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| Lockjaw | 
 enlarge | Artist: Dance Hall Crashers
Label: Fontana Mca
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 93144
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 008811132620
EAN: 0008811132620
ASIN: B000002OXZ
Release Date: August 29, 1995
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| Tracks:
| • | Shelley | | • | Don't Wanna Behave | | • | Queen for a Day | | • | Flyin | | • | Good for Nothin' | | • | Buried Alive | | • | Sticky | | • | Too Late | | • | Go | | • | Enough | | • | Pictures - Dance Hall Crashers, Armstrong, Tim | | • | Day Job | | • | So Sue Us | | • | We Owe |
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Amazon.com
The Bay Area's Dance Hall Crashers were originally founded as a ska band and side project by Rancid members Tim Armstrong and Matt Freeman, but the group evolved through several permutations into a pop-punk band with no Rancid members. The Dance Hall Crashers' major-label debut, Lockjaw, is full of staccato guitar riffing and impatient complaints about authority, but it's all set to irresistibly catchy melodic hooks. As with Green Day, the contradiction between the unhappy lyrics and the deliriously happy music comes across as a remarkably healthy response to an unhealthy social environment. Here, that response is given a fresh twist by the chirpy, twin lead vocals by Elyse Rogers and Karina Denike and by the remaining traces of Caribbean rhythms. --Geoffrey Himes
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| Customer Reviews: Read 6 more reviews...
 Even Guys Can Like It! Don't Worry, It's OK! July 11, 2000
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
Alright, I'm a 17(18 on the 26th)-year old guy and I love this CD. It's the only DHC I have, but I've heard other songs by them. I'm sure any guys out there who like DHC are afraid to admit it. Well, DHC is no different from other punk/ska bands. After all, it was Rancid who put them together. The only quality making them "girly" is their vocals. THAT'S IT! Cm'on! They have good songs here! My fav being a split between "Go" and "Pictures". Get this CD. You'll see what I mean.
um.......ya October 11, 2004
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
So I have been listening to the dance hall crashers since I was like 14 which was like 9-10 years ago. I bought this cd a a local record shop back then and I fell in love. I haven't listened to them for a few years even though I still have all of their cds, but I thought it would be important to share that this band absolutely is cool. The ladies are beautiful, and in concert they rock. So if any teeny bopper wanna be punk jerk decides that he or she should think otherwise than you are not punk...you are not ska punk...and you should not give advice to any more amazon users. thank you.
Sophomore effort new and different September 26, 1998
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is the second album from the California band, and it took me a while to get used to it. I expected it to be more like the group's earlier stuff, but it ain't. The horns are gone and their is a harder more punk feel to the music. Once again, the lyrics focus on bad relationships, but the more I listened to it, the more I realized that the songs are more thought out and the music really fits the subject matter. My favorites are Buried Alive, Go, Sticky, and Enough. A lot of people complain that this isn't ska anymore, but who cares. Whatever it is, it works.
GRRRRREAT! June 30, 1999
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
WOW! Thats all i can say is WOW! This is the CD that got me into DHC and i think its their best one EVER!! This album is waaaay better that "The Old Record" and "HIH". All the songs are great! My fave would be "Pictures" and "Good For Nothing" GO BUY THIS CD NOW!!!! I find myself listening to this CD over and over.You guys better buy 2 cause the first one is gonna run out!
DHC's Lockjaw a MUST HAVE in my book... July 11, 2001
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Wrote this review because, quite simply this album is MONSTER POP, just insane giddiness, harmonies reminiscent of X with the lead singer in lower octaves, grass roots appeal.. just totally throws it out there, hilarious punk rock humor... They draw on soooo much great great music... they are really step wayy over the boundary of just a ska band... The lyrics, harmonies and solid band really took me by surprise... they can really tear it up. Songsss are anthems harmonized by cynical gurls who tell it the way it is, my favorite song keeps changing.... I have been listening to if for the better part of a year, and have never taken it out of rotation... This band really has it going on. Get the album. Tell your friendz... They totally deserve your support... Totally entertaining, CD is destined to be a classic. Songs are wayyy too good not to be... I listened to one other album by them, maybe Honey I am Homely... but this one is my fav so far... Holds it's very own place in my music collection.
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