I got beaten and slaughtered at this very site for having the guts to review the new Descendents EP on Fat Wreck without really being into the band’s 80’s material. Well let me tell you that The Descendents didn’t mean a lot to me and my friends in our younger years (they do now though), while The Subhumans were already huge in 1983 and the years after that because their first LP “The Country Died” was an instant classic. They sold over 100,000 copies of it, which I’m sure didn’t happen with The Descendents until more recently. [more]