Sold Date: December 27, 2015
Start Date: May 11, 2015
Final Price: $15.99 (USD)
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ARTIST: Mean Jeans
TITLE: On Mars
FORMAT: LP
LABEL: Dirtnap
CATALOG #: ZZZ-110
RECORD CONDITION: NEW
JACKET CONDITION: NEW

DESCRIPTION: INCLUDES DOWNLOAD CARD! Portland pop-punk heroes rip, party, toob, hang tuff, spit out a wealth of unshakeable, Ramones-stamped gems on the follow-up to 2009's Are You Serious! This is a different album, though, more mid-tempo catchier, and poppier than their debut.

"The cover to On Mars, the second album from Portland party-punks Mean Jeans, features a cartoon of the guys flying through the cosmos in a spaceship made from a bottle of Jagermeister, while passing through clouds of macaroni en route to the red planet. Add song titles like "Total Yo-Yo," "I'm a Pile," "School Lunch Victim," and "Don't Stop Partying," and you'd get the not inaccurate idea that this band doesn't take much seriously (besides getting wasted). But one spin of On Mars makes clear that there's one thing these guys hold sacred -- the Ramones. Thousands of bands have tried to follow the template of the brothers from Forest Hills, but Mean Jeans not only bash their guitars and write hooky but skeletal melodies much like the Ramones, lead singer Billy Jeans even tries to replicate the Noo Yawk twang of Joey Ramone's vocals. This band's commitment to concept is strong, and these songs are written and performed with enough skill to suggest that, like the Ramones, they're actually pretty smart and have a genuine gift for playing dumb. If Mean Jeans had any goals besides rocking out and convincing us they're raving burnouts, who knows what they might accomplish; as it is, On Mars is good fun." - Mark Deming & allmusic.com

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