Atlanta, GA party punks Gas Station Boner Pills are a punk rock trio known for their comical lyrics and hard driving punk rock. It almost feels like punk rock for truck drivers. Their latest album, Welcome to the Show, is fourteen tracks of fast and ridiculous punk rock to get your blood pumping and your gut busting with laughter.
While you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. You can usually gauge the awesomeness by the titles of the songs. The party punks start the shit show with the short, but great “Hold My Beer.” From there they just get more and more insane. “Blowjob at Buc-ee’s” tells about the best twenty bucks ever spent while on the road. While there are only a few chord progressions in this world, “Strippers Like Me Back” seems to “borrow” the chord progression from Social Distortion’s Bad Luck. Lead single titled “Is Your Mother Single? (Can Your Father Fight?)” makes it very clear, you should probably have a thicker skin to enjoy this.
Other songs like “Zero Day Sober,” “Horny and Sad,” and “Resting Murder Face” had me audibly laughing at many points. My favorite song on the album is probably “Mourning Wood.” A song about having what could only be described as bereavement by sympathy boners. It’s so fucking ridiculous and I mean that in the best way. Keeping a trend of covering pop songs like Kelis’s “Milkshake” and Outkast’s “Hey Ya,” Gas Station Boner Pills does a decent cover of Flo Rida’s Low with some modified lyrics.
While lyrically this may not be the best way to deal with depression, it is cheaper than therapy, and for that, I cannot fault Gas Station Boner Pills. While the songs’ lyrics don’t cut as hard as Guttermouth’s, but they do carve their own space. I don’t know if I’ve lost my mind or if it’s nostalgia, but the ride this album takes you on is not to be missed. Gas Station Boner Pills drags you into their world and does not let go.
Musically, these songs are great. It’s not overcomplicated. There are spurts of fun riffs and drum fills. These songs would be fun to slam dance to in a pit. Hard-hitting drums, thumping bass, and guitars all hit as hard as they can. Often, the music falls short of the lyrics’ quality. If you are looking for good, fast punk to yell along to and have fun with, look no further than Gas Station Boner Pills.