Dickies - Dawn of the Dickies

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Free Music Review: Worth picking up for the lyrics alone
Hit: 5 Stars

Now while L.G. Phillips has one of the coolest singing voices of all time, most Dickies songs are so fast and furious that, for me at least, 50% of the lyrics are incomprehensible, and that 's after several listens. "Infidel Zombie" was always one of my favorite Dickies songs, but no matter how many times I listened to it, I could only get like 75% of the lyrics ("well I've been running for a while and I know that I'm the next in line, well she's a (something something a something with a something)" The most extreme example was "I've got a Splitting Hedachi" where all I could get was the first line and part of the chorus "Well it's a chilly chilly evening and I something something something" . I was overjoyed to find this on CD finally, but when we opened up the CD, we were even more overjoyed to find...lyrics! Man, was I ever wrong on some of them, and on a couple, the song even turned out to be about something completely different than I thought. With lots of bands, sometimes the lyrics you come up with turn out to be cooler than the actual lyrics when you find out what they are. Not with the Dickies! I managed to figure out "Where Did His Eye Go" was about Sammy Davis Jr when I first heard it (my husband actually had heard it a lot more, but never knew what it was about) only because I had just finished reading a book about him. Finding out all the lyrics made me love the song even more.

Dawn of the Dickies not only includes the classics 'Where Did His Eye Go'?, 'Fan Mail' , 'Manny, Moe and Jack', 'Infidel Zombie', 'I'm a Chollo', 'Nights in White Satin', 'I'm Stuck in a Pagoda With) Tricia Toyota', 'I've Got a Splitting Hedachi', 'Attack of the Mole Men', and 'She Loves Me Not' but also also has the bonus of having bonus tracks 'Gigantor' and 'Bowling With Bedrock Barney' (I actually danced so hard and fast to this song once I lost my balance and fell over) which before, I only had on vinyl. By the way, at chorus to 'Infidel Zombie' ends, " and I don't believe that there's a bullet with my name on it now".

Even if you already have this on vinyl, I recommend this CD for the bonus tracks and seeing the actual lyrics. One of the best records by one of the most underrated bands of all time.

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