Dawn of the Dickies

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Dawn of the Dickies
Dickies - Dawn Of The Dickies album cover.jpg
Studio album by
The Dickies
ReleasedOctober 1979
StudioCherokee Recording Studios, Los Angeles, CA
Genre Punk
Length34:19 (reissue)
Label A&M [1]
Producer Robin Geoffrey Cable [2]
The Dickies chronology
The Incredible Shrinking Dickies
(1979)		Dawn of the Dickies
(1979)		 Stukas Over Disneyland
(1983)

Dawn of the Dickies is the second studio album by the California punk band Dickies. [3] [4] It includes the UK hits "Nights in White Satin" (a high-speed cover of the Moody Blues song), which reached No. 39 in the UK chart in September 1979, and "Fan Mail," which made No. 57 in February 1980.

Contents

The album's title and jacket cover, depicting the band members set upon by "zombies" in blue make-up, was a salute to the George A. Romero horror film, Dawn of the Dead .

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Smash Hits 4/10 [6]

Trouser Press wrote: "By slowing down the tempo a half step and coming up with strong melodies, guitarist Stan Lee and crew manage to reel off one maniacally catchy gem after another." [7] The Globe and Mail said that "the Dickies go for the three-chord charge, and to complement the jangly, harsh music they have written eminently disposable lyrics about silly friends and trite situations." [8] In 1995, the Los Angeles Daily News deemed the album "a junk-culture classic." [9]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Where Did His Eye Go?"Phillips, Lee3:41
2."Fan Mail"Phillips, Huffsteter, Kaballero3:04
3."Manny, Moe & Jack"Lee, Kaballero, Wilde2:50
4."Infidel Zombie"Phillips, Lee, Ainsworth, Kaballero3:04
5."I'm a Chollo"Phillips, Lee3:45
6."Nights In White Satin"Hayward2:55
7."(I'm Stuck In a Pagoda With) Tricia Toyota"Phillips, Lee, Wagon2:52
8."I've Got a Splitting Hedachi"Phillips, Lee, Kaballero2:29
9."Attack of the Mole Men"Phillips, Lee, Ainsworth3:41
10."She Loves Me Not"Phillips, Lee1:13
Captain Oi! CD bonus tracks
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
11."Gigantor"Raskin, Singer2:29
12."Bowling With Bedrock Barney"Phillips, Lee2:09

Personnel

Produced and Engineered by Robin Geoffrey Cable

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References

  1. ↑ Popoff, Martin (September 8, 2009). Goldmine Record Album Price Guide. Penguin. ISBN   9781440229169 – via Google Books.
  2. ↑ Thompson, Dave (June 30, 2000). Alternative Rock. Hal Leonard Corporation. ISBN   9780879306076 – via Google Books.
  3. ↑ Fissinger, Laura (Jun 26, 1980). "Dawn of the Dickies". Rolling Stone. No. 320. p. 80.
  4. ↑ Jancik, Wayne (28 July 1991). "The Dickies hope to get back in style". Show. Chicago Sun-Times. p. 2.
  5. ↑ Dawn of the Dickies at AllMusic
  6. ↑ Starr, Red. "Albums". Smash Hits (November 29 – December 12, 1979): 31.
  7. ↑ "Dickies". Trouser Press.
  8. ↑ McGrath, Paul (22 Mar 1980). "Dawn of The Dickies The Dickies". The Globe and Mail. p. F6.
  9. ↑ Shuster, Fred (23 Feb 1995). "For the Record, a Dickies-ography". Los Angeles Daily News. p. L5.


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