Social Distortion

At times, 'Social Distortion' looks and sounds like the place where old skinheads go to die.
The back-cover photo of the album finds the Los Angeles quartet posing like mannequins at
a rockabilly wax museum. And the pumped-up music inside could snidely be called
corporate punk: all blustery, cleanly recorded AOR guitars and precise drums, with only
token nods to anything vaguely resembling the band's hardcore roots. Then agai... More >