Descendants: C/D or S/D or POX

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Surprised there wasn't any threads about them...

T. Weiss (Timmy), Sunday, 29 June 2003 23:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Even weirder, I just played Somery (actually, just forwarded to "Pervert" for a quick listen).

Scaredy Cat, Sunday, 29 June 2003 23:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I like them a good deal, though "Everything Sux" (released on my 16th birthday!) was a pretty big disappointment for me. Destroy!

Still, Milo Goes To College is the only real "Search" in the bunch, though the other 80s albums were all fairly nice, if uneven.
I need to get a copy of "Two things at once", I had it on CD years ago, but it disappeared, dammit. As for the other albums... well, they won't be upgraded for vinyl, despite me not having a turntable anymore.

Øystein Holm-Olsen (Øystein H-O), Monday, 30 June 2003 01:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Classic, right behind the Buzzcocks in the pop-punk pantheon.

"Two Things At Once" is the essential, everything else is pretty good, even "Everything Sucks" has good material (though the production is a lot more metallic to me) .

miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 30 June 2003 01:25 (twenty-two years ago)

My ex-girlfriend just had her first baby two weeks ago. She named him Milo in honor of the Descendents frontnerd Milo Aukerman. I thought that was sweet, except she never really listened to the Descendents the whole time we were dating. I should tell that kid to thank his lucky stars he wasn't named Ad Rock.

Andrew Frye (paul cox), Monday, 30 June 2003 01:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Descendents Pick 'o' the Bunch:

The ALL album on which Karl Alvarez and Stephen Egerton make their debut.

An audible step-up in musical range and flair (with all due respect to Tony Lombardo - check out "TonyAll" ~ , )

Descendents "All" is a killer.........Sonically good, probably the most consistent Descendents/All album. According to Bill, "We were pretty unfocussed at the time...but I like that."

It took a while to grow on me, whereas Two Things at Once sounded catchy at once - elementary American Punk with a juvenile twist, as good as such things can get.

Milo is a good name for a kid.

TripVanJangle (TripVanJangle), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 22:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Descendants: C/D or S/D or POX
Surprised there wasn't any threads about them...
-- T. Weiss (chills_br...), June 30th, 2003

descendEnts

gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 22:14 (twenty-two years ago)

no threads on them either, gygax

Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 22:15 (twenty-two years ago)

there was an irish rock band in LA in the mid-90s named the descendants, they played around santa monica and such.

my milo auckerman story is buried somewhere in the archives, gimme a sec...

gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 22:18 (twenty-two years ago)

intro [a descendents thread of sorts]

gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 22:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Love this band. I remember hearing "Coolidge" for the first time in my brother's skateboarding video when I was in grade school and rewinding the part where the song came in. To this day, that song is one of my absolute favorites ever. I stole Somery from my bro a while ago and he'll never get it back. Ever.

Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 00:58 (twenty-two years ago)

seven months pass...
New album soon!
New EP on Fat Wreck (http://fatwreck.com/albumdetail.php3?cat_num=671&sd=QCr4@tHRMXIAAEghnkA;)

"Nothing With You"
http://fatwreck.com/empee/50168.mp3

miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 13 February 2004 23:13 (twenty-two years ago)

classic, notably for "Suburban Home" and their cover of "Wendy", which made it onto a worrying amount of mix tapes I made for unsuspecting and disinterested girls throughout me college years. :::::sigh:::::

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 February 2004 23:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Classic.

"Do you want Bill sperm with that?"

NO!

latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 13 February 2004 23:28 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...
I want to pretend I never heard the new one. I should have bought the remastered Green Day 1039SOSH album instead.

miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 2 April 2004 21:12 (twenty-two years ago)

nineteen years pass...

wigs me out that Tony Lombardo is going to be 80 in two years. he's even older than Iggy Pop and Wayne Kramer. oldest punk rocker still alive? well, one of them surely.

by comparison, Milo turned 60 THIS year.

Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 05:01 (three years ago)

my milo auckerman story is buried somewhere in the archives, gimme a sec...

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, July 1, 2003 3:18 PM (nineteen years ago)

link to sandbox upthread doesn't resolve anymore... in short, Milo was my OChem/Orgo TA. My friend and I were the only ones in the class who knew who he was. He absolutely did not ENJOY! talking about music during office hours, he was strictly business. When ALL would tour San Diego at the time, Milo would come up onstage for the encore and they would morph into the Descendents for about 30 minutes.

citation needed (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 05:40 (three years ago)

Ok just went down a YouTube wormhole... apparently during the pandemic some group of musicians started a Descendents/ALL covers project with different guest vocalists and musicians.

Here's Milo singing ALL's "Just Perfect" (probably the most Descendents-ish song ALL ever did, so the irony is not lost on fans), and Tony plugs in for the solo at ~2mins:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FZTt9gevYE

But then the tables turn with Chad (later-era ALL singer) singing The Descendent's "Cameage"):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR7cIMizNKQ

Or whatabout Bill Stephenson and his son doing "Suburban Home" (with further irony of Milo's spoken intro/outro from his very surburban-lookign home):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSvOVu9YpU0

No idea who the core band is but the bassist is really good.

citation needed (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 05:52 (three years ago)


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