*War's "Low Rider" was also significantly sampled by The Beastie Boys for their track "Slow Ride" on the 1986 album Licensed to Ill. *"Low Rider" was sampled by The Offspring in the remix version of " Pretty Fly For A White Guy". **Earth Eatz Dog - on their album "Sniff This!" *The song has been covered by the following artists: There are also scenes consisting of a driver showing off the album holding it out the window or on the windshield. At one point, an animated version of the face of the album "Why Can't We Be Friends" is lip-synching as well as a man wearing a mask of the album's face. The music video for the song consists of various pimpmobiles on a typical traffic suburban style street, showing two men each driving a pimpmobile. It reached number one on the Billboard R&B charts and peaked at number 7 on the Pop Singles chart.Īccording to the Allmusic review of the song, "the lyric takes the cool image of the low rider - the Chicano culture practice of hydraulically hot-rodding classic cars - and using innuendo, extends the image to a lifestyle." The record ends up with super fast attacks in the listener's face on "Wind-Up," "Willingly Unknowing" and "There Must Be a Better Way."įor the older people who did not grow up with modern trends, the internets and the one hit wonders, but with skate melodic punk, XXL shorts and NOFX shirts, I think this record is not just a must to be listened to, but most importantly, it brings back those memories and makes you understand how lucky we've been to start listening to music with this kind of bands that were more worried about letting the anger out with good anthems than caring about the look and the fashion." Low Rider" is a song written by the band War and appearing on their album " Why Can't We Be Friends?", released in 1975. "Episode 666" is a cover song by metal band In Flames and it's nice to see a death metal song find its way into this record, even though I must say it's the weakest song of the whole CD. "Such a Shame" and its straight and intense drummings make me fall in love with this band even more, and "Such a Shame"'s non-stop harmonies deliver what is the true No Fun at All manifesto: aggressive sound and clever lyrics. There is also space for little poppy melodies as on "Forevermore," which is a kind of mid-tempo song (very Bad Religion-ian style), and also "Sorry to Say," but the space to breathe is immediately filled with the old-school Vision sound on "It's Such a Good Thing" and "Man with Powers." Low Rider keeps on getting faster with good songs like "Anything Could Happen Here" - it's like "Believers," but faster, with the super catchy " whoa"s in the choruses. The band still brings me back to my early `90s, when I listened a lot to skatepunk bands, and I must say the fact that this band remained in silence for seven long years is a plus, because they are now able to come back as a new band that has nothing to do with the new trends. "Never Ending Stream" is a classic No Fun at All tune, with some aggressive and fast guitar riffs here and there, and a slower verse "Reckless (I Don't Wanna) is a 2:20 minute kick in the face, and the guitar riff infuenced by Black Sabbath's "Airdance" is the best thing to move you in this cold winter. Don't bother me if I use the words "classic No Fun at All" too many times from now on, because it's really that way. The album is opened by the track "Mine My Mind," which has a kind of slow intro, but then it turns into a super fast-paced punk rock song, as the rest of the record is. It's especially noticeable in the production, which is more raw and direct compared to State of Flow and makes the new songs sound better than ever. Low Rider is made of 14 kick-ass songs, where there is no space for slow-oriented rock or such stuff. The band left Burning Heart Records and is releasing this new album on their own record label, Beat 'Em Down Records, and the sound drastically goes back to the band's early releases: Vision, No Straight Angels and Out of Bounds are the kind of songs that come to mind, all shaken together, on this new record. After their 2001 breakup, not too long after the release of their slowest album, State of Flow, which was not very well-taken by fans, No Fun at All is back with a new, super fast and, most importantly, independent record. Anticipated by the first single "Reckless (I Don't Wanna)," here comes the brand new full-length by Swedish punk rock band No Fun at All, a band that, together with the likes of Satanic Surfers, Millencolin and Randy, shaped European punk in the `90s.
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