Review Summary: Rick says: You must be 18 or older to Rock with the Cock! Jailbait not allowed to this party!!!
In one's spare time, someone will decide to listen to some music, an album or two, perhaps? But what is there to choose from? Of all of the albums to choose, from Beefheart's "Trout Mask Replica" to The Knife's "Silent Shout", a bizarre cover took you by surprise. It was surely weird as all hell, with its image of a man in the nude burned into your subconscious. The name of the mysterious EP? "Fresh White Reeboks Kickin' Your Ass" by Nigel Pepper Cock, a hardcore band from San Francisco, U.S.A.
With only four tracks and spanning eleven minutes of hell raising noise, this obscure oddity passed by many in 2001, fading into the recesses of music history. "Reeboks" uses its time wisely, using its short length to hammer in some of the most entertaining music that one wouldn't expect to be good at all. From the barely audible vocals to the guitars put on overdrive, "Reeboks" delivers on its promise to kick your ass. "The Mullet Mafia", the opening track, showcases the violent sound of the band over the rather poor sounding production, making a perfect match somehow. In between the two original tracks, are two covers: "The Kid with the Removable Face", originally done by Dr. and the Crippers, and "54-40 or FIGHT!”, a track by Dead Moon. Both tracks expand on the overtly violent sound of the band, leaving the listener no time to spare when it comes to rest. "The Punk Song", at last, allows some recovery time with a quick monologue, before breaking out into the usual anarchy with a nice drum intro, before the screeching vocals come in to bring the EP to a violent end. As "Reeboks" ends, the listener will only be left with one feeling or another: they will never listen to the EP ever again, or will be left breathless by what they just heard, being left with the urge to listen to more.
"Reeboks", while a relic of the hardcore genre, is an outstanding little gem; and is essential to any looking to get into the genre itself. One of the album's issues, however, is its sound, with it having a horrendous production quality. Another is the sound of the songs itself, with all four of them sounding quite the same, with little to no variation. However, "Fresh White Reeboks Kickin' Your Ass" makes good on its one and only promise: to give you some ass-kicking music for the soul.
