Retro Raunch Revisit

After a 22yr career, ¡AA! was the 14th & final studio album by the 3-chord New Yorkers. After this tour and its final show in Los Angeles in Aug 1996 that was filmed for the LP & video 'We're Outta Here!', the band officially broke up. ¡AA! was their 3rd album on Radioactive Records after leaving previous label Sire due to poor saless & lack of chart success. While bassist Dee Dee had left after 1989's 'Brain Drain', 6 of his songs appeared here alongside covers of TOM WAITS, JOHNNY THUNDERS, the hidden track 'Spiderman' and different versions of ¡AA! that included the band's bonus track covering the MOTORHEAD tribute to them, 'R.A.M.O.N.E.S'. The album cover art of 2 dinosaurs wearing sombreros is digitally altered from a painting of the creatures originally wearing yellow witch hats with guitarist Johnny adding that the dinosaurs are what they felt like. ¡AA! was an admirable bowing out that had recaptured some lost spark and thankfully did not end in embarassment. Happy 30th Anniversary. R.I.P Joey (Jeffrey Hyman), Johnny (John Cummings) and Dee Dee (Douglas Colvin).