Social DistortionMainliner wreckage from the past

Raw, primitive, and recorded before the band knew what it would become. These 1981 sessions snarl with cheap-amp fuzz and Mike Ness barking through songs that barely sit still, drums slamming, guitars all upstroke and urgency. Their take on the Stones' "Under My Thumb" already hints at the classic-rock bones under the hardcore. Ten tracks of Orange County kids finding their snarl. The blueprint, dirt and all, for everything Social D became.