Review → Slapstick – self-titled (1997)
Slapstick - s/t
This week here at GDTS World HQ, I’m doing a “theme week.” Yes, I feel like I can do such a thing. What’samatter with that? So it’s Chicago Week here, wherein I will talk about awesome albums from the Chicago scene. And I’ll kick off the series with the self-titled collection from Chicago ska-punk kids Slapstick.
Maybe you don’t know Slapstick. You might have heard of them, but don’t really know what they did. That’s fine; in their lifetime, they only recorded 25 songs, all of which are collected on this album. This is a posthumous career compilation; the band called it quits in 1996.
Many of the members of Slapstick have continued on to other, more successful projects: vocalist Brendan Kelly formed the Broadways, and later the Lawrence Arms; trombone player Pete Anna would find himself in Less Than Jake; and bassist Dan Andriano would find fame in an outfit called the Alkaline Trio. Wikipedia has a more complete family tree.