Band Name: Nervebreakers
Music Album: Hijack The Radio!
Album Release Date: April 2024
Music Genre: Punk Rock Rock & Roll
Record Label: Rave Up Records
Album Release Country: Italy
Music Record Type: 13 Tracks Vinyl LP
Nervebreakers are a late seventies / early eighties Texas punk band considered by many to be the first of their kind in the southwest. Like many others of this genre, they started out as a high school garage band doing sixties / early seventies cover songs. What made them unique was their range of material; from the music of the English Invasion to Yummy Yummy bubble gum as well as songs from punk pioneers MC-5 to true blue country artists like George Jones.
The array of influence from all those cover songs melded into a two guitar, bass and drum sonic assault with a wild child vocalist up front. The members of the band began writing some of their own songs.
All aspects were in place and the band was primed when the punk movement broke in the mid-seventies.
On July 24, 1977 the Ramones first blitzkrieged Dallas at The Electric Ballroom, Nervebreakers opened. In 1978 the Sex Pistols set out to swindle America but it was Nervebreakers who stole the show at The Longhorn Ballroom. In 1979 when the Clash were calling here at Dallas’ Palladium, Nervebreakers let them know they weren’t in London anymore. By 1980 when the Police came to town, they were Nervebreakers fans due to Random Notes in Rolling Stone. The list reads on and on in NME, Melody Maker and High Times. Like a who’s who of punk rock history, our guys held their own as the Texas band to see.
Nervebreakers weren’t just playing, they were the real deal. Home grown - born and rais (...)
| A1 | Hijack The Radio! | 4:07 |
| A2 | My Girlfriend Is A Rock | 3:26 |
| A3 | Why Am I So Flipped | 3:51 |
| A4 | My Life Is Ruined | 3:49 |
| A5 | I Love Your Neurosis | 3:10 |
| A6 | Everything That Is Right | 3:12 |
| B1 | Strange Movies | 2:40 |
| B2 | I've Got A Problem | 3:04 |
| B3 | A Part Of My Love | 2:32 |
| B4 | What Do You Want From Me? | 2:40 |
| B5 | Stepping Stone | 2:46 |
| B6 | Let's Fall Apart | 3:02 |
| B7 | I Wanna Kill You | 2:58 |
Tracks A1, A3: (from Wild Child 45 #1003, released 1979) recorded 2/4/79
Tracks A2, A4: (from Wild Child EP #1001 "Politics", released 1978) recorded 5/24/79
Tracks A5, A6: recorded July 1977
Side B: Recorded Live At DJ's New Cafè, Dallas, TX, 5/3/80
Reissue 2000: Recorded at Highgrove House, Dallas, TX
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