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Jun 2, 2011Teenage Hate expresses the beginnings of Jay Reatard with the kind of clarity many missing him desired to see. Here was a boy on the verge of becoming a man. Pissed off with the world around him, he clearly had the maturity to express this anger with punchy songwriting. What remains truly important about the release is how happy he was at being able to do just that.
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Jun 2, 2011As a first step, both Teenage Hate and Fuck Elvis Here's the Reatards are astonishing. All the energy one could hear in Reatard's better-known work is here in it's rawest, most volatile form.
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Jun 10, 2011Teenage Hate is the kind of record best heard straight through, as it's hard to pick out and pick apart particular songs.
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Jan 13, 2012Anyone up for the crazed power of Teenage Hate should enjoy just about everything on his release.
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Jun 10, 2011For Jay Reatard's followers, this is a great chance to look back in the past and discover where his music started and, with the benefit of hindsight, see how it evolved. It may not win over any new fans, but the ones who followed Reatard's career should be pleased with Teenage Hate/Fuck Elvis, Here's the Reatards.
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Jun 2, 2011While Teenage Hate sits squarely in the flamey-shirt scene of the '90s, even the greaser version of Jay knew how to bust up cliches.
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Jun 2, 2011The whole album sounds like it was recorded on a telephone, which means that on the rare occasions when the songs push past the two-minute mark, the noisiness obscures Reatard's power-pop and rockabilly-influenced melodies. But Reatard's self-deprecating sense of humor-matched to songs about how he "ain't got no home" and "don't give a shit about anything"--put all the youthful rebellion and sonic slop in context.