What do you do when your favorite 90s pop punk band reissues two of their albums, but your two favorite songs are not included? If you're me, you pout and listen to the two songs on repeat before admitting you cannot add tracks to an album no matter how hard you try and then play the new album all the way through, four times, before your mother tell you to stop singing about Chupacabras.
This vague intro was at some point supposed to hint at the fact that Chixdiggit is releasing Double Diggits! on July 23rd. This is a remastered reissue of Born on the First of July and From Scene to Shining Scene with bonus tracks galore. And to celebrate this news, I had planned on air humping my way down Main Street before I remembered my favorite Chixdiggit song, I Wanna Hump You, is on their self title album from Sub Pop, and these are Honest Dan's Records releases. Ditto for their song about Gerry Cheevers and his mask. Somewhere in Central Jersey, my former roommate is celebrating the fact that I don't have a new version of "I Wanna Hump You" to violate her with, but that's really neither here nor there.
I must say, listening to these songs, it's a strange feeling to hear a band that it's always been a "cassette based" band in such great clarity. That graininess isn't there, the charm of their garage-bandy pop punkiness is severely lacking. Upside? This is a reissue, not a rerecording, so the voices you hear singing about teenage heartbreak are young. It's not like popping in a Blink-182 album and hearing 40+ year old voices singing about whatever Blink is singing about these days, it's a real teenaged experience.
What you get:
- all the tracks that were ever tracked on Born on the First Of July
- all the tracks that were ever tracked on From Scene to Shining Scene
- 8 bonus tracks (single/demo versions, songs from previous albums, etc)
- the option of picking vinyl or CD or MP3 which is great news because the LPs have been out of print for forever!
What you don't get:
- shit you don't like
Any other questions? No? Good.
Don't forget, July 23rd. Chixdiggit is releasing Double Diggits.
Buy a physical copy and put it in the fridge with some carrots, see who wins "Best Hung".