I spent a lot of time at the end of last year listening to Naked Raygun. They just seemed to be the perfect soundtrack to the hope that was on the horizon after Trump lost the presidential election. I was so obsessed with Naked Raygun, and I wanted more. I'd heard the name Pegboy tossed around over the years, but I'd never actually heard anything from them. I knew there was some connection to Naked Raygun, so it seemed like it was finally time to see what I'd been missing.
While it took me some time to warm up to Naked Raygun, Pegboy hit me immediately. Soon I was listening to the two bands back to back, day after day...and the Strong Reaction album became one of my favorite discoveries of 2020...almost thirty years after it's release. Pegboy are so good, and just seem to capture that early 90's punk sound that I loved at the time. Honestly, if someone had introduced me to the band back in the day, they would have fit perfectly in with the early Jawbox and Fugazi records that I loved at the time.
In addition to Strong Reaction, I was also spinning the first Pegboy EP, Three-Chord Monte, quite a bit as well. I thought it would be relatively easy to pick up the vinyl for both of these, but it turned out to be a bit more difficult than I'd initially thought. Sure, there were European sellers on Discogs that had the records available, but for some strange reason there were no US sellers. I threw them on my Wantlist, and as soon as someone in the States had a copy of Three-Chord Monte available I jumped on it.
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This is what is so great about this stuff. That you can literally discover records you love decades after they came out. I've had Pegboy in my life since they first showed up on some skate video in probably 1990 or 91. I have test presses of 3 of their records, but they irritate me because the matrix is different to the regular LPs... because the regular versions I have are the euro or UK pressings, which in my mind are inferior. I've been wanting to 'upgrade' to the US pressings for a few years now, but was surprised at how rare or expensive these things are these days. But yeah, its all about Strong Reaction...
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