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PODCAST: Episode - 907 UNBOXING: Descendents - "Milo Goes to College" Review · Ghost Cult Magazine Podcast

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  What's up everybody? It's your boy, Kefi of.
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  Ghostcultmag.com and I am here today to bring you the review of
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  the new deluxe reissue of Descendants, Milo.
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  Goes to college. This is one of my favorite
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  albums of all time. Descendants got to reclaim back
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  their masters and they are on a huge re release campaign
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  starting with the classic. First full.
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  Length debut album by the band. They had an EP before this, The
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  Fat EPA. Little history.
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  About Descendants First and foremost, one of my favorite
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  bands of all time, one of my favorite punk bands of all time,
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  and easily a top ten album in the punk realm.
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  So if you didn't know why you need to have this one, You see
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  this guy's face everywhere, you see this logo everywhere.
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  But why do you need to support this band is why the sentence
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  were formed in 1977. They were a peer of Black.
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  Flag. And the Minutemen, and they
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  signed out of high school and recorded their first EP, the Fat
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  EP with Michael Lockett, AKA Spot, one of the greatest early
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  punk producers and mixers of the punk genre.
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  Even though all these records probably sounded bad at the
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  time, they were in, you know, just formative for hardcore and
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  pop punk, and Descendants kind of straddled that line.
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  Their first EP was very hardcore punk, and then they got Milo
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  Akerman Milo in the band and Milo was going to biology
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  school. Basically, they took their
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  hardcore punk leanings, which kind of took away any of their
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  sappy pop sensibility and just went full out hardcore on their
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  first EP. And then they did this, which
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  blends kind of back in the power pop and pop punk that they
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  really helped form. They were really one of the
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  first bands beside Bad Religion to really make pop punk on the
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  West Coast, you know, akin to the remote in New York.
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  So this album is super important.
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  It's full of bankers. It's only it's less than 23
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  minutes long. It's amazingly produced again by
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  Spot. Milo kind of takes the band in a
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  new direction. The entire album is about him
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  leaving the music world to go to college to become a biologist.
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  And it's very self aware. And it's very, you know, self
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  depreciating humor. Which is a.
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  You know, a forefront of punk rock like Vandals and other
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  bands like that. And of course many, many bands
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  took influence from them. But we'll talk about that in a
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  second. Let's take a look at this new
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  Descendants vinyl. So I got the hype sticker here.
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  I've been spinning this bad boy Masters reclaimed and reissued.
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  This is a rough trade exclusive indie store smoke show color
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  vinyl. So this was sent to me.
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  This is amazing. Wait till you see this y'all.
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  And you know, this album was repressed a ton of times and
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  bootleg then. Even though the band is well
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  known for making their great sounding records.
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  Bill Stevenson is their drummer also the drummer of all produced
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  every great pop punk band. But, and he didn't produce this
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  one. But you know, I'm sure it pained
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  him and the rest of the band to know that for years and years
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  this thing was bootlegged and burned off the tapes and CDs and
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  probably not top quality. Here's your front cover with the
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  type sticker sticking to it. Thank you, static claim.
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  Here's the back cover. As you know, dedicated to Milo
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  from the other members of the band because they thought he was
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  quitting the band to go on to college and not come back.
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  But he came back. This is a actual faithful
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  reproduction of the lyric sheet inside.
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  This thing looks like it's written on old 84 type, you
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  know, like typing paper like 8 1/2 by 10.
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  Super fun and unique and all handwritten lyrics by Milo.
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  Which is. Incredible and I'm a huge fan of
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  it. Don't need a download card.
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  This thing is streaming anywhere and why would you download it
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  when you could play this beast on your turntable?
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  This came in the mylar. I'm deeply.
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  Appreciative of. You record labels putting stuff
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  out on the mylar. So here is side one and two.
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  You can kind of see in the room here this really beautiful
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  smoke, actual looking smoke vinyl, not quite translucent
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  here. That's a good way to start
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  showing the color, right? Kind of looks like cigarette
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  yellow cigarette smoke or yellow cigarette teeth.
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  Perfect the way it is. I love this thing.
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  You know, this record is incredible.
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  It has been, you know. Covered.
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  And lauded by everybody. Fat Mike.
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  Said this is his. Favorite record of all time?
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  You can check out our Fight Fat Mike of No Effects farewell
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  interview on the channel. And you know, it's been covered
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  basically by every great punk band.
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  Originally released on the new Alliance record label, which was
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  owned by D Boone and Mike Watt from the Minutemen from San.
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  Pedro just. Like no effects.
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  Just like Circle Jerks. That whole region of.
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  Socal. Really.
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  Put Socal punk on the map. You're, you know, also at the
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  same time Suicidal Tendencies getting kicked out of out of LA
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  for their hardcore punk, and certainly they're very violent.
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  Shows but you know. Milo coming into the band
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  stepped up the whole band from Milo Goes to College, and
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  obviously later on the band would go on hiatus and spin off
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  to all and then come back again many times as Descendants.
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  They're about as good now as I've ever seen them, and I love
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  hearing these songs still to this day.
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  Let's just go through the track listing, but it's all bangers.
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  This is again out now on Org Recordings.
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  Your information If you're going to go pick this up, there'll be
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  a link in the description where you can buy it.
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  My age I want to be a bear. I'm not a loser classic.
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  All these are classics. Parents Tony Age M16 I'm not a
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  punk. Catalina.
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  Incredible song. Suburban home.
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  Statue of Liberty. Kabuki girl marriage hope.
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  Maybe the best fucked up love song of all time.
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  Bike Edge. And Gene is dead and you know,
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  the band kind of had their own language, which is like similar
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  to. Suicidal.
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  In a way and and similar to Ramones that they had and and
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  other punk bands, they had their own language.
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  Right the. All mentality becomes all the
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  band and the the my edge, you know, marriage.
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  Bike Edge. These things become a lexicon
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  for punks in in the Southern California scene.
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  I deeply suggest you go to Las Vegas to Fat Mike's Punk Rock
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  Museum. There's a lot of Descendants
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  love there. There's a lot of.
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  Love for this record there, you know, it's just an absolute
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  classic and I'm really glad the is so high quality now
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  remastered for vinyl finally in the correct form.
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  And maybe it was before, but yeah, I've never heard it sound
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  this good on this record and. I'm just absolutely stoked.
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  I'm very grateful to get. This Shout out to the publicist.
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  Shout out to shout out to the label.
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  For sending this along to me. And yeah, I'm going to be loving
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  this one for a long time. I absolutely love this band.
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  This is an essential record for your punk collection, especially
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  for you American pop punks and all the bands I love.
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  The the quote from Fat Mike. If this album had come out in
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  1999, they'd be millionaires. Maybe billionaires, but you know
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  everybody else. Kind of.
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  Took their format and and did it and did it and did it again.
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  But you can't, you can't fight the funk on the original.
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  This is amazing. Huge fan here.
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  Milo goes to college. You've seen the Milo graphic
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  everywhere. Now you know why you need to
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  know about this band and why you need to get this record,
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  especially this reissue, one of the top reissues of the year.
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  This year I'm Kefi a ghost called Keep it Here for news,
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  interviews and product. Reviews.
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  And more coming soon. Peace.
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  I suppose I'm a poser. I'll pose with the record.
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  Dirk Manning. No, I think it worked.
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  What if I? What if I do that?
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  Milo has a hat on. Milo has a hat on over here on
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  the back door. But again, I like that first
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  surprise face.