Throb Throb

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Throb Throb
Quarterstick Records (reissue)
ProducerGomez Addams, Iain Burgess
Naked Raygun chronology
Basement Screams
(1983) 		Throb Throb
(1985) 		All Rise
(1985)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Allmusic
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Throb Throb is an album by American

Quarterstick Records
reissued the album in 1999, and added an early version of "Libido" as bonus material, which originally appeared on the Flammable Solid 7".

Release

Naked Raygun had combined resources with other local bands, such as Big Black and The Effigies, to release records themselves under the name Ruthless Records.[5] In 1983 they put out the Basement Screams EP and then, after a change of personnel, recorded the LP Throb Throb. Three songs from the album ""Surf Combat", "Gear" and a shorter version of "Libido") saw release on Naked Raygun's first single, Flammable Solid (a tribute to Stiff Little Fingers' first album Inflammable Material) With their signing to Homestead Records, the release of the full LP was delayed into the following year.

Throb Throb's lyric sheet was done up to resemble a

vinyl.[2]

The cover was created by Chicago comic book artist Mike Saenz.

Reception

Spin wrote, "Delivering garage punk in chummy boys' voices surrounded by a low, bass-heavy beat and searing, fuzz-happy drones of guitar. Filtering America through a sinister-but fun sensibility is what Throb Throb is about."[6] John Leland added, "Barring the Hüskers, no one has a stronger sense of roots and a greater affinity for pop hooks. Like most punks, the Rayguns write about sex and the military, but their lyrics are satisfying only for their underlying anger and not for their half-baked truisms."[7]

Track listing

  1. "Rat Patrol" (Haggerty) – 2:13
  2. "Surf Combat" (Gonzalez) – 1:13
  3. "Gear" (Pezzati) – 2:47
  4. "Metastasis" (Gonzalez) – 2:24
  5. "Leeches" (Pezzati) – 3:17
  6. "Roller Queen" (Pezzati/Haggerty) – 3:07
  7. "On" (Gonzalez) - 0:28
  8. "I Don't Know" (Haggerty/Pezzati) - 3:30
  9. "Libido" (Colao) - 3:26
  10. "No Sex" (Pezzati) - 1:52
  11. "Only in America" (Durango/Colao) - 3:04
  12. "Stupid" (Durango) - 1:10
  13. "Managua" (Gonzalez) - 2:13

CD bonus track

  1. "Libido (short)" (Colao) – 2:20

Personnel

  • Jeff Pezzati - vocals
  • Camilo Gonzalez - bass
  • John Haggerty - guitar, saxophone
  • Jim Colao - drums
  • Kristin Haggerty - piano (track 9)

References

  1. ^ "Naked Raygun - Throb Throb". Punknews.org. March 14, 2003. Retrieved November 12, 2022.
  2. ^ a b c "The many flavors of Naked Raygun – Throb Throb LP". Punk Vault. 29 May 2006. Retrieved December 22, 2012.
  3. AllMusic
  4. ^ Righi, Len. "June 21, 1985". The Morning Call. Retrieved March 15, 2013.
  5. ^ Andrews, Josh. "Big Black Interviews". MaximumRockNRoll. Archived from the original on October 30, 2015. Retrieved December 22, 2012.
  6. ^ Andrea Enthal (July 1985). "Underground". Spin. No. 3. p. 36.
  7. ^ John Leland (September 1985). "Spins". Spin. No. 5. p. 27.



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