If bands
like Slow Jerks still exist, I don’t hear them nearly enough. When I was in high school, CDs had already
reared their ugly heads and I was buying most of these Punk-O-Rama compilations
and the entire Nitro Records catalog as such.
Boy do I wish I had the option of listening to Guttermouth on cassette
back then, heck even the Vandals.
On the
whole, the sound of Slow Jerks resembles that of Bouncing Souls. There are hints of H2O, Pennywise and even
New Bomb Turks, but mostly, yes, Bouncing Souls. It’s that hardcore punk mixed with the blue
collar ethic and a slight hint of humor.
To be
able to go back in time and get all of those punk albums on cassette would be
grand. Is anyone releasing punk rock on
cassette these days anyway? The idea of
Epitaph’s back releases being re-released on cassette might actually get me
interested in Epitaph again. (Same with
Nitro)
Bands
simply do not sound this way anymore.
There was a period of time when bands would come out like this by the
dozens, but lately not so much. Even if
they are trying to be this blend of hardcore and punk these days, they aren’t
even close to doing it as well as Slow Jerks.
There is
this one line (which is the title of the song) that says “ice cold bong rip”
and I’m not sure why but I always hear it as saying “let’s go bowling”, which
just takes me back in time again and I’m left wondering why this style of music
ever seemed to fade.
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