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| DescendentsMilo Goes To College1982 SST 
  Review by: Zeiter See others by this writer Only registered users can post comments 
 
Published on August 3rd 2002
When one looks at the earlier albums of any band, especially punk bands, the oldest tend to be the worst (NOFX anyone?). So when I first heard this album, knowing that it was the Descendents first full length album, I didn't expect anything great. People who liked this also liked:           Please login or register to post comments. What are the benefits of having a Punknews.org account?
Freekin love this album the last four tracks are all gold. Some other highlights are kabuki girl, i'm not a loser, catalina, and suburban home. i love the lyrics to suburban home. a great band with a great album! this is probably one of my absolute favorite albums of all time. I fckin love "Milo goes to college" it's one of the best punk rawk albums i ever heard."Suburban home" is an awesome song from that album One of the best albums I have ever heard and one that shaped the way I listened to music growing up. Endless appreciation. Ha, this album's fuckin' SICK!! I think I've listened to it about 3 times. This album is amazing. Bikeage and Hope are to me ...by far the best songs on the album and just two of the best "punk" and just all around rock songs i have ever heard. amazingly great album!!! An absolute 24 carat classic for sure. One of the best albums from the 80s Great album. Changed everything for me. This and the bonus fat are my favorite descendents albums i heard "suburban home" and "i'm not a loser" and now i want this so fucking bad! but my gay little F.Y.E. store seems more concerned with rappers and country bums!!!! there's a "hip-hop" section, theres a "country" section , there's even a "metal" section. but no fucking punk. why can't there be an "Alternative/punk" section?!?!?! why must i dig around in the "rock/pop" sectio for black flag and sick of it all!!!! i heard som of their newer shit and loved it. then i downloaded milo goes to college and was disapointed. it is just a plain punk sounding album with a homophoebic message. great album. short, punchy songs with good vocals. Amazing album! even if u dont like this album u have to respect the descendents for all of the bands that they set the stage for this is an obvious must have for any punk. descendents at their best This album is more than just an excellent collection suggestion, but a MANDATORY one. great album. I'm suprised no ones bashed the lyrics to Im Not A Loser as homophobic. I think they are in jest though, and I found it funny when I was like 12 and in 6th grade like someone below was saying, all skateboarding and shit. This album should be considered one of the best and most important punk albums ever released. This is right up there with Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables and Ramones. The contribution the Descendants have made to punk is unmeasurable. Half the punk bands out there either wouldn't exist or would have a completely different sound if not for the Descendants. Not only that, but this is truely a great album, too. words cannot explain this album other then one of the best punk albums I wish I could give this album a million stars. Or more. Easily one of the best punk albums of all time. The fact the reviewer heard this album after "Everything Sucks" and "ALL" is kind of sad Why the fuck isn't this a ten? Why the fuck isn't this a ten? this should have got a 10 first time I heard this album I was in the 6th grade skating my ass to my girlfriends house with my cassette Walkman...vivid memory........ hahahaha. alot better than everything sucks and i dont want to grow up i cant find this cd for les than £16 which sucks so i havent bought hoping ill find it for £8 or summat like that but in the meantime ill have to hope punk bands usualy produce their best stuff on theri first records look at black flag dead kenedys minor threat bad religion fugazi rancid operation ivy in my opinion their best stuff cmae first n then they just deteriorated well not bad religion Fat Mike's favorite album. Yeah, I was wrong in saying that punk bands usually suck on their earlier releases. The Ramones early stuff kicks ass compared to their later work. But generally speaking, most bands get better with experiance, although there are a few exceptions. Great album. It always seems like Everything Suck, my favorite descendents album, gets mixed ranking among classic descendents albums. I think it is 10 time better than Somery but only a little better than Milo Goes to College. Unfortunately I missed seeing them at Skate and Surf Fest, which would have been my first and only time seeing them. But hopefuly, with a new album in the works, I will get to go watch them on a tour... hopefully. Oh yea, and All sucks. Cant stand them.-pat41 Classic, reminds me of my early skateboarding days back in the day-oldpunker Awesome, but I'd recommend "Somery", it has all the classic shit on one album. Yes, I bought Two things at Once also. It was actually cheaper than either MGTC or Bonus Fat were individually, who the hell knows why. easily my favorite descendents album. classic. Instead of getting this, get "Two Things at Once" which has this and the Bonus Fat EP together on one CD for about the same price. I think Liveage is over-all the best 'dents CD, mostly because the versions on there pack so much more punch than their studio counterparts. And I agree with an earlier poster, Everything Sucks is my fav 'dents studio album. They, along with ALL, just get better with age. The mature songwriting on the ALL albums and the Descendents reunion album sounds a lot better to me. This is still an excellent album though. i agree with the anonymous post. this is hands down their best most consistently good album of their career. ten times better than everything sucks and twenty times better than all. i think "i dont wanna grow up" is better than both of those albums (athough as one poster put it, it get really sappy at times). You think this might be "ranked up there with All and Everything Sucks"? Sorry buddy, but this is as great as this band would ever get, those two albums don't even come close. Hope is a rally cry for lovelorne losers in the 1980s. Only in the 80s? I'd say it sums up my life today. a really good record, my favorite descendents one, but they ended up getting a little too poppy for my tastes later on (side 2 of "I Dont want to grow up" i cant even listen to) Finally! I was waiting for someone to review this album. I wrote a review for this about 2 months ago, but after reading it over, I realized it sucked ass (like the rest of my reviews, can't write for shit), so I never sent it in. Anyway, great album. This is their best, without a doubt. This has a lot more energy that their others. -SaYnE GuY (spelling errors and all.) This is one of the greatest albums of the 80's in the punk scene. When I think of the Descendents, I think of Hope. I think of "I'm not a Punk" and "I'm not a Loser"... what a fucking awesome album. Easily my favorite Descendent's album. |
