Group Sex

These guys are super pretentious and are trying really hard to be edgy 1.5/5

As juvenile, loud, and abrasive as you would expect an album called Group Sex by Circle Jerks to be. A lot of fun though, and after sitting through some bloated monsters in recent days, an album this short and tight is extremely refreshing. I think I do need to be in the right mood for it, but I did like it more than I expected to like an album called Group Sex by Circle Jerks.

They suck This isn't good music

meh 2/5

Exactly the album you’d expect from the title and band name. Uh half a star for being 15 minutes long.

3★/5 [10.15.2026] 10.18.2026

Wanted to hate this for being 15 min but gotta respect

Good but not my style

The good: It's 15 minutes long The bad: Everything else

It's exactly how punk should be; fast, hard, in, out, and fuck off like yer ma likes it.

Raucous tiny punk shenanigans.

Yes! More punk representation on the list! Credit to Circle Jerks for making a loud, fast, fun, 15 minute album.

5 out of 5. Great stuff here, super influential album that doesn't stay or ramble too long.

Punk

How in the world have I not heard this before? The longer this went on, and let's be honest, that isn't that long, the more l liked it.

14 songs 15 minutes now that’s what I like to see! Haven’t listened since high school but still just goofy fun

#157 favourite: world up my ass | least favourite: paid vacation i loveeee punk and adore that this album is short and snappy! it really helps the album, in my opinion. i will say though, i felt it lacked substance to a degree? hard to put my finger on what, but individual tracks didn't necessarily hit in the way i'd like from hardcore punk. that being said, i will not be giving an average track rating because this is 100% an album that needs to just be listened to in full. it's short enough and is punchier if listening to the whole thing. an easy 3. ಄ albums remaining: 932 ಄ albums I agree with being on the list: 69 ಄ albums I would consider for my list: 35 ಄ albums I would not include on my list: 122

1980 hardcore punk Beverly hills World up my ass Don't care

14 songs, 15 minutes, a lifetime of irritating parents.

Instant classic. It only takes 15 minutes to listen to, which is arguably 14 more minutes than any of them would last in actual group sex

Sounds like punk rock! Sloppy, trashy, fast, and simple. Not really my thing and not sure to rate but I like the short length. Nice and concise 1? 2? 1.5

One star for being 15 mins and another star for the lyrics

I always love (hardcore) punk! However this album felt a bit simple for me personally

Juvenile in some ways, I suppose, but enjoyably so. Great punk sound and vibes!

Never heard these guys before, but they were clearly paving the way for the punk bands I grew up with (NOFX, Capdown etc). Scrappy, anarchic and fun. Favourite tracks: Back Against The Wall, Wasted, World Up My Ass, Paid Vacation, Red Tape.

Loved it. Best 15 minute album I’ve heard.

Very surprising like for me. First off, it's 14 songs in 15 minutes and called a "landmark album for punk." It is. Loved it. 1 idea = 1 minute song. Short, sweet, very punk. Some songs were atrocious ("I just want some Skank") and other were hilariously bad ("World in my Ass"). But was entertained and liked 15 mins of punk way more than 45.

What an incredibly stupid album lmao. It sounds like the Ramones but without the commitment to making actual songs. It feels incomplete, like listening to a work-in-progress jam session from a teen garage band.

Maybe I've just been pressured by the daily album releases here, but I think ALL albums should be 15 minutes long. :) This was the perfect length, and a perfect punk album. 5 stars.

weird yank punks

Now that’s punk music

What could be more punk?

Punk yeah mother punker!

That didn’t take ling

Over practically before I'd even realized it started. I have to respect that as a statement

Bang average album, although I did raise an eyebrow at the length.

Dull enough here. By-the-numbers punk.

Short, didn't hate it but it did all sort of sound the same. Had some catchy songs tho.

Great Punk album. Had the pleasure to drive than band to 3 gigs in New South Wales a couple of years ago. They were great and had a very young fan base!

15 minute hardcore albums > 40 minute folk rock albums

6/10

you aaaare a car, you are a hospital, iwent to hell and back to see you smile on saturday

This was fine. Not that good. This is what I feel like haters SAY Nirvana sounds like. Just isn't great. It sounds like he peaks the mic every time. It all sounds the same, but the short length doesn't let any song develop. Liked Songs: "Beverly Hills" , "Back Against the Wall" , "Don't Care" , "Live Fast Die Young"

so fun, brings back all my teenage angst

Another album that is different than the 900th country rock/pop this list has, and it even made the vanillas angry! I love it

2 stars for it being 15 minutes, so I didn't have to withstand this for long.

Nice concise album and songs. To the point and loud. 4/5

I had never heard this album or indeed the band before. I had heard plenty of music like this though, and ‘Group Sex’ is a real winner. I’m sure there’s plenty about this album that is divisive, but I found very little to fault about it throughout. First up I am very much in support of the brevity. Everything about this kind of music point directly toward keeping things short and (um) sweet. So once the message has been delivered, why pad things out to the fabricated construct of what a song should be? If you listen closely, they don’t even break the accepted “rules” of a song anyway; verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, chorus done. They even throw in a few guitar solos as well. It’s all just done more quickly. Having recalibrated by the second half, it was fascinating to find myself questioning why an 8 second verse was repeated; you said that already, it could have been even shorter! More that couldn’t be faulted was the production style, the musicianship, the vocal delivery and the message that was delivered. I’m guessing there have been listeners that could check down that list and, for each one say “yes! those are all the reasons why it’s awful”. What I heard though was a succinct distillation of well channelled anger. That probably sounds like an inappropriately academic reaction, but it’s a 45+ year old, 15 minute album that is still influential and still being listened to today; it deserves to be analysed, and my analysis shows they smashed it.

Loads of fun. There's some awesome punk drumming here. Some excellent frenetic arrangement. Vocal delivery is exactly what it should be. Nice.

Short and sweet. It knows exactly what it is, gets it done and gets out. A solid album. Low 4.

Angry

This is another one of those late 70s early 80s punk albums that was groundbreaking in its day. I can’t imagine being a kid in 1980 and listening to this. It must have been mind blowing. Bands like this and The Germs and The Wipers are so beloved by so many from that era because they were doing things that seemed impossible and no one had ever really attempted before. That all being said, I don’t have the nostalgia factor that a lot of people have that makes this great or life-changing in any way. Listening to this in 2026 for the first time: I like it, it’s really good, but it’s nothing that knocked my socks off. I totally get how it would have in 1980, but not today for me. So without the nostalgia factor, I’m going to have to say that this was really really good, but not amazing on the level that it surely would have been when it came out.

Short and sweet

One of the most influential bands in So Cal Punk scene

(1.8) 15 minutes of energy and rage

Perfect hardcore album- short, fast, angry, crude, funny.

I didn't like it but I can respect it. Circle jerks are punks.

Blessedly short

no. osea los iria a ver en vivo, pero no escuchar nunca mas este album

1/5

Zero

Into it. Biggest pleasant surprise for me in a while.

They are expressing a lot of emotions here that I can relate to. They are loud. They are angry. They are unapologetic. The two letters they hate the most are B and S.

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hard to hear. kinda funny tho

Well, this is a short little album. 15 minutes barely even qualifies as an album if you ask me, but a hardcore punk band is definitely capable of justifying this being an album. Despite their lack of length, the songs feel like fully formed, well, songs without having to be extremely drawn-out. That, in and of itself, is legitimately impressive, as brevity is one of the hardest things to do in many artistic pursuits. However, the vocals aren't very good, as they're just an angry guy yelling. It doesn't really complement even this simple music well(until the band speeds the tempo up). Either way, it's a nice change of pace for somebody with a huge tendency to complain about the lengths of albums. This album is the lowest ranked album of 1980 globally. Other 1980 albums rated by me: Back in Black(1/23)-5 Remain in Light(2/23)-5 Seventeen Seconds(4/23)-4 British Steel(5/23)-5 Peter Gabriel 3(6/23)-4 Heartattack and Vine(11/23)-5 Crocodiles(14/23)-3 Kilimanjaro(20/23)-2

Interesting!

You’re laughing? This man has the world up his ass and you’re laughing?

Even at 15 minutes I was waiting for it to be over

Even if you hate this album, it's only 15 minutes long. The amount of shitty hour long albums on here make this a breath of fresh air. That being said, this album rips.

No fillers, straight punk. Great album. It's so short you can listen to it a couple of times in a row and it'll feel normal.

Does this mean that I had "Group Sex" that lasted only 15 minutes and 25 seconds? Doesn't say much for my stamina.

More of a east coast hardcore person than west coast because it's tough for me to give LA credit for anything, but this is a great, quick and dirty punk record. Also... The Decline of Western Civilization is a fantastic movie and everyone reading this should go watch it immediately.

16 minutes? Excellent, extra points for brevity. It's still punk and not really my thing, but loved the energy. 3*

Very punky, very hardcore, very short and pretty good! This might grow into a 4/5 someday, but 3/5 for now

One of the best of the Circle Jerks catalogue!

This is basically 15 minutes of pure punk chaos, and sometimes that’s exactly what you need. Punk is one of those genres that just hits right when you’re angry, frustrated, or simply feel like thrashing around for a bit. I love the raw sound, the speed, and that feeling that the whole thing could fall apart at any second. It’s also kind of wild remembering that this album is almost 50 years old, because that kind of energy still feels pretty immediate. The lyrics can definitely get a little odd, but honestly, half the fun of punk is just having something to scream about. The bigger issue for me is that the album doesn’t give you much of a change-up from track to track. The same speed, attitude, and general approach carry through almost the entire thing, although when the whole album is only about 15 minutes long, that problem doesn’t exactly have much time to become unbearable. I do kind of wish there were one or two more substantial songs to really grab onto, but then again, writing a five-minute epic probably wouldn’t be very Circle Jerks of them. This is fast, loud, messy, and over before you really have time to process it. I’m not sure how often I’ll come back to the whole album, but when the right mood hits, I could definitely see myself throwing it on again.

Decent punk. Wish it had done more.

Y'know the little song indents they would put in Hannah Montana to transition to the next scene? This album is the punk version of that, except there is never a new scene, just another transition.

Yes, fifteen minutes of anger. That blew the cobwebs off

sounds very teenagey. silly and generic punk music. LOOVE that it was only 15 minutes, that's commendable.

A favorite to listen to while in the car.

De sier det de vil og ikke noe mer. Perfekt lengde.

It had a few decent riffs but the main reason for a 3 is 16 songs in 15 minutes… come in, break something, get out as quickly as possible.

The best I can say about it is that it didn’t outstay its welcome. I’m not the biggest fan of punk at the best of times and this falls onto the end of the spectrum that seems to be making a kerfuffle over very little. Could hardly make out any lyrics so if there was a punk aesthetic of an anti-facist diatribe, I didn’t get any of it - the best I got was some shitty lyrics about Beverly Hills and rhymes that a 7 year old would write. Same drum beats, same power chord progressions, same shouting didn’t do anything for me.

14 låter på 15 min gir poeng. Og bra nok, men

just no

Didn’t do anything for me. Can see why it appealed at the time

Not good

Waste of time

Def hear the guitar/drum influence for Green Day’s sound throughout this album. Vocals are more gritty, early punk. 14 song album with 15 minute runtime.

An album of ringtones.

Sounds like every 21st cenuary English punk band. But it was innovative at the time.

Sloppy fast rock and roll

Pretty good but there's something about most LA punk that keeps me from falling in love. Or maybe I just prefer Angry Samoans.

- .....so good. -

This really took me by surprise. 14 songs in 15 minutes. I loved it. It's addictive. Really good. They actually manage to squeeze quite varied themes and sounds. At least 4 stars. Actually, let's make it 5.

Really good album, just a straight violent yelling ride. I don’t rlly have much to say tbh but that’s not a show of the albums quality the drums hit hard the guitars are loud and aggressive the vocals are amazing. I don’t rlly have any favorite tracks from this one because like most hardcore punk I listen to it kinda runs together in a good way like someone yelling at you constantly and randomly it’s a neat vibe.

You know what? I can get behind this very punk AF album especially since each track is like 70 seconds long. Get in, get out. Reminds me a lot of SLC Punk

Classic. And so short (bonus points).