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Title: Best. Album. Ever.
Review: I bought this for $10 at a Turks show in Des Moines, Iowa in 1993. I own probably about 700 albums, everything from Elvis to the Beatles to Dylan to the Stones to Iggy to the Clash to the Sex Pistols to Nirvana to the White Stripes, and this tops them all. To call it the best punk record ever, or the best garage rock album ever, or the best obscure album ever, is to damn it with faint praise. In the age of the iPod, the old question of "top five desert island albums" seems obselete, but if I could have just one, it would be "!!Destroy-Oh-Boy!!"It's not a flawless album. The recording sounds a little tinny, and the dynamic never really changes. But everything else is epic: Jim Weber's buzzsaw guitar, the bass rumble that opens "Suckerpunch," Eric Davidson's whip-smart lyrics and raw-boned delivery, and Bill Randt's cacophonous drumming. Warning: If you're the sort who thinks U2 really got back to rocking out on "All That You Can't Leave Behind," this might not be your cup of tea.
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