Brand New Age - UK Subs

Brand New Age is the UK Subs 2nd album - released in 1980 and sees Nicky Garrett on guitar getting a bit more time to strut his stuff and a slightly more eclectic sound added on top of the sheer basic punk rock. The Ramones like "Barbie's Dead" is probably one of my favourite tracks by the band - simple yet very very effective

Barbie wore black, black hat
Barbie wore gloves, warm gloves
Barbie was thin, white ...
...Bellboy cries for Barbie
Mailman cries for Barbie
Gasman cries for Barbie
Said come on let's get drunk

Other superfast catchy tracks are "Dirty Girls" (Dirty girls never say no, maybe that's why I love 'em so) and "Rat Race" (It's a rat race baby, faceless face, but if you're dying of hunger, you get in the race)

This album also includes the hit track Warhead and more political ... more

Brand New Age is the UK Subs 2nd album - released in 1980 and sees Nicky Garrett on guitar getting a bit more time to strut his stuff and a slightly more eclectic sound added on top of the sheer basic punk rock. The Ramones like "Barbie's Dead" is probably one of my favourite tracks by the band - simple yet very very effective

Barbie wore black, black hat
Barbie wore gloves, warm gloves
Barbie was thin, white skin
Barbie's in bed, she's dead

Bellboy cries for Barbie
Mailman cries for Barbie
Gasman cries for Barbie
Said come on let's get drunk

Other superfast catchy tracks are "Dirty Girls" (Dirty girls never say no, maybe that's why I love 'em so) and "Rat Race" (It's a rat race baby, faceless face, but if you're dying of hunger, you get in the race)

This album also includes the hit track Warhead and more political tracks like Public Servant, Bomb Factory, Victim and Left For Dead.

The best of the bunch though is undoubtedly my favourite track that the band ever made - New York State Police, a fiery raw track with a superb whining guitar riff mid way through. I've looked on youtube but can't find a clip which does it justice as most are poor recordings from live concerts.

This is a must have album, I think it's the band in their prime and it's definitely worth a listen, after this the line-up changed considerably and although they made lots of interesting stuff, nothing quite compared to this. 

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