Mila de la Garza, 12, chimed in, You’re a grown-up legally. To which her fellow band member Bela Salazar, who just turned 18, responded, I technically am. We’re not grown-ups, de La Garza, 15, said. ![]() Along with Milo Goes to College, this should be an essential piece of any proper punk record collection. The four members of the Linda Lindas are all still teenagers or younger: The youngest is 12 years old, and the oldest is 18. There are just so many best Descendents songs, and a bunch of them are on I Don't Wanna Grow Up. Closer, “Ace”, might just be the best Descendents song of all time, but I wouldn't want to have to pick. “Can't Go Back” and “My World” allow the band to go to darker, more serious places. “GCF” might unintentionally be the world's first pop punk straight edge song. Good Things” are punk love (or breakup) songs at their very best. “Silly Girl”, “In Love This Way”, “Christmas Vacation” and “Good. In my opinion, instrumentals are very rarely essential.Some of the songs have the ability to melt my cold heart. The other two are “Rockstar”, which is clever and makes a good point but feels like a throwaway, and “Theme” because it's an instrumental. Anyway, “No FB” is one of only three tracks on I Don't Wanna Grow Up that I don't consider a stone cold classic. The role of misogynist never really suited him. His ability to convey yearning and heartbreak is still unparallelled. The thing that made the Descendents work was Milo playing the part of the smart, sensitive guy who was jilted for the tough, handsome guy. The song was obviously an attempt at humor, but it's best that the band just let it die. I Dont Want To Grow Up - Spiraling I Love You Like A Ball And Chain - Eurythmics Im Mandy Fly Me - 10cc In Your Arms Again - Josh Ritter Indiana Wants Me - R. “FB” does not stand for Facebook, and the term fat beaver is no longer acceptable, at least not in punk circles. The song they no longer touch is “No FB”. Descendents still play all three of these songs live. They use “fuck” as a verb and “cunt” as the name for a woman's private parts, but there's no reason to believe that it’s describing anything other than some consensual good, dirty fun. ![]() (Pun intended.) “Pervert” is a crude, but relatively harmless expression of teenage lust. ![]() The first two tracks, “Descendents” and “I Don't Wanna Grow Up”, are just good, clean fun. There are definitely a handful of immature tunes, and some have aged much better than others. he has been involved as a musician for punk bands in San Francisco, CA in the. I think you could certainly make a strong argument that it's the second best thing this legendary band has ever done. Hed rather be a dog, I dont ever wanna be that way, as the song would. I've even heard people say they prefer it to Milo Goes to College (1982), but that's heresy. I Don't Wanna Grow Up (1985) is the second Descendents album, and is pretty much universally considered a classic. Then they included a few songs to support that assertion, and a bunch of songs that proved the opposite. Descendents warned us of their intentions with the title of the record, I Don't Wanna Grow Up.
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