Labels: Boss Tuneage
Review by: Tony Era
This is the great debut album by Finnish punks, Wasted. Finland is producing some great punk bands recently and along with Manifesto Jukebox and the Phoenix Foundation, Wasted are pushing the boat out on how amazing, DIY political punk rock should be.
This is a reissue of their first album which apparently was out of print for over a year. No wonder i couldn’t find one and I’m kicking myself now because this is outstanding stuff.
However, i really don’t know how to describe it. Its just fast, snotty, sweaty punk rock. The way it was in the UK during the 80’s when bands took it a lot more seriously than ever before or maybe since.
This is seriously political touching upon commercialism destroying us all, the horrors of America and the good old “I’ve been beaten up but I’m not backing down” songs. There has been alot of discussion about politics in music lately but this has made me sit up and take notice again and follow up on a few points they make. And I tell you, they mean every single word of it.
This is the punk I love, modern, classic, and it makes me wanna start a one man revolution in my bedroom. Completely, utterly, one hundred percent the way it should be.