Positive
1988
Field Day
About This Album
For album number three, the band headed to Los Angeles, switched drummers along the way (with Scott Garrett taking over on the skins), and created a thoroughly and totally lost rock classic -- not just punk, but something more than that. Armed with all the fire and fervor of the music the members grew up with, but not content to simply do that over again, Dag Nasty at this point even moved beyond their earlier work for something at once more mature, gripping, and energetic. Easily the equal of the Replacements at their best -- and as much a forebear of the Goo Goo Dolls' eventual success as a Minneapolis quartet -- Field Day is just that for the group. Peter Cortner's singing in a mere year's time has moved from the edgy, high-pitched rasp of Wig Out to include a ruminative, gently expressing tone, with more vocal control and a sweet edge than one will find in most of the band's peers. As for his lyrics, besides the analysis of personal interaction that defined earlier Dag Nasty material, Cortner addresses everything from being in a band and wanting to write "songs, powerful songs" to reflections on death, loss, and separation. The tone is pretty much of the guy Cortner found himself to be -- a transplant in LA, finding new haunts (the at once funny and touching "La Penita"), new friends, but also new challenges.
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