Dawn of the Dickies
{{Infobox album|
| name = Dawn of the Dickies
| type = Album
| artist = The Dickies
| cover = Dickies - Dawn Of The Dickies album cover.jpg
| alt =
| released = October 1979
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio = Cherokee Recording Studios, Los Angeles, CA
| genre = Punk
| length = 34:19 (reissue)
| label = A&M{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vBVjDwAAQBAJ&q=Dawn+of+the+Dickies+1979&pg=RA1-PA2014|title=Goldmine Record Album Price Guide|first=Martin|last=Popoff|date=September 8, 2009|publisher=Penguin|isbn=9781440229169|via=Google Books}}
| producer = Robin Geoffrey Cable{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZHP-r9-eqdAC&q=Dawn+of+the+Dickies+1979&pg=PA328|title=Alternative Rock|first=Dave|last=Thompson|date=June 30, 2000|publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation|isbn=9780879306076|via=Google Books}}
| prev_title = The Incredible Shrinking Dickies
| prev_year = 1979
| next_title = Stukas Over Disneyland
| next_year = 1983
}}
Dawn of the Dickies is the second studio album by the California punk band Dickies.{{cite magazine |last1=Fissinger |first1=Laura |title=Dawn of the Dickies |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=Jun 26, 1980 |issue=320 |page=80}}{{cite news |last1=Jancik |first1=Wayne |title=The Dickies hope to get back in style |work=Chicago Sun-Times |date=28 July 1991 |department=Show |page=2}} It includes the UK hits "Nights in White Satin" (a high-speed cover of the Moody Blues song), which reached No. 39 in the UK chart in September 1979, and "Fan Mail," which made No. 57 in February 1980.
The album's title and jacket cover, depicting the band members set upon by "zombies" in blue make-up, was a salute to the George A. Romero horror film, Dawn of the Dead.
Critical reception
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r5707}}
| rev2 = Smash Hits
| rev2Score = 4/10{{cite journal|last=Starr|first=Red|title=Albums|journal=Smash Hits|issue=November 29 – December 12, 1979|page=31}}
}}
Trouser Press wrote: "By slowing down the tempo a half step and coming up with strong melodies, guitarist Stan Lee and crew manage to reel off one maniacally catchy gem after another."{{Cite web|url=https://trouserpress.com/reviews/dickies/|title=Dickies|work=Trouser Press}} The Globe and Mail said that "the Dickies go for the three-chord charge, and to complement the jangly, harsh music they have written eminently disposable lyrics about silly friends and trite situations."{{cite news |last1=McGrath |first1=Paul |title=Dawn of The Dickies The Dickies |work=The Globe and Mail |date=22 Mar 1980 |page=F6}} In 1995, the Los Angeles Daily News deemed the album "a junk-culture classic."{{cite news |last1=Shuster |first1=Fred |title=For the Record, a Dickies-ography |work=Los Angeles Daily News |date=23 Feb 1995 |page=L5}}
Track listing
{{track listing
| title1 = Where Did His Eye Go?
| length1 = 3:41
| writer1 = Phillips, Lee
| title2 = Fan Mail
| length2 = 3:04
| writer2 = Phillips, Huffsteter, Kaballero
| title3 = Manny, Moe & Jack
| length3 = 2:50
| writer3 = Lee, Kaballero, Wilde
| title4 = Infidel Zombie
| length4 = 3:04
| writer4 = Phillips, Lee, Ainsworth, Kaballero
| title5 = I'm a Chollo
| length5 = 3:45
| writer5 = Phillips, Lee
| title6 = Nights In White Satin
| length6 = 2:55
| writer6 = Hayward
| title7 = (I'm Stuck In a Pagoda With) Tricia Toyota
| length7 = 2:52
| writer7 = Phillips, Lee, Wagon
| title8 = I've Got a Splitting Hedachi
| length8 = 2:29
| writer8 = Phillips, Lee, Kaballero
| title9 = Attack of the Mole Men
| length9 = 3:41
| writer9 = Phillips, Lee, Ainsworth
| title10 = She Loves Me Not
| length10 = 1:13
| writer10 = Phillips, Lee
}}
{{track listing
| headline = Captain Oi! CD bonus tracks
| title11 = Gigantor
| length11 = 2:29
| writer11 = Raskin, Singer
| title12 = Bowling With Bedrock Barney
| length12 = 2:09
| writer12 = Phillips, Lee
}}
Personnel
- Leonard Graves Phillips - Lead vocals, Mellotron, Piano, Organ
- Stan Lee - Guitars, Vocals
- Chuck Wagon - Keyboards, Guitars, Saxophone, Harmonica, Vocals
- Billy Club - Bass, Vocals
- Karlos Kaballero - Drums, Percussion, No vocals
Produced and Engineered by Robin Geoffrey Cable
References
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{{The Dickies}}
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