Album
The Incredible Shrinking Dickies
1979 · Rock
9 collectors on Gatefold own this
The Incredible Shrinking Dickies is a Punk album by Dickies, originally released in 1979. On Gatefold: 44 pressings tracked, owned by 9 collectors.
About
The Dickies mated their brash, punky attack with power pop melodicism, paving the way for generations of pop-punk bands to come. Their taste in covers must have been particularly provocative to the era's punk purists, as The Dickies' debut album finds them tackling tunes by Black Sabbath (the surprisingly punk-friendly "Paranoid"), The Monkees ("She"), and even '60s folk-rock one-hit wonder Barry McGuire ("Eve of Destruction"). But the band gleefully thumb their collective nose at punk convention on the original tunes, too—"Shadow Man" is surely the only L.A. punk track to feature a sax quoting the riff from the '60s hit "Tequila."
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Tracklist
Side A
- A1Give It Back1:40
- A2Poodle Party1:10
- A3Paranoid2:04
- A4She1:36
- A5Shadow Man2:03
- A6Mental Ward1:50
- A7Eve Of Destruction1:58
Side B
- B1You Drive Me Ape (You Big Gorilla)1:51
- B2Waterslide2:33
- B3Walk Like An Egg2:20
- B4Curb Job2:35
- B5Shake & Bake1:56
- B6Rondo (The Midgets Revenge)3:12
Sound DNA
- Punk
- Punk Rock
- raw
- frenzied
- punky
"The Incredible Shrinking Dickies" is the debut studio album by the California punk band The Dickies. It peaked at #18 on the UK album charts. The album includes the group's cover of Black Sabbath's "Paranoid", which reached No. 45 in the UK charts in July 1979. It was pressed on four different colors of vinyl (blue, yellow, orange, black).
The album was produced by John Hewlett, who in the late 1960s was a member of the UK garage punk quartet John's Children.
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Billy ClubBASS BASS, VOCALS MUSICIAN, BASS, VOCALS
- Chuck WagonGUITAR KEYBOARDS KEYBOARDS, SAXOPHONE
- Karlos KaballeroDRUMS DRUMS, VOCALS MUSICIAN, DRUMS
- Leonard Graves PhillipsLEAD VOCALS LEAD VOCALS, PIANO, SYNTHESIZER, ORGAN MUSICIAN, LEAD VOCALS, PIANO, SYNTHESIZER, ORGAN
- Stan LeeGUITAR GUITAR, VOCALS MUSICIAN, GUITAR, VOCALS
- Bonita ButterBACKING VOCALS
9 collectors on Gatefold own this · 44 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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