Disc 1
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| Song Title | Sample |
| 1. Theme From The Dirtbombs ~ The Dirtbombs |  |
| 2. Sharpest Claws, The ~ The Dirtbombs | |
| 3. Stuck Under My Shoe ~ The Dirtbombs | |
| 4. I'm Saving Myself For Nichelle Nichols (No. 3) ~ The Dirtbombs | |
| 5. Here Comes That Sound Again ~ The Dirtbombs | |
| 6. High Octane Salvation ~ The Dirtbombs | |
| 7. Cedar Point 76 ~ The Dirtbombs | |
| 8. Little Miss Chocolate Syrup ~ The Dirtbombs | |
| 9. Headlights On ~ The Dirtbombs | |
| 10. Never Licking You Again ~ The Dirtbombs | |
| 11. Don't Bogue My High ~ The Dirtbombs | |
| 12. Encrypted ~ The Dirtbombs | |
| 13. Scratchin' Post, (I'm Not Your) ~ The Dirtbombs | |
| 14. Broke In Detroit (Again) ~ The Dirtbombs | |
| 15. Merit ~ The Dirtbombs | |
| 16. Trainwreck ~ The Dirtbombs | |
| 17. Infra-Red ~ The Dirtbombs | |
| 18. Jolene ~ The Dirtbombs | |
| 19. Cadyass ~ The Dirtbombs | |
| 20. Pray For Pills ~ The Dirtbombs | |
| 21. All My Friends ~ The Dirtbombs | |
| 22. She Played Me Like A Booger ~ The Dirtbombs | |
| 23. They Hate Us In Scandinavia ~ The Dirtbombs | |
| 24. They Saved Einstein's Brain ~ The Dirtbombs | |
| 25. Correspondence ~ The Dirtbombs | |
| 26. Tina Louise ~ The Dirtbombs | |
| 27. Bruci I Cavi ~ The Dirtbombs | |
| 28. Words That Hurt ~ The Dirtbombs | |
| 29. My Last Christmas ~ The Dirtbombs | | Disc 2
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| Song Title | Sample |
| 1. Possession ~ The Dirtbombs | |
| 2. Maybe Your Baby ~ The Dirtbombs | |
| 3. Brand New Game ~ The Dirtbombs | |
| 4. I'll Be In Trouble ~ The Dirtbombs | |
| 5. Lupita Screams ~ The Dirtbombs | |
| 6. By My Side ~ The Dirtbombs | |
| 7. No Expectations ~ The Dirtbombs | |
| 8. I Feel Good ~ The Dirtbombs | |
| 9. Natural Man ~ The Dirtbombs | |
| 10. Noise In This World ~ The Dirtbombs | |
| 11. Kiss Kiss Kiss ~ The Dirtbombs | |
| 12. Refried Dreams ~ The Dirtbombs | |
| 13. Insecure, Me? ~ The Dirtbombs | |
| 14. Mystified ~ The Dirtbombs | |
| 15. My Love For You ~ The Dirtbombs | |
| 16. You Don't Mean It ~ The Dirtbombs | |
| 17. I Want Need Love You ~ The Dirtbombs | |
| 18. Ha Ha Ha ~ The Dirtbombs | |
| 19. Tanzen Gehn ~ The Dirtbombs | |
| 20. Crash Down Day ~ The Dirtbombs | |
| 21. Lost Love ~ The Dirtbombs | |
| 22. What You've Got ~ The Dirtbombs | |
| 23. I Started A Joke ~ The Dirtbombs | |
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| Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | The Dirtbombs: Jim Diamond, Matt Smith, Tommy Potter, Troy Gregory, Ko Shih, Tom Lynch, Dion Fletcher, Joe Greenwald, Deann Iovann, Dana Spicer, Ko Melina Zydeco (bass guitar); Benjamin Jesse Blackwell, Ewolf, Chris Fachini, Chris Handyside (drums); Adam Renshaw, Nick Lloyd, Patrick Pantano, Mick Collins, Gisella Albertini, Ryan Pritts, Paul Something, Cathy Carroll. | | Personnel: Mick Collins (vocals, guitar); Chris Fachini, Chris Handyside, Ben Blackwell, Scott Michalski, Adam Renshaw, Nick Lloyd, Patrick Keeler, Patrick Pantano, Gisella Albertini, Ryan Pritts, Paul Something, Cathy Carroll (drums). | | Liner Note Author: Mick Collins. | | Photographers: Patrick Pantano; Dorien Garry; Austin Vince; Louisa Viner; Emmy Etie; Doug Coombe; Corwin Wickersham; Sue Dodd. | | "The best albums are all compilations, anyway. Why? Because they're made up of SINGLES, duh," Mick Collins writes in his liner notes to the If You Don't Already Have a Look collection of various 7" sides, compilation tracks, and unreleased items, and you've got to admit that Collins walks it like he talks it. The Dirtbombs have released three albums and about twenty 7"ers (by themselves or as splits) during their first decade of doing the rock thing, and while the 2001 album Ultraglide in Black still stands as their most impressive sustained effort, if you're only going to own one Dirtbombs item during the course of your lifetime, If You Don't Already Have a Look may well be the way to go. Disc one features 29 Dirtbombs originals, disc two offers up 23 inspired covers, and if you want to hear Collins and his partners in crime letting loose with the full range of their sonic possibilities and influences, this set boasts a little bit of everything they do. You want punk rock? Cue up "Words That Hurt." You wanna hear some cool neo-Britpop? Try "Encrypted." Need a deliciously sleazy ode to the joys of summer, teenage style? "Cedar Point '76" fills the bill. How about some straight-up noise? "Brucia I Cavi" merits your attention. Gotta have a kick-ass car song? You need "High Octane Salvation." In the market for a glorious non-electronic Rolling Stones mash-up? The cover of "No Expectations" will make you smile. Solid '60s-style R&B your thing? "The Sharpest Claws" should be on your list. Wanna hear the greatest Lou Rawls cover ever? "A Natural Man" is track nine on disc two. Mick Collins has ruffled the feathers of a few fanzine writers here and there for loudly insisting the Dirtbombs are not a garage band, but while there's plenty of loud, fuzzy, sweat-soaked rock on If You Don't Already Have a Look, this set captures the group's almost schizophrenic eclecticism in grand style, and proves he's got a point -- this is band that can head out in five directions at once while still maintaining their sonic identity and rocking the house, and you can hear that on each track of If You Don't Already Have a Look. Points added for a derisive Tori Spelling reference. ~ Mark Deming |
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| Technical Info |
| Release Date : 05/24/2005 | | Original Release Date : 2005 | | Catalog ID : 127 | | Label : In The Red Records | | Number of Discs : 2 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00759718512724 |
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| Professional Reviews |
| Spin (p.103)
- "The Dirtbombs are America's greatest garage band, knocking out ferocious anthems..." - Grade: A-Uncut (p.110)
- 4 stars out of 5 - "Jones stand out as one of the scene's rare grand conceptualists....Exhilarating stuff." Mojo (Publisher)
(p.122)
- 3 stars out of 5 - "Disc one is devoted to original songs and spins a gleeful web of party rockin' styles..." |
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