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Lightening up a tad today, here’s Adrenalin O.D.’s debut lp, the masterpiece known as “The Wacky Hijinks of Adrenalin O.D.”

A.O.D. were a jokey band yes, and it’s common knowledge that joke bands suck, but honestly this band is no joke. I mean they’re funny, but they shred with the best of them. Need any proof just give a spin to A.O.D. vs. Godzilla, the album’s opening cut. An absolutely furious thrashing intro which my outside consultants (DFJ, Cooch) agree has the fastest straight forward (i.e. non-blast beat/paddle beat) hardcore drumming ever. By the way aside from being fast it has a great riff, and eventually gives way to an awesome mosh part too.

Most of the record holds down a similar feel, sometimes tuneful, often thrashy USHC with some really hard mosh parts for a band singing about like, White Castle burgers and shit (the song White Hassle is mandatory HB-Struting). I mean it is a goof-off fun-time album, but if you’re looking for deep meaning in every hardcore record, you’ve got this shit all wrong, (and you’re probably a really jackass in real life). Still though, there’s something about Wacky Hijinks fixation on daily banalities and American Junk Culture that’s truer to the spirit of the “Reagan Era” than your Dead Kennedys lps, or what have you. The truth is hardcore moved out of the cities and into the suburbs fast, and in the suburbs nothing that crazy happens. You go to White Castle, you drive around in your shitty used Trans-Am, you watch TV. No one in the ‘burbs is really rebelling or fucking with the system, least of all by listening to a “serious” recording. So in that way, A.O.D. just laid it down the way it was.

This is the original pressing from 1984 of course, on NJ’s own Buy-Our-Records label. It also got reissued this year as a 2xCD on Chunksaah this year which I highly suggest buying. The second disc has their 1st 7″, some comp tracks, and a live WFMU set from ‘82. One of the few CD’s I am actually willing to pay for at this point. Oh and in case you’re behind them times you can check out this famous you-tube vid of Darkthrone’s Fenriz wylin’ out to A.O.D.’s Rock n Roll Gas Station.

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