Besides sludge, melodic punk, and the newest releases and reissues I've grabbed, vacations always send my musical choices in one final direction-- an often inebriated amble through the gleaming boardwalks of nostalgia. As my musical coming of age was in the nineties, it's not surprising that I should reunite with some Rights Reserved records this summer, a band with whom I made an instant connection so many years ago (first exposure was the Assfactor 4 split). The problem of genre is only a problem if one obsesses over it. If you're one of those, I'd say for a brief moment RR may have been called hardcore, in the same way Kerosene 454 was. Which is to say that in retrospect... they were not really that. The band, in their closing statement of the liner notes, chooses the self-deprecating "crappy rock" tag, which if you take time to read the lyrics, they seem like the types that would say that. I will gladly settle on indie rock/punk with a definite DC/Maryland feel. What brought instant camaraderie between me and RR's rock was the honest, confrontational, and ultimately cathartic way they handled the often overlooked, but extremely frightening dilemma of young adulthood. We come barreling out into the real world like a second birth, knowing everything and sneering at the masses who of course have it all wrong, ready to conquer the world, only to be repeatedly tripped up by the baggage of our past, and clothes-lined by our arrogance and ignorance. The boys in Rights Reserved, jaded before their time, knew this I think. Maybe they even understood how crucial those pitfalls would be in making us who we are. I can't say for sure, as the LP posted below was their last testament as a band. It's a bitter pill to swallow, but this band's tough love will get it down your gullet one way or another.
Rights Reserved LP (Assorted Porkchops Records, 1996)
A Rights Reserved EPs post should make it here before too long.
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Howdy. I was the front-person / song-writer in this band. I was googling myself like an asshole and came across this really nice write up of our album - thanks dude!
i still make music and it's still full of angst and self-doubt and whatnot if you're into that sort of thing ;) get in touch! scott@forcefieldnc.com
The download link for this album has expired--can you reupload it?
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