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SMUT PEDDLERS- 'THAT'S AMORE, LIVE AT DIPIAZZA'S' DVD/CD
I'm so happy that the SMUT PEDDLERS have become part of the TKO family and I really believe that 'Coming Out' has exposed them to the larger audience that they deserve and I think that putting a SMUT DVD out is a fucking awesome idea .this is a band that really mustn't be ignored or overlooked and
of course TKO recognise that. This is a band who still represent the true punk rock spirit, not afraid of speaking their mind and ruffling some feathers and with the astuteness to back up their views.whatever happened to provocative punk rock?? Punk rock used to be the home of defiance, confrontation and obnoxiousness and thank God for bands like the SMUT PEDDLERS for keeping that alive even when it means they'll turn a lot of people against them. Fuck those fools, they just don't get it and they sure don't belong in punk rock. This DVD showcases a 22-track live SMUT PEDDLERS set at DiPazza's pizza parlour and shit is it fantastic to watch. I'm so bummed out that I've never seen them live because they truly are one of the few bands that actually excite and stimulate me and I was so eager to see them last year when they were supposed to come over to Europe but then all that MAD shit happened and all that excitement went down the drain.anyway, even though this is on a screen it still absolutely rules to see a full SMUT PEDDLERS live set. There's also a CD of the live audio for the show which is a really cool idea too. They look great, sound great and in my opinion should be absolutely fucking huge. This is an total pleasure to watch.
- No Front Teeth
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Smut Peddlers
“That’s Amore: Live At DiPiazza’s”
Blistering live set from SoCal snotpunk kings the Smut Peddlers. The setting is a pizza place, the crowd is full of troublemakers and drunkards, the bouncer dude is kept quite busy, the band is surly (“Go experiment with your Ipod over there, ok?”), and the hits keep comin’. The Peddlers’ sound is classic asshole-punk, with ripsaw junkie guitars and bile-fueled vocals. Dig two-minute rants like “Fuck You…That’s Why” and the hilarious “Get Off the Phone” (“Get off the phone/ I need the phone!”) for two classic examples. It’s hard not to like these guys, unless you own the pizza parlor. Or if they wrote any of these songs about you.
The footage looks swell, and the audience is in every shot, which adds plenty of local color and action to the proceedings. It sounds about as good as a punk band in a pizza parlor ought to, and as an extra, there’s a bonus CD of the show. Take it with you next time you’re out for a slice, and start your own punk rock riot.
- Sleazegrinder
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Smut Peddlers
“That’s Amore: Live At DiPiazza’s”
(TKO, 8941 Atlanta Ave. #505, Huntington Beach, CA 92646).
The musically chaotic Smut Peddler hounds have frenetically outdone themselves with this wild, live-action combo package. First, the DVD: it’s a visually turbulent representation of the Smut Peddlers captured onstage at a Punk Rock dive in Southern California doing what they do best… rockin’ up a ruckus big time! With pristinely outstanding picture quality, the hour-long footage graphically presents the viewer with an up-close glimpse of The Smut Peddlers feverishly rattling the stage in a messy, sweaty display of unrelenting full-throttle Punk Rock glory. And the moshing, rabidly frenzied masses whirl and flail like a hammer-fisted blitzkrieg of bomb fragments violently darting throughout the impact zone. The accompanying CD is an outrageously deafening audio take of the same show, containing such Smut Peddler body-slammers as “Rebatron Party”, Playstation Generation”, “Play It Bitch”, “Dead End”, “F.T.W.”, “Coppers”, “Mona From Pomona”, “Surfer’s Grave”, and “Fuck You…That’s Why”. Each and every ditty is a decadent and sardonic Punk ode to dope, prison, surfing, and sleaze, the golden California dream gone seriously awry. Welcome to the weird, depraved world of the Smut Peddlers! (DVD + CD)
-Moser |
Smut Peddlers
“That’s Amore: Live At DiPiazza’s”
dvd/cd
If you've ever been lucky enough to attend a Smut Peddlers gig you know what you're in for: some of the best old school punk that's played these days! "That's Amore" makes you enjoy it again without leaving the couch... 23 songs spanning the Smut Peddlers' entire 12+ years career in excellent sound and image quality. Don't come crying within two years if you don't buy this now!!!
-High Heels Slut Zine |
Smut Peddlers
That’s Amore: Live at DiPiazza’s
With their trashy style of old-school gutter punk, Smut Peddlers have been getting it done since 1993. After 7 CDs and releases on various comps, they decided it was time to release a live DVD so that the less fortunate can experience the SP in your face and all over the place. From start to finish one can’t help but want to most through their short hour set, where they rip through 22 songs of their high-energy back catalogue.
The show boasts a very raw, in your face style that coincides with the bands style, yet the sound quality is well done, which is “not very punk” (funny how that works). I was disappointed by the lack of special features which only has commentary and ads for various label mates. Overall the show was good and a bonus audio version it is added for your car/iPOD listening pleasure.
- Josh Joyce (ZERO Mag)
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Smut Peddlers
Coming Out
(TKO)
This rock and roll quintet has a female drummer and loves The Ramones! The double-guitar chords come out at your head fastly, furiously and quickeningly. Song titles include "Hamburger Deerns," "State Of The State," "Rebatron Party" and "My Old Addictions." Member nicknames include "The Duck," "Smut" and "Stiffness." Song tempos include fast. American punk rock has always been a friend of society and now is no time to make that stop, especially when it includes 35 minutes of video footage that you can watch on the old computer dish. So get out the computer dish! Now's the time for some Smut and the Pellde!
It's such a fine line between an advertisement and a review. Sometimes I find myself crossing that line. Usually it results in lengthy torturous prison sentences, but it's worth it if I can help sell just ONE Smut Peddlers CD. In fact, if there were a way to contract cancer and AIDS concurrently in such a way that my rotting, dying body would expel gaseous fumes that spelled out "The Smut Peddlers -- Brought To You By TKO Records!," I would say, "Hand me that sweet virus cocktail, Mr. Syringe."
Actually cancer isn't caused by a virus. FUCK! IT'S LIKE I CAN'T WIN!!!! |
Smut Peddlers - Coming Out (2004) TKO Records
This Summer the Smut Peddlers are bringin the punk back to the beaches of Cali with their 5th studio release, "Coming Out." They've been kickin out the beach punk for 11 years now and are showing why they are one of the few beach punk bands to still be playing to this day. After recent exposure through skating videos and a track on the "Jackass" soundtrack, the Smut Peddlers reiterate why their sound is covetted with their newest release.
"Coming Out" is thirty minutes full of dirty punk rock and screaming riffs that keep you on your toes. It's easy to see with their solid and well maintained sound why they've toured with bands like Pennywise and the Distillers in the past. Songs to check out are "Losta Cooks," "Coppers," and "Exit Plan." If you do pick up "Coming Out" cd make sure to pop it in your computer to see the half hour long home video which includes studio, home video and live footage. It's always nice to have a little unexpected bonus when handing over your hard-earned cash for a cd these days. "Coming Out" is definitely a fun album and worthy the money to add it to your collection.
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SMUT PEDDLERS
Coming Out (TKO)
Reviewed by Alan Wright Wow, what a killer CD! This is album number five - and the best yet - from these crazies, following hot on the heels of their Deadbeat vinyl-only 10" release and Billy Zoom produced Exit Plan EP. With super-tight musicianship, great sarcastic lyrics and a lot of power, this sounds like some kind of throwback to the early ‘80s. Singer John Ransom has a classic pissed-off punk voice, and the twin guitars of Sean Mallard and Scott O'Brien are balls-out excellent. Riffs and more riffs galore, speedy tempos and the powerhouse rhythm section of Julia Smut and Gish hold the bottom end down. In a lot of ways, this is as classic as a lot of that early So.Cal punk - think Circle Jerks, Black Flag, Chiefs, Redd Kross, TSOL, Gears, Adolescents and X. Many of the lyrics ain't pretty, with songs about junkies ("Driftwood Nights"), hepatitis C ("Rebatron Party"), corrupt politics ("State of the State"), and torrid tales of drug-fueled love and sex ("Vernon Girl"). For those that might miss the more dangerous and real punk as opposed to the cookie-cutter punk on corporate radio, check these guys out!
© 2004 - Alan Wright
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Smut Peddlers were around way before any of these squeaky clean punks were blading and boarding in Southern California, and the band's old school attitude and in your face sound feels so refreshing. Containing 14-tracks of West Coast punk, this is the outfit's fifth full length release, a crowning achievement in the punk rock community, and yet, this quintet play with the kind of energy of a rookie crew. Singing songs about pertinent issues about the quality of life, politics, drugs, and the general backwards nature of the country we live in, Smut Peddlers does its best to right the wrongs with the punk rock backbeat that drives the crowd wild and the experience to whip the crowd into a frenzy. If you missed out on the early years of DIY punk or if you want to reminisce about the glory days, COMING OUT is the best album to do either by, as this old school band showcase that they've got a lot of gas left in the tank while many of its peers are fading away from the scene.
www.punkrocktheory.com
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We've got to come up with a new way of describing bands you like to other people, because what been going on so far isn't going to cut the mustard anymore. Hey, I do it too "You should really check out 'so and so' they sound like 'this band mixed with a little of that band'". The benefits of referencing a band you like when describing a new band are obvious but it's a system that has its problems. Namely, a good band should really have a sound all their own and to verbalize something as abstract and connotation-filled as a band's music by way of another band's music often inaccurate to say the least. The latest example of this inaccuracy was when a friend of mine told me about the Smut Peddlers. "You gotta check them out," he said. "They sound like Smogtown," he said. Well, unfortunately the Smut Peddlers don't sound like Smogtown. Fortunately though, they are pretty damn good. Lucky for my friend, if he recommended a crappy band with a comparison to an exalted one I'd be taking thumbs.
Smut Peddlers have a sound that is, at the same time, has a distinct west coast feel but manages to escape sounding like a SoCal punk band. The west coast markings come from the energy that surges through the music. The bass rumbles like train tracks in rush hour, the drums sound like landing helicopters, and the guitars are absolutely razor sharp and precise. The music gets further power from the combination of focused songwriting and a distinctly analogue recording sound. I'm not saying they did this on a tape recorder hooked up to a reel-to-reel, but it often sounds like they did, and that's what counts. It was a big relief and something of a surprise to hear such an unpolished recording sound coming from a non-live TKO release. Past release from The Stitches and the abominable Slaughter and the Dogs "comeback" record were spoiled with over-production. I'm glad no attempt was made to similarly mar this release.
The vocals and lyrical delivery add further momentum to Coming Out and early in the disk establish the band as talented and catchy. The only problem on this record is that quite a few songs are boring and forgettable. I suppose it's unavoidable with this being the band's fifth studio full length, but I wish there were just a little less filler. They do an exemplary job of pumping you up with their awesome sound, only to deflate their own efforts with a few tracks that are just plain bad. On tracks like Copper you wonder how you could have let such an awesome band slip below your radar, but they quickly remind you that not all their stuff is as dynamic and engaging with songs like Vernon Girl.
This one narrowly misses being a great record because of the fluff that pads the album, but it still manages to rock where it needs to and stands far ahead of band's first albums. . .let alone their fifth.
~Adam Gonsalves / GANG UP |
Smut Peddlers were around way before any of these squeaky clean punks were blading and boarding in Southern California, and the band's old school attitude and in your face sound feels so refreshing. Containing 14-tracks of West Coast punk, this is the outfit's fifth full length release, a crowning achievement in the punk rock community, and yet, this quintet play with the kind of energy of a rookie crew. Singing songs about pertinent issues about the quality of life, politics, drugs, and the general backwards nature of the country we live in, Smut Peddlers does its best to right the wrongs with the punk rock backbeat that drives the crowd wild and the experience to whip the crowd into a frenzy. If you missed out on the early years of DIY punk or if you want to reminisce about the glory days, COMING OUT is the best album to do either by, as this old school band showcase that they've got a lot of gas left in the tank while many of its peers are fading away from the scene.
www.punkrocktheory.com
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