Second Coming (Dickies album)
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Second Coming is the 1989 comeback album by Los Angeles
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 punk band The Dickies
The Dickies
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, and the band's fourth studio album.
By 1989, the Dickies' brand of tongue-in-cheek, poppy punk was largely out of fashion, but the later success of bands like Green Day
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 and the Queers
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 make it clear what an influence these L.A. jokers were. Highlights include snarky covers of "Hair
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" and Gene Pitney
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's "Town Without Pity", alongside equally goofy originals like "Dummy Up" and "Booby Trap".

Track listing

Credits

The Dickies
  • Leonard Graves Phillips - lead vocals, keyboards
  • Stan Lee
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     - guitars, vocals
  • Enoch Hain - guitars, vocals
  • Lorenzo "Laurie" Buhne - bass, vocals
  • Cliff Martinez
    Cliff Martinez
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     - drums


Additional musicians
  • Jerry Angel - drums
  • Lenny Castro - percussion
  • John "Juke" Logan
    John "Juke" Logan
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    - harmonica
  • Larry Klimas - flute


Production
  • Produced and Engineered by Ron Hitchcock
  • Additional Engineering by Jim Faraci, John X and Brian Fukuji
  • Cover Painting by Jeff Wong
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