D.O.A.
Punk Rock Singles, 1978-99
Sudden Death Records
· Archives opened, collections completed. D.O.A. is set to play Calgary on June 6 at The Distillery.
D.O.A. was always conceived as a blunt instrument, a thick black marker rather than a fine pen, never quite able to sustain itself over the length of an album. As the latest release from former D.O.A. front man Joey Keithley reveals, the band was quite often at their peak when immediacy was in demand, as if drawing from Joe Strummer’s dictum to "let fury have the hour/ anger gives me power." Many of the songs featured on this compilation come from singles or EPs released to either draw attention or respond to very specific events, such as Expo ’86, or the 1993 Clayoquot Sound logging. In typical D.O.A. fashion, the band’s fury and indignation served to focus its songwriting into a sincere, visceral response that easily stands up to their earlier singles like "Disco Sucks," "World War 3" and "Fucked Up Ronnie." Even the trio of early-’90s covers "Folsom Prison Blues," "Dead Men Tell No Tales" and "It’s Not Unusual" gain a little – on their own they seemed a little too campy, but packaged here they serve to lighten the mood.
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