Fat Wreck Chords
2005
Weasel Mania
About This Album
Ben Weasel's eulogy to his own band is -- of course -- built equally of cynical jibes, bruised geek entitlement, and a little bit of genuine pride. "Everything was a hassle," he writes of Screeching Weasel's tenure in the liners of Weasel Mania. "A lot of the fans were pricks and the mood in the van ranged from cartoonish therapy group for mental defectives to crank-fueled hockey fight, but somehow it managed to pretty fun. It's amazing what you can tolerate with youth on your side." With Weasel's acerbic wit and a sizable Ramones fetish as their guiding factors, Screeching Weasel tried to bring some laughs and energy back to a too-serious scene. They didn't always get it right, as Weasel Mania proves. But as it skips across the band's output since the baiting 1988 anthem "Hey Suburbia," it's clear that even when the songs were only rudimentary or the jokes fell more than flat, Screeching Weasel stuck brazenly to their guns. The My Brain Hurts material -- "Cindy's on Methadone," "What We Hate," "Science of Myth," and the title track -- endure as scrappy pop-punk classics, angsty, peppy diagrams for a thousand Simple Plans since.
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