MAKE AN EFFORT 7" EP
Fountain of Youth Records
Cat. #: FOY-4
Released: 1983

1. Teenager In a Box
2. No Way Out
3. Twisted Views
4. Sheer Terror
Reviews:

This only has four songs, but boy do they blast! John Stabb sounds angrier than ever and Brian Baker's guitar playing is so raunchy and LOUD it's hard to believe he's in Bad Religion now... Maybe he was trying to compete with John Barry (who played guitar on the Legless Bull EP).
'Teenager In A Box', which is about a friend who died in a car accident age eighteen ('You were eighteen/now you're a statistic'), is one of the most intense hardcore songs ever if you ask me. Stabb sings it like he can't believe it really happened.
'No Way Out' and 'Twisted Views' may sound a little metallic (thanks to Brian Baker, who's never been ashamed of his metal influences, just listen to Dag Nasty), but even those songs match up to anything by top-notch hardcore bands like Negative Approach and Urban Waste and what have you.
Of course G.I. ends it all with one of many versions of their signature tune, 'Sheer Terror'. And yes, it's by far my favorite version. Ok, I like Legless Bull and Boycott Stabb as much as the next guy, but THIS record, to me, is what punkrock is all about. Amen.
-PETER VAN GALEN



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