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The Kids Will Have Their Say
Type:studio
Artist:SS Decontrol
Cover:Ssd kids.jpg
Released:1982
Recorded:December 1981 to May 1982 at Active Sound and Radiobeat
Length:21 min
Label:Dischord/X-Claim
Producer:Mike Bastarache and Lou Giordano
Year:1982
Next Title:Get It Away
Next Year:1983

The Kids Will Have Their Say is the debut album by the Boston hardcore punk band SS Decontrol. The album was released in 1982 as a split-release between Dischord and X-Claim records (catalog numbers X-Claim 1/Dischord 7½). Only 1,900 copies were pressed [1] and the album was not repressed or reissued officially until 2023.[2] A bootleg version was made in the late 1980s, but the label names on the back of the sleeves are switched to Discord and Ex-Claim, making it easy to differentiate from the original pressing.

Track listing

Side A

  1. "Boiling Point" (0:54)
  2. "Fight Them" (1:07)
  3. "Do You Even Care" (0:29)
  4. "Not Normal" (0:52)
  5. "Wasted Youth" (0:33)
  6. "Jock Itch" (0:46)
  7. "Fun to You" (0:34)
  8. "V.A." (0:59)
  9. "How Much Art" (3:05)

Side B

  1. "The Kids Will Have Their Say" (1:20)
  2. "Headed Straight" (1:29)
  3. "War Threat" (1:27)
  4. "Teach Me Violence" (0:36)
  5. "Screw" (0:21)
  6. "Who's to Judge" (1:26)
  7. "Police Beat" (1:58)
  8. "United" (0:46)
  9. "The End" (1:28)

Personnel

Reception

Writing in The Boston Phoenix, Joyce Millman called the album "a stupefying barrage indistinguishable from dozens of other hardcore LPs. Seventeen tracks tumble into each other, with vocals so rushed and garbled they could be one long harangue; and one number, 'How Much Art Can You Take?' is a parody of highbrow punk and a hymn to inarticulation." Millman felt that "The utility of The Kids Will Have Their Say lies in the lyric sheet, a manifesto by and for Boston’s bored, scared, fed-up, and pissed-off teenagers."[3]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Discogs entry for The Kids Will Have Their Say . Discogs . Discogs . 26 December 2023 . en.
  2. Web site: SSD Sign with Trust Records to Re-Release The Kids Will Have Their Say . Trust Records Company . Trust Records Company . 5 December 2023 . en.
  3. News: Millman . Joyce . Total decontrol . 13 September 2024 . The Boston Phoenix . 10 August 1982.

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