Description Descendents ‎– Milo Goes To College Label: New Alliance Records ‎– NAR-012 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1982 Genre: Rock Style: Punk Tracklist: A1 Myage 2:00A2 I Wanna Be A Bear 0:40A3 I'm Not A Loser 1:30A4 Parents 1:37A5 Tonyage 0:55A6 M 16 0:40A7 I'm Not A Punk 1:05A8 Catalina 1:45B1 Suburban Home 1:40B2 Statue Of Liberty 1:58B3 Kabuki Girl 1:10B4 Marriage 1:45B5 Hope 1:55B6 Bikeage 2:10B7 Jean Is Dead 1:30 Companies: Phonographic Copyright (p) – New Alliance RecordsRecorded At – Total Access Recording Studios Credits: Artwork [Miles Goes To College Drawing] – Jeff AtkinsonBass – Tony LombardoDrums – Bill StevensonGuitar – Frank NavettaProducer, Engineer – SpotVocals – MiloWritten-By – Stevenson (tracks: A1, A5, A8, B4, B6, B7), Navetta (tracks: A2 to A4, B2, B4), Aukerman (tracks: B5), Lombardo (tracks: A2, A5 to B1, B3) Notes: ℗ 1982 New Alliance Records, San Pedro, CA. All songs New Alliance Music (BMI). Made in USA. Recorded June 1982 at Total Access Studio, Redondo Beach. In dedication to Milo Aukerman from "The Descendents". Barcode and Other Identifiers: Matrix / Runout (Runout Etching Side I): NAR-012-I K "SPILLAGE"Matrix / Runout (Runout Etching Side II): NAR-012-II K "I WASN'T A PUNK WHEN IT DIDN'T COUNT" The Descendents are a punk rock band formed in 1978 in Manhattan Beach, California by guitarist Frank Navetta, bassist Tony Lombardo and drummer Bill Stevenson. In 1980 they enlisted Stevenson's friend Milo Aukerman from school as a singer, and reappeared as a punk band, becoming a major player in the hardcore scene developing in Los Angeles at the time. They have released six studio albums, three live albums, three compilation albums, and three EPs. Since 1987, the band's lineup has consisted of singer Milo Aukerman, guitarist Stephen Egerton, bassist Karl Alvarez, and drummer Bill Stevenson. In 1977, friends Frank Navetta and David Nolte began writing songs on acoustic guitars with the intention of forming a band. They initially called themselves The Itch, until Navetta came up with the name Descendents. By the end of the year they had failed to attract any more band members, so Nolte instead joined The Last with his brothers. In late 1978 Navetta was joined by drummer Bill Stevenson and bassist Tony Lombardo, revitalizing the Descendents project. Nolte sang with the group at several of their early performances, but by the Spring of 1979 The Last were becoming more active and he left the Descendents. The singerless "power trio" lineup of Navetta, Lombardo, and Stevenson recorded the band's debut single at Media Art studios and released it on their own label, Orca Records, named after Stevenson's fishing boat. Navetta sang "Ride the Wild" while Lombardo sang "It's a Hectic World". Nolte produced and mixed the session, and his brother Joe turned the lead guitar level up, resulting in the guitar being very loud in the mix. The band's music at the time was described by Stevenson as a "coffee'd-out blend of rock-surf-pop-punk music [...] The sound consisted basically of Lombardo's hard-driving, melodic bass lines, Navetta's tight guitar riffing, and my 'caffinated' surf beats." Steven Blush, author of American Hardcore: A Tribal History, describes the single as "a blend of Devo-style New Wave and Dick Dale-like surf." Ned Raggett of Allmusic describes it as surf-inspired power pop with a New Wave edge: "Not quite Devo if they grew up on the coast, but there's something to that comparison." Lacking a lead singer, Navetta and Lombardo provided vocals on the single. After a six-month trial with a female singer, they recruited Milo Aukerman as their new vocalist. The addition of Aukerman and the consumption of large amounts of coffee led the band to write shorter, faster, and more aggressive songs in a hardcore punk style. They later released the Fat EP in 1981. It was a record which had established the band's presence in the southern California hardcore punk movement with its short, fast, aggressive songs. The use of melodies and mixing them with hardcore punk found on Milo Goes to College was considered very unusual at the time by the punk scene but was considered as a massive influence by melodic hardcore and pop punk bands. For the recording of their first album in June 1982, the band worked at Total Access Recording in Redondo Beach, California with Spot, who had also engineered and produced the Fat EP. While still short and fast, the songs on Milo Goes to College were also melodic. Singer Milo Aukerman later reflected: "It's interesting: we started very melodic, then moved to hardcore, but melded the two at a certain point and became melodic hardcore." The album's title and cover illustration referenced Aukerman's departure from the band to study biology at the University of California, San Diego. The illustration was done by Jeff Atkinson, based on earlier caricatures by a high school classmate of Aukerman's named Roger Deuerlein, who had drawn comic strips and posters depicting Aukerman as the class nerd. A note on the back of the LP read "In dedication to Milo Aukerman from the Descendents", and was signed by the other three members. Aukerman later recalled that the band took his departure in stride: When I decided to go to college, the guys in the band were pretty hip on it because they knew how big of a nerd I was. Like, "What else would you expect him to do but to go off and be a nerd?" I mean, I've got a Ph.D in biochemistry — how uncool is that? 8===8 "One of my all-time favorite albums... Always a great show every time I saw them... Melodic hardcore punk = Descendents... Opened for them in State College, PA once upon a time in 1987, I believe - I'm sure they hated us..." 8===8 Welcome to the Skeleton Closet! I was a rabid music collector for 30+ years - Punk and Hardcore in the early-Eighties, Death Metal and Grunge in the late-Eighties, Industrial and Experimental in the early-Nineties, and Goa Trance and Psytrance in the late-Nineties and early-2000s… I also worked at a record company for 13 years, toured North America with numerous international acts, DJed internationally, produced festivals, and had a clothing importing company. So in this time, I’ve accumulated a lot of interesting and limited items... Family life and other life changes have made me decide to unload my collection. For the majority of the items, I have been the original owner of the item. 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