Track Listing

1. There's a Metal Head in the Parking Lot
2. Park
3. Eighteen
4. What I Learned
5. February One
6. Sick of This Place
7. Good Times Gone
8. Almost Punk Enough
9. Cheat to Win
10. Crooked
11. Colorado
12. 74 Fullerton
13. She Doesn't Love Me
14. My Way
15. Geek
16. Not Tonight
17. Ed
18. Punks
19. Nate B.
20. Broken Down
21. Johnny
22. Wake up Stanley
23. My Only Friend
24. Earth Angel
25. Alternative Radio

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #155731 in Music
• Released on: 1997-06-10
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Ska/Punk Classic
Less Than Jake's "Losing Streak", really got me into a Ska/Punk phase a few years ago, so I read a bunch of positive reviews about Slapstick, and figured I'd better pick up this CD. To be honest, I didn't really like the CD at all at first and was initially disappointed because I was hoping for a Less Than Jake clone. But like Operation Ivy's "Energy" album, I got a couple of its tunes stuck in my head, and the more and more I listened to it, the better and better it became. It's one of those albums that every time you give it a listen, you hear something new, and like it that much more. The CD was also my first exposure to vocalist Brendan Kelly (Later a vocalist for The Broadways and The Lawrence Arms) whose voice just packs every song with overwhelming energy and excitement. The lyrics are deep and thought out, many of them political, and many of them dealing with the everyday life of being a punk in Chicago. This band was the starting point for many artists in the great punk bands of the 1990's and early 2000's. Members of this band eventually went on to bands such as Less Than Jake, The Alkaline Trio, The Broadways, The Lawrence Arms, and The Honor System. This really is one of the Greatest Ska/Punk CD's of all time.

If you like this CD I would also suggest:

Operation Ivy- "Energy"
Less Than Jake- "Pezcore" & "Losing Streak"
The Suicide Machines- "Destruction by Definition"
The Lawrence Arms- "Guided Tour of Chicago"

Amazing ska/punk.
I was not expecting this CD to be this good. I bought it only from hearing one song 'There's a metalhead in the parking lot' which is an awesome song. I was blown away the first time I listened to it. Every song on this CD is amazing, they blend ska and punk perfectly. The horn section is great it will get stuck in your head forever. It stinks that they broke up because they are still one of the greatest ska/punk bands out today. They remind me a bit of Operation Ivy, or even Against All Authority. Just get this, you won't regret it!

Slapstick = Good.
This is one of the best CDs Ive heard in the ska-core world in a long time. After I got tired of Less Than Jake and Mustard Plug, I had to find something new. Here it is. This is an awesome CD. The horn parts are too catchy for their own good. (All you stupid morons out there sayin Slapstick sounds too much like LTJ, you have to realize that Pete, the trombone from this band is now IN LTJ. He joined when these guys broke up in '97. God, you morons, just shut up!)