Band Name: The Dirty Scums
Music Album: The Pils Sessions / Setting New Standards To Stupidity
Album Release Date: December 1996
Music Genre: Punk Rock
Record Label: Dirty Records (3)
Album Release Country: Belgium
Music Record Type: 25 Tracks CD
Belgian Punk band The Dirty Scums was formed by Dirty Pik around Christmas 1981 and played its first gig on 6 March 1982. It took until 1983 before a stable line-up was formed. This line-up consisted of Dirty Pik, Dirty Zjantie, Dirty Jenz and Clo, a female singer. In 1984 the girl left the band and the rest continued as a trio.
In 1984 and 1985 they published their own fanzine that contained articles as well on music as on politix. The band played all over the Flemish part of Belgium and became one of the main bands of the second Belgian punk boom together with others like Zyklome A, Capital Scum, Sponky Business, ... In 1985 The Dirty Scums released their first album which was then the second album of this Belgian punk scene (the first one bein' made in 1984 by Zyklome A). It was the first album in a long line of products which were all released on their own independent label Dirty Records. From 1985 till 1989 the band released three albums, two EP’s and a tape.
At the end of the eighties most - if not all - bands of this second boom have split up, however The Dirty Scums kept on playin’ their punkmusic. Their first three albums then represented a quarter of all Belgian punk and hardcore albums made in the eighties. They had released another two tapes and an EP when a fourth member joined the band in 1994. The Scums had then operated for ten years as a trio. Vinyl albums had become history in the nineties and the Scums started a series of CDs. At the b (...)
| 1 | Really High | 2:26 |
| 2 | Keep On Rockin' | 2:54 |
| 3 | My Number One | 1:45 |
| 4 | So Glad I Saw You Back | 2:17 |
| 5 | I Need Your Lovin' | 4:41 |
| 6 | I Wanna Know | 3:23 |
| 7 | No More War | 1:56 |
| 8 | Good Times | 2:30 |
| 9 | Ramones-Medley | 3:56 |
| 10 | Where Have You Been | 1:51 |
| 11 | Better Off Dead | 2:05 |
| 12 | The Ol' Man Blues | 3:01 |
| 13 | Oh Boy! | 3:03 |
| 14 | Geen Cent Voor Het Leger | 3:17 |
| 15 | Not Again | 2:01 |
| 16 | Martens, Jij Ouwe Rukker | 3:16 |
| 17 | Martens, You Son Of A Bitch | 4:09 |
| 18 | What's The Matter With The Girl | 1:41 |
| 19 | They Dropped The Bomb | 3:41 |
| 20 | The House Of The Dirty Scums | 2:19 |
| 21 | 'Rit'n Zat Te Skit'n Bacht'n D'hoage | 3:04 |
| 22 | Paid Love | 2:24 |
| 23 | Clint Eastwood Is A Real Cowboy | 3:40 |
| 24 | Picturebook Of You | 3:18 |
| 25 | Against The Norm | 6:03 |
Tracks 1-13: The Pils Sessions
Tracks 14-25: Setting New Standards To Stupidity
Tracks 14-16 taken from the LP Dirty Songs From The Dirty Scums.
Track 17 taken from the 7" Martens, Jij Ouwe Rukker.
Tracks 18-20 taken from the LP Full Speed Ahead!.
Tracks 21-22 taken from the 7" 'Rit'n Zat Te Skit'n Bacht'n D'hoage.
Tracks 23-25 taken from the LP The Booze And The Chicks.
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