FEAR The Record (Slash)

This L.A. band runs circles around all the rest of the pussucking, starstruck Surf City swill breeds, and I'm not talking airheaded null-sets the likes of GoGo's or Blasters or semi-related powerpop/rockaboogie yuk. Black Flag, X, Angry Samoans—forget it, they all stink. Fear's got the message and it sticks out like a sore thumb caught in the chainsaw of life. Antipathy mixes humor and hate with snarling fast-rock acrobatics, the �message� gets real wild, and the whole thing starts to sound like some weird amphetamine analog of The Dictators Go Girl Crazy (in case you hadn�t noticed, one of the great LPs of all time).