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Social Distortion > Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes


lives in excellent health rock n 'roll rebel offensive and Social Distortion, one of the most clearly anti-social of American rock. Born in 1979 in the suburbs of Los Angeles Social Distortion became one of the most fracassone and infamous act of Orange County punk scene of allying with Germs, Black Flag, the Dickies, Circle Jerks to what was in the hardcore of the late California seventies. Their debut album dates from 1983 (first There had been a bit 'of individuals and a few appearances on compilations) with Mommy's Monster Lille and did everything he hoped for a future unless the recalcitrant leader, singer / guitarist Mike Ness is pitted in a tunnel of hard drugs that first forced to disband the group and then to squeeze into a busy rehabilitation heroin. Crowned by a return to the scene in 1988 with Prison Bound, SD's second album and first approach to those roots that follows the homonymous album, the group will take on an original version of Ring Of Fire by Johnny Cash. Social Distortion
Gradually moving from hardcore to punk-tinged country, blues and rockabilly, so much so that Mike Ness for some time after the prints give a splendid solo effort Cheating At Solitaire with a monumental version of Dylan Do not Think Twice. Social Distortion
I will create a sound tense, nervous, rocknrollistico, a sort of urban Jason & The Scorchers with massive infiltration of Stones first manner, confirmed the shooting Backstreet Girl "and" Under My Thumb.
Since 1990 will be four albums released by the SD, some with titles, White Light, White Heat, White Trash and Sex, Love and Rock n'Roll , who make no secret of their vocation for the breach. But beyond that, and this è la novità, nelle liriche di Mike Ness spunterà una adesione verso banditi, sbandati e gente tagliata fuori dal sogno americano con riferimenti espliciti verso il gangsterismo rurale della grande depressione e lo scenario proletario della southern California.
Una dimostrazione di questo approccio arriva da Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes dove Ness si libera del ribellismo solo estetico per approdare ad un duro punk-a-billy dalle sfumature sociali dove le chitarre veementi e urlate (Ness e Jonny Wickershaw) ed una sezione ritmica killer (il basso di Brent Harding e la batteria di David Hidalgo Jr.) servono come viatico per un rock n’roll vivo, barricadiero e senza compromessi.
Introdotto da uno strumentale (Road Zombie) in chiave tarantiniana e garage, Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes brucia energia ed elettricità come una Harley a pieno regime, è potente, viscerale, diretto, insolente come una canzone degli Stones, arrabbiato come un folk di protesta, disperato come un country di Hank Williams, veloce come un cow-punk degli Scorchers.
Dal repertorio di Hank Williams viene estratta Alone and Forsaken ed è l’unica cover del disco perché il resto è tutta farina del sacco di Ness, dal turbinio di gangsters di Machine Gun Blues ai ricordi sui bei tempi andati di Still Alive , dai miraggi del deserto di Bakersfield ai sogni di biker di Far Side Of Nowhere to the gospel of amphetamine Can not Take It With You .
Against the backdrop of their bloody southern California (California hustel and flow) Social Distortion sound like the Clash of the new millennium, are dirty, wild, dangerous and tattooed blues, absolutely necessary.


MAURO ZAMBELLINI January 2011