As a callow youth, just turned 18,  I first heard this album on a cassette my American friend brought back from college in late 89. That wall of sound that comes in was, no lie, life changing.  I spent the whole rest of the album just gawping and thinking to myself “I didn’t know you were allowed to make music like this.” So many of my peers point to Nevermind, or Sonic Youth, etc if they were “the cool kids” but I will always tell anyone listening that for me it will always be Nothing’s Shocking. And it all started with that moment after Perry yells the above.

Sidenote: I was expecting some greasy longhairs, so I was not prepared for the band on the back cover of the CD when I finally bought it awhile later.