It's hard to imagine what this album did for us, back there in the depths of 1987. But I guess it sort of introduced us native Reagan Youth to the concept of The GROOVY, which, aside from ragged sad-sack survivor purveyors like The Dead, was sorely lacking in the cultural zeitgeist of the time...
allmusicguide: It seems hard to imagine that a band inspired as much by breakfast cereal and Saturday morning cartoons as rock & roll could have created the album that spawned an entire movement — grunge. When Neurotica was released in 1987, it inspired hordes of punk/hardcore kids to put down the safety pins and pick up the guitar. The perfect blend of Beatles/Kiss-style pop/rock and Butthole Surfers art rock, the album blends the raw punk spirit of the band that included "Quit School" stickers in their second album, 1984's Teen Babes From Monsanto, with the pure thrift store rock & roll of Kiss, the Rolling Stones, and the Stooges...
Largely ignored upon its release in 1987 (Big Time folded shortly after and the band were unable to record under their own name for three years), Neurotica did manage to find its way into some very important young people's bedrooms [blech!]. Redd Kross had unwittingly [unwittingly? give them some fucking credit, already!] created the rough, lo-fi, melodic, rock & roll template that bands like Mudhoney and Nirvana would become very successful exploring over the next few years.
"No Metal Sluts or Punk Rock Ruts for Me!"
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That AMG thing is pretty right on - although without a doubt grunge was my generation getting nostalgic for the 70's - Redd Kross proved, to me at least, a hardcore / psyche pop mix could work.
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