Swingin' Utters - A Juvenile Product Of The Working Class (For fans of Stiff Little Fingers, Social Distortion, Street Dogs)
Wow, was I an idiot... for the longest time I avoided San Francisco's Swingin' Utters because everything I've ever read about them said they were cow-punk(country mixed with punk). Now call me a musical racist, but to me, country music is like putting medicine in chocolate. No matter how much you cover country up, I'm still going to taste the bitter flavor of it.
Apparently "A Juvenile Product of The Working Class" is one of Swingin' Utters older albums, and is more straight up melodic 70s style punk rock with some slight rock n' roll influences more than anything else.
If you've been avoiding the Swingin' Utters, or just want some really solid punk rock, don't make the mistake I made and definitely check out the "A Juvenile Product of the Working Class".
MP3:
Swingin' Utters - Sign it Away
Swingin' Utters - Sustain
Swingin' Housewives:
Sham 69
The Damned
The Nipple Erectors
Anti-Pasti
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I've never understand why they have the "cowpunk" label. They have a song or two that could be considered country-ish, but that is about it, iirc. I love their work in general, but the Streets of San Francisco album is probably my favorite.
there's a slight twang and maybe a touch of inbreeding but apart from that it's good old fashioned punk rock, yee-haa
A.J
Margin: I really don't know too much by them, they definitely do have a bit of a twang not usually found in punk, but that helps them stand out from all the generic punk bands out there. I'll have to check out Streets of San Fran.
AJ: Haha that's pretty much where I was going with this, I think reviewers wind up hearing a song with it more influenced, and suddenly they are a cow-punk band. Kind of like all the people who think Darkbuster is a ska band.
Nice choice here. Although, there is a little twang especially on their later albums. I saw these guys once in Indianapolis years ago.
"Next In Line" is such a damn well-written song. Anyone looking to get into these guys, start with that song.
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