Always Was, Is And Always Shall Be
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[edit] Background
G.G. Allin's first album. Some songs were recorded over a period of several years in the late 1970s, from 1978 to 1980, when Allin was with the band The Jabbers. Various singles were released with these songs, and eventually they were collected to make this album in 1980.
Most notable, Allin's singing voice had not yet deteriorated from his extreme substance abuse. This is, therefore, the best sounding album of Allin's catalog. The music is of much higher quality, both in terms of the actual playing and in terms of the sound recording, than Allin's later output. The music itself is a catchy mix of power pop and hardcore punk, like most of his early material up until the mid 1980's.
Thematically, the songs do not represent the extreme scatological, anti-social, and violent tone that Allin's later work exhibits. However, this does not mean that the album transcends juvenile punk rock, since songs like "Beat, Beat, Beat", "Assface", and "Pussy Summit Meeting" are gutter lyrics (albeit snottily humourous ones). The lyrics of "I Need Adventure" presage the later lifestyle of Allin. It is doubtful that Allin himself wrote all the songs. "1980's Rock N' Roll" is not like any lyric Allin ever wrote.
Allin is not credited with playing drums on this album, but is said to have played drums on many of the songs.
[edit] Track List
- Bored To Death
- Beat, Beat, Beat
- One Man Army
- Assface
- Pussy Summit Meeting
- Cheri Love Affair
- Automatic
- I Need Adventure
- Don't Talk To Me
- Unpredictable
- 1980's Rock N' Roll
| GG Allin |
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| Bands: The Jabbers - The Scumfucs - Psycho (band) - Bloody Mess & The Skabs - Antiseen - The Murder Junkies |
| GG Allin - Merle Allin - Dick Urine - Mykel Board - Mark Kramer - David Peel |
| Studio albums: Always Was, Is And Always Shall Be - Eat My Fuc - Hated in the Nation - You Give Love a Bad Name (album) - Freaks, Faggots, Drunks and Junkies - Banned in Boston (album) - Carnival Of Excess: Limited Edition - The Troubled Troubador -Brutality and Bloodshed for All |
| EPs: The Troubled Troubador (EP) |
| Films:Hated: GG Allin and the Murder Junkies |
| See also: Punk rock - Hardcore punk - Shock rock - Scum punk - Transgressive art - Nihilism - Country and Western |
