Pearly Gates (album)

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Pearly Gates
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Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 19, 1999
Recorded1999 at For the Record, Orange, California
Genre Punk rock
Skate punk
Hardcore punk
Melodic hardcore
Label Nitro Records [1]
Jughead's Revenge chronology
Just Joined
(1998)
Pearly Gates
(1999)
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Pearly Gates is a studio album by Jughead's Revenge, released in 1999. [3] A lawsuit filed by Archie Comics forced the band to change their name to Jugg's Revenge; the band went on indefinite hiatus in 2001. [4]

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Critical reception

Exclaim! wrote that the album "proves exactly why this quartet is hailed one of the originators of the SoCal pop-punk sound that has been appropriated by so many other bands." [5] Skiing deemed it "California hardcore as bright and perfect as the halfpipe dreams ricocheting between the ears of untold thousands of high schoolers." [6]

Track listing

  1. "These Valley Streets" (2:45)
  2. "Lolita" (1:38)
  3. "Faust Part 2" (1:10)
  4. "No Time" (4:01)
  5. "Rising, Rising" (1:33)
  6. "Perfect" (2:02)
  7. "Swell" (2:15)
  8. "Make a Wish" (2:22)
  9. "Kill Security" (0:55)
  10. "You Never Know" (2:30)
  11. "Reprise" (1:35)
  12. "Rent a Cop Blues" (1:17)
  13. "Anthem" (2:20)
  14. "Just What I Needed (The Cars cover)" (3:36)

Personnel

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References

  1. "Download the Jughead's Revenge discography". The Pitch. February 17, 2010.
  2. "Jughead's Revenge – Pearly Gates". punknews.org.
  3. "Jughead's Revenge Biography, Songs, & Albums". AllMusic.
  4. "What's In A Name? A Brief History of Misadventures in Naming Rights in Modern Punk". Vice. Retrieved September 16, 2021.
  5. "Jughead's Revenge Pearly Gates". Exclaim!.
  6. "Good Hucking Music". Skiing. 52 (7): 34. March–April 2000.