This came out in 1999 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
DA quiffs. Thick-soled creepers. An upright bass and a Gretsch guitar. One look at The Living End and you might peg them as some sort of Stray Cats rockabilly wannabes. Actually, this Australian trio ire more rock than billy.
Singer Chris Cheney owes just as much to Billie Joe Armstrong as Brian Setzer, the band’s boom-chakka-boom beats are cranked up to Rancid-speed ska-punk rpms, and their punky sound is somewhere between Peter Gunn and The Clash’s Tommy Gun. Which might be the only thing wrong with this disc; sometimes you’re too busy noticing who they sound like to appreciate how good they are.
