Derozer
Bar

In Italian punk rock, Derozer are among the most famous bands alongside names like Moravagine, Punkreas, and Peter Punk, and consequently idolized by hordes of 14-15-16-year-olds, hated and disregarded by people who know a bit more (like, instead of the Sex Pistols, they listen to the Exploited).

Sure, this is deserved: Moravagine is boring, for Punkreas I’d offer a shot of cyanide, and Peter Punk are worse than lice, but not Derozer. Derozer does punk rock as God commands, with simple and effective riffs, the desire to cause a ruckus and without that annoying communist-social center rhetoric that characterizes a good number of similar groups. Plus, they are truly an honest band, they are not ashamed of what they represent, namely the bar punk rocker (or rather, animal), the type who after work, if not unemployed (Mario), rushes to the Bar (Bar), who if he goes for girls, he picks the first flirty girl in sight (Stare Insieme A Te), bored (Week-End), who attends punk music shows of dubious quality (Spugne). Besides these episodes, there are standout love songs (Suzy, Amore Sincero), critiques of people and society (No, Uomini), but also the mocking of all these stereotypes that I just listed (No Surf).

Then the music is typical punk rock, three-chord riffs or slightly more, sometimes guitar and bass alone to avoid mimicking the Ramones too much, still honest and harsh and moreover, Seby's voice is not as raucous as on the albums (definitely a pro for me, his voice competes with that of Pornoriviste in terms of ugliness).

An often overlooked album that every punk enthusiast should have, if not so much for its originality, at least for its honesty and importance in a genre that had great diffusion here in Italy.