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 WHAT'S FOR DINNER LP 01. What's for Dinner 02. Mary Tyler Moore Show Theme 03. Psychopathic 04. Nancy 05. Shit don't Shink 06. Surf Nazi 07. Crack Me Up 08. Brain of My Own 09. Acid Head 10. I Am 11. Penniless 12. Astrological Geek 13. Electric Shock 14. Dying the Empire Way 15. Pins & Needles 16. I Forgot 17. Don't Pick 18. Drunk or Stupid 19. Bag Lady Love 20. Fucked Up Dreams Label: Jimboco Records Cat #: JLP 8401 Format: LP Released: 1984 |
Reviews: Familiar guitar riffs and a good drum beat - you've heard it before but something about this band does it so good. They do a copy of the theme to the "Mary Tyler Moore Show" and have some damn good lyrics that I can relate to. This band is on the verge of something wonderful! -Hudley (from Flipside #45, Spring 1985) So, which of our wealthy readers is going to pop for a first class fare so I can check out theses guys?!! I am really curious if their cartoonish humor and energy, so wonderfully abundant on this record, comes across in a live setting. I certainly hop so, because these characters remind me of the Ramones on their epic Rocket to Russia record, except that TMA have moved up their music to a straighforward mid-tempo thrash level. However, as demonstrated by TMA, such themes dealt with by the Ramones in 1977 as surfing, mental illness, poverty, and suicide are just as timeless today. -Joe Henderson (from Ink Disease #9, Summer 1985) Who are these guys? Well, whoever they are, they really shred. TMA play totally fast, gnarly thrash with lots of hooks 'n' tunes. Tight and clean, too. The lyrics are typical "punk rock," bitchin' 'n' moanin' 'bout everythin'. -Tim Yohannan (from Maximum Rocknroll #19, November 1984) This is a band that is punkrock. Not punk (pause) rock but punkrock, slurred together, fast and slightly sloppy. Slightly fun. The titles are interesting: "Surf Nazis" and "Astrological Geek" to name a couple, and the lyrics aren't bad either. It's a shame they're not enunciated a bit more clearly so people can make them out. The music is run-of-the-mill, but it's tightly executed with the enthusiastic vigor that only a punkrock band can have. -Carol Schutzbank (from Factsheet Five #24, November 1987) |