Operation Ivy – Operation Ivy (1991)

January 21, 2022

All I know is that I don’t know nothing, right? Tell you for what, I didn’t know that Tim Armstrong was in this band. Shows what I know about punk (next to sweet fuck all now confirmed). Honestly though it’s a good thing, his Clash-style drawl puts me off both Transplants and Rancid, and what I’ve heard of Tim Timebomb or whatever doesn’t exactly inspire me, so if I’d known that Tim was in Operation Ivy this would have gone into the “nope, ta” pile.

I’m glad it didn’t because this is a fuckin’ great record / compilation / whatever. I guess this comes under the punk rock banner more than the hardcore punk banner, but I don’t really know. All I know (besides nothing) is that I love the sound, I love the attitude and the swagger it has, and I love how it breaks from noisy shoutfests to ska-like chill out passages. I can see why this is a classic.