Lagwagon hadn’t been relevant in a decade before their 2008 release of “I Think My Brother Used to Listen to Lagwagon, but before that they were a top draw across the skate punk scene, and their besrt release was arguably their first - “Duh”.
“Duh” was one of the first albums ever released on Fat Wreck Chords, and it still stands the test of time with tunes that hold that mid-nineties combination of serious, and humorous songs, as well as a great cover. The cover is CCR’s Bad Moon, and Lagwagon does a good job of keeping true to the classic at times, and then cranks it up during the chorus. It is followed by my favourite Lagwagon song “Beer Goggles”, which is great although the video I found for it certainly doesn’t do it justice, but if you like Team America: World Police then you should get a kick out of it. The best part of the song is near the middle when lead singer Joey Cape sings, “she thinks I good and obviously she didn’t smell that fart,” then put on a Ken and then Barbie voice I think when he says “Hi my name is Barbie. My name is Ken.” Funny stuff, and there are fart effects added if you where concerned about that.
The album has other great tunes like the Lagwagon theme song, “Mr.Coffee”, and if you are like me and just figured out you get Teletoon Retro, you will be fired up for the Inspector Gadget theme cover as well. The rest of the album is more serious, the best of those tunes being “Bury the Hatchet”, but this is another album that is solid for first song to last. These kind of great albums are why I started to listen to the skate punk scene - or SKAE as I like to call it.
Let me know what you think of the name. There is already ska, I thought take the s-k-a-e from skate, and you got skae. It’s better than emo, and please no one tell me skae is gay. I’ve heard it before, and this is a gay positive blog, which was influenced by Winnipeg’s own Propagandhi. If you have the “Less Talk, More Rock” album you know what I talking about.
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