Dawn of the Dickies [Import]

The Dickies | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 3, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Captain Oi!
• ASIN: B00004WZ6Q
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #115,480 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Where Did His Eye Go?

2. Fan Mail

3. Manny, Moe & Jack

4. Infidel Zombie

5. I'm a Chollo

6. Nights in White Satin

7. (I'm Stuck in a Pagoda With) Tricia Toyota

8. I've Got a Splitting Hedachi

9. Attack of the Mole Men

10. She Loves Me Not

11. Gigantor [*]

12. Bowling With Bedrock Barney [*]

Editorial Reviews

First Time On CD For This Brilliant Punk Classic. Includes The UK Singles: Nights In White Satin, Fan Club & Gigantor.

Customer Reviews

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Worth picking up for the lyrics alone, December 29, 2000

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Kitten With a Whip "kittenwithawhip" (The Hellmouth) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Dawn of the Dickies (Audio CD)

First of all, this has to be one of the best punk albums of all time. When my husband introduced me to the Dickies 10 years ago, I had never heard of them (and I called myself a punk! Shame). I was blown away by how consistently good and fun their songs were, how they could get me going in the morning no matter how little sleep I had (just TRY being mellow listening to 'Give It Back' ), and by the cool lyrics to songs like Attack of the Mole Men and Fan Mail.

Now while L.G. Phillips has one of the coolest singing voices of all time, most Dickies songs are so fast and furious that, for me at least, 50% of the lyrics are incomprehensible, and that 's after several listens. "Infidel Zombie" was always one of my favorite Dickies songs, but no matter how many times I listened to it, I could only get like 75% of the lyrics ("well I've been running for a while and I know that I'm the next in line, well she's a (something something a something with a something)" The most extreme example was "I've got a Splitting Hedachi" where all I could get was the first line and part of the chorus "Well it's a chilly chilly evening and I something something something" . I was overjoyed to find this on CD finally, but when we opened up the CD, we were even more overjoyed to find...lyrics! Man, was I ever wrong on some of them, and on a couple, the song even turned out to be about something completely different than I thought. With lots of bands, sometimes the lyrics you come up with turn out to be cooler than the actual lyrics when you find out what they are. Not with the Dickies! I managed to figure out "Where Did His Eye Go" was about Sammy Davis Jr when I first heard it (my husband actually had heard it a lot more, but never knew what it was about) only because I had just finished reading a book about him. Finding out all the lyrics made me love the song even more.

Dawn of the Dickies not only includes the classics 'Where Did His Eye Go'?, 'Fan Mail' , 'Manny, Moe and Jack', 'Infidel Zombie', 'I'm a Chollo', 'Nights in White Satin', 'I'm Stuck in a Pagoda With) Tricia Toyota', 'I've Got a Splitting Hedachi', 'Attack of the Mole Men', and 'She Loves Me Not' but also also has the bonus of having bonus tracks 'Gigantor' and 'Bowling With Bedrock Barney' (I actually danced so hard and fast to this song once I lost my balance and fell over) which before, I only had on vinyl. By the way, at chorus to 'Infidel Zombie' ends, " and I don't believe that there's a bullet with my name on it now".

Even if you already have this on vinyl, I recommend this CD for the bonus tracks and seeing the actual lyrics. One of the best records by one of the most underrated bands of all time.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fun Classic Punk/Pop, September 22, 2005

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Mark A. Carter (New York) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dawn of the Dickies (Audio CD)

Yay the Dickies. How can you not like a band with a name like that? While some of the overly serious British Punk Acts of the late 70's churned out their angst-ridden rants against society the Dickies took punk, mixed it with pop to give us deliriously catchy 2-3 minute classics. As a London School-Kid growing up surrounded by all the usual Punk bands of the era the 'Dickies' seemed like they weren't quite taking things seriously & of course they weren't.........thank God! Extremely funny ditties accompanied by fast beaty drums & white-trash vocals. No less than 5 single's on this wonderful album 'Where did his eye go?', 'Fan Mail' (My particular favorite & a wonderfully snide observation on bands relationships with their fans), 'Manny, Moe & jack', 'Nights in White Satin' & the completely daft 'Gigantor'. This is the sort of band that could only come out of America. They were hugely underrated, in part I think because they didn't have the tude' associated with most other punk-bands. But bugger that. For some of the catchiest ditties of the late 70's you couldn't have more fun than with the Dickie's. Go Dickie's!!!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Dickies ahead of the Ramones!, April 11, 2004

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R. Rodriguez "renobrown" (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dawn of the Dickies (Audio CD)

The Dickies album "Dawn Of The Dickies" can be described as an album that was ahead of their time and ahead of the Ramones. This Dickies album sounds like what the Ramones did on their 1980 album with Phil Spector entitled "End of the Century". Were the Ramones influenced by this album? I don't know, but the songs reminded me of "Do you remember Rock and Roll Radio?" by the Ramones. With that being said, the Dickies were original and ahead of their time. The album is full of good songs with good hooks and silly lyrics. This album came out years before those ripoff artists like "Green Day", "Offpspring", "Blink 182" and any other "Boy Band With Guitars" that claim to be "punk" came to be. This is a great lost gem and should be purchased by any fan of good music. Don't let their label (punk) fool you, these guys are much more than that. They write great melodies and music. So don't waste your time and buy this album.