AGENT ORANGE Living In Darkness

Named after the chemical substance used during the Vietnam war to deleave trees in the jungle, AGENT ORANGE, a three piece band, deliver their unique style of punkrock fused with surf influenced guitar.

This recording dates back to my own birthyear, being 1981. Their distinct sound of punkrock blended with surf guitar provides a very nice sound to the darker inspired lyrics of Mike Palm (vocals, guitar).
AGENT ORANGE are one of the original Orange County bands and left their mark on many bands coming from the California punkrock scene. One of the songs that many may recognise as an AGENT ORANGE original is 'Everything Turns Grey', most will recognise this track in the LAGWAGON version.

Their first release happened to be this 'Living In Darkness', released on POSH BOY RECORDS, a record that has been rereleased througout the years on many different labels for all of us to discover.
AGENT ORANGE has released three studio albums, a live album, some EP's and a few singles in more than thirty years of on stage banter. The guys still perform from time to time but never really seemed to hit the big audiences they deserved to play for.

Lyrically MIKE PALM writes away his fears through songs dealing with dark themes. Titles as Living In Darkness, Too Young Too Die, Bloodstains and A Cry For Help In A World Gone Mad show a darker side of looking at society and oneself than we'd except from the happy tunes played by this outfit.
Typical Californian 80's punkrock as made famous by Descendents is mixed up with Surf guitar.
As if Dick Dale and Milo teamed up one day and shared their knowledge with AGENT ORANGE who performed their ideas on stage.

With lyrics such as 'Look at me now, I've got no reason to be like everybody else, So dumb, so happy, I like things that bite, Things that creep at night,.... ' they give you an insight in their own personal hellhole.
Amidst the songs there's one cover of Dick Dale's 'Miserlou'. A song that many kids may know as it was brought to attention again in the 90's by the cultmovie 'Pulp Fiction', and eventually picked up again and raped by 'The Black Eyed Peas' in their (s)hitsingle 'Pump it'.

Go out and discover this band today, they can use some support.

Ezekiel02:24:81