Mean Jeans, The
Are You Serious
THE MEAN JEANS are the kids that live down the street that blare the Ramones and the Angry Samoans late at night while they are playing "Edward 40s Hands". They have 3 things in their refrigerator: ketchup, beer and slime. The 13 garage pop tunes of Are You Serious harkens back to the Lookout! Records of the early 90s, when pop-punk meant snotty low-brow 3 chord goodness and not glossy soundtracks to mall strolls. Like any good Cretins soundtrack, the "songs about partying" vs. "songs about girls" ratio leans fully toward PBR fueled pogo punk. Pitchfork already said THE MEAN JEANS "comes over like the Ramones mixed with a pinch of Joan Jetts classic "Bad Reputation" and makes you want to slam dance with its guitar riffs and rollicking drumbeats."