Pitchforkmedia.com
. . . From their most infamous moment, the band lunges forth like an unholy zombie, lurching and screaming its rotting brains out, Soxx shredding his throat as he shrieks and sneers about hacking up nuns and priests. . . Truly abhorrent shit, Some People Deserve to Suffer renders similar relics like Generic Flipper or the Germs' GI into pleasant, light-hearted romps. Not a mean feat.
-Andy Beta, March 6th, 2003
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Mojo Magazine, Englands' premier music magazine.
Mojo (12/02, p.113) - "...SMWRG carved their own niche in Texan punk history with a singularly inspired mixture of misanthropy, psychosis and an audience-bating live show..."
Mojo (1/03, p.75) - Ranked #6 in Mojo's "Best Underground Albums of 2002"
Magnet Magazine - January/February 2003 Issue
". . . at the underground Texas noise-punk forefront, lobbing lyrical bombs about serial killers, televangelists and killing your white trash mom."
-Ron Bally
KSCU Radio - Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California
"Screeching, yowling, beer-bottle-throwing underground club scene punk. Recorded live on cheap equipment, this album conveys the urgent, hellish, hostile chaos of a Stick Men with Ray Guns show. WARNING: This music WILL provoke a response! RIYL: Butthole Surfers, Black Flag, Dead Kennedys."
-Dave C.
Platenworm - Netherlands Underground Music Source
Legendary Fucked Up Noise Punk band Retrospective / Essential for people into the Butthole Surfers and Drunks With Guns
Titanium
Exposé - TOP 10 REISSUES
(or recordings NOT made in, or within close proximity
to, 2002)
True 'dat. The first time I heard of the SMWRG was when DIM STARS covered "Christian Rat Attack." Now, nearly a decade later, when interest in Texas punk bands from the '80s is at an all-time low (i.e., the BUTTHOLE SURFERS), they release this disc to absolutely zero recognition. Not if I can help it.
And appearing on the playlists of radio staions everywhere!
(Just a partial listing, more every day)
WFMU
- FM - New York City, NY
WLUW - FM - Loyola University, Chicago, MI
WPRB- FM - Princeton, NJ
WNYU - FM - New York City, NY
KFJC - FM - Los Altos Hills, CA
WXYC - FM - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
KUOM - AM - University of Minnesota, Minneapolis & St. Paul
KVRX - Austin, TX