Worst song on KROQ's 25 Most Requested Songs of All-Time (2006)

Yeah, they got tons of airplay in Baltimore. Huge influence on 90's punk and rockabilly. Don't really like them these days but I listened to them a ton when I was a kid.

i voted for 'girls' because i figured it needed a hate vote, i knew 'date rape' was gonna take the poll.

Huh, apparently Social Distortion was bigger than I realized.

What was the song that the kid in Veronica Mars plagiarized for his poetry assignment?

hazard a guess that social d is equally norcal as socal xp

Social D is an abomination wtf at the defenders in this thread

just the worst of cliched greaser punk schticks some kind of ur-text for that scene

no doubt is one of the only bands from this time and place i would probably not change the dial on, depending on who was in the car i guess.

xp we're familiar with your strange moral calculus for bands

Social D singer is a hero for learning how to sing through his nose after he lost the use of his mouth.

cliched schticks with good tunes and solid hooks -- that album came out when i was in high school, right around the time i got my drivers license, it was a great car tape

otm

I was just listening to the s/t last week for the first time in ages. I like it more now than I did in 1990.

Not that anyone really cares how I voted, but my loathing for Under the Bridge is now in its 3rd decade so ...

TAKE ME TO DA PLEHS I LUHHV

just the worst of cliched greaser punk schticks some kind of ur-text for that scene

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otm. When I saw Neil Young & Crazy Horse (early 1991), SD were one of the openers. Nothing noteworthy about their set at all, really bland, by-the-numbers, etc. Some kids in front of me were freaking the fuck out over them, singing loudly along with every song, just generally going nuts. After their set, the kids left -- they didn't stay for Neil.

See I saw SD headline at some semi-divey club that had all ages shows and I slam-danced with a bunch of guys and it was rad.

^ in early 1991

i have such good taste in music overall i can allow myself a little social d, it's like having an extra doughnut because i ate 2 salads for lunch this week

I admit that my disdain for them is colored by the fans of theirs I knew in their heyday, which were some of the most aesthetically conservative, blinkered, macho shitheads imaginable

"Ball and Chain" and the "Ring of Fire" cover are the only SD songs i've heard to my knowledge

sonically they're like a slower, dumber version of the Ramones with all the interesting stuff stripped out and replaced by the most conservative straight while male hagiography imaginable

IMAGINABLE

steady diet of social d songs on any rock-identifying radio station in vegas, so i've probably definitely heard the major singles off of each record innumerable times. brief moment in 2004 when "reach for the sky" got played every hour it seemed.

relistening to "story of my life" right now and despite my own oversaturation it's pretty great idk

the most conservative straight while male hagiography imaginable

i think you suffer from a failure of imagination

someone recommend me a Social Distortion song that is less terrible than "Ball & Chain". tia

You could try Cold Feelings.

Saw Social D at roskilde a few years back, at the second biggest stage. Such a weird booking, was ok, but nothing more, really. I did remember them doing some kind of cover, yeah, that was Ring of Fire.

just listened to "Cold Feelings", now playing "Story of My Life": okay, these are a little better... but still, it feels like some grungey extinct knuckle-dragging precursor to the melodic 90s pop-punk I actually enjoy, right down to the nasal singing. IDK, give me the Offspring any day of the week, Pretty Flyday excepted

Yeah, don't worry about it unless you plan on rolling up a cigarette pack in your shirt sleeve any time soon.

don't get me wrong, I can see the appeal of simple punk-y songs with plainspoken/relateable lyrics; I think I was just born a few years too late to ever regard Social D as anything but pastiche (which I'm guessing was not the intention, & probably isn't how the fans on this thread view the band)

What was the song that the kid in Veronica Mars plagiarized for his poetry assignment?

Oh, it was "When the Angels Sing".

I view Social D as pastiche, but I still like them, unlike some of their descendents like Offspring, etc.

re: social d: why would they convert a pool hall to a 7-11, seems like an odd choice of location for 7-11 corp

because it would presumably be quite large? Unless they knocked down the pool hall and built a smaller structure for the store and the rest was parking?

i think 7-11s are a lot smaller than pool halls though and the dimensions are all off, most pool halls seem more narrow and deep and 7-11s are more square shaped. idk, seems like a lot of work.

yeah, exactly, the only thing i could think of is that the pool hall didn't have off street parking, and they just bulldozed the lot and then built the 7-11 from the ground up rather than using the existing pool hall building. Or maybe the pool hall did have a parking lot and it was one of those 7-11's that also has a gas station

i think in that case the lyric might be 'the pool hall i loved as a kid/was bulldozed for a 7-11' instead of is NOW a 7-11, which suggests a gut rehab. though the former lyric is a bit clunky.

I think the lyric works fine in terms of how people speak about places and things. Presumably he had been gone for a while and didn't see the actual construction process.

maybe the pool hall had been built in an old 7-11 to begin w/

"I Was Wrong"...not a bad SD track, though well past their prime.

SD always seemed too cool for me, like I just wasn't greased up enough.. nonsmoker, no tats. Surprised at the mention of how "bad" the fans are, not only is that argument lame but every punkabilly SD fan I've meet has been very sweet and kind

I just said the fans I was around at the time colored my impression of the music, just being honest there. I can happily discourse on why their music is shitty, full of clunky hamfisted sentiments, songs constructed out of mind-numbingly simple chunks of barre chords (but not quite mind-numbing ENOUGH if you know what I mean), the affected gritty whine of the vocals, the total lack of anything surprising or unusual.

their sound is like some horrible punk version of George Thorogood

fuckin Orange County blech

heh, yeah, i feel you in the sense that i never ever 'got' that style of music AT ALL except for maybe murder city devils

is there an ejection button for this thread cos these SD posts are srsly hulking me out

I guess I still have lingering good will towards Social Distawshun because of this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_State_of_Mind_(film)

(I do recognise that they ended up turning into something very different.)

there are a lot of ejection buttons for this thread. almost all of them will do the trick, really.

Well I'm lonely and I'm tired
And I can't take any more pain

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