Sack (Lillingtons, Teenage Bottlerocket): Get Wrecked (2003)

So while The Lilligtons (more HERE) were on hiatus and before he hopped onto the Teenage Bottlerocket to Russia (more HERE), Wyomingite Kody Templeman formed a one-off party-punk-rock band called, Sack back in 2003.





While the steadfastly pop-punk Lillington's switched topics from high school politics to old movies, Sack just wanted to get drunk. As the lamentably short-lived Pop Songs and Anarchy put it "All twelve songs are like the soundtrack to the greatest teen movie never made; simple, stupid and drunken (I cannot stress the drunkenness enough)." Check out the song titiles if you think either one of us is exaggerating. (Also see HERE for the Teenage Bottlerocket re-recording of Sack's "Headbanger")


1          One Helluva Party        
2          King Of The Beach        
3          Headbanger        
4          The Born Loser        
5          Bitchin Haircut        
6          Pimp Got Stuck        
7          Let's Get Blind        
8          Pool Party        
9          Rad Biker        
10         Roach Clip        
11         Stag Time        
12         Tico's Taco House        
13         The Classic

Clearview Records, 1993

 

To Sack or not to Sack?

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TEENAGE BOTTLEROCKET!


Update: While this CD is out-of-print, Jollie Ronnie Records still has some copies left, so if you liked this why not go BUY it HERE!

The Lilligtons: Live at The Fireside Bowl (2000)

Just as pop-punk was about to enter its millennial hibernation, Newcastle, USA's The Lilligtons offered the genre one last shot at redemption. Despite being championed by both fellow Ramones-fanatic Ben Weasel (see HERE) and soon after by the Green Day-powered Lookout Records (more HERE) The Lilligtons' of 1999 weren't anybody's knock-off. (However, The Lilligtons' of 1995-1998 were a bit too Weasel/Queer-esque for their own damn good.)





The band's volte-face was most evident both in their rocket-powered tuneage and in their newly focused lyrics which had switched from sophomoric to sci-fi. Gone were song titles like "My Genitals Itch" and "Pom Pom Girls" and in rushed psychotronic  late-night creature features titles like "I Saw the Apeman ("On the Moon) and "Invasion of the Saucermen". It was a brilliant experiment, a sort of like a Ramones-Misfits mutation that escaped its captors and bred in the wilds of Wyoming!


Of course, I can only plead with you to go and buy Death by Television or any of the albums by Kody Templeman's more famous band, Teenage Bottlerocket. If you've done so, here's a live set from the Death by Television tour recorded in Chicago's legendary Fireside Bowl. The sound is just fine for this sort of thing and the fact that it's all one track may just increases its force.

Let us know what you think of The Lillingtons in the The COMMENTS section (where you'll find the Live at The Fireside Bowl link).


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