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Four of a Kind

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What CAN'T I associate with this LP? Not much. Just about everything. The half-pipe in my back yard. Skating everywhere in the bay area and getting thrown out of most places for doing it. SKATEBOARDING IS NOT A CRIME and HAVE YOU SEEN HIM? being the stickers of the day. Cab, The Faction, Black Flag, DK, JFA, DI, Adolescents, Descendents, KFJC, KSJS, Thrasher mag would turn your fingers black, Indy trucks were the sh*t and (still are) and Trackers s*cked (and still do), Bones Brigade, but skate Santa Cruz decks, chicks from any other school but mine, swiping Bartles and James (go figure, but hey...), etc, etc, etc, etc.

This LP is the sH*t and always will be. It makes me feel somewhat old now, but brings back such awesome memories of a time I never will and never want to forget. The fact that Hawk and Cab are still skating and Rollins is still somewhat doing his thing (though RIP Black Flag), definitely brings comfort to me. I put this on, grab my deck, and head out and hit the streets and am taken back in time and love every minute of it.

Get this now.

Great album, a classic such as dealin with it and crossover. Unfortunately, it seemed that dri never made an album as good as this one. Any true dri fan would agree that after four of a kind, there was thrash zone (allright) and definition (allright) and full speed ahead (joke). Too bad these guys couldn't go back to their beginnings and put out the music that dri are capable of making. Sorry to sound like I'm preaching but these guys were f***in awesome back in the early/late 80's.

Getting evicted from a college dorm room for BLASTING "All For Nothing" on my 1986? Technics system. Pretty young girl from the Oakland Hills.....makes me feel old

These guys where not very well known but man they knew how to get you going.. nothing that would change the world , but it was played loud and hard in my beater of a car...

No two D.R.I. albums sound the same. Four of Kind is a great album. In fact, in some ways Four of Kind was D.R.I.'s best effort. I like everything up until Definition, but this album just showcases Spike Cassidy's ability to provide good riff after good riff. Felix Griffin, one of my favorite drummers of all time (I'm a drummer), does an excellent job. Some of the snare rolls and accents are so amazing. The fast double bass triplets and explosion beats are great. Better than what 95% of drummers at the time were doing. Brecht's vocals are too much in the fore ground, but still they sound alright.

On this album they sped it up a little bit from Crossover's sometimes sluggish tendencies. Unlike the sound they went to on Thrash Zone a year later (they sounded more like Obituary than D.R.I.), this was the album where they still had it all together.

This was also the best tour to see D.R.I. on. I saw them with Kreator and Holy Terror (another excellent lost Thrash band) and the show was nothing but high energy.

THIS WAS THE FIRST DRI CD THAT I EXPERIENCED. I WAS PROBABLY 16 WHEN I LISTENED TO IT THAT FIRST MAGICAL NIGHT. THE GUITARS AND SHEER SPEED OF THE ALBUM BLEW ME AWAY! THIS IS A MORE TAILORED SOUND FROM THE FULL FORCE HARDCORE OF EARLIER ALBUMS BUT IT STILL ROCKS. I GET A REAL POSITIVE 80S VIBE EVERYTIME THAT I SPIN THIS ONE!

It's been twenty years, so I want to congratulate the musicians/genuises inolved in this album. DRI, along with Voivod, COC, Vitus Bad Brains,Black Flag, the Masters of Reality's debut LP, and probably pre-glam Celtic Frost made my life 'breathable'back then, when I was just sixteen and as depressed as Holden Caufield... Twenty years! And I still listen to this gem at least twice a month; the hard, lightning fast riffs keep me going, the drumming is amazing and fun, the lyrics still conjure up images of evil missionaries stealing from other cultures, of brainwashed masses, of twisted yuppies and the spoiled daughters of hollywood-like capitalism, of tomb-like supermarkets and hollow shopping malls that offer you nothing but boredom and plastic and alienation, of wanting to be alone to gather one's thoughts, of humans shunning nature and then 'forgetting how to sing'... if there's an album that made me pick up books on philosophy, anarchism,ecology,drugs, psychoanalyisis and twisted literature, this is it!! A year later, DRI came to Mexico City, Mexico and played at some wrestling arena on the outskirts of the city. It was amazing: more than 2,000 screaming, flyin', death defyin' thrashers. Everyone was going nuts- I remember a girl doing cartwheels on the stage and then diving into the pit.. I remember friends from back then: some are long gone, very few remain. I remember standing in a very long line to get my album signed, one afternoon before the concert. Someone was selling Kurt's self-published books. I bought two, and read excerpts while waiting. Those words made me want to run away and become a hobo, a hippy, a writer- strong word, powerful words... A few months later, RIP magazine ran an article on DRI's experiences in Mexico, with some killer and funny pics included: the guys feeding a donkey or standing in front of huge pyramids, etc. Alas, my mag's copy got lost somewhere along the line... Don't know why, but though this album is nothing but electricity,and in that sense very 'urban', whenever I listen to it I want to step back in time and hang out in the woods with those outcast kids from Stephen King's 'IT'. Maybe it's because DRI's so good on this one that they actually had the power to make feel that I was part of a community, of a secret society of punks or something... You a newcomer? Wanna know who defined Municipal Waste's sound for 'em? Get this one NOW!

My first ollie. Stealing tapes at Ben Franklin. Stealing an older skater's TSOL shirt. The ensuing beating. Stereo wars with my sister (Depeche Mode) and the kids at school (Debbie Gibson). Four of a Kind on the A-side, Under The Influence by Overkill on side B. Stealing skating slamming. Mammories.

this is one of my favorite albums because it cleverly combines
thrash and punk to make it one hell of a bad ass album.
get this one or die!!

My personal favorite from all the DRI albums. One word can sum it up- POWER.

I sold my original "4 of a Kind" LP as part of my record collection. Before this album left, I listened to it. The LP is promised so I can't keep it, so now I'm here to get a CD of it.