Anniversary: Descendents’ Enjoy! is 35

The Descendents’ third album, Enjoy!, is 35-years-old. Following on from the melodic developments on their sophomore effort, I Don’t Want to Grow Up (1985), the band take that title literally, as the opening track, “Enjoy,” throws clumps of toilet humor at the listener. This makes the following track, a cover of the Beach Boys’ “Wendy,” all the more surprising, before “Kids” offers something reminiscent of their 1982 debut, Milo Goes to College: a short, sharp smack of hardcore-tinged punk, clocking in at under a minute. There’s metal scattered across the album in songs such as “Green,” “Days Are Blood,” “Hürtin’ Crüe,” and “Orgo 51.” The latter is an instrumental and was added onto the CD and cassette releases, along with “Orgofart,” which consists ...

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