Dillinger Four

Exactly. The credit crisis is no concern of mine because I have no savings to lose, it's all theirs!

I like this review:
taken from aversion.com
Civil War

It's sometimes hard to remember the halcyon days when you could tell someone you liked punk rock without qualifying it, without making exceptions to the frighteningly uninteresting mob of teenage pop-punk bands or without feeling sheepish about the admission. Those days are back, at least for the duration of Dillinger Four's latest.

Civil War, the Minneapolis band's first studio album in six years, is an old-fashioned punk album you can be proud to like. Armed with songs that confrontationally take on everything from ego-tripping rock-star punks ("The Art of Whore") and celebrity-worship culture ("Parishiltonisametaphor") to atheist tracks ("The Classical Arrangement") and personal integrity ("A Jingle for the Product"), D4 isn't taking its role in the culture wars lightly. This is punk rock with intelligence, with conscience, with vision. Most importantly, it's punk rock with soul.

Even though Civil War is the Four's most pop and accessible album, it's still a long way from the sweet-tooth gunk passed off as today's punk rock. It's still undeniably a product of Dillinger Four, too. Guitars bite and rabbit-punch as much as they spin hooks, as the band dials in guitar tones that bristle like a wire brush on your nethers.

As expected, it's all mid-'90s pop punk meets underground gristle with Dillinger Four. "Minimum Wage is a Gateway Drug" and "A Pyre Laid for Image and Frame" pound forward on breakneck tempos as a pair of guitars sizzles through three-chord punk rock. "The Classical Arrangement" slows things down considerably; while you won't be tempted to whip out a lighter power-ballad style, it's a marked downshift from the act's manic tempos. "Fruity Pebbles" discards the melodies as D4's guitars grind against each other. Instead of melody, it invokes the seething power of Avail.

If you've ever felt a little silly to admit you're above the age of 18 or 20 and still interested in what the punk underground has to say -- at least from time to time -- Dillinger Four is there to reaffirm your faith in the underground. Civil War won't erase whatever stupid band is the punk-rock flavor of the month, but it'll at least let you know your faith is rewarded every now and again.

It's weird to see D4 referred to as underground.

God they were awesome at the fest.

Broken glass and razor wire....

Gah, this reminds me. I lost all my D4 last month when I was changing my old computer out for my new one, and I cant find my cd's

people make a really big deal over them.
i havent really listened to them enough to understand why

dandangoose wrote:

people make a really big deal over them.
i havent really listened to them enough to understand why

Listen to the songs Super Powers Enable me to Blend in With Machinery, New Punk Fashions for the Spring Formal, A Floater Left with Pleasure in the Executive Washroom, Parishiltonisametaphor, and Contemplate this on the Tree of Woe. Those are all amazing songs.

24Sep, 2009
Dillinger Four played SF last night and Floyd received this text from Paddy this morning:
“Did I get beat up or something? My nose is all bloody, my tooth is half gone, and I woke up with an entire large pizza” Also, in case you missed it, Paddy shaved his balls onstage, with clippers!

I took this from punknews but this! You guys, click the link!

Thank you very much for this.

I missed the house show a few weeks ago and the show with Riverboat Gamblers!

i actually got into midwestern songs and civil war quite a bit for a while. both are really awesome albums.

Indeed they are. Have you tried versus God?

And Situationist Comedy is also really fucking brilliant.

Situationist is my favorite I think. CivilWar was, but then I overplayed it.

my favorite d4 tracks are okfmdoa and twenty one said three times quickly

the drums in the latter are great

Did any of you guys hear the D4 cover Leatherface did?

No. Where can I hear it?

Let Them Know: The Story Of Youth Brigade And BYO Records

Spoiler:

They did Doublewhiskeycokenoice. It's an OK cover, real Leatherface-ish, but they left the Otis Redding bit out.

Heh, I wouldn't have expected them copy the recorded version verbatim. I'll check it out now though.

Spoiler:

Yeah, but they left the bit that Erik Funk normally sings after the Otis Redding bit out too.
God save Otis Redding because I know he's never gone
As sick falls from this mouth hear me sing it wrong
Is it "cigarettes and coffee" now or Dreams to be Remembered
I'll leave regrets for dead and sing along

That part.

Spoiler:

Something fishy is going on here and I'm gonna get to the bottom of it

Fishy? Ohhh, you mean my avatar.

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