Before you start spazzing out I will warn you that this is not a new album. It's just collection of random shit and the five-year-old EP Chorus Of One. Well I'm sure glad I got that out of the way since there are a shitload of Strike Anywhere fans crouched behind every corner of this site - waiting to strike. When I heard the six song EP Chorus of One, I shit myself with excitement and my mind began to whirl with strange thoughts of revolution and uprising. Strike Anywhere's song writing is so incredibly arousing that I would often get an erection just by listening to it. These were angry, well-written anti-authority anthems, packed with tender and juicy nuggets of hatred. Thomas Barnett's scrawny, high pitched, howling gave profound meaning to words like: "To live in discontent/ anti-establishment. Not by words or by fashion, by nature since the day we were born. If we just look inside each of us, a thousand rebellions sleep" and "I will try everything, kill the sleeping cop in me." Now I don't about the rest of you, but that riles me up enough to whip up a few Molotov cocktails for me and my buddies to go throw at the post office. Or at least the KOA.

I liked these guys a lot, but it was one of those unfortunate instances - similar to that sad moment when you start to lose interest in a girl whom you once thought you loved. Or at least you told her you did, only to realize that she has a lot of annoying habits that would eventually drive you away on a dead run. Sad really. It's so awkward when you have to sit her down and explain that you're gonna have to kill her. Breaks your heart.

So anyway I drifted way from Strike Anywhere, even though we had those special times. In fact I barely kept track of their other releases after that. Their second and actual first full length, Change Is a Sound, was okay but it just didn't have the same embracing, magnetic personality as that first EP did. And, in fact, I didn't even know their last album, 2003's Exit English even existed.

Actually now that I think about it this isn't just a collection of random shit, there are some secret nuggets of golden goodness locked inside.
Track eleven started to play and I thought that it sounded way too familiar. Fuck yeah it was familiar. It was like tenth grade all over again listening to a cover of "Gorilla Biscuits," "Two Sides" which had some new age punk flava added. Dagnasty's "Values Here" and Cock Sparrer's "Where Are They Now?" were covered as well. Which brings the track count to lucky number thirteen. After listening to To Live In Discontent I felt guilty for not sticking with the band. But hey - at least I bought this album, that's not a bad gesture, right? I think that says, "hey dawgs, I'm sorry - we had some good times and who knows, maybe we'll hook up again some time." Anyway fuck it - it's some pretty good punk.