RKL - Riches To Rags [1995]

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Ok,this is it!This is one of my favourite albums ever.Every song is so good that I can`t say which one is better!No words can`t describe this master piece,you have to hear it!Playin`,lyrics,production,everything is so perfect.I heard this album 9 years ago and I still enjoy in every minute while RKL kicking my speakers:). Fat Mike, NOFX - Without RKL, there wouldn’t be a NOFX. Well, there might be a totally shitty NOFX. Let’s start over. Once upon a time in 1984 there was a totally shitty band called NOFX. We saw RKL play at the Sun Valley Sportsmens Lodge and were blown away. When their record Keep Laughing came out, we were just leaving on our first tour. We listened to it every fucking day for three months. This record changed everything for us. This was the band that we wanted to be, but couldn’t pull it off. We recorded two 7” EPs for Mystic records. They sucked and couldn’t even be played on the same turntable as RKL. A year goes by. Rock’n’Roll Nightmare comes out. Now we’re totally fucked. Suddenly, the best hardcore band of our time just got one hundred times better. This record is a landmark. No band has ever written anything like it and it was recorded and mixed in just five days. Once again, we were leaving on tour when it came out. This time we listened to it at least twice a day… everyday. I took acid for the first time and listened to it all night. The next year, NOFX goes to Europe for the first time. We are known as “Friends of RKL.” That was the polite way of saying “a shitty RKL clone band.” Almost every live review and record review compared us to our mentors, but usually in a negative light. Hey, at least we were being compared. A year or so later, the wheels started falling off the RKL train. The drug abuse and constant partying was taking its toll. Just when they were making history, they were history. I gotta say it was a good thing for NOFX. RKL was the band that we would always be in the shadow of. When they broke up, we kinda took their spot. It was a good spot and no one else was using it, so we took it. When they got back together years later, we did some shows together, but it was always weird. They knew we took their spot, and we knew that they knew we took their spot. Nonetheless, RKL and NOFX had always stayed close friends. Twenty years later, I pull out Rock’n’Roll Nightmare and put it on. I realize that after all these years of touring and recording my band still can’t pull off any of this. I can’t play these bass riffs, Melvin can’t touch the guitar, and Smelly—who is a great drummer—can’t even come close to what Bomer can do. Now Bomer, Jason, and Derrick are gone, but at least the magic they left behind can never be replaced. Bomer, Jason, and Derrick R.I.P.

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1. (00:03:39) RKL - We're Back We're Pissed
2. (00:03:58) RKL - Beaultiful Feeling Pt. 3
3. (00:02:46) RKL - In Your Mind
4. (00:03:36) RKL - House Guest
5. (00:03:15) RKL - Will To Survive
6. (00:00:42) RKL - Rancho Burger
7. (00:02:25) RKL - Give It Up
8. (00:03:10) RKL - Betrayed
9. (00:03:08) RKL - Heavily Sedated
10. (00:04:56) RKL - HPC
11. (00:10:34) RKL - Take Me Home