Social Distortion – Mommy’s Little Monster (1983/2023) [FLAC 24bit/192kHz]

Mommy’s Little Monster is the debut studio album by American punk rock band Social Distortion, released in 1983. The album is notably different in its tone and quality from the band’s subsequent releases, featuring styles of traditional punk rock both traditional hardcore and melodic hardcore, and pop-punk This is Social Distortion’s only studio album to feature bassist Brent Liles and drummer Derek O’Brien, both of whom were out of the band by early 1984 and would be replaced by John Maurer and Chris Reece respectively. The album received underground acclaim from punk rock fanzines, and it has been acknowledged as influential and inspirational to the then-burgeoning pop-punk and skate punk scenes.Seminal Orange County punk band Social Distortion’s first full-length album Mommy’s Little Monster is the epitome of early-’80s suburban California punk and provided inspiration for many future Californians, including the Offspring and Rancid. Mommy’s Little Monster finds the band supplying plenty of attitude and aggression as they rip through nine tracks worth of hard, fast, power chord-filled tracks loaded with snarling anti-establishment lyrics and themes. Songs like “The Creeps (I Just Want to Give You”) and “Telling Them” show a young punk group that is very angry, and they were going to let society know it whether they wanted to hear it or not. The title track, “Mommy’s Little Monster,” with its descriptions of the girl with blue hair and the unemployed young punk who loves to drink and fight, gives you a good idea of the characters Social Distortion was surrounded by in the scene of the day. Although the low budget production gives the album a genuine early genre feel, it tends to hinder some of the potential power of most of the tracks presented here. As frontman Mike Ness matured as a songwriter the band went on to record stronger albums later in their career, but Mommy’s Little Monster is a fine document of the raw early stages of a great influential American punk band that would go on to influence countless others in the future. – Paul Tinelli

Tracklist:

1-1. Social Distortion – The Creeps (02:02)
1-2. Social Distortion – Another State Of Mind (02:37)
1-3. Social Distortion – It Wasn’t A Pretty Picture (03:06)
1-4. Social Distortion – Telling Them (03:11)
1-5. Social Distortion – Hour Of Darkness (02:44)
1-6. Social Distortion – Mommy’s Little Monster (03:32)
1-7. Social Distortion – Anti-Fashion (02:18)
1-8. Social Distortion – All The Answers (02:23)
1-9. Social Distortion – Moral Threat (05:16)

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