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Wild in the Streets

The second album, with covers of Garland Jeffreys, Paul Revere and the Raiders and Jackie DeShannon.
Circle Jerks, 1982

Released
4 March 1982
Label
Faulty Products
Producer
David Anderle and Gary Hirstius

The band's only album for Faulty Products, a sub-label of I.R.S. Records, includes three covers: the title song by Garland Jeffreys, Just Like Me by Paul Revere and the Raiders, and Put a Little Love in Your Heart by Jackie DeShannon. David Anderle and Gary Hirstius produced, and Steve Katz engineered. Ed Colver's cover photograph shows the band and others, among them Mike Ness of Social Distortion, running along Columbus Avenue in San Francisco.

Faulty Products closed several months after release. The band won back the copyright, but the original stereo master was lost, so the album was remixed from the multitrack tapes for a 1988 reissue on Frontier, which also paired it with Group Sex on CD. A 40th anniversary edition in 2022 added a 20-page booklet by Chris Morris. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic gave it a mixed review, and Maximum Rocknroll's Jeff Bale later called it the so-so follow-up to the debut.

Track listing

  1. Wild in the Streets2:33
  2. Leave Me Alone1:20
  3. Stars and Stripes1:38
  4. 86'd (Good as Gone)1:53
  5. Meet the Press1:16
  6. Trapped1:39
  7. Murder the Disturbed2:00
  8. Letter Bomb1:13
  9. Question Authority1:44
  10. Defamation Innuendo2:21
  11. Moral Majority0:52
  12. Forced Labor1:14
  13. Political Stu1:34
  14. Just Like Me / Put a Little Love in Your Heart4:00

Personnel

More from Circle Jerks

Group Sex (1980), Golden Shower of Hits (1983), VI (1987)

Sources

  1. Wild in the Streets (Circle Jerks album), Wikipedia
  2. Circle Jerks, Wikipedia
  3. Circle Jerks reviews, Maximum Rocknroll