This is the debut LP from Shitty Weekend, Portland’s most smart-mouthed DIY shredders. The band shares several members with the Taxpayers, including frontdude Andrew Link, as well as PDX grindcore stalwarts Transient. Taxpayers fans will be happy to recognize some familiar goofpunx elements in “Shit Week”, including bouncy horn lines and plenty of folky arpeggios, but Shitty Weekend. But it doesn’t shy away from the nastier, thrashier end of the punk spectrum either. Songs like “Don’t Tell Me Don’t” and “Employee of the Month” channel the frantic hostility of ‘80s hardcore punk in furious bursts, self-destructing before the one-minute-mark as often as not. Andrew’s shrieking vocals expound on religion, government, dad rock, and 9-to-5 ambitions while distorted guitars screech and Noah wails on the drums like his life depends on it. The end result is melodic, aggressive, sarcastic, dissonant, sincere, and punk as fuck. No fucking flossing, punk rock or die.
Featuring similarly punk as fuck cover art by Keith Rosson.
This is a run of 500 LPs: 250 on randomly mixed colored vinyl and 250 on black. Random mix vinyl comes in a few variants and all of them legitimately look awesome. You get what you get! If you reeeaally like a certain color, leave a note in your order and we'll try to get you one.
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lyrics
This is gonna be the weekend that we take this place by storm
Like gasoline and a packet of matches, tear down the stage like locusts—we just wanna swarm
And scream our little heads off so we can pass out for the night
To wake up in a pile of our own filth, down headache pills and coffee at noon, noonday light
Then the cops arrive saying Creedence Clearwater would be ashamed
That you kids have no respect and Marilyn Manson's still to blame
Back when I was a young man music use to have a message and a melody
Now all you kids do is blast that crap while decent people are trying to sleep
Now all the high school kids, they gotta go home
Now their whole fucking weekend’s blown
Twenty missed calls from their folks on their smartphones
And oh shit, they just missed the last bus headed their way
i dont know if i can truly say i have a favorite but this is my most often favorite. im just so beyond happy to finally have a chance to grab this on vinyl. i love you guys all so much. especially rob. thank you for everything. skocotic
The Taxpayers were able to put down a tacklist of songs that allow us to go on a journey. In this album we experience the manic highs and lows one may experience in a life long battle with deteriorating mental health. The picture at times grim and beautiful is one I continually come back to as its tragedy never fades. Ulysses Johnson
love love love love LOVE this album!!!!! theres not enough space in my brain to write everything i love about it.
i dont normally like instrumentals, but Blackridge Theme really sticks out in my mind. every time I listen to it, I feel like I'm hearing a new song. there's so many instruments, so many rhythms and layers to it and I just can't get enough of it. amazing work, and kudos!! gothsloths
fell into Days n' Daze when I was travelling, thanks to some of my road dogs. I don't have that freedom anymore but I feel a piece of it Everytime I listen to their music. love y'all! thefool309