No Worse for the Wear

Last updated
No Worse for the Wear
No Worse for the Wear.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedMay 20, 1994
RecordedSeptember 1993
Genre Pop punk
Length31:51
Label Cargo/Headhunter Records
Producer Stephen Egerton
Bill Stevenson
Big Drill Car chronology
Toured (A Live Album)
(1993)
No Worse for the Wear
(1994)
A Never Ending Endeavor
(2009)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic (not rated) [1]
Punk Planet Favorable [2]

No Worse for the Wear is the third studio album by Orange County pop punk band Big Drill Car. It is the only album without their classic original line-up, featuring new members Keith Fallis and Darrin Norris. The band reached a little success through the album, if only for a short time before their 13-year break-up, from 1995 to 2008. The release of No Worse for the Wear would also gain Big Drill Car supporting slots on national and world tours with bands such as The Offspring (who had just released Smash to unexpected success and acclaim) and Guttermouth.

Contents

The songs "The Shake", "Nogaina", and "What You Believe" were featured, amongst other Cargo/Headhunter Records artists, in the 1997 Sega Saturn/Sony PlayStation game Courier Crisis .

Like many Big Drill Car albums, No Worse for the Wear is currently out of print.

Track listing

Track listing
Track numberSong nameDuration
1The Shake2:27
2Friend of Mine3:14
3Duck and Cover1:22
4Nagain3:10
5In Disguise2:58
6Crystal's Ball2:35
7Wondering3:27
8What You Believe2:26
9Thin White Line2:41
10Step Right Up2:47
11Yer Holdin2:13
12Hye2:31

Personnel

Additional personnel

Related Research Articles

Primal Scream Scottish rock band

Primal Scream is a Scottish rock band originally formed in 1982 in Glasgow by Bobby Gillespie (vocals) and Jim Beattie. The band's current lineup consists of Gillespie, Andrew Innes (guitar), Martin Duffy (keyboards), Simone Butler (bass), and Darrin Mooney (drums). Barrie Cadogan has toured and recorded with the band since 2006 as a replacement after the departure of guitarist Robert "Throb" Young.

Goldfinger (band)

Goldfinger is an American punk rock and ska punk band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 1994. In their early years the band is widely considered to have been a contributor to the movement of third-wave ska, a mid-1990s revitalization in the popularity of ska. However, the releases of Open Your Eyes and Disconnection Notice saw the band shed most of the ska influence, and they have been more commonly placed in the punk rock genre in later years.

<i>Punk in Drublic</i> 1994 studio album by NOFX

Punk in Drublic is the fifth studio album by the American punk rock band NOFX. It was released on July 19, 1994 through Epitaph Records. The title is a spoonerism of "Drunk in Public".

Greg Hetson

Greg Hetson is an American guitarist. He was born in Brooklyn, New York and has lived in the Los Angeles area since he was 2 years old. Active since 1979, Hetson is best known as the guitarist for the influential hardcore punk bands Redd Kross, Circle Jerks and Bad Religion. He is known for his high energy stage antics which people have coined the term "The Hetson Leap ". Hetson was a founding member of and also plays guitar in another supergroup, Punk Rock Karaoke, and the hardcore punk band G.F.P.

Face to Face (punk band) American punk rock band formed in 1991

Face to Face is a punk rock band from Southern California, formed in 1991 by frontman Trever Keith, bassist Matt Riddle and drummer Rob Kurth. The band rose to fame with their 1995 album Big Choice, featuring the radio hit "Disconnected" which received heavy rotation on KROQ radio in Los Angeles and appeared in the movies Tank Girl and National Lampoon's Senior Trip.

<i>Big Choice</i> 1995 studio album by Face to Face

Big Choice is a full-length album by the California punk band Face to Face, released in 1995. It was released on Victory Music in 1995, and then re-released on A&M Records. "Disconnected" was released to alternative radio on January 20, 1995.

Big Drill Car

Big Drill Car is a punk rock group from Costa Mesa, California, formed in 1987. While the group never gained a mainstream audience, they provided an influence on their contemporaries – most notably ALL, Chemical People and Dag Nasty – alongside they are considered early pioneers of melodic hardcore.

<i>Brain Drain</i> (album) 1989 studio album by the Ramones

Brain Drain is the eleventh studio album by the American punk rock band the Ramones, released on March 23, 1989. It is the last Ramones release to feature bassist/lyricist/vocalist Dee Dee Ramone, the first to feature Marky Ramone since his initial firing from the band after 1983's Subterranean Jungle and the band's last studio album on Sire Records.

The Adicts

The Adicts are a British punk band from Ipswich, Suffolk, England. One of the most popular punk rock bands in the 1980s, they were often in the indie charts during that decade.

Small Block is the debut EP of the Huntington Beach pop punk band Big Drill Car, released in 1988 on their own Varient Records! label and again in 1990 on Cruz Records.

<i>Batch</i> (album) 1991 studio album by Big Drill Car

Batch is the second album by Orange County pop punk band Big Drill Car. It was released in 1991.

<i>CD Type Thing</i> 1989 studio album by Big Drill Car

CD Type Thing is the first album by Huntington Beach punk band Big Drill Car, released in 1989. Many consider this album to be a classic of the late '80s hardcore punk scene, and the peak of Big Drill Car's career.

Darrin Michael Pfeiffer is an American musician, record producer, band manager and radio personality. He has played drums in the pop punk bands Goldfinger and Sum 41 and The Salads.

Suburban Rhythm was a ska punk band from Long Beach, California. Formed in 1990, they played numerous shows in small-venue clubs with many now famous O.C. bands opening their performances, including Sublime, No Doubt, and Reel Big Fish. Suburban Rhythm met with various roster changes and broke up in 1994. Three years later in 1997 their only full-length album, Suburban Rhythm was released.

<i>Scars</i> (Gary Moore album) 2002 studio album by Scars

Scars is a 2002 album by the Gary Moore-led blues rock group called Scars.

<i>Pummel</i> (album) 1995 studio album by All

Pummel is the sixth studio album by the American punk rock band All, released April 4, 1995 through Interscope Records. It was the band's only album released through a major record label, and the first album recorded at The Blasting Room, a recording studio in Fort Collins, Colorado built by the band members and financed with money acquired from their recording contract with Interscope.

<i>Oddities, Abnormalities and Curiosities</i> 1995 studio album by Circle Jerks

Oddities, Abnormalities and Curiosities is the sixth studio album by American hardcore punk band Circle Jerks, released June 20, 1995 by Polygram Records. It is the band's last studio album to date.

Toured was a live album by Huntington Beach pop punk band Big Drill Car. The concert was recorded live at New York's CBGB's on September 3, 1991, at the beginning of a nineteen-week tour known as The Batch World Tour, in support of the then-current album Batch, but wasn't released until two years later.

Adam and the Ants

Adam and the Ants were a British rock band active during the late 1970s and early 1980s. The group, which lasted from 1977 to 1982, existed in two incarnations, both fronted by Adam Ant. The first, founded in May 1977 and known simply as The Ants until November that year, achieved considerable cult popularity during the transition from the punk rock era to the post-punk and new wave era, and were noted for their high camp and overtly sexualised stage performances and songs. The final line-up of this first incarnation – Dave Barbarossa, Matthew Ashman and Leigh Gorman – left the band in January 1980 at the suggestion of then-de facto manager Malcolm McLaren, to form the instrumentalist personnel of the controversial Bow Wow Wow.

Carnival Art was an American alternative rock band. Formed in Los Angeles in 1989, the band in the beginning consisted of Michael Petak, Shane Paul Rhody, Ed Dobrydnio, and Keith Fallis. They released their debut album, titled Like Nobody's Business, exclusively on vinyl through their own record label Spineless Voodoo Records the same year. After this album, Rhody exited the band, with Dobrydnio replacing him on guitar and Brian Bell joining the band to assume bass duties.

References

  1. [No Worse for the Wear at AllMusic
  2. Horn, Bret Van (July–August 1994). "Record Reviews". Punk Planet (2): 51.