Fear - Live...For the Record

Primary Artist
Fear
Album Title
Live...For the Record
Release Date
October 25, 1991 
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Review by Alex Henderson
Fear came out of the same late 1970s Bay Area punk scene that gave us the Dead Kennedys, and not surprisingly, the two bands were sometimes compared. But while The Kennedys were an intensely socio-political band that occasionally got into shock value for its own sake ("Too Drunk To Fuck"), Fear was a more consistently humorous, less political band that always thrived on shock value. Fear's rude, crude, dark-humored and often brilliant lyrics offended those with delicate sensibilities, and Lee Ving wouldn't have had it any other way. Read More