Hanson Brothers - Gross Misconduct

Tracks

Side 1

		Track Name	Length
	1	No Emotion	01:56
	2	It's a Secret	01:35
	3	A Night Without You	03:06
	4	My Girlfriend's a Robot	02:02
	5	Sabrina	02:50
	6	Butthead	01:54
	7	Go Away	02:29

Side 2

		Track Name	Length
	1	Comatose	02:44
	2	Road Pizza	01:45
	3	No More Headcheese	01:43
	4	Duke it Out	02:19
	5	Lovesick	02:29
	6	Jack Off	03:05
	7	Total Goombah!	02:30

Side 3

		Track Name	Length
	1	Blitzkrieg Hops	01:50

Side 4

		Track Name	Length
	1	You Are Not for Me	02:09
	2	Bad	02:19

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Information/Write-up

From the parody of the Road to Ruin album cover to the straightforward punk rock assault, Gross Misconduct is Ramones idolization, pure and simple. This could be filed away under basic hero worship if not for one thing: The Hanson Brothers utterly blow away their mentors in every way imaginable.

It's no secret that the Hanson Brothers are essentially a side project of NoMeansNo's Wright brothers and Tom Holliston (know as Tommy, Johnny and Robbie Hanson here), paying tribute to the band that inspired them to play punk rock as well as allowing their hockey fan side to have a part of their music. Several songs have hockey references and the song "Duke It Out" is about the Unified Team from the former Soviet Union. What the Hanson Bros. do throughout this excellent album is nothing but refine the formula the Ramones created. However, while the Ramones were limited by their own talent shortcomings, the Hanson Bros. are not and in fact play this simple three chord punk with marvelous skill, adding a layer of depth where many bands are unable to tread. The songs are simple but have so much energy that you can't help but pogo along with them. The second side of this album is nothing more and nothing less than a juggernaut of intense adrenaline charged fun punk being played at its finest. The lyrics are pretty silly, as "No More Headcheese" will attest, but they're delivered well by Johnny Hanson. You will be forced to sing along, under threat of a hockey stick being delivered at full force to your noggin. The album is terribly infectious and simply provides a healthy dose of good, violent fun..
-John Chedsey

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