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DFL\u00a0aka Dead Fucking Last, the iconic \u201890s hardcore band that featured first wave punker\u00a0Monty Messex, Adam Horovitz aka Ad-Rock of the Beastie Boys, and skater \u201cCrazy Tom\u201d Davis, will reissue their influential debut album,\u00a0\u2018My Crazy Life\u2019. Originally released on the\u00a0Beastie Boys\u2019 own Grand Royal Records\u00a0in 1994, the record turned heads as it was fueled by the savage power of first wave hardcore during a time when punk rock was heading in a poppier, radio-friendly direction. The reissue is the first time the album has ever been on 12-inch vinyl and is also the first printing of the album in 29 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The band brought in original producer\u00a0Mario Caldato Jr. (Beastie Boys, Moby, Freddie Gibbs)\u00a0to remaster the entire release. Further, the reissue contains expanded art, unreleased pictures, as well as a 10,000 word oral history of the band, as taken from interviews with the band members themselves, Grand Royal Records executives, and other contributors from the scene. As an additional bonus, the first run of the reissue will come with a complete, previously unreleased, live show titled\u00a0\u2018Live at G-Son Studios\u2019. The live album was professionally recorded by Caldato at the Beastie Boys\u2019 G-Son Studio during a party the day after DFL recorded the tracks from\u00a0\u2018My Crazy Life\u2019 and features eleven, savage live recordings.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018My Crazy Life\u2019 will be released via\u00a0Trust Records\u00a0on\u00a0August 11, 2023\u00a0in stores and across all digital retailers. Trust is an archival record label whose mission is to preserve and present classic punk records as an iconic and important part of America\u2019s cultural history, much in the same way as jazz, folk, and the blues have been celebrated. In order to pay tribute to the iconic records that it releases, each Trust pressing is presented as a deluxe release with premium vinyl, expanded and heavy-duty liner notes and jacket, as well other bonuses. Trust Records previously released deluxe reissues of Circle Jerks\u2019\u00a0\u2018Group Sex\u2019 and 7 Seconds\u2019\u00a0\u2018The Crew,\u2019 both which received massive critical acclaim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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– Includes a 20-page full-color oral history, a massive full color zine featuring unreleased pictures by Sofia Coppola, flyers, and other archival images made by\u00a0Bryan Ray Turcotte<\/a>.
– Remastered audio by Mario Caldato Jr (Mario C) \/ the Beastie Boys producer who initially mixed the 7\u201d w\/ Ad-Rock at the Beastie Boys\u2019 G-Son Studios in Atwater Village in 1993
– An entire, unreleased, live show recorded at a party at G-Son studios.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018My Crazy Life\u2019 Deluxe Reissue track listing<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Side A – Original Album (Remastered by Mario C)<\/strong>
1. DFL
2. The Mosher
3. U Don’t Understand\u00a0
4.\u00a0Pizza Man<\/a>\u00a0(Official Music Video)
5. Metermaid\u00a0
6. Monks Honor\u00a0
7. Knucklehead Nation\u00a0
8.\u00a0America’s Most Hardcore<\/a>
9. Get the Fuck Out
10. Think About the Pit
11. FFF
12. Smokebomb\u00a0
13. Don’t Be a Kook
14. Creamcheese N’ Handgrenades
15. My Crazy Life
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Side B – Live at G-Son Studios (Previously Unreleased)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Intro 
2. DFL 
3. The Mosher
4. U Don’t Understand 
5. Pizza Man 
6. Metermaid
7. Monks Honor 
8. Knucklehead Nation
9. America’s Most Hardcore 
10. Get the Fuck Out
11. Think About the Pit
12. FFF<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pre-Order \/ Pre-Save\u00a0My Crazy Life<\/em>\u00a0Deluxe Reissue Here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

More about DFL<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Originally arriving in 1994,\u00a0\u2018My Crazy Life\u2019\u00a0faced a somewhat \u201cpolished\u201d punk rock landscape. Due to the massive surge in popularity of bands like Green Day or The Offspring, punk had become poppier, more accessible, and more melodic. Meanwhile, each of DFL\u2019s original members came from the earliest, most crazed days of first wave hardcore: Messex formed hardcore punk band the Atoms, which included Izzy Stradlin (pre-Guns n Roses) in 1981; Horovitz started in the early NYC hardcore scene with the Young and the Useless before joining the Beastie Boys during their initial run as a hardcore band; Crazy Tom was a seasoned skateboarder hailing from the Marina Del Rey skatepark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Messex recalls, \u201cIn 1993, I was obsessively listening to Bad Religion\u2019s \u2018How Could Hell Be Any Worse\u2019. I had this beat up cassette that I\u2019d listen to over and over and over and over again on my Walkman.  That record brought me back to the early 80s hardcore scene I grew up on- that included Circle Jerks, the Germs, The Adolescents. I wanted to make a record that called back to the initial rush I got from the early hardcore scene.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Without much planning, Messex linked up with Adam Horovitz of the Beastie Boys, who, at the time, were recording the seminal Check Your Head album. Messex threw the idea of starting a hardcore punk band past Horovitz and DFL was born. Messex says, \u201cI literally remember the moment when we started DFL. Adam dropped by my place in Echo Park and kinda half jokingly asked him if he wanted to start a hardcore band. To my surprise he was like, \u2018uh\u2026 yeah!\u2019 I had a few songs and we went over to G-Son. I played them for Adam and the band was born right there and then.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shortly thereafter, Messex and Horovitz drafted \u201cCrazy\u201d Tom Davis into the group. Hailing the SoCal skate scene, Davis was added as much for his explosive singing style and unpredictability. \u00a0Along with drummer Tony Converse, the band recorded the volatile\u00a0\u2018My Crazy Life\u2019 album in the time it takes to listen to it: 20 minutes. Unlike the more polished records of the day,\u00a0\u2018My Crazy Life\u2019\u00a0was 15 tracks of raw and ragged hardcore punk that, while fueled by the same energy as first wave of California hardcore, was pushed into the present, addressing issues like mental health, \u201890s Hollywood, and the fact that pizza is tasty.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The record not only stood as a landmark release because it featured one of the Beastie Boys playing back-to-basics hardcore punk, but also because the record was composed of sub 60 second songs built off Messex\u2019s smashing riffs and Davis\u2019 deranged howl. While most records were getting bigger and more polished, DFL was one of the few that made their music shorter, faster, and rawer. Since the album\u2019s release,\u00a0\u2018My Crazy Life\u2019\u00a0has remained a cult record, prized by the hardcore scene due to its ferocious sound and askew lyrics\u2026 and also because it is really, really, really good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe \u2018My Crazy Life\u2019 era was a real moment in time for me and I feel like the record captures that,\u201d<\/em> Messex tells. \u201cThere was so much shit going on. The Beasties and Grand Royal were blowing up. There were all these crazy parties with celebs and skaters and all sorts of people hanging out. It\u2019s almost 30 years later, but that moment has never left me.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ahead of its release, DFL has shared a preview of Pizza Man<\/em> and America\u2019s Most Hardcore <\/em>remastered studio versions; check them out below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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