Album review: D.I. – Greatest Hits A-Z
Cleopatra Records [Release date 29.01.21]
Orange County’s own punk legends D.I. have been around since the ‘80’s and these days only frontman Casey Royer remains from the original line-up. Now the band’s current incarnation have re-recorded some of their biggest and best known songs for this greatest hits collection, cleverly titled A-Z and, as you would imagine, these are in alphabetical order (I like this, I’ve not seen it done before and it has made me smile).
The album kicks off with “Amoeba”, a song Royer wrote with former band The Adolescents, and delivers 23 songs in under an hour. With each song being a short, sharp and spiky burst of energy, it certainly doesn’t hang about. D.I.’s style of punk is what I would term as Americanised and can later be traced in the likes of The Offspring, Green Day and the likes.
Some songs here really stick out amongst the others for me and these include “Chiva”, “Falling Out”, “Hang Ten In East Berlin”, “No Mums”, “O.C Life”, “Pervert Nurse” (what a great title!!) and “Stick To Your Guns”(you’ll notice that I’ve listed these alphabetically in the spirit of the album). There is also the doom laden “Purgatory”, which feels at odds with the rest of the album, but not in a bad way.
There are some great song titles here including “Reagan Der Fuhrer” and the aforementioned “Pervert Nurse”, obviously not one to Google (well, not on your work computer any way!!).
“Greatest Hits A-Z” is a great collection and serves as a good introduction to the band if you have not come across them before. ***
Review by Nikk Gunns
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