Descendents

Essential Albums

  • Enjoy
    Enjoy

    1986

  • I Don't Want to Grow Up
    I Don't Want to Grow Up

    Following a brief hiatus while frontman Milo Aukerman attended university, the Descendents returned with I Don’t Want to Grow Up, a slam dunk that built on the sturdy melodies and unfettered nerdiness of their classic debut. Amusingly puerile wisecracks like "Pervert" and "No FB" justify the album’s title, but songs like “Silly Girl” and “Good Good Things” reveal the loneliness lurking behind Aukerman’s childish one-liners, making for an album that both pokes fun at and embraces maturity in the same dogged breath.

  • Milo Goes to College
    Milo Goes to College

    The Descendents' debut album, Milo Goes to College, is one of the most important records in the history of American punk rock. Building on the Ramones' outsider lore and sidestepping the machismo that was already starting to seep into the punk scene, the California group proudly embraced their awkwardness with anthems of alienation like "Suburban Home" and “Myage”, helping build the template from which legions of pop-punk and emo disciples would learn their craft.

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About Descendents

With their epochal 1982 debut, Milo Goes to College, melodic hardcore crew Descendents created a safe space for nerds in the mosh pit en route to becoming figureheads for future generations of pop-punk misfits.

ORIGIN
Manhattan Beach, CA, United States
FORMED
1977
GENRE
Alternative

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