Late 80s, melodic punk – this was always going to appeal to me.
The Problem Children were a three-piece band from a small backwater town in Canada actually called Dunnville.
Between 1985 and 1989 they released an EP – On The Air (1987) and two LPs – The Future Of The World Is Up To Us (1986) and Long Weekend (1989), which I’m putting up here, although I’ve added some extra tracks from the EP.
This record was a compilation of mainly previously released material that I believe was supposed to raise the profile of the group in Europe before they toured here and they always intended to release more stuff.
In the end it turned out to be a bit of an farewell album as they didn’t release anything else afterwards.
I believe they had some success among Canadian students but otherwise they just didn’t seem to be very well known at all, which is a shame as they did some pretty good stuff.
01. Fuk Yuz All
02. Thrashin’ With Yer Parents
03. Plastic Liver
04. Red Dyed Hair
05. What’s It All About
06. We Want You
07. Nobody Wins
08. The Future Is Now
09. We Are The Children
10. On The Air
11. Staying Young
12. Energy
13. 1-24
14.The Pit Between Two Signs
15. Canada’s Eulogy
16. Lover Or A Whore
17. Believe
18. Long Weekend
April 21, 2009 at 8:14 am |
hey, hearditbefore
way to take me back! I forgot how good these guys were and how I’d draw their logo on everything back in the day (and how no one else knew who they were… for shame!), but I’m pretty sure that Jamie kept on going with them.
I remember some guy from Montreal was selling their latest single and LP in the mid 90’s. Memory is fuzzy tho’…
Check out the “We Are The Children” video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIao0R9MR3Q&feature=channel_page
Cheers!