The Anti-Nowhere League - The Best of the Anti-Nowhere League [Cleopatra]

Primary Artist
The Anti-Nowhere League
Album Title
The Best of the Anti-Nowhere League [Cleopatra]
Release Date
August 27, 1993 
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Review by Jack Rabid, The Big Takeover
Who'd have thought that The Anti-nowhere League would last so wellNULL Not just because they were incredibly funny without being a comedy band (even less so than The Dickies), or because their songs still seem so catchy. No, because their whole "piss off" attitude has transcended the time in which this truly (proudly) motley, anti-glamorous crew appeared in a cloud of pig-pen's dust. Perhaps only the most wimpoid techno-popper could dismiss the blistering hooks of the classic 7" "For You," and "We are the League," and only the Saturday Night Live Church Lady could keep from splitting an irreverent gut on "Animal," and especially "So What" (the song whose social-comment filthiness got it banned in England by Scotland Yard -- no kidding, they raided the warehouse and confiscated all the singles!), and maybe even Church Lady puts this on and curses a blue streak along with AnimalRead More