Eh, fuck it. I’m at a 5. The WarioWare of albums, if you will, given the rapidfire pace – it’s the shortest one in the entire list at just 15 minutes, yet it somehow manages to pack in everything it wants to say as concisely as possible throughout its 14 tracks. It’s not like these are poorly written tracks either; save for one use of the F-slur on track 2 (it was 1980, so I get it, but still), these are all competent tracks that generally have something to say, and get their points across well enough. Special shoutout to the prescience of “Paid Vacation”, by the way. Of course, it’d be stupid to focus on this one solely for the lyrics or vocals, because while they’re there, they’re just a way for the instrumentation to come in red hot as a motherfucker & do some bullshit that absolutely nobody else was doing in 1980. Sure, the Sex Pistols did their whole thing in 1977, but that at least stayed within a semblance of the rock/metal music of its time. For 1980, this is taking Johnny Rotten’s core philosophy and putting it on a treadmill going about 2.5 times as fast. Even with the Dead Kennedys album we got, which went at a breakneck pace, this is even faster. It feels way, way closer to the sort of insanity that would go more “mainstream” circa the early 2000s, or at the very least, the sort of thing my brain associates with manic Newgrounds animations or early YouTube AMVs. It’s not an all-time great album or anything, but it’s a kickass 15 minutes that pulls no punches and does exactly what it sets out to do. It’s dumb goofy fun hardcore punk that spits on any form of musicality that came before it, in the best way possible. I’m very glad it’s on the list, because it does feel like it’s influential to some degree. Realistically, it’s probably actually just a 4, at the very most, but from the fucking vibes alone and how easy it to just rock out to this shit, I’d be selling myself short to not give this a 5. Anyone who gave this a 1 is lame as hell.