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Hello Fellow Sorry Staters! It’s been a week or two since I have written a blurb on what I have been listening to. Between family vacations and being sick I have not had a whole lot of listening time to check out new stuff, so I figured this week I would just chat about something familiar to me and something you may not know about.
In the early 90s I went to church. A lot of church. Every Sunday morning and Sunday night and let’s not forgot youth group on Wednesdays! Since then, I have grown out of religion as a whole. Being the natural rebellious teenager I was, I always tried to seek out something different. My other brother was playing in bands with friends in high school and he would always let me in on what he was listening to. My parents were also selective about what music we could listen to, so when I discovered Tooth and Nail records, I thought I hit a gold mine. I bought everything that label put out for years. One band stood out to me so much because they differed from bands like Mxpx and Slick Shoes that were out on the label at that time. They were called Ninety Pound Wuss.
Like a lot of the bands on Tooth and Nail at the time, they were from the Seattle area but more specifically they were from Port Angeles, Washington and formed in 1994. Their first full length was 19 tracks of pure non stop thrashy fast punk with some sprinkles of poppy riffs to round it out. Lyrically, the record was about the persecution they faced being hardcore punk in the christian music scene, which at the time I could totally relate to. They only made 3 records, all equally good, but after the first record they started leaning toward post-punk and started to sound like the Blood Brothers.
I unfortunately only saw them once when they toured in the early 2000s at the Christian club in my hometown called “His Place” (lol), and from what I remember it was just me and about 5 of my friends that they played to. I wanted to talk about them in my pick this week because their records are very expensive and very hard to find. I still have my original cassette tape and CD and recently got a call from my brothers and they found a copy of the self titled record and plan to give it to me for my birthday this weekend!
If you are curious about the world of mixing religion and punk rock, check out these bands: Officer Negative, Headnoise, Crashdog, Overcome and No Innocent Victim. Cheers! Until next week!