Go Girl Crazy

Still listening to this punk album

I am absolutely predisposed to enjoy this and I did. So - pretty boring rating over here.

Ah, an album I've listened to endlessly. It's crass, it's dumb, wilfully offensive every now and again but it possesses so much attitude, cheek and zap-rock power that I find it irresistible. Part of the CBGB scene, and they have a good claim to have been there or thereabouts at the birth of the NYC punk scene. This, and their third album Blood Brothers, kick ass. I live for cars and girls.

I guess it broke new ground for its time, but on listening now this sounds tired & kind of dumb.

An essential proto-punk classic from The Dictators, Go Girl Crazy, has all the hallmarks of great album. Loud, fast and funny as hell, the Dictators definitely don't take themselves too seriously. Often overlooked, this album was very influential and provided a blueprint for many punk bands that followed. Highly recommended, but not for everyone's tastes.

not a fan

First Listen. Very early punk. Nice. 2/5

This albums is great, if not just for the craziness and sophmoric silliness that surrounds its creation. Its 100% a birthplace of punk. Master Race Rock is oddly endearing(?) not actually problematic. California Sun is the best song here, and really nails the punk sound to come.

American, 70s, Rock Useless, boring, old

Did not know this album, but it sounded like very straightforward punk-rock.

Dirty, straightforward, punk rock. The music had a certain energy and intensity, but ultimately I found the songs quite boring.

What happens if the beach boys are involved with a head on collision with the beastie boys? Fun but not particularly enjoyable.

Sometimes campy (teetering between funny at moments and at others sounding like countless rock/punk bands trying to be irreverently funny), but, dang, some incredible musicians in this band. Can hear how it bridges the gap nicely between hard rock and early punk, with some real strong surf rock/60s garage rock vibes. The lead guitarist is phenomenal, and they all play together so tightly and powerfully. Overall, not one I'd come back to, but given its release year I get why it's included on this list. Seems to be a harbinger of subgenres to come.

I liked it! It was like being serenaded with covers and new songs by a proto punk band.

Fun album. Nothing stuck out, but nothing made me want to change to the next song. Will I listen to it again? Probably no.

Goddammit no more punkrock please for the love of god. You call it protopunk, but its all the same. Ok this is much better than I expected. At least they're playing well. Good energy sometimes, but it just feels like cute schoolgirl metal for some reason. It's quite funny too actually. Ok yeah this is hilarious. Doesen't take itself too seriously, consider giving it a 4. Might be the first album to make me laugh out loud.

Absolut grauenhaft. Ramones plus Rocky Horror minus Teenage Angst und gayness, und was kommt dabei raus? Schrecklich schwanzige High-School-Footballer-Gutdrauf-Musik für den Schulhof-Bully. Handsome Dick? Ihr habt nix kapiert. Wahrscheinlich hätte ich mir das Album als Teenager 3-4 angehört und ganz okay gefunden, bis ich es doch irgendwie doof gefunden hätte.

Großer Zampano in Lycra. Punkig anarchisch und so sehr in Bewegung, dass ein Bobby Conn später hiervon mitgerissen sein muss. Campy weird mit Rocky Horror Attitüde. Mitreißende 2.4

Gudelaunesaufpunk. Warum nicht?! Reißt mich aber gerade nicht ausm Dorf, und 1975 hätte ich (behaupte ich einfach mal) wahrscheinlich lieber Kraftwerk gehört oder Thin-White-Duke Bowie.

August 24, 2021 The album cover is off-putting. I wanted to like this, and I can see how it influenced a lot of the later music I like, but I was just uncomfortable and a lot of this was pretty dumb.

amazinggggggg

Not bad at all, I would probably give it 3.5, it was good.

Insufferably dumb, but they lean into it in such a way that the dumb-ness makes too much sense. I don't know what to make of it. The music is pretty good, but man is it so obnoxious. I understand that's a selling point for some people though. Just not for me, I guess.

Great punk energy, but with some cheeky humour and sarcastic covers. Takin' the piss since before it was cool.

leuk gitaartje hier en daar maar ik vind het niet zo speciaal.

2,2 Dit is echt niet voor mij, denk wel als ik het meer zou luisteren dat ik misschien wel een lichtpuntje zou zien maar ik vind dit vermoeiend om naar te luisteren

Lekker rock en roll baby! Cars en girls wat een banger! carguys am i right? geef jullie top 5 olie, velgen en toetergeluiden

Sounded like a bad version of KISS, lots of covers, maybe all covers? Not sure.... did not enjoy though.

Really enjoyed it, reminded me of Parquet Courts.. probably an inspiration for PC

Albores del punk.

Go Girl Crazy! cracks me up from very first song: the ridiculous lyrics and arch delivery alongside arena rock guitar just tickles my funny bone. I forgot that they covered I Got You, Babe, which is just pure mockery, richly deserved, if you ask me. The Dictators seems to be having such a good time that it's contagious. The Dictators are actually really competent musicians, but they choose to subvert that competence by constantly goofing off. It probably cost them popularity, but God bless them for being such goofballs. Some might have problems with songs like Back To Africa or Master Race Rock, but they're so gloriously stupid and so completely not mean spirited that it's hard for me to take offense, but maybe that just means I'm old and white. I dunno. It seems ridiculous to give an album like this a top rating, but it's hard to imagine how it could be any better.

3 stars. Early punks. Not bad

Yes.

Mad as a box of frogs, but it races along and you can hear who it influenced.

I was initially skeptical about this but then the guitars hit in "Back to Africa" and I understood. It's the kind of sleazy guitar that the mid 70s is so awesome for. You can hear how this band sits in time around the Stooges, MC5- clearly a bridge between the early 70s, glam and punk.

Sounds like an early ramones record but i guess thats where its from also. I get a bit confused around 'protopunk' and to me it all sounds like pubrock, but i think its all context driven, tbh i couldnt find a standout track on the album, though i appreciate its historically important. I got you babe was quite annoying imo.

Highly influential album by an underrated band. Glam, hard rock, punk.

Early punk, some fun stuff but ultimately didn't really touch me.

OK pre-Twisted Sister ... so what. These guys are too good to be punk, not good enough to be metal. Maybe a bigger deal in 1975.

The Ramones also covered "California Sun."

No está mal, pero totalmente indiferente :/

If I could give this album 0 stars or negative stars I would. It not only has two racist songs but also all the songs are just bad. Bad musicians. They didn’t contribute anything to punk or music at all. Maybe we should pay more attention to a band like MC5 because they were activists and were part of the civil rights movement. Way more important than this joke of a band.

Not a fan, a bit like the darkness but earlier

The positive reception this album received upon release and that it continues to enjoy is mind boggling. It also says a lot about who writes music reviews and who listens to punk.

This album was a lot of fun!

vad i helvete. "Go Back To Africa" är inte rolig, den är fan i mig rasistisk som fan

Sounds like known tunes, but seems to lack personality. Not sure I want to listen again.

Fun, straight-ahead rock n roll with an edge

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This was great, I was deeply concerned when the first few songs were go back to Africa and master race rock... however this was a great listen with many standouts weekend and cars and girls

Weird, but not bad.

Fun example of early punk. Had no idea this existed.

Also punk but the "rough instrumentation party punk rock" as opposed to "hardcore protest against anything punk rock"

This was incredible! How have I never heard this before?! It’s funny, creative, an absolute joy to listen to.

Some familiar songs.

Fun, would listen to again.

I feel dumber for listening.. Sketch style covers of 60s/70s contemporary pop (California sun/I got you babe) with bizarre originals (back to Africa/master race/etc). Maybe I just don’t get it

Interesting early rock/punk. Might listen to again in the future. Not dying to own this album.

Great Album. Very fun.

Right up my alley, loved it but wouldn't recommend it to everyone

These guys just seem like a footnote in punk rock history and not a particularly exciting one.

Its just a bit boring, songs dragged, felt quite samey. I see its an important album in punk rock history but its not for me

Really not a great album. Gave off similar vibes to the modern lovers, and I found its lyrics a lot clearer, but it put itself down by being such a product of its time.

Pretty cool to hear what was probably the first example of punk music created, but if these guys started the genre they definitely didn’t perfect it.

I like it...similar to Modern Lovers

Idc

Middle of the road album for me.

1/10 enjoyment lyrics are dated

I thought this was a pretty fun listen, but I sadly didn’t enjoy it enough to add it to my library.

Enjoyable. Big influence on Punk. Never heard of them until now.

Proto punk that made the newer genre of New York more accessible and open to the mainstream. Akin to the Ramones for being trailblazers into the mainstream.

By this point, I'm already relieved every time the daily album's name and cover seem like it could be punk rock but then isn't. Instead we have some fairly standard old-school rock. Nothing special, but not bad as a whole. The instrumentation is pretty good, the vocals on the hand not very good at all. The lyrics are ridiculous and frankly, pretty stupid. But that seems to be on purpose. Won't listen to The Dictators again, but fine for one round.

Fun and silly proto-punk, but lacking some substance (that might kinda be the point of the album, though)

Hmm. Naja. Die sind sich insgeheim zu bewusst, dass sie eigentlich nichts können, daher fehlt der letzte Schnipp zur satisfying Shiceegalness.

This was fun - catchy, early punk rock.

There are albums that feel like they couldn't ever be re-done or substituted to achieve a similar connection with any new audiences. And with that in mind, I feel like this album could be easily replaced with any album from blink-182 (at least for my generation), or with one from any other "irreverent" teenager band. I mean, I think I get why the compilers of the list thought this one was worthy of appearing on it; but while I recognize the concept of the album, I'm not really sold to the style of music or the contents of the lyrics.

Oooops

Good fun, I assume the lyrics/style is a bit tongue in cheek but it's entertaining even if it isn't. Not a huge amount of lasting appeal though

Proto-proto-punk? Best Tracks: Back To Africa, Teengenerate, (I Live For) Cars and Girls

Good

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So, daar had ik nu even helemaal geen zin in..

Kon er niet veel mee

Lekker rauw.

no thanks

Hier word ik niet warm of koud van. Niet vervelend maar ook totaal niet interessant.

Weinig verheffend, maar in z’n soort acceptabel.

Aika perusrokkia tämä levy. Oliko siellä vähän jotain rassismiakin mukana kun back to africassa oli jotain ugu-tsugu-uga-uga -mylvintää? Ja heti perään seuraava biisi master race rock! Wikipedian mukaan proto-punk -vaikuttajia. Ei kuitenkaan enää tänä päivänä juuri puhutellut musiikillisilla ansioillaan.

I like how much fun they sounded like they were having on the 2 covers, especially “I got you, babe”. Lyrics were a little too edgy for me. I liked the guitar a lot

Like a deeply discounted Kiss

8/10. This was fun, cool guitar parts and bass lines, and I like that I can hear the roots of so much other music I like in this.

I actually loved this album. It was so cool and had such a sick vibe. I wanted more at the end!

Bad rock music.

I was not a fan of this album at all and it really left a bad taste in my mouth early on. 01/28 - Yesterday I worked on redlines for the manufacturing set, fixing missing information in the model, and coordination items with Vidula and Courtney. The Dictators had a very whiny sense to them that I simply could not connect with.

lmao what an album. So punk, so camp, great irony. Love the personality, and some of the music

Well this is bat shit mental. But I quite like it! You can hear how this influenced bands that came later like the Ramones and the Beastie Boys. Rock n Roll punk with something to say. Its also pretty funny in places. Majestically mad. 4/5

"I don't want music, I want pain!" (Master Race Rock) La portada es de 10 pero el disco un poco sin más.

Surprisingly funny proto-punk.

fun album

Rock. I got you Babe.

6/10. Funny for bits, but not a big fan

Fun. Simple. Not extremely substantial, and that is ok.

Not what I expected but not anything special. My favorite parts were the guitar solos, and sometimes the lyrics were funny but I think the vocals and instrumentals were pretty rudimentary throughout. 6

Not a bad listen. Kind of interesting that all these older albums always lead off with their biggest songs.

Listened to this twice by mistake and it got worse the second time

This was a good listen. I think proto punk aptly describes this.

Fun stuff.

Nah

early punk? idk

Glam punk

Fun. Never heard of the band before

This was pretty good. You can see how this became American Punk. Very proto, but not fully baked yet.

Good punk album. I mostly liked the covers they had, the rest of the songs were good tunes with wacky lyrics. Highlights: -I Got You Babe -Teengenerate -California Sun

there wasn't much rhythm to it

Pleasantly surprised

I DGAF. Go Back to Africa? Master Race Rock? I don’t care if this is tongue in cheek, or if they’re playing a role or what. This is just stupid bullshit.

Ludicrous.

Prima maar niet geweldig

Always on the fence about this kind of thing. I get the "protopunk" genre, however unintentional it may of been. It mostly just seems like a goof to me. Clever enough, some harmless fun, I'm just not sure it replaced whatever it was supposedly subverting with anything that lasting.

High energy and catchier then expected protopunk that doesn't take it's self too seriously. Hilarious cover of I Got You Babe. Also liked Cars and Girls. Lots of shredding scattered throughout as well. "I think Lou Reed is a creep." Also protopunk is fun to say. PROTOPUNK. I would buy this if I came across a hard copy so I'm giving it the big five.

The guitar licks and riffs make it a 4. Enjoyed it, fun album

Seminal album but not my taste

More dumb 70s music. This site isn’t a 1000 albums you need to hear, it’s just random generic crap.

Eipä tästä oikein mitään suurempaa jäänyt käteen. Ihan menevää rokkia ilman ylimääräisiä hienouksia. Yksittäisiä hienoja biisejä (esim. Teengenerate) levyltä kyllä löytyy mutta kokonaisuus jää jotenkin mitäänsanomattomaksi. California Sunin kertsistä tuli mieleen se oktoberfestien und ich spring/schwimm/yms biisi!

Not really sure what I just listened to, some of it sounded offputting but then the last song could’ve been a beach boys cover!! I don’t even know!!

Trash rock. Not as fun as the Ramones.

Cool album. Really dig the punk rock covers of classic songs. Juvenile lyrics go great with the music. Raw, great example of early American punk rock.

2.8

Old school rock and roll vibes with weird voices. Not my style 1/5

Neat album! Some great tracks on here. probably won't quite make it to my frequent albums because of my forgetfulness, but not for a lack of quality.

I really enjoyed this one. The cover did not disappoint!

Liked this one

Never heard of “proto punk”, but I can definitely hear some of my favorite punk through this, Jeff Rosenstock included

This was a really fun album and I loved the I got you babe cover

Good start but it lost its way.

Spotify fave song “(I live for) Cars and Girls. Good listen.

I was different like new heavey rock for its time

This album is like the grandfather of punk rock. It certainly sounds punk: adolescent humor, repeated shouts of "Let's go!", and tracks that were clearly recorded in one take. Some of it is really fun, but there's a lot of dumb here, and that's hard to overlook. Best track: Two Tub Man

Loved how raw this was, most original thing I’ve heard in awhile

Listenable, not more :)

Appreciated more than admired

So glad I listened to this. 7.5/10

The movement to center rock and roll away from its maximalist, stadium filling phase and back to its scuzzy, scruffy and rough-edged way was bubbling and The Dictators were one of a plethora of bands eager to get it going. With an affinity for pop culture both mainstream and niche, they blend together unseemly interests and present a package that could only make sense for later times. Favorites: The Next Big Thing, I Got You Babe, Master Race Rock, Teengenerate, California Sun, Two Tub Man, (I Live for) Cars and Girls.

Good fun

I'm not a huge fan of this kinda proto-punk stuff (I've already given the stooges like 1/5) but this at least has a bit of humour to it, and the guitar work is pretty good - just found out it's Ross the Boss, so that'd explain it. Plus I liked the bit where they said something bad about Lou Reed lol. That guy sux. Plus it turns out these guys were all involved in Manitoba's Wild Kingdom, which was more good jokey punk in the early 90s or so. On paper I shouldn't really like this, but I do. 3/5.