Back from Samoa

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Back from Samoa
Back from Samoa cover
Studio album by Angry Samoans
Released 1982
Genre Hardcore
Length 17:38
Label Triple X Records
Professional reviews
Angry Samoans chronology
Inside My Brain
(1980)
Back from Samoa
(1982)
Yesterday Started Tomorrow
(1986)


Back from Samoa is the second album by the American punk rock band Angry Samoans. It was released in 1982 (see 1982 in music).

The song "Homo-Sexual" was covered by The Soft Pink Truth on the album Do You Want New Wave or Do You Want the Soft Pink Truth? in 2004. Also the song "Lights Out" was covered by German punk band The Spermbirds on their album Nothing Is Easy, released in 1987 and by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones on the EP Ska-Core, the Devil, and More, released in 1993. "The Todd Killings" was covered by The Briefs on their Joy of Killing 7" and regularly perform the song live.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Gas Chamber" – 1:02 (Saunders/Turner)
  2. "The Todd Killings" – 0:38 (Saunders/Turner)
  3. "Lights Out" – 0:52 (Saunders/Turner)
  4. "My Old Man's a Fatso" – 1:32 (Saunders)
  5. "Time Has Come Today" – 2:07 (Joseph Chambers/Willie Chambers)
  6. "They Saved Hitler's Cock" – 1:40 (Jeff Dahl/Homer/Turner)
  7. "Homo-Sexual" – 0:52 (J. Falwell)
  8. "Steak Knife" – 1:00 (Saunders/Turner)
  9. "Haizman's Brain Is Calling" – 1:56 (Saunders/Turner)
  10. "Tuna Taco" – 0:38 (Homer)
  11. "Coffin Case" – 0:39 (Saunders)
  12. "You Stupid Jerk" – 0:23 (Saunders)
  13. "Ballad of Jerry Curlan" – 3:08 (Galligan/Turner/Vockeroth)
  14. "Not of This Earth" – 1:11 (Saunders/Turner)

[edit] Personnel

  • "Metal Mike" Saunders - vocals, guitar
  • Gregg Turner - vocals, guitar
  • P.J. Galligan - guitar
  • Todd Homer - bass guitar, vocals
  • Bill Vockeroth - drums