THE VANDALS
Look What I Almost Stepped In...
Reviewed by Holly Day

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Attention English majors: drop out of college and buy this (and the entire past Vandals' catalog) with all the money you'll save. Throughout the 17+ years of the Vandal's existence, Quackenbush & Co. have written some of the bitingist (see? You can make up your own words when you're a drop-out) reflections of pure-poetry social reality, and the older they get, the better and bitterer they get-Warren Fitzgerald is still the most amazing of the punk rock guitarists out there. On their newest, the Vandals urge their older listeners to apologize to their parents for past juvenile delinquencies and to stop worrying about cancer, while embracing their newer and younger listeners with songs encouraging them to take charge of their life and be juvenile delinquents. There are also quite a few love songs on this record, too-seems like each new Vandals record has a bigger proportion of love songs to political songs, which maybe comes with age, since I myself am a much bigger sap than when I first started listening to these guys.

© 2001 - Holly Day