CKY — Volume 1 (review)

CKY — Volume 1 album cover Album · 1999 · Alternative Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3/5 ·
martindavey87
‘Volume 1’ is the 1999 debut album by American alternative rock band, CKY. Through their ties to the TV show Jackass (the drummer is Bam Margera’s brother), the band were synonymous with the skater scene around the turn of the century, and had somewhat major success due to a particular hit of theirs.

That hit is ’99 Quite Bitter Beings’. I have never in my life been a skater (I can’t even stand on one without getting all wobbly!), but back in my teenage years, I had a lot of friends who were skaters, and EVERY single hooded-topped, baggy-trouser-wearing one of them liked this song.

Fast forward approximately 20 years, and it’s time to dig into this album and give Camp Kill Yourself a proper chance, and I must say, I’m actually surprised how much I enjoy this album. There’s a lot of very interesting guitar riffs, emphasised even more by their choice of sound, with heavy low-ends, making for some very intriguing writing. The lyrics are mostly tongue-in-cheek, but are catchy and infectious.

Overall though, this is just a solid, hard rocking album. The instrumental work is very good and fairly unique for this kind of band, and with tracks like ‘Rio Bravo’, ‘Lost in a Contraption’, ‘Disengage the Simulator’, ‘My Promiscuous Daughter’ and of course, ’99 Quite Bitter Beings’, there’s an abundance of tasty guitar riffs and captivating ideas that makes me regret waiting so long to properly check this band out.
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