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Yuppie Pricks - Balls: A lively enough flurry of punk rock cooked in America’s traditional sauces

"According to their press release The Yuppie Pricks are ‘reminiscent of bands such as The Sex Pistols, Black Flag and The Dead Kennedys’. Rather an ambitious announcement to make I think. I failed to uncover the slightest trace of Sex Pistols similarities. I shall allow them the Dead Kennedys one but based more on the Jello Biafra vocal delivery rather than any real musical likeness. And Black Flag are such a parcel of everything that I’m sure there may exist bits of that in their somewhere too. Regardless though of what’s there and what’s not The Yuppie Pricks are quite a good band and this is a rather decent album.

The opening track ‘Collars Up’ is the one that contains the vocal likeness of Jello Biafra. The song itself is a very rapid, short lived attack lasting all of 59 seconds but it does a good job as opener with the speed being beneficial to its purpose, almost like a very quick and simple introduction to the band that doesn’t need to be fussed over. ‘Greed Is Good’ is noticeably slower but the momentum remains steadfast enough ensuring a smooth hand over to the meaty intro of ‘Donkey Show’. ‘Frat Cars’ is a twitching volley and my favourite song on the album. It ups the pace noticeably and opens up the whole record brilliantly. Following on is ‘Fraternity Days’ and ‘Fuck You, I’m Rich’ There isn’t any obvious weaknesses anywhere and the catchy ‘Male Model’ followed by ‘G.O.P’ then ‘Loser’ was a great way to spend 6 minutes. Final track ‘Prick 4 Life’ is an inspired closer to a record that rarely drops a stitch from start to finish."