Back from Samoa

Back from Samoa is the debut full-length album by the American punk rock band Angry Samoans.[5] It was released in 1982 on Bad Trip Records.[6][3]

Back from Samoa
Studio album by
Angry Samoans
Released1982
GenreHardcore punk
Length17:38
LabelTriple X Records
Angry Samoans chronology
Inside My Brain
(1980)		 Back from Samoa
(1982)		 Yesterday Started Tomorrow
(1986)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Christgau's Record GuideA[2]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[3]
Spin Alternative Record Guide9/10[4]

Production

The album contains a cover of the Chambers Brothers' "Time Has Come Today."[7]

Critical reception

Trouser Press wrote that "the brief, well-played songs on Back From Samoa have cool titles ... but the lyrics are rarely as clever."[8] Alternative Press called the album "hilarious," writing that it "rocks like a spastic colon."[9] The Spin Alternative Record Guide wrote that "the extremism of this viciously witty, explosive thrash is compelling, perhaps because it's rooted in self-hatred."[4]

Track listing
  1. "Gas Chamber" – 1:02 ("Metal Mike" Saunders/Gregg Turner)
  2. "The Todd Killings" – 0:38 (Saunders/Turner)
  3. "Lights Out" – 0:52 (Saunders/Turner)
  4. "My Old Man's a Fatso" – 1:32 (Saunders)
  5. "Time Has Come Today" – 2:07 (Joseph Chambers/Willie Chambers)
  6. "They Saved Hitler's Cock" – 1:40 (Jeff Dahl/Todd Homer/Turner)
  7. "Homo-Sexual" – 0:52 (J. Falwell)
  8. "Steak Knife" – 1:00 (Saunders/Turner)
  9. "Haizman's Brain Is Calling" – 1:56 (Saunders/Turner)
  10. "Tuna Taco" – 0:38 (Homer)
  11. "Coffin Case" – 0:39 (Saunders)
  12. "You Stupid Jerk" – 0:23 (Saunders)
  13. "Ballad of Jerry Curlan" – 3:08 (P.J. Galligan/Turner/Bill Vockeroth)
  14. "Not of This Earth" – 1:11 (Saunders/Turner)

Personnel
  • "Metal Mike" Saunders - vocals, guitar
  • Gregg Turner - vocals, guitar
  • P.J. Galligan - guitar
  • Todd Homer - bass guitar, vocals
  • Bill Vockeroth - drums
  • Ronn Spencer - album design

References
  1. Back from Samoa at AllMusic
  2. Christgau, Robert (1990). "A". Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s. Pantheon Books. ISBN 0-679-73015-X. Retrieved August 16, 2020 – via robertchristgau.com.
  3. Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Volume 1: MUZE. p. 198.CS1 maint: location (link)
  4. Spin Alternative Record Guide. Vintage Books. 1995. pp. 14–15.
  5. "Angry Samoans | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  6. Blush, Steve (2001). American Hardcore: A Tribal History. Feral House. p. 305.
  7. "Cover songs of the '80s: Angry Samoans' 'Time Has Come Today'". Tampa Bay Times.
  8. "Angry Samoans". Trouser Press. Retrieved 21 November 2020.
  9. Stegall, Tim (April 21, 2020). "These 15 punk albums from 1982 continue to bring the fire to this day".
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