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Naked Raygun – Throb Throb – Cassette Tape

 

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Naked Raygun – Throb Throb – Cassette

Throb Throb is the debut studio album by Naked Raygun, an American punk rock/post-punk band. The album was released in 1985.

Naked Raygun is known for blending punk rock with post-punk elements, and Throb Throb exemplifies this fusion. The album incorporates the energy and rawness of punk while exploring more complex and diverse musical territories. The album is characterized by its energetic and aggressive sound, with fast-paced tempos, powerful guitar riffs, and dynamic drumming. Naked Raygun’s music is known for its intensity and impact.

Jeff Pezzati’s vocals are a notable aspect of Naked Raygun’s sound. His singing style, characterized by a mix of melodic delivery and punk attitude, adds a unique dimension to the band’s music. The lyrics on Throb Throb are often thoughtful and introspective, exploring themes beyond typical punk rock subjects. Naked Raygun’s lyrics delve into social issues and personal reflections.

Naked Raygun played a significant role in the Chicago punk scene, and Throb Throb is considered a seminal release in the genre. The band’s impact extended beyond the music, influencing other bands and contributing to the development of the punk scene in Chicago.

Throb Throb received positive reviews from critics, and it is regarded as a classic in the punk and post-punk genres. The album’s influence is still recognized within the punk rock community.

For fans of punk rock, especially those interested in the development of the genre in the 1980s and the Chicago punk scene, Throb Throb by Naked Raygun is a notable and influential album.

From its onset, the tube-crunch surf guitar intro of “Rat Patrol,” Throb Throb sizzles like grease in a frying pan until it comes to a halt some 30 minutes later. Like the tank on its cover, Throb is largely informed by an antagonism that rails against the Reaganism that helped spawn intelligent ’80s post-punk groups much like Naked Raygun.

Titles like “Surf Combat,” a song about the effects of napalm at popular beaches, “Gear,” a braggadocio commentary about nuclear weapons and the arms race, and “Managua,” in which troops march to their impending death, exemplify Throb’s political mentality and musical gravity, which are a direct result of the ’80s Cold War. Naked Raygun sends the songs up with a sense-raping frazzle and dissonance.

While not as furious as Hüsker Dü or as angry as the Misfits, Throb is no less vehement, and ever the more working-class. With comprehensible lyrics everyone can understand and chant, and a plethora of race-against-time guitar melodies, Throb is rare in that it appeals to academics as well as rednecks, straight-shooters as well as in-the-know punks.

Borrowing from the big-guitar sound of English heavy metal bands like Iron Maiden and carving catchy melodies usually reserved for Top 40 pop songs into firebrands like “I Don’t Know” and “Libido,” Naked Raygun assures Throb’s place as a classic that is forever ahead of its time, regardless of when it is heard.

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Track Listing
1. Rat Patrol
2. Surf Combat
3. Gear
4. Metastasis
5. Leeches
6. Roller Queen
7. On
8. I Don’t Know
9. Libido
10. No Sex
11. Only in America
12. Stupid
13. Managua

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