Mega64 Record Club Ep. 7 - X - Los Angeles (#320)
Added 2023-04-13 14:00:59 +0000 UTC
The seventh episode of Shawn's Record Club show is here with returning special guest Garrett Hunter! Shawn is jumping to a random album in the "500 Greatest Albums Of All Time" book that Rolling Stone put together. Today he's landed on the punk classic Los Angeles by X (#320)
I feckin loved this episode
Anthony Kaake
2023-05-19 21:24:51 +0000 UTC
Oh, and I feel like such a dork, but the reason I found out about X was because they released a few of their tracks on Rock Band, with Los Angeles and another song, I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts, being my two favorite.
Andy Tuttle
2023-04-19 20:14:16 +0000 UTC
Los Angeles is a great album, amazing even! As far as West Coast punk, I would say that Descendents are the group that kind of built the sound of the region. Their pop-punk was the blueprint that bands like NOFX and Green Day riffed on.
Andy Tuttle
2023-04-19 19:56:57 +0000 UTC
Mega64 reviewing X?! Never thought Iβd see the day :β)
Nico Padayhag
2023-04-18 09:36:06 +0000 UTC
Listening along, love this show guys.
Charlie Leigh
2023-04-15 08:15:29 +0000 UTC
This one was decent but not my favorite. I love punk but I like when it sounds more like shit lol. I also donβt love the rockabilly sound too much so that also might have turned me off a little from it. Still happy to check it out though. 2.5/5 and Sex and Dying in High Society was my favorite track. And yeah California Love is good
Paul LoBue
2023-04-14 19:54:07 +0000 UTC
Definitely got exposed to X on Tony hawks underground 2!
Margo
2023-04-14 18:09:18 +0000 UTC
This album and Wild Gift are definitely X's best work. I think I'd give 4/5 or maybe even 5/5 but that's as a big punk listener. I have an original pressing (a piece of vinyl) which sounds amazing and you can get for like 40-50 bucks.
Jason Cryer
2023-04-14 16:45:38 +0000 UTC
I'm also a huge sucker for female vocalists π
Whenever Exene wasn't singing I wasn't really interested.
I'd give it 2.5 pieces of vinyl, boosted a bit because of the influence.
I adore hardcore punk, post-punk, pop punk, electropunk etc. etc. but for whatever reason the origins of punk like X, Ramones, Sex Pistols, I've never been super into.
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2023-04-13 18:05:32 +0000 UTC
I love this show! Glad to have Garrett on.
Thomas Hasse
2023-04-13 16:28:58 +0000 UTC
This is the best album covered so far! I am deff hype to watch this later π
Mary and Steve
2023-04-13 14:54:39 +0000 UTC