Always Was, Is And Always Shall Be | ||||
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Studio album by GG Allin | ||||
Released | 1980 | |||
Recorded | 1978-80 | |||
Genre | Punk rock, power pop | |||
Label | Orange Records | |||
Producer | GG Allin and The Jabbers | |||
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Reissue cover | ||||
The reissue cover art is a picture of Allin from 13 years after the album's original release, taken backstage on the Jerry Springer set in the last year of his life.
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Allmusic | [1] |
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Always Was, Is And Always Shall Be is the debut studio album by American punk rock musician GG Allin, released in 1980 on Orange Records. Some of its 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. The music is of much higher quality in terms of both sound recording and playing than Allin's later output. The heavily New York Dolls and Stooges-influenced music itself is a catchy mix of power pop and hardcore punk, like most of Allin's early material up until the mid 1980s.
Thematically, while the lyrics are often intentionally lewd and snotty, these songs do not represent the extreme antisocial and violent tone of Allin's later releases from the mid-1980s onwards (though they are somewhat humorous). Although he is indeed credited with playing drums on this album (credited as Kevin Allin), it is not known for which of the tracks he did.
Steve Huey, reviewing for Allmusic, said of Always Was, Is And Always Shall Be: "Amazingly enough, the violent hatred, sexual and psychological degradation, and staggering stupidity only hint at the heights (or depths) Allin would reach later."
The reissue cover art is a picture of Allin from 13 years after the album's original release, taken backstage on the Jerry Springer set in the last year of his life.
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