums. The music critic Robert Christgau gave it an A rating and emphasized the humor of the lyrics and the catchy melodies. The music magazine Punknews described Back to Samoa as "definitely one of the catchiest, funniest and filthiest punk albums of all time". The band play on the album precisely and powerfully, and Saunders' voice has a snotty charm that reminds me of Milo Aukerman .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cool Dude Quarterly (weblog): A Ten Question Q&A with Ronn Spencer. Retrieved July 4, 2019 .
  2. ↑ RonnSpencer.com: The Photographer ( Memento from April 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ a b Guntram Pintgen: Angry Samoans . In: Ox-Fanzine . No. 33, April 1998.
  4. ↑ PunkyGibbons.co.uk: Angry Samoans - Back From Samoa. Retrieved July 4, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Gotham City Insider (Weblog): Who Was Jerry Curlan? Retrieved July 4, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Allmusic.com: Angry Samoans: Back from Samoa. Retrieved July 4, 2019 .
  7. ↑ LAWeekly.com: Top 20 Greatest LA Punk Albums of All Time: The Complete List. Retrieved July 4, 2019 .
  8. ↑ RobertChristgau.com: Angry Samoans. Retrieved July 4, 2019 .
  9. ^ Punknews.org: Angry Samoans: Back From Samoa. Retrieved July 4, 2019 .