Descendents

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Lomita, California, USA (1978 – present)

Descendents are a punk rock band from Lomita, California, USA. They are one of the most influential punk bands ever and are known for being one of the early bands in the hardcore scene to sing about more personal topics reflective of their own lives.

They were formed in 1978 by guitarist Frank Navetta, bassist Tony Lombardo and drummer Bill Stevenson. Shortly after forming they enlisted Milo Aukerman and made what started out a surf band into a full fledged punk unit. The Descendents diverged from their punk peers perhaps because of the Beach Boys influences and sang about topics that touched many young punk’s lives like parents, food, girls and being rejected.

This band separated due to Milo actually going to college, UCSD, like the title of their album and other constraints happens to also be famous for the long hiatuses of sometimes a decade in length. The band is now spread out across the country and their future somewhat uncertain. Lead singer Milo Aukerman currently resides in Newark, Delaware. He holds the position of Biochemist for the internationally known DuPont Chemical company, which is based out of Delaware. However, whenever the ends of the Descendents approaches, Milo pops up again and a new record is released.

They have released 7 full length albums:
* Milo Goes to College (1982)
* I Don’t Want to Grow Up (1985)
* Enjoy! (1986)
* All (1987)
* Somery (1991)
* Everything Sucks (1996)

1	Suburban Home	695
2	Myage	612
3	I Wanna Be a Bear	603
4	Hope	597
5	I'm Not a Loser	595
6	Bikeage	541
7	I'm the One	503
8	I'm Not a Punk	485
9	'Merican full track	470
10	Coffee Mug	462
11	Parents	426
12	Catalina	409
13	Kabuki Girl	403
14	Nothing With You full track	400
15	Silly Girl	394

Top Albums

Milo Goes to College
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Everything Sucks
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Cool to Be You
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I Don't Want To Grow Up
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Lego29a wrote:
Wednesday evening

One of THE all time great positive punk bands. I've seen them multiple times over the years both as the D and All. NEVER miss this band live if you can help it.

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theonlyronster wrote:
Tuesday morning

A truly great band. The Top albums on here are all great, and show a progression in form and sound.

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liquidphil wrote:
Saturday evening

the only good pop punk

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cvpunk wrote:
13 days ago

we all agree it's a mystery, but why'd they give it to us

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Grimeboy wrote:
17 days ago

Dammit last.fm, let me use paragraphs.

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Grimeboy wrote:
17 days ago

anarchoqueer: I just checked and I think it's just you. That said NOMEANSNO have done quite a wide range of styles, probably the thing most like The Descendents they've done would be 'Dad'. But I'll grant you that Coolidge does have the very short repetitive bassline in its intro that has become a NOMEANSNO trademark. Also Impressions has slightly jazzy drums (as well as the more obvious waltzy stuff), much like NOMEANSNO sometimes do. Iceman and some other track do that whole start-stop, fast-slow thing that NOMEANSNO does. Oh and 'All-O-Gistics' is obviously a vocally based/instrumentally minimalist track, much like Victory. Actually, I think you have a point. Maybe it was because in 87 they were surrounded by the beginnings of math rock etc. I don't know quite how to describe it but there's more a driving sound than a buzzing to the guitars at parts. Maybe the same riff being played transposed several times. That happens throughout 'All-O-Gistics', I think. It's got more unconvent

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benn2 wrote:
19 days ago

cool to be you is underrated.

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invertedjesus wrote:
21 days ago

Descendents established said generic sound.

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JagStryker wrote:
last month

After discovering Descendents with Milo, I tried listening to Everything Sucks and ALL and I didnt like it at all. It sounded way too generically punk for me to be into.

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[deleted-user] wrote:
last month

i agree with the two posts below....Everything sucks is fuckin killer! The best band ever......i love em to death
jackanory wrote:
last month

i think i might prefer everything sucks too. i love this band so so so much

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Mycodenameis wrote:
last month

I know people think Milo.. is the best album but I love Everything Sucks

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Forever_Gold wrote:
last month

i'm not a cool guy anymore.

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[deleted-user] wrote:
last month

Take a girl out, she won't fuck you, you just bought her a gram of coke. Spent all your money on shitty coke!
God_ wrote:
last month

I WANT TO SHIT IN THE WOODS IN MY CAVE HUNT MY PREY

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nepal wrote:
last month

ALL!

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loudribs wrote:
last month

ALL?

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God_ wrote:
last month

I LIKE FOOD FOOD TASTES GOOD I LIKE FOOD FOOD TASTES GOOD

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rudyvandisarzio wrote:
last month

This stuff should be used to cure emo kids with.

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rudyvandisarzio wrote:
last month

mugmugmugmugmug

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