The Kids Will Have Their Say
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The Kids Will Have Their Say | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | 1982 | |||
Recorded | December 1981 to May 1982 at Active Sound and Radiobeat | |||
Genre | ||||
Length | 21 min | |||
Label | Dischord/X-Claim | |||
Producer | Mike Bastarache and Lou Giordano | |||
SS Decontrol chronology | ||||
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The Kids Will Have Their Say is the debut album by the Boston hardcore punk band SS Decontrol. The album was released in 1982 as a split-release between Dischord and X-Claim records (catalog numbers X-Claim 1/Dischord 7½). The album was only pressed in 1,900 copies [1] and never re-pressed, making it quite a collector's item. However, a bootleg version was made in the late 1980s, but the label names on the back of the sleeves are switched to Discord and Ex-Claim, making it easy to separate from the original pressing.
The album was reissued in late 2023.[2]
Track listing
[edit]Side A
[edit]- "Boiling Point" (0:54)
- "Fight Them" (1:07)
- "Do You Even Care" (0:29)
- "Not Normal" (0:52)
- "Wasted Youth" (0:33)
- "Jock Itch" (0:46)
- "Fun to You" (0:34)
- "V.A." (0:59)
- "How Much Art" (3:05)
Side B
[edit]- "The Kids Will Have Their Say" (1:20)
- "Headed Straight" (1:29)
- "War Threat" (1:27)
- "Teach Me Violence" (0:36)
- "Screw" (0:21)
- "Who's to Judge" (1:26)
- "Police Beat" (1:58)
- "United" (0:46)
- "The End" (1:28)
Personnel
[edit]- Springa - vocals
- Al Barile - guitar
- Jaime Sciarappa - bass
- Chris Foley - drums
- Larry Lessard - Engineer
Reception
[edit]Writing in The Boston Phoenix, Joyce Millman called the album "a stupefying barrage indistinguishable from dozens of other hardcore LPs. Seventeen tracks tumble into each other, with vocals so rushed and garbled they could be one long harangue; and one number, 'How Much Art Can You Take?' is a parody of highbrow punk and a hymn to inarticulation." Millman felt that "The utility of The Kids Will Have Their Say lies in the lyric sheet, a manifesto by and for Boston’s bored, scared, fed-up, and pissed-off teenagers."[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Discogs entry for The Kids Will Have Their Say". Discogs. Discogs. Retrieved 26 December 2023.
- ^ "SSD Sign with Trust Records to Re-Release The Kids Will Have Their Say". Trust Records Company. Trust Records Company. Retrieved 5 December 2023.
- ^ Millman, Joyce (10 August 1982). "Total decontrol". The Boston Phoenix. Retrieved 13 September 2024.