Steal Yer Heart The Briefs

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  • Release Date: 10/18/2005
  • Sales Rank: 128,813
  • Label: BETTER YOUTH ORG.
  • UPC: 020282010726

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Steal Yer Heart

1LISTENGenital General 1:59
2LISTENCriminal Youth 3:10
3LISTENMove Too Slow 1:33
4LISTENLint Fabrik 2:31
5LISTENGetting Hit on at the Bank 2:39
6LISTENStuck on You 2:24
7LISTENI Can't Work 1:47
8LISTENCan't Get Through 2:07
9LISTENMy Girl (Wants to Be a Zombie) 1:13
10LISTENNormal Jerks 3:21
11LISTENForty and Above 2:09
12LISTENRazorblade Heart 3:44

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They may or may not steal yer heart, but on their fourth album, the Briefs do continue to sound as if they might have stolen your uncle's record collection. They make no bones about their influences: within any randomly selected two-minute snippet you'll hear the Buzzcocks, the Undertones, the Adverts, maybe even some Stiff Little Fingers. The fake British accents (these guys are from Seattle) can be taken as a matter of course, and so can the period-appropriate 28-minute album length (though it would be easier to accept if it came with a period-appropriate album price: if memory serves, an Undertones LP went for about $7.29 new). But all caveats and qualifications notwithstanding, there's no denying the genuine trashy pleasures to be found on this album, in particular the Ramones-go-Oi! thrasher "My Girl (Wants to Be a Zombie)," the slightly icky cougar-hunting anthem "Forty and Above," and the spastically brilliant "Criminal Youth." Very nice. Rick Anderson, All Music Guide

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The Briefs Are Here to Stayby Nora3061

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November 11, 2008: If you think punk is dead, you just need to take another look. The new punks aren?t as mad as they used to be, sure, but they?ve not given up all together. They still hate the government; they just feel a little more passionately about the annoyances of getting hit on at the most inopportune times (Getting Hit on at the Bank). The Briefs came onto the Seattle scene in 2000, when some were positive punk had passed away 6 years before, when the beloved Kurt Cobain died, and others were convinced the passing took place way back in the early 80s.
The Briefs were ready to make a change, like all punk bands are. They were tired of having to be pissed off. They were tired of not understanding their predecessor?s lyrics. And they were through with black hair and black clothes. With these things in mind, the only logical thing to do is bleach your hair, add some red to the ol? wardrobe, and go back to the basics. How else can you change a genre moving in the wrong direction, than to go back to the basics, and mess it all up again?
When listening to The Briefs a constant feeling of nostalgia makes you question your `maturing? taste. How could you have forgotten the fun in music? How could you have abandoned your Buzzcocks CDs for The Casualties tickets? The Briefs are the young kids at the concert that remind you how fun slam dancing is, or the new Hulk movie that forces you to take out that box of old comic books and flip through them again.
The Briefs have kept up their punk image with tracks bashing the government, but hidden in every track, no matter how serious, is a song that yearns to be danced to. In any album with four political songs, there are six songs dealing with crushes (Stuck on You), ugly actors (Genital General), and girlfriends that enjoy eating brains (My Girlfriend [Wants to be a Zombie]). And these guys aren?t trying to hide it. They want you to dance, and they want you to enjoy the music you claim to love.
So love it! Dance to it! Sing a long to it! And, mostly, appreciate how awesome punk music really is.