This came out in 2000 — or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
Once a punk, always a punk.
After flirting with everything from R&B to C&W on their last disc At Rope’s End, Ohio’s New Bomb Turks return to their snaggle-toothed first mistress — hard-driving, no-holds-barred American punk rock — for their seventh studio album Nightmare Scenario. With the guitar jive of Chuck Berry, the blinding ferocity of Motörhead and the snot of The Dead Boys, singer Eric Davidson and his backing trio fire off a dozen grenades of authentic old-school three-chord riff-rock in little over a half-hour, with nary a pause for breath between tracks. Pity they didn’t pause long enough to tweak the sound a bit; the two-tin-cans-and-a-string production doesn’t come close to reproducing the band’s massive live attack. Still, you can’t quibble with the four-on-the-floor intensity of tunes like opening salvo Point To A Point Blank. “I dare you to hum to this,” challenges Davidson. He ain’t foolin.’
