The Samoans’ first release, Inside My Brain , featuring P.J. Galligan on lead guitar as a replacement for Bonze Blayk, was one of the earliest hardcore punk albums to come out of the 1980s LA punk rock scene. Between this recording and second album Back from Samoa , the band released a four-song EP as “The Queer Pills”, allegedly using the pseudonym for the EP to get airtime on Rodney Bingenheimer ‘s KROQ radio program. Their 14-song, 17-minute hardcore album, Back from Samoa , released in 1982, featured lyrics with such themes as the trendiness of poking your eyes out (“Lights Out”), anthropomorphizing Adolf Hitler ‘s penis (“They Saved Hitler’s Cock”), and dissing your father (“My Old Man’s a Fatso”), sung over heavily distorted guitars and early LA/ OC hardcore drum beats.
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