essential music for leftist benefits
They had plenty of good wine there and cheese dips ect but the irony of missing the gig and being with these bottom feeders never left me. The night i had the chance to see fear i ended up at some leftist benefit at a friend of a friends house. Fear really are a band on their own unique trip, nothing quite sounds like them. Lee Ving finds effortless ways to be offensive to all those wishing to take the bait. More Beer and The Record are my favorite long plays of theirs, but their later cd's are good also. Describing their sound is difficult, let's try redneck early 80's hardcore with vocals being mixed high above the music and musical influences being broad amongst the punk scene. So please learn from my mistake, if your caught with the peace/love and "i feel your pain" set and your sick of hearing the latest Bob Dylan cd then spice up the party with "More Beer", I'm sure it will be appreciated. Thank you, Human Rights Watch Downunder President Snicko.
still classic punk
they have good driving spirit of punk. not as good as the record but still great punk.
You Know What.... It's Worth getting!!!!!!
I mean this is punk rock not freakin opera! Either that or people blast all these bands names to show off their "coolness", well big f-inn deal man. You know what p##sses me off? People that are music snobs! LOL. Hey I saw TSOL in Milwaukee with like 6 other people total in attendence and hung out with them backstage, big freakin deal. As far as More Beer goes I place it behind all the other other FEAR albums I have in this order, The Record (debut), Have Another Beer With Fear (I just got it and I really like it), Fear Live For The Record (It's got most of the good songs from this one live, worth getting), and then More Beer. I know they have another one out their but I haven't gotten it yet and the reviews aren't encouraging. But I'm suprised no one has talked about the song "Bomb the Russians" I think thats a very cool song, it was the way I felt in the early 80's too! I was off the Russian coast in the freezing cold giving Russian "Bear" bombers the finger as they buzzed my Navy ship and cheering as our F-14's came to give them a close escort, I wish I had had this album than I'd have been cranking it! Other songs I like, Hey (great lyrics I think!), of course More Beer, and really the first 8 songs are cool for me. Worth adding to your punk rock collection no matter what the leftist posers and music snobs say! .
fun album
if you dont know who FEAR is then pick up their first "the record". this is another fun album by FEAR! if you are a fan then buy this. then buy this. FEAR is great, leeVing is a very talented vocalist for the genre of music.
Philo's last stand
If you don't understand that you aren't in on the joke. First off, after reading some of the reviews below, Fear's primary objective was to offend. How serious they were about it all would best be left up to the individual listener. Personally, I don't have a thin skin and prefer to think it's all in fun.
This LP pales next to Fear's first album, the Record. The songs just aren't as strong and the playing not as tight as before. Normally it would be called the sophomore slump, but Fear never recovered as they lost members and went in a more metal direction. Nothing wrong with that, it's just Lee Ving's voice doesn't really suit metal. And Philo Cramer, the guitarist, was a huge part of Fear's original sound and he left after this LP. In fact the songs Cramer wrote are my favorites here (Mouth Don't Stop, and I Am A Doctor).
In places the album tends to drag, such as Waiting For the Meat and Welcome to the Dust Ward, which sounds like a bad follow up to Camarillo off the first LP. Songwriting suffers too, as More Beer, and Have A Beer With Fear sound like songs a 5th grader would write, Hey is someone shouting Hey to the beat of the song,
and finally Waiting For the Meat is somebody playing bongo drums and Lee chanting Abooga Abooga and then changes it to a book of matches. Veddy cleaver, one would say in their best sarcastic tone.
It is worthwhile for Mouth Don't Stop, Responsibility, and I Am A Doctor, and I guess Welcome to the Dust Ward could fall in there, but not much else.
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