The Dickies - We Aren't the World: The ROIR Sessions (1986/1990, ROIR)

No much time for a write-up today, but this one generally speaks for itself.  Since the mid-90s when I finally got the notion to investigating what The Dickies were all about...and as they say I never looked back.  Well, actually I did, considering by then they had recorded the vast majority of their records prior to that, and I was desperate to catch up.  The long and short of it all this L.A. helmed by frontman Leonard Graves-Phillips and guitar-slinger Stan Lee (and accompanied by a revolving door of drummers and bassists) was responsible for some of the finest punk pop this side of the Descendents and Buzzcocks, with an even snarkier m.o. than those two hallowed institutions. 

1986 saw the release of the originally cassette-only Dickies compilation We Aren't the World, released by legendary New York tape label ROIR. It was subsequently reissued on CD four years later, and the picture of the original cassette sleeve is worth looking up, as it's a hell of a lot more sardonic then the cover to your above let.  It commences with the four-song 1977 demo the band shopped to various record labels. A&M bit, and the rest is history.  The bulk of this album consists of live material culled from five separate performances spanning 1978-85. The exact where/when are provided on the tray card in the download folder.  Given the time frame, the sets draw heavily from the band's wonderful first two albums, The Incredible Shrinking Dickies and Dawn of the Dickies. And while nothing can substitute for seeing this band's antics in the flesh, a live Dickies album is nothing less than a cherished memento. The tracklist is below, with songs 5-25 being all live.  I've also recently updated the links to the pair of Dickies Archives fanclub albums I shared awhile back.

01-Hideous (demo)
02-I'm Ok, You're Ok (demo)
03-You Drive Me Ape (You Big Gorilla) (demo)
04-Walk Like an Egg (demo)
05-Paranoid
06-Give it Back
07-Sounds of Silence
08-Got it at the Store
09-Eve of Destruction
10-Rondo in a Major (Midget's Revenge)
11-Infidel Zombie
12-Curb Job
13-Gigantor
14-Nights in White Satin
15-You Drive Me Ape (vers 2)
16-Pretty Please
17-Poodle Party
18-She's a Hunchback
19-She
20-(I'm Stuck in a Pagoda With) Tricia Toyota
21-Manny, Moe, and Jack
22-Fan Mail
23-If Stewart Could Talk
24-Bowling With Bedrock Barney
25-Banana Splits

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