
88 FINGERS LOUIE – Back On The Streets (LP) Blue Vinyl
88 FINGERS LOUIE (USA) - Back On The Streets (sealed LP copy) (2024) Re-issued by Hopeless Records on BLUE vinyl - limited to 700 copies - This is the 30th Anniversary Edition. This is the band's proper 2nd full-length studio album originally released back in 1998.
This band, despite numerous break-ups, has been one of the most consistent Hardcore Punk bands of our era (although it appears that they're finally done for good, but we've heard that one for before). This album was declared as their last (until reforming and releasing "Thank You For Being a Friend" in 2017), and it will rock your ass from start to finish.
Songs like "Tomorrow Starts Today", "100 Proof" and "Two Faced Bastard" are the perfect combination of Hardcore and Punk Rock, while others like "Drunk and Ugly", "Newspaper", "Elmer's" and "Summer Photos" are more like the Punk songs that we've come to love from this band.
The entire album is done with extreme precision and if you ask me, some of the best talent in the Punk Rock world period. The guitar work is amazing on every song and the drums literally leave me speechless.
"Back On the Streets" also contains an incredible cover of Bad Brains' "Fearless Vampire Killers". It blows the original out of the water.
It may be just because I've been a fan for so long, but I have yet to hear any band breach the boundaries of Punk and Hardcore as well as 88 FINGERS LOUIE does. Hopefully, we haven't seen the last of them. -- Hopeless Records – HR2597-1