Dag Nasty Album Review:
Great transition album at 2005-09-26
This is a realy good album comming from that group of bands who it is claimed started the whole emo thing (although none of these bands claim it themselves)This album is realy the classic of Dag Nasty in that it features Dave Smalley of DYS on vocals (proving hear he realy can sing) They did originally have Shawn from Swiz on vocals but kicked him out (officially for missing band practice but rumour has it because Daves voice was more melodic for the type of music they wanted to play)The album is a good mix of fast, traditional hardcore tracks with slower more melodic songs. The lyrics are not the most interesting in the world and are more like teenage angst lyrics which puts them at a serious disadvantage to Embrace and Rites of Spring. I doubt that many people would even be listening to them had they not been former members of DYS and Minor Threat.Still, if you are into D.C. hardcore you either probably already have this or need to go out and buy it.
Dag Nasty Album Review:
An improvement? at 2003-11-21
I have to say I was disappointed with the quality of the remaster. Doesnt really improve much on the original, to my ears. Probably a better idea to locate any remaining copies of the two-for-one CD that included this as well as Wig Out at Denkos. THAT was a deal.Despite all that negativity, this is a classic, indispensable American hardcore record. Essential for anyone and everyone.
Dag Nasty Album Review:
The Best of 80s Hardcore at 2002-07-31
This is a great album. Brian Bakers guitar playing is simultaneously raw and polished, if you can picture that. It has raw energy, but he was very technically proficient. One thing, though, Dag Nasty was not a pure D.C. band as some have noted. Although it was produced by Ian MacKay and featured Brian Baker, both of Minor Threat, the king of D.C. hardcore in the 80s, another big influence on this album was the singer Dave Smalley. Smalley was from Boston and was formerly the front man for the early-80s Boston straight-edge band, D.Y.S. So, its really the best of both of the top east-coast hardcore scenes of the 80s - D.C. and Boston (yes, although New York was the headquarters of punk in the U.S. in the 70s, the 80s hardcore scene was pretty dismal compared to Boston and D.C.). Anyway, this album represents a high point in the angst of hardcore before it was co-opted by corporate bands like Nirvana, but with a proficiency that makes earlier bands look lame (and also hard to listen to unless you were actually hearing them live.) The emotion in this album is simply amazing.
Dag Nasty Album Review:
one of the best punk albums ever with the new sound to match at 2002-06-08
well this is one of the best punk albums of all time .from d.c.comes dagnasty a band that combines power and hooks.this is there first album and remastered to a sound that brings this awesome album much greatness .kind of like taking the pillows away of in front of the speakers and making it sound like i have ears again.so if ya never heard this before i would recommend this to anyone that is into what we call punk rock or emo.for one this is like one of the best punk rock bands ever and one of the first emo albums ever also.at the time this album was the [bomb] but now thats its remastered it is the [bomb] again.pure punk rock .ever one talks about this band so much but as far as i say if ya never get this album you are missing out really bad.also a bonus with this one is a couple of live tracks for there first gig .which you can hear the raw power live.a band that could play and say so well. so as far as I CAN SAY get it be happy and wait for the next album to come out remastered in a couple of weeks !!!!!!cant wait!!!!