Crush Kerry: A Review of the CD

Now, let me start off by stating that I have always been a fan of punk music, and have always taken part in the punk scene, and punk ideals. By punk ideals I mean individuality, free-thought, and tolerance of others views or ideals. There's some people who come here and accuse me of not being tolerant, but what they don't understand is that I'm tolerant enough to let them comment on anything they want, I have yet to, nor do I plan to, delete any comments by anyone. You have your opinions, and you have your God-Given Right to voice those opinions, and I'm not going to stop you...but I will prove you wrong.

Anyways on to the Crush Kerry Compilation CD. There are only 4 words I need to describe this CD: Complete, and total Masterpiece! I liked every single track, later I will go track thru track and give a review of each song individually, with the exception of one. It has everything that a good punk cd needs; fast riffs, honest lyrics, and an "I-Your-Face-I-Don't-Care-What-You-Think" attitude. There we some songs and bands that stood out for me, based purely on my personal prefernces, but all in all it was an amazing CD, containing something for everybody. Truely a wonderful CD.

Track one, a song called "Crazed Little Bees" by Boobie Trap, was a perfect pick for an opener. Awesome riff at the beginning, and going straight into one of the fastest rythems I've ever heard. Another interesting fact about this song is the lead singers voice, not only is it powerful, sounding almost like it's demanding your attention, it is also a female. Thats not something that comes around to often, a Conservative Punk Chick, truely a rarity, keep a hold of that one guys.

The second song on the CD, a track titled "Evening of Desire," by The Undead, Bobby Steels new band. Bobby Steel is one of the original members of the band The Misfits, one of the most listened to and well loved punk bands in history. The song is everything you might expect from the former Misfit guitarist, dark, to the point, and always with an asskicking solo towards the end. It's powerful, its angry, and its Bobby Steel, what more can you ask for in a song? Honestly?!

Yes, the punk keeps coming my friends. Batting 3rd and 4th on this musical assault of a CD are bands Neveready and Smart Bombs and Apple Pie. Neveready comes in with "Red, White, And Blue." Which is a blunt and honest song about patriotism. One line that sticks out in the song is "I'm Proud to be an American, if you dont like it, F**k you! I'm Proud to be an American, Red, White and Blue!" Couldn't agree with you more Dan-O, couldn't agree more. Next comes the song Smart Bombs by Smartbombs and Apple Pie. Great song, simply a great song, opening riff is the beginning to "America The Beautiful," afterwhich it goes into full swing punk.

Next is one of my personal favorites. This is easily one of the best tracks on the CD, and you can download it off of this site, in the "Krush Kerry: The Conservative Response," and its called Propaganda Puppet, and its by Epstien. The Chorus goes "And it gets worse, with every lie that they tell us; and it gets worse, as they try to buy and sell us." And what I get from it is that the Leftist Media, and the Leftist Punk Elite are trying to force ideas and decisions on us and we need to fight back, and we shouldn't listen to what they say. Decide for yourselves, make your own decisions.

The Ivy League comes up next with their contribution Hearts of Pride. This is a good old fashioned Oi! ode to the conservative working-class. These guys are just your everyday, hard-working during the day, party-hardy by night, average joes. They take great pride in there Working Class roots, and would never give that up. The song Hearts of Pride is an awesome piece, flows very well from Epstien to Hybrid Mutant.

In steps Hybrid Mutant, undoubtably the heaviest band on the CD, with "Thats Ok." With its amazingly fast guitars, and its scorching vocals, you can't help but bang your head to this 2:30 long punk rock fury. They sound very much like the early Hardcore groups Agnostic Front and Black Flag. Definatly good to see the heavier side of punk being represented, but its definatly strange to see them right before the hysterical song by The Flip-Floppers.

Like I stated above, the aptly named Flip-Floppers are next. The song they gave up to the CD is called "Nervous Breakdown," an absolutly hilarious slam on John Kerry, or as he is referred to in the song "Hanoi John." The music isn't the best, but when you hear the lyrics you don't care. It's a song full of gut busting hilarity. With lyrics like "Hanoi John, Hanoi John I'd kick your ass in Vietnam; Hanoi John, Hanoi John, threw your medals on the White House," how can you not laugh?

Working in the first of 2 songs on the comp. is The Rejectors with "7 of 9." Sadly, there isnt much to say about this one considering it has nothing to do with politics or punk...its about a chick. It's an awesome song though, even has a pretty decent solo in it. One of the heavier songs on the cd too.

Yet again we see The Undead this time with the self titled song "Undead." A song about fighting back, perseverance, and never giving up, at lesat thats what I get from the song. Songs like this really get me going. Good for the ol' adrenile glands.

With there second song its, yet again, The Rejectors, but this time they arent singing about any chick, they're singing about their "Right to Be Left Alone." This song here is about how the Left keeps budding into the individuals daily affairs. It's pretty much a big middle finger in the face of Liberals trying to interweave their way into our lives, telling us how to live, what to wear, where to go, how to dress, who to hang out wiht, and above all, who to vote for. Don't get any better then that, folks.

Well, there you have it, 11 tracks of ConPunk fury. All in all I have to say its a badass cd worthy of air play and definatly worth of your respect shearly because of the balls the bands had to stand up against The Left Punk Elitists and fight for what they believe. This CD is a big F-YOU! to Fat Mike, Jello Biafara, and the rest of the Punk Voter crew, and a call to arms to the Right-Wing Punk Community. I definatly recommend you guys go to American Streak and buy this album (link under header) and at 4 CD's for 20$ how can you pass that up?! By 4 and hand 3 out to your friends. That being said, be true to your friends, be true to your family, but above all be true to yourself. Make your own decisions, dont like a band decide for you. I don't mean just left-wing bands, I mean right-wing ones as well. Come to your own conclusions, not the conclusions of your favorite band. Good night, and go buy this CD.