Dickies, The – Locked & Loaded

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New Vinyl Record – Dickies, The- Locked & Loaded

Yellow Vinyl

Featuring the late-’80 lineup of the group at a London 1990 show, the well-recordedLocked ‘n’ Loadedis no more or no less what it is — and why not? IfWe Aren’t The World!is the better live album thanks to its career retrospective feel and many highlights from the first version of the group, Locked ‘n’ Loadedis still a fine enough aural document of the demi-legends having a blast in the land of its greatest successes. A few then-recent cuts surface — “Cross-Eyed Tammy” and “Goin’ Homo,” fromSecond Coming, and the theme song from theKiller KlownsEP, which makes for a fine start. One then hard to find track also surfaced: “Just Say Yes,” the group’s nutty indulgence anthem, which wouldn’t get a proper studio release in America for a few more years. Otherwise it’s nostalgia galore from the band’s early days, with a merry inclusion of variousStukas Over Disneylandhighlights as well, like the glorious pop fun of “Pretty Please Me” and “She’s a Hunch Back.” “If Stewart Could Talk” always works best if one actually sees Leonard Graves Phillipstalking to his sock-puppet penis, admittedly, but such points are quibbling. The hilarious, bizarro cover versions with which the band helped make its name all surface — “Eve of Destruction,” “Paranoid,” “Gigantor,” “Banana Splits” — but it’s the originals that really showcase the band’s continuing appeal. The Dawn of the Dickiesclassics “(Stuck in a Pagoda) With Tricia Toyota” and “Manny, Moe & Jack” still are godly power pop punk of the best kind, and who could resist other winners like “Curb Job” and “Give It Back”? Add inPhillips’between-song patter and jokes, andthe Dickiesyet rule their roost.