Track listing  unavailable at   this time		Released the fall of 2000 from 702 records.  This is a compilation of a lot of SOC's 7" 's.  It also has some live tracks previously unavailable.
	Dave- Guitar Dameon - Bass Ron/Jeff - Drums

 

	A lie and a cheat Straight to the office Tired of You All my friends are ghosts Schoolboy Seventeen	Dead Afterwards    Monsters    Spitting Quarters    Beyond me    Full moon blackout    Times up	Check out the video, All My Friends are Ghosts, here.

After a bit of feedback the drums start pounding, then the guitars kick in followed by some crazy electric noises, finally the singing starts and you're into an opening song that blows you away! This is Scared of Chaka's 5th(?) album. I guess they are a rougher, kinda distorted, less well produced, faster New Bomb Turks. Here they get a good raw in-your-face garage sound as opposed to a badly produced wall of fuzz that it's hard to make out the different instruments through.  Anyway, getting back to this release, the 2nd song "Straight to the office" is another strong 'un whereas the next two are the more standard SOC fair - good songs but not that memorable. One of my favourite songs is the slower "School Boy", this is a great song in the same vein as their best song ever "Wanna make it happen" off Masonic Youth (their 3rd record). SOC carry these slower songs off so well it sometimes makes me think that they should just slow everything down a bit. "Seventeen" is lovely too! Overall this album is pretty good, pretty fast with trashy rock 'n' roll guitars here and there, some slower songs and some balls out in your face garage rock. It's good but pales in comparison to seeing them live. Scared of Chaka at the Redeye in London a couple of years ago was one of my favourite gigs ever. They arrived late, grabbed some instruments and just blasted out song after song until well after closing time! Yeah!

	Up comes my supper Blow Out December Loaded	How to Lose    Plan B    High Karate	This 10" is kinda a mix between the SOC self-titled LP and their 7"ers. Melodic at times but then also garage-ey as hell. Great album. way to mix it up guys! Released April 1998 eMpTy/702 Records. review

 

 

	I Must Cashed Out Japan 5 Side Master Speedy Wanna Make It Happen Goodsky	Bad Looks    Now there's Fire    Big Mess    Toilet Duck    Blue Hit    Sea Dragon    Only One	Yes!  This album rules.  I suggest getting every record by    SOC you can get your hands on but,  if you can only spare  enough change for one SOC album...  I would have to say   this is the one.  Loud,  Fast,  Melodic...  What else could   you ever want?

Wow! What can I say — this is one hell of an album! Dirt City's Scared of Chaka has, with Masonic Youth, released what is undoubtedly one of the best Pop/Punk reddids since the days when Leonard Graves Phillips first donned monkey mask and a rubber club. Yeah, comparisons to the Dickies are easy and obvious, but very true, nonetheless and not jsut because of Dave's cartoon brat vocals. Scared of Chaka combines jsut the right glops of hyper rock toonage with sweet, riffy Pop, speeding it by ya in a fast, yet melodic So. Cal. manner that can't help but pull forth that same warm feeling you had the first tiem you stumbled across Walk Like An Egg or You Drive me Ap Tracks like "Now there's Fire" and "I Must" recall the Chaka I'm used to seeing live — manic and straight-ahead. But a lot of this album is much more diverse stuff, drawn from a deep well of hookey gems. My picks out of these cut would have to be the choppy rocker "5 Side Master", and "Bad Looks", a garage popster with awesome use of backing vocal harmonies (a Chaka trademark), and "Wanna Make It Happen," a love(?) song which holds its own amongst the big boys of the Punk ballad. The genius of Scared of Chaka is that these cats are not afraid to write a pretty Pop song, and are tight enough musicians to keep 'em pretty even when taken up far over the speed limit. -Brock Released October '96 on eMpTy Records.

	Sexy Figure Beating Up Frozen Out Wretched Have a Heart Attack	Two in the Morning    Submarines    I mean business    For Instance	Dang nabbit,  I love this album.  I don't care what anyone says!  It's not as loud and fast as the other albums but it still rocks.  Where did the Elvis Costello cover come from?  How about covering a Devo tune? Released July '96 on 702 Records.

Line up: Yanul - Guitar Dameon - Bass Ron- Drums

	Garbage Can She's Mad Start Packing Play-Doh Chickenshit Roach Motel No Friends Pig Song	Banana head    Rockstar    Teenage Punchout    O.B.    Questionable Meat    I'm a fucking Asshole    Sewer Girl/    Give 'em an Inch    La Buqueque

This has to be the loudest, fastest SOC album to date. I first discovered SOC in an ad in M.R.R. I loved the name and decided that I would have to hear these guys who were frightened of a little, ape like, creature from one of my favorite childhood TV shows. Well, 2 weeks and $6 later I discovered how great this band is and have been annoying people with their tunes ever since. Released April 1995 on 702 Records.