McAwesome...yes the entire band was either still in high school or fresh out of high school when this album was written, recorded, and released! As a matter of fact Streetlight Manifesto has re-released this album with Tomas and a few old former Catch 22 members! Tomas said he hated the way it sounded when it was first recorded and wanted to clean it up and release it. The originals are amazing but inevitably just slightly flawed, maybe because they were young or maybe because of a small budget but either way the Catch 22 version is AMAZING for a group of young high school kids. Nonetheless the Streetlight Manifesto version is just as good if not better, with a little more SKA and a bit less PUNK! The horns are cleaner and the raging distortion parts are toned down making it a more SKA-oriented album as opposed to the original. EITHER WAY THIS ALBUM FUCKIN KILLS!!! EVERYONE WHO LOVES SKA AND PUNK SHOULD HEAR IT EITHER FROM CATCH 22 or STREETLIGHT MANIFESTO
McAwesome...yes the entire band was either still in high school or fresh out of high school when this album was written, recorded, and released! As a matter of fact Streetlight Manifesto has re-released this album with Tomas and a few old former Catch 22 members! Tomas said he hated the way it sounded when it was first recorded and wanted to clean it up and release it. The originals are amazing but inevitably just slightly flawed, maybe because they were young or maybe because of a small budget but either way the Catch 22 version is AMAZING for a group of young high school kids. Nonetheless the Streetlight Manifesto version is just as good if not better, with a little more SKA and a bit less PUNK! The horns are cleaner and the raging distortion parts are toned down making it a more SKA-oriented album as opposed to the original. EITHER WAY THIS ALBUM FUCKIN KILLS!!! EVERYONE WHO LOVES SKA AND PUNK SHOULD HEAR IT EITHER FROM CATCH 22 or STREETLIGHT MANIFESTO