AllMusic

I didn't check Amazon for any, but those reviews usually aren't very good.

There's no AllMusic.

I don't know.

I couldn't find anything, review-wise.

Let's do the Aftermath.

No,

AllMusic is crazy, honestly.

yeah no all music is surprising maybe maybe one of the other records they covered but i think this record's kind of obscure

You can't even buy half a car for that now.

Well, our good friends at All Music gave Eternal Nightcap four and a half stars.

I know.

Oh, no.

I have it written down here as Mario's nemesis, All Music.

Wrong again, All Music.

Geez.

I'm just shocked to learn that...

And he called Wake Up, It's 1984, and the song Who Do You Want To Be, among the most invigorating and engaging things the band has ever done.

In a retrospective review, Stephen McDonald of AllMusic called the album underrated, but bemoaned that it was inconsistent.

In 1984, bassist Cary Hatch and keyboardist Richard Gibbs departed to form the short-lived band Zuma II.

Danny Elfman later mentioned that the departing members had lost the spirit, noting how difficult it was to sustain an eight-piece ensemble playing non-commercial music at the time.

All right.

So stylistically, Andy Kalman of AllMusic said the song's relentless ska slash reggae inflicted drive, calling it sudden drop into silence that occurs at the 22 second mark, which you guys noticed.

Mm hmm.

while we were listening to the song, called them attention-grabbing.

live forever.

That we will all discuss in January following the release of his track I Love You to which AllMusic called truly awful saying it was definitely more Heat Magazine celebrity style than NME indie punk.

That song very much again short term gains.

causing long-term problems for the ordinary boys.

Yeah, tell me a bit about your grandpa.

He was, you know, I learned more about him from, I was reading a review of him in the All Music Guide, and my dad told me a bit about him, but I read this bio, and then at the end it said Eugene Chadbourne.

and I thought, how many Eugene Chadborns could there be? So I emailed him, and he said, that's me, because I took some lessons from him in college.

Right,

The album received largely positive reviews.

AllMusic's retrospective review said Machine Gun Etiquette was deservedly hailed as another classic from the band.

Scott Rowley of Classic Rock, in his review of the 25th anniversary edition of the album, defined it as a riotous, ballsy rush of an album, the sound of a band coming into its own.

The fast-driven punk rock has been cited for influencing shaping the emergence of hardcore punk in the 70s and early 80s in the UK and in the United States.

Another single was Lively Arts, a song about alienation, working class frustration, and rejecting societal expectations.

This came out in October of 82 and made number five on the UK Indie Chart.

In a retrospective review for AllMusic, Ned Raggett called the album hit or miss, but added tracks of note are still thick on the ground and that it's still a surprisingly good blast, a tour de force for Vanian particularly.

Stuart Voigtland of Stylus Magazine praised the album, saying it was truly a tale of four sides.