from the LP Group Sex, Frontier Records, 1980Never one to deal in subtlety or allegories, lead crooner Keith Morris (formerly singer and co-founder of legendary group Black Flag) basically serves many of us our misspent adolescence on a platter here; summing up the common experiences of myself and so many other angsty kids growing up at the beach in under a minute, he totally resists the urge to digress, “…I was a hippie, I was a burnout, I was a dropout, you know I was out of my head, and I was a surfer, I had a skateboard, I was so heavy man, you know I lived on the strand…I was so fucked up, I was so screwed up, I was so jacked up, couldn't get any higher than that, and I was so pilled up, I was so nebbed up (mmmm, Nembutals…), I was so jacked up, I was out of my head…I was so wasted, I was wasted…” Only in his 20s when he wrote this song, Mr. Morris continued to be wasted on various drugs for another couple of decades before getting cleaned up, which isn’t hypocritical really, since he doesn’t mention quitting here, just reeling over crazy times past.
