{"id":5671,"date":"2025-10-03T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/5-albums-i-cant-live-without-milo-aukerman-of-the-descendents\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T14:00:00","slug":"5-albums-i-cant-live-without-milo-aukerman-of-the-descendents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/5-albums-i-cant-live-without-milo-aukerman-of-the-descendents\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Albums I Can\u2019t Live Without: Milo\u00a0Aukerman of the Descendents"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/10\/image001-4.jpg\" width=\"\" height=\"\" alt=\"Milo Aukerman. (Credit: Milo Aukerman)\"><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Name<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Milo\u00a0Aukerman<\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/10\/sean-diddy-combs-sentenced-to-50-months-in-prison\/\">Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs Sentenced To 50 Months In Prison<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/10\/future-ruins-canceled\/\">Trent Reznor Cancels Composer-Focused Future Ruins Fest<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/10\/deep-cut-friday-cash-car-star-by-the-smashing-pumpkins\/\">Deep Cut Friday: \u2018Cash Car Star\u2019 by the Smashing Pumpkins<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Best known for<\/strong>\u00a0 Going to college, for some reason.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Current city<\/strong>\u00a0 Newark, Delaware.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Really want to be in\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Colorado, where I can go on hikes and practice with the Descendents (and record at the Blasting Room!).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Excited to<\/strong>\u00a0 Go\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/orgmusic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">on tour<\/a>\u00a0to Canada in a few weeks. I\u2019ve always secretly wished I was Canadian, and now more so than ever. Hey Canada, I know our government sucks, but don\u2019t take it out on me, please!<\/p>\n<p><strong>My current music collection has a lot of<\/strong>\u00a0 Cars, Kinks, Bob Mould, Bad Brains, Black Flag.<\/p>\n<p><strong>And a little of<\/strong>\u00a0 Little Chair, but that\u2019s only because there\u2019s not a lot of Little Chair. If there was a lot of Little Chair, that would be better.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Preferred format<\/strong>\u00a0 Radio in the car.\u00a0Vinyl\u00a0albums\u00a0around the house, when I get noise ordinance clearance.\u00a0 When it\u2019s \u201cfor me only,\u201d I\u2019ll pop in earbuds and do Spotify.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<lite-youtube videoid=\"2T6aiGUfeFs\" style=\"bottom: 0; height: 100%; left: 0; position: absolute; right: 0; top: 0; width: 100%; max-width:100%;\"><\/lite-youtube>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-5-albums-i-can-t-live-without\"><strong><u>5 Albums I Can\u2019t Live Without:<\/u><\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-1\">1<\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-q-are-we-not-men-a-we-are-devo-devo\"><strong><em>Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!,<\/em>\u00a0DEVO<\/strong><\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1246\" height=\"1216\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/10\/are-we-not-men-we-are-devo-devo.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-474209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/10\/are-we-not-men-we-are-devo-devo.png 1246w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/10\/are-we-not-men-we-are-devo-devo-340x332.png 340w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/10\/are-we-not-men-we-are-devo-devo-768x750.png 768w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/10\/are-we-not-men-we-are-devo-devo-498x486.png 498w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1246px) 100vw, 1246px\"><\/figure>\n<p>This served as a manifesto for my teen nerd years. Yeah, maybe it\u2019s new wave, but I loved the aggressive guitar chording that would soon have me searching for harder, faster punk stuff.\u00a0 And most of the songs are hilarious, made even funnier by the band\u2019s attempts to pass it all off as serious.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-2\">2<\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-los-angeles-x\"><strong><em>Los Angeles<\/em>, X<\/strong><\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1248\" height=\"1210\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/10\/los-angeles-x.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-474205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/10\/los-angeles-x.png 1248w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/10\/los-angeles-x-340x330.png 340w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/10\/los-angeles-x-768x745.png 768w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/10\/los-angeles-x-498x483.png 498w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1248px) 100vw, 1248px\"><\/figure>\n<p>First saw them open for DEVO, and after hearing them on KROQ (Rodney on the ROQ), they became my favorite band. I love the weird harmonies between John Doe and Exene, the in-your-face yet intelligent lyrics, and of course the coolness of Billy Zoom.\u00a0 In those pre-merch days I made myself a T-shirt of the\u00a0album\u00a0cover using spray paint and an X-Acto knife (appropriate tool, eh?), thus destroying the sleeve\u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-3\">3<\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-gi-germs\"><strong><em>(GI)<\/em>, Germs<\/strong><\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1290\" height=\"1286\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/10\/gi-germs-1290x1286.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-474206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/10\/gi-germs-1290x1286.png 1290w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/10\/gi-germs-340x339.png 340w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/10\/gi-germs-768x766.png 768w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/10\/gi-germs-498x497.png 498w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/10\/gi-germs.png 1352w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1290px) 100vw, 1290px\"><\/figure>\n<p>This\u00a0album\u00a0is \u201cslick mayhem\u201d\u2014maybe the first hardcore punk\u00a0album, but Joan Jett gave it a tight, professional sound. Pat Smear\u2019s tasty guitar licks inserted neatly between buzz-saw chords, and Darby Crash\u2019s poetry-as-lyrics were inscrutable, but also evidence of a dark, twisted genius. I only saw them play once, and then Darby killed himself a few days later.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-4\">4<\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-look-again-the-last\"><strong><em>Look Again<\/em>, The Last<\/strong><\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1290\" height=\"1247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/app\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Look-Again-The-Last-1290x1247.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-474197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/app\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Look-Again-The-Last-1290x1247.png 1290w, https:\/\/www.spin.com\/app\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Look-Again-The-Last-340x329.png 340w, https:\/\/www.spin.com\/app\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Look-Again-The-Last-768x743.png 768w, https:\/\/www.spin.com\/app\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Look-Again-The-Last.png 1568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1290px) 100vw, 1290px\"><\/figure>\n<p>These guys lived in Hermosa Beach, near me and Bill, and they gave us a copy of the\u00a0<em>Look Again<\/em>\u00a0test pressing back in 1980. But it only got released for real in the last few years! Bill and I worshipped the Last, and did a deep study of all their stuff, but especially this\u00a0album. Every single song is classic power pop.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-5\">5<\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-revolver-the-beatles\"><strong><em>Revolver<\/em>, The Beatles<\/strong><\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1290\" height=\"1162\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/10\/The-Beatles-Revolver-1290x1162.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-474200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/10\/The-Beatles-Revolver-1290x1162.jpg 1290w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/10\/The-Beatles-Revolver-340x306.jpg 340w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/10\/The-Beatles-Revolver-768x692.jpg 768w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/10\/The-Beatles-Revolver-498x449.jpg 498w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/10\/The-Beatles-Revolver.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1290px) 100vw, 1290px\"><\/figure>\n<p>Growing up, I had the U.S. version that lacked three of John Lennon\u2019s songs, so when I play the U.K. version, it sounds\u2026 wrong. Even though those are great Lennon songs!\u00a0But when you play an\u00a0album\u00a0over and over again like I did with this one, it just has to go the way you heard it as a kid. So, yeah, McCartney-heavy, but he wasn\u2019t messing around on this one.\u00a0 Some true masterpieces.<\/p>\n<p>To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2021\/07\/the-greatest-rock-stars-of-all-time\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bottomlink&amp;utm_campaign=yahoolink\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name\u00a0\u00a0Milo\u00a0Aukerman More from Spin: Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs Sentenced To 50 Months In Prison Trent Reznor Cancels Composer-Focused Future Ruins Fest Deep Cut Friday: \u2018Cash Car Star\u2019 by the Smashing Pumpkins&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[262,1728,31,3999,24,385,4000,4001],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5-albums-i-cant-live-without","category-devo","category-features","category-germs","category-pushly","category-the-beatles","category-the-descendents","category-x"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}