Good News About Mental Health

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Good News About Mental Health
Good News About Mental Health.jpg
Studio album by
the Afflicted
Released1985 (1985)
Studio
  • The Automatt, San Francisco
  • Time Enough
  • World Enough Studios, San Francisco
  • Studio D, Sausalito
Label Infrasonic
Producer Dan Levitan

Good News About Mental Health is the first and only studio album by the San Francisco-based skate punk band the Afflicted. It was released on vinyl on Infrasonic Records in 1985 (ILP01). Thrasher wrote "The Afflicted provide sloppy, fun thrills for the aural craving. These guys have a buncha styles all wrapped up into one easy-to-use musical fun-fest…a fine, noisy record." [1] Option 's review described it as "Funny, cynical semi-thrash post-punk with rock and metal overtones…The general atmosphere is manic but controlled, the vocals are clear and understandable, and the music is energetic and unadorned." [2]

Contents

Track listing

Side one

  1. "Summer of Love" (Dan Rancid, Daryl Bach, Barry Wilder, Frankie John Lennon) – 2:11
  2. "Rock and Roll" (Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, John Bonham) – 1:32
  3. "Living on Beer" (Rancid, Bach, Dirty Al, Lennon) – 2:35
  4. "Schizoid Baby" (Rancid, Bach) – 3:24
  5. "Daddy's Girl" (Rancid, Bach, Lennon) – 1:32
  6. "After the Catastrophe" (Lennon, Wilder, Rancid, Bach) – 3:30

Side two

  1. "Here Come the Cops" (Rancid, Williams, Kreitser, Bach) – 2:20
  2. "Sold Us to the Martians" (Rancid, Bach, Lennon, Wilder) – 2:56
  3. "Dope Dreams" (Lennon) – 1:28
  4. "Punk for the FBI" (Rancid, Kevin Callahan) – 1:58
  5. "Ice Age" (Afflicted) – 2:11
  6. "Jonesin' for Your Love" (Afflicted) – 3:44
  7. "Sweet Jane" (Lou Reed) – 5:32

Personnel

Production

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References

  1. "April 1985". www.thrashermagazine.com. Retrieved 2020-11-26.
  2. "Reviews". Option—Music Alternatives. November 1985.