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Classic Album Review: F-Minus | F-Minus

This hard-hitting punk quartet's debut deserves nothing short of an A-plus.

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):

 


If F-Minus leader Brad Logan’s name is familiar, you’re either an Agnostic Front fan or a South Park fan.

The punk vet guested on AF’s last CD, and Rancid named its track on the recent Chef Aid disc after him. So it’s no surprise that this CD from Logan’s own punk quartet was produced and released by Rancid’s Tim Armstrong — or that it hits as hard as anything from AF. Harder in fact. F-Minus don’t so much play songs as pitch them like grenades — these 20 tracks of rapid-fire power-polka drums, screeching-weasel guitars and broken-glass howls explode in your brain in just 17 minutes. That’s right, 20 songs, 17 minutes. You do the math. With speed and power like that, F-Minus deserve nothing short of an A-Plus.