Album Review: 3dB's Down - "Get Your Retaliation In First"
Oh lord, here's a name from the past. Many many years ago as a young writer, I was sent a copy of Kent ska-pop-punks 3dB's Down's Can Of Worms album to review for the webzine I worked for at the time and was, shall we say, less than complimentary about it mainly because this was the era where both the pop-punk and ska-punk waters had been sullied by the horrible frat-punk movement spearheaded by the loathsome likes of Blink 182, Good Charlotte, Sum 41 etc and it seemed like this lot were just another band trying to jump on the wagon. Said review evidently got back to someone who was either a hardcore fan of the band or affiliated with them in some way and it all ended in a somewhat less than dignified argument between us in the comments section underneath said review. Not exactly my proudest moment as a writer - all I can say in my defence is I was a lot more objectionable back then and hadn't quite learned the principle of "if you get sent an album you really d...