This album is just insane. If you know any pop punker, who's bands of choice are Yellowcard, or Story of the Year, do some good for the whole punk community, and give him a copy of this fucking record. Lars is a punk god. Although this isn't your ordinary punk (people have been calling it "gangsta-punk", which is totally gay I might add), because all the songs have to do with sex, hookers, guns, drugs, and alcohol. But this isn't fucking "gangsta-punk", this is fucking street punk, at its best.. If you don't know what street punk is, think The Casualties. Anyways, I think this album is insanely good. The stand out tracks are definitely Skins, Punx, And Drunx, My Life To Live (featuring one of my heroes, Tim Armstrong), and Maggots. A couple tracks that are the more weaker on the album are Marie, Marie (a cover of The Blasters that really doesn't flow with the rest of the record), and The Viking (it really isn't a good way to finish the record.. It's a spoken word song with Lars talking, and I really just don't like it). Overall though, this album is one of the best punk albums this year, no matter how many stupid internet "punx" tell you different. Go pick it up as fast as you can, or you are fucking missing out.
Track list:
1. Bastards - Basically the theme song of the record. Talks about every guy in the band. VIDEO
2. Skins, Punx, And Drunx - Lars talks about how he has friends every colour and language. Really rad song. MP3VIDEO
3. Fight - Talks about how Lars loves to fucking fight. I think its a cool song.
4. 1% - Another song about Lars growing up in Campbell. Its a good song. MP3VIDEO
5. Switchblade - I guess Lars and Skinhead Rob really liek their fucking switchblades. I love this song.
6. Marie Marie - Probably the worst track on the record. A cover of an old Blasters tune. Doesn't go good with the rest of the record.
7. Little Rude Girl - An old live Rancid song they finally recorded. Good song.
8. Maggots - To be honest, I don't really get this song, but I love how it fucking sounds. Lars is talking about how a chick wants to kill him.
9. Mainlining Murder - A song about Lars murdering some girl. This is a really cool song, even if it is about killing some whore.
10. For You - This is cover of the Anti-Nowhere League. It's a better cover than Marie Marie, but not as good as the songs Lars and Tim write together.
11. My Life To Live - Tim and Lars singing about all the women they fucked in all the cities they've been in. I fucking love this song.
12. The Kids Are Quiet On Sharmon Palms -
13. Blind Ambition - This is one of the only songs that have to do with "war". Awesome song, its pretty short too.
14. Gods Of War - This is a good song about how the people of today, or America really, are the "Gods of War".
15. Streetwise Professor - Lars sings about how he knows just more of his life, and then gives all his shout outs. Pretty good song.
16. The Viking - Lars just talking about his life. Maybe if it was a little faster, but not a good way to end off the album.
