Get Action (1995)

About this title: Aside from Guitar Wolf, Teengenerate are the best-known Japanese garage act in the United States, and their savage beat gets proper LP attention with Get Action. The band blasts through a dozen sound-alike tracks with good-natured violence and electrical velocity, produced on the cheap and recorded in one sitting so that the whole mess sounds like a crackling mass of static through a dusty stylus. Sometimes the band gets lost in the murk, but more often they come through with sheer adolescent energy and sloppy R&B aplomb. Greasier than the Ramones, more youthful than the Pagans, Teengenerate ... read more

Tracks:

1. Mess Me Up [Fink]
2. 1979 [Fink]
3. Dressed in Black
4. Fake Fake Fake [Fink]
5. Human Tornado [Fink]
6. Plastic Man [Fink]
7. Let's Get Hurt [Fink]
8. Right Now [Fink]
9. Radio 55 [Fink]
10. Front Page [Fifi]
11. She's So Fine [Fink]
12. Something You Got [Fink]
13. Kicked Out of the Webelos [Queers]
14. Don't Leave Me [Fifi/Fink]
15. I Don't Want to Follow You [Fink]
16. Hey Baby [Fink]
17. Shake, Rattle & Roll [Calhoun/Fink]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.