Nice, Nice Totally Bad Ass!
| Nice, Nice Totally Bad Ass! | ||||
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| 📅 Released | 2000 | |||
| Studio | UpStart Studios, in Hoboken, New Jersey | |||
| ⏳ Length | 24:57 | |||
| 🏷️ Label | Reinforcement Records, Umbilical Records | |||
| 🤑 Producer | Dave Smalley | |||
| Stick Figure Suicide chronology | ||||
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Nice, Nice, Totally Bad Ass! is the debut studio album from the American punk rock band Stick Figure Suicide.
Content[edit]
The twelve-track album was released with Reinforcement Records and Umbilical Records, in 2000. It was recorded in between the months of August and September 1999, afterwhich the band took a brief hiatus, and reformed with a new lineup.[1] Nice, Nice, Totally Bad Ass! is produced by the punk rock band Down by Law's frontman, Dave Smalley, with engineering by Chris Gibson, at UpStart Studios in Hoboken, New Jersey.[2] The album artwork and full-cover sleeve for the compact disc issue is by Kim Arndt, and is noted for being "first-rate," and "plenty to keep yourself entertained with even if you're nowhere near a CD player."[1] Nice, Nice, Totally Bad Ass! is described as energetic and melodic-punk rock, that has the "precision of Bad Religion with the anger of Black Flag."[2] It also draws comparison to the music of the hardcore punk band Minor Threat, and it contains a sped-up rendition of the alternative pop rock band Dramarama's song, "Anything, Anything."[3] The album was re-released with DIYrection, on 13 September 2002.[4]
Reception[edit]
A review of Nice, Nice, Totally Bad Ass! in Jersey Beat says that Stick Figure Suicide has "mastered all the old-school hardcore moves while keeping a few new-jack tricks up their sleeves. They're fast and impressively accomplished musicians, but the music isn't thrash or metal; the vocals come across as pissed off, but not particularly aggressive or confrontational. With chops, ambition, and even a sense of humor, [they] look ready to break out of NJ's all-ages underground punk scene and take on the world."[3] The zine Agree to Disagree calls it "great melodic harcore, not to be confused with pop-punk what-so-ever! Really Cool shit here!"[5]
Regarding their hiatus, The Aquarian Weekly notes that "Stick Figure Suicide are back in action, and they've released a nice CD to punctuate their return. They took some time off to make some line-up changes [and] it was time well spent," adding "hats off to Umbilical Records for getting behind another good punk project."[1]
Track listing[edit]
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Dred" | 2:33 | |
| 2. | "Kim" | 1:03 | |
| 3. | "Open Wounds" | 4:58 | |
| 4. | "Sleeping Pills" | 3:38 | |
| 5. | "FlashLite Girl" | 0:46 | |
| 6. | "Not Give Up" | 2:06 | |
| 7. | "Pig Roast" | 0:58 | |
| 8. | "Anything, Anything (I'll Give You)" | Dramarama | 2:34 |
| 9. | "Joe College" | 2:52 | |
| 10. | "Nice, Nice, Totally Bad Ass!" | 3:29 | |
| Total length: | 24:57 | ||
References[edit]
- Citations
- Bibliography
- AllMusic Staff (2002), "Nice, Nice, Totally Bad Ass!", AllMusic, retrieved 20 April 2019
- Andy (1999), "Nice, Nice, Totally Bad Ass!", Agree to Disagree (8)
- The Aquarian Weekly Staff (22 December 1999), "Nice, Nice, Totally Bad Ass!", The Aquarian Weekly
- Punk Planet Staff (March–April 2002), "Stick Figure Suicide", Punk Planet (42), retrieved 19 April 2019CS1 maint: Date format (link)
- Testa, Jim (December 1999), "Nice, Nice, Totally Bad Ass! CD Review", Jersey Beat (66)
