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1985 studio album by the Descendents

I Don't Want to Grow Up
Descendents - I Don't Want to Grow Up cover.jpg

The album embrace depicts the band'due south Milo character as a baby.
Studio anthology past

the Descendents
Released 1985 (1985)
Recorded April 1985
Studio Music Lab, Los Angeles
Genre
  • Punk stone
  • popular punk[1]
Length 28:53
Label New Brotherhood (NAR-026)
Producer Bill Stevenson, David Tarling
Descendents chronology
Milo Goes to College
(1982) 		I Don't Want to Grow Up
(1985) 		Bonus Fat
(1985)

I Don't Desire to Abound Up is the 2d album past the American punk rock ring the Descendents, released in 1985 through New Alliance Records. It marked the end of a ii-year hiatus for the band, during which singer Milo Aukerman had attended college and drummer Bill Stevenson had joined Black Flag. I Don't Desire to Grow Up was the first of two albums the Descendents recorded with guitarist Ray Cooper, and their terminal with original bassist Tony Lombardo, who quit the group because he did not want to go along tour. Though recorded quickly and without much rehearsal fourth dimension, I Don't Want to Grow Up received positive reviews from critics, who praised its catchy songs, strong melodies, and pop-influenced love songs.

Background [edit]

The Descendents' commencement full-length album, Milo Goes to College (1982), had been so named because singer Milo Aukerman was departing the band to attend higher; he enrolled at El Camino College for one year, and so attended the University of California, San Diego from 1983–85, where he studied biology.[2] [3] [4] In his absence, the band—guitarist Frank Navetta, drummer Bill Stevenson, and bassist Tony Lombardo—recruited Ray Cooper as vocalizer and connected performing locally for a time during 1982 and 1983.[ii] [5] Cooper preferred playing guitar to singing, however, and the band would occasionally perform with Aukerman as a quintet during his return visits to Los Angeles.[2] [five] [6]

Stevenson also joined Black Flag in early 1983, intending to be in both bands simultaneously. "I'm the Descendents' drummer", he said at the fourth dimension. "I'k permanently in both bands. Other than that, I'one thousand a nice person."[7] He spent near of Jan–May 1983 on the road with Black Flag, touring the United States and Europe.[8] With this experience, he desired to take the Descendents on tour as well: "I got a taste of touring in Blackness Flag," he later recalled, "and I wanted to take that and spread information technology laterally to what the Descendents would or could do."[9] Nonetheless, he encountered resistance from Navetta and Lombardo: "Bill kind of sat downward with me and Frank and said something to the effect of we were at a point where we needed to grow by going on the road", Lombardo afterwards said. "Frank said no, and I had to say no likewise, then he said he had to exit the ring and nosotros were both kind of bummed out. I don't think Frank even believed him at first. That was a bad scenario."[10] Stevenson soon found Black Flag'southward touring and recording schedule too busy to allow fourth dimension for the Descendents.[11] "I got in over my head", Stevenson later said. "When I joined [Black] Flag I had every intention of doing both bands merely it was physically impossible. Flag had all this stuff in progress, then I put Descendents on concur."[12]

With the Descendents effectively on hiatus, Navetta, Lombardo, and Cooper tried to commencement a new ring, the Ascendants, but merely played one testify.[10] Navetta ultimately quit the band by setting all of his musical equipment on fire and moving to Oregon, where he became a full-time fisherman.[9] [xiii] [14] Stevenson remained in Black Flag, with whom he recorded 5 studio albums, a alive album, and two EPs,[I] and toured consistently from March through Dec 1984.[15] According to Aukerman, the thought to record a new Descendents anthology originated in March 1985 during the recording of Black Flag's Loose Nut album:

Neb was recording with Blackness Flag and he invited me up to do backing vocals for Loose Nut. He pulled me aside and he'south like "Hey, I got these songs, merely they're not Black Flag songs, they're really more Descendents songs", and I said "Let me hear them." Information technology was just an instrumental track and he sang over information technology and sang "Dizzy Girl" to me and I was similar "Wow!" He said "I can't do these in Black Flag." I said "Well, perhaps we should do them!"[nine]

By April 1985 Stevenson had left Blackness Flag and he, Aukerman, Lombardo, and Cooper reconvened as the Descendents to tape the band's second album.[16] [17] [xviii]

Writing [edit]

In addition to the songs Stevenson had written, the other band members made songwriting contributions to the album. Although Frank Navetta had left the ring, i song he had written lyrics for, "Rockstar", was used for the album.[nineteen] Cooper's sole writing credit is on lyrics to the lead track, "Descendents", which are attributed to the entire band.[xix] "'Descendents' was written by Ray and I about Bill leaving the band", said Lombardo.[10] The song opens with the lyrics "Only because nosotros've gone away / Hither's a bulletin from me and Ray / We're not gonna permit the music dice / Bring together u.s. if you've got the energy".[nineteen]

Lombardo contributed the anthology's title track, which expressed his desire for individuality: "I would write a song like 'I Don't Want to Abound Upward' like, 'I don't want to grow upward because I don't desire to be similar certain adults that were negatively influencing the globe'", he recalled in 2013, "not just 'I want to be a kid and live like a kid.' I don't want to grow upwards to be like you."[xx]

Aukerman'due south lyrics to "Debauchee" dealt with his conflicting feelings almost his libido: "['Pervert'] is well-nigh how I like to have sex, but sometimes I like it and so much that I think I'm perverted", he said in a mid-1980s interview. "Sometimes I want to have sex so much that I think I'thou a pervert, and so that's why I wrote the song. Fifty-fifty though sexual activity is the healthiest thing in the world, the nigh natural thing, sometimes for some strange reason my psyche tells me that I should be a pervert for wanting to have it and then much."[21]

Recording [edit]

The band learned the new material and recorded the album inside a ii-calendar week catamenia, leaving little fourth dimension to rehearse the songs.[9] In addition to the time constraint, they had lost the rehearsal infinite they had shared with Blackness Flag, and until the start mean solar day of recording were unable to do with all of their equipment plugged in.[3] As a outcome, the songs had much more of a pop sound on the album than they did when the band performed them live.[3] "Nosotros could've put a lot more practice time into information technology," said Aukerman during the album's supporting tours, "simply I retrieve that the songs themselves are but actually proficient songs. We play them all better at present."[9]

I Don't Want to Grow Up was recorded in April 1985 at Music Lab studios in Hollywood with producer and engineer David Tarling, who had worked with Stevenson on the recording and production of Black Flag'south Loose Nut (1985), The Process of Weeding Out (1985), and In My Head (1985).[19] [22] [23] [24] "He was really fond of those '80s production trappings, and the record is polluted and corrupted with them", Stevenson later reflected, lament that "[It] sounds similar all weird, reverby, crazy '80s shit."[2] [6] He also recalled that at one point Tarling passed out, leading Stevenson to take over the recording controls: "[He] was having some kind of problems or something, and he was drinking a lot, and he got so drunk while nosotros were recording that he passed out. So I basically kinda rolled his chair out of the way and rolled my chair in place of it, and then lo and behold, Bill Stevenson is an engineer! And of grade that record sounds terrible! I fucked it up good and well, but that'due south how I started learning. So it was basically a DIY kinda thing."[25]

Release and touring [edit]

In 1985, when Pecker came to me and said he had lined up a U.S. tour, I had just bought a house, I had been working at the post function for 3 years, and I was engaged to a adult female who I never did marry. Not doing that [bout] was the biggest mistake of my life [...] I will ever regret that. It was my insecurities. To keep the route, to leave this adult female, my house, my job...I wasn't a 17 year-former kid who could say "Bye, mom, I'm off." It's adieu to this woman I'1000 engaged to, goodbye to this house I put $40,000 on, bye to this job I've had for 3 years.

–Tony Lombardo[20]

Similar Milo Goes to College, I Don't Want to Abound Upwards was released as an LP tape through New Alliance Records, an independent record characterization run past D. Boon and Mike Watt of the San Pedro-based punk band the Minutemen, who were contemporaries of the Descendents.[nineteen] Stevenson prepared a tour to support the album, simply Lombardo declined due to his personal and professional commitments, thus quitting the band.[10] Stevenson after regretting non beingness more all-around:

Grow Upward was coming out and information technology's like "Hey, this is gonna come out and we need to get play shows. We can't just stay hither." I probably wasn't thinking about the wholeness of the lineup and the friendships there equally much every bit just thinking about "well, I want the band to do more." I may have inadvertently trampled a few innocent victims in the path [...] Looking dorsum on it, I should accept been more sensitive to Tony'southward time limitations and maybe tried to limit the touring to if he had a week or two off. That would have been the compassionate thing to do as a band of friends, but I call back I was likewise hell-bent on charging it and going for it. The band was but too good to exist "Allow'south practice four days a week and do two shows a month." We were just too good of a band for that to exist the end of our story.[x]

Lombardo was replaced in the band'due south lineup past Doug Feces, who had attended Mira Costa High School with Aukerman and Stevenson and was playing in a band called Anti.[17] [18] [26] "I go this weird annotation on my door," recalled Carrion, "and it'due south similar 'Hey, this is Pecker. I'chiliad thinking almost doing the Descendents again. Tony tin't do it, and then I desire to know if you desire to requite information technology a swing.' So we good getting me brought up to speed and then, right as school was ready to stop, Milo jumped in the van and we started doing shows."[26] The Descendents undertook 3 tours of the United states of america between April 1985 and March 1986 to support I Don't Want to Grow Up.[11] The band's kickoff performance outside of California was June 21, 1985 at CBGB in New York Urban center.[27] Their first tour then began in Phoenix, Arizona on July 18 and took the band e through the Southern Us, n to the Mid-Atlantic states and New England, west through the Midwestern United States, and so through Colorado, Utah, and Idaho to Seattle before heading south along the Westward Declension of the U.s., catastrophe September 14 in San Diego; covering 27 states with a total of 43 shows in 42 cities.[27] Feces later recalled of the experience:

That first tour was probably ane of the near difficult tours and the funnest tour at the aforementioned time. The hard part was we were traveling in this horrible, horrible, beat-up '71 Ford Econoline van in the dead of summer with no air conditioning. You're laying on this plywood loft and the lord's day'south sweltering on the ceiling. Yous stay at sketchy houses in sketchy neighborhoods with sketchy people. At that place's a show on Friday and Sat, then you're just wandering us wondering what to practise. "Holy smokes, there's a evidence in Seattle and we're in El Paso. How many days practice we take to go there? Nine. What are we gonna exercise for nine days?" Funny, crazy, and everybody was kind of dedicated to having about equally much fun every bit could happen in a 24-hour period.[28]

The second bout was more sporadic and localized, with 15 shows in California, Arizona, and Nevada between September 19 and December xv.[27] The Descendents played the nine:30 Club in Washington, D.C. on Dec 20 before starting their third tour in Phoenix, Arizona the following 24-hour interval.[27] This bout followed a similar road to the start, going through the Southwestern and Southern states before turning north to Pennsylvania; and so crossing into Canada for 3 shows in Ontario, the band's first outside the Us; then through the Midwestern states; ending March 1 in Salt Lake City; covering twenty states and Ontario with a total of 39 shows in 39 cities.[27]

In 1987 New Brotherhood was sold to SST Records, who re-released I Don't Want to Grow Upward on LP, cassette, and compact disc.

Reception [edit]

Ned Raggett of Allmusic gave I Don't Want to Abound Up 4 stars out of v, saying that "When the four desire to be straight up and perfectly poppy, they can and practise with smashing success, with surprisingly mature, emotional lyrics and playing that doesn't rely on all-speed all the fourth dimension."[29] [30] Rock critic Robert Christgau gave the anthology a B+ rating, proverb "They 'don't even know how to sing', they excoriate themselves as perverts for wanting sexual practice, and when they autumn in honey they endeavour to write Beatles songs. Chances are you'll discover them bad-mannered, just I'1000 tremendously encouraged that they can autumn in love at all. Anyway, their Beatles songs are pretty catchy."[31] In a 2004 biography of the ring, Jenny Eliscu of Rolling Stone commented that the anthology "featured the about singable tunes the band had ever written. 'Expert Good Things', 'In Love This Manner', and 'Can't Go Back' were positively sunny past Descendents standards; the Beach Boys-gone-punk vibe was an obvious precursor to Weezer. The real advance was their power to give strong melodies to thrash songs: 'My World' and 'Silly Daughter' border on heavy metallic but exit out the goofy backlog and include manner more self-pity."[32]

Co-ordinate to Finn McKenty, the band and the album was a major influence on what would be known every bit pop punk in the 1990s and 2000s, mainly due to the ring's "fairly normal" prototype and upbeat songs with lyrics about growing up, going to school/college, falling in dear, breaking upwardly, rather than something political, aggressive, violent or anti-social - themes that were prevalent in the punk rock and hardcore music at the time.[33]

Comprehend versions [edit]

In the decades since its release, several artists take recorded cover versions of songs from I Don't Want to Grow Upward for other releases, including:

  • "I Don't Want to Grow Upward" by Pkids[II] and by Bobby Birdman[III]
  • "Pervert" past The Billowy Souls[2]
  • "Can't Go Back" by Poole[Two] and by the Tijuana Panthers[III]
  • "Silly Girl" by Bunnygrunt[II]
  • "Christmas Vacation" by Soccer[II] and by +44[Four]
  • "Good Good Things" by Dunebuggy[II], Edsel[III] and Colleen Green
  • "Ace" past Thrush Hermit[II]
  • "Pep Talk" by Parasites (band)[2]

Rail listing [edit]

Side A[19]
No. Championship Writer(s) Length
1. "Descendents" Milo Aukerman, Ray Cooper, Bill Stevenson (lyrics); Tony Lombardo (music and lyrics) 1:42
2. "I Don't Want to Grow Up" Lombardo 1:nineteen
3. "Pervert" Aukerman (lyrics), Lombardo (music) 1:45
4. "Rockstar" Frank Navetta (lyrics), Lombardo (music) 0:35
five. "No FB" Aukerman 0:33
6. "Can't Go Back" Stevenson 1:43
7. "GCF" Lombardo ane:57
viii. "My World" Aukerman 3:27
9. "Theme" Lombardo ii:12
Side B[nineteen]
No. Title Writer(s) Length
one. "Silly Girl" Stevenson 2:21
2. "In Dear This Way" Aukerman two:30
iii. "Christmas Vacation" Aukerman (lyrics), Stevenson (music) 2:36
4. "Good Skillful Things" Stevenson two:19
5. "Ace" Stevenson 3:54
Total length: 28:53

Personnel [edit]

Adjusted from the album liner notes.[nineteen] [34]

Band

  • Milo Aukerman – vocals
  • Tony Lombardo – bass guitar
  • Ray Cooper – guitar
  • Bill Stevenson – drums, producer

Product

  • David Tarling – producer, engineer
  • John Golden – mastering

Notes [edit]

  • ^ I My War (1984), Family Man (1984), Slip It In (1984), Live '84 (1984), Loose Nut (1985), The Procedure of Weeding Out (1985), In My Caput (1985), and Minuteflag (1986)
  • ^ Two On Homage: Lots of Bands Doing Descendents' Songs (1995)[35]
  • ^ III On Milo Turns 50: Songs of the Descendents (2013)[36]
  • ^ Iv On Kevin & Bean'south Super Christmas (2006)[ commendation needed ]

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  36. ^ "Free Download: Filter Mag Presents: Milo Turns 50 Full Descendents Covers Album". filtermagazine.com. Filter. 2013-01-07. Archived from the original on 2015-02-11. Retrieved 2015-02-25 .

External links [edit]

  • I Don't Want to Grow Up at YouTube (streamed re-create where licensed)

zamoraarded2001.blogspot.com

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