…remastered from the original analog tapes by Pete Lyman at Nashville’s Infrasonic Sound, the first time those tapes have been touched in 40 years, and restored and digitized by Dan Johnson at Audio Archiving Services.
In 1983, Golden Shower of Hits caught the Circle Jerks right on the cusp of growing out of — or at least struggling with the limits of — hardcore, but with nowhere special to go. It’s a malaise common to pretty much every hardcore band that lasted for more than a couple of albums, and in its way Golden Shower is just as typical of a particular kind of album as the Jerks’ classic debut Group Sex was. A combination of classic melodic hardcore, more considered rock/metal crossover material and obnoxious comedy covers,…