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It's time for you true fans to pay tribute and provide the essential Junkyard. What are your top tracks?

“I live like I want to- not like I should,yea”

That’s why my life is better than any rockstar or celebrity
Don’t want to be Axl or Jacob Fatu

I can walk to Fatburger whenever I want- eat Fatburger on the beach- wait few days then go see Babylon AD#JunkyardLife

I like them all but …

Debut album - Hollywood, Simple Man, Texas, Blooze and Hands Off.

6,7 & 9’s - All the Time in the World, Slippin Away, Misery Loves Company, Back on the Streets Again

Highwater - Faded, WFLWF, Till The Wheels Fall Off, Don’t Give a Damn

Old Habits Die Hard - Hangin Round, Pushed You Too Far, Tried and True, Holdin On, Out Cold

Lead singles off the 1st 2 albums, "Hollywood" and "All The Time in World" are great, however the remainder of both albums are mostly filler.

I also think the last 2 tracks were really good, Lifer and last of a dying breed, although Blooze is my favorite song

https://youtu.be/kGOf81HkmyQ?si=99GjTRbGJtIoHlqX

Blooze, hands off, simple man, all the time in the world, clean the dirt

Back On The Streets and Throw It All Away both have kickass guitar riffs. But I have a soft spot for Clean The Dirt. My wife turned me on to them years ago and I couldn't believe they had the cajones to float Tex and the Horseheads out there to a metal audience. Got my interest piqued right off the bat.

exitflagger wrote: ↑Mon Aug 04, 2025 8:46 pm Back On The Streets and Throw It All Away both have kickass guitar riffs. But I have a soft spot for Clean The Dirt. My wife turned me on to them years ago and I couldn't believe they had the cajones to float Tex and the Horseheads out there to a metal audience. Got my interest piqued right off the bat.

I always wondered why the Junkyard guys were listed as co-writers on “clean the dirt.”
Do you know about it?

Rocker4Real wrote: ↑Mon Aug 04, 2025 11:28 am It's time for you true fans to pay tribute and provide the essential Junkyard. What are your top tracks?

A lot like Havana Black, I never found Junkyard or their music to be “essential” to anything.

Tommy2Tone84 wrote: ↑Tue Aug 05, 2025 3:08 am

Rocker4Real wrote: ↑Mon Aug 04, 2025 11:28 am It's time for you true fans to pay tribute and provide the essential Junkyard. What are your top tracks?

A lot like Havana Black, I never found Junkyard or their music to be “essential” to anything.

I figured there might be a couple true fans of this band on here to provide recommendations. I don't remember hearing much about them back in the day.

DangerZone wrote: ↑Mon Aug 04, 2025 9:39 pm

exitflagger wrote: ↑Mon Aug 04, 2025 8:46 pm Back On The Streets and Throw It All Away both have kickass guitar riffs. But I have a soft spot for Clean The Dirt. My wife turned me on to them years ago and I couldn't believe they had the cajones to float Tex and the Horseheads out there to a metal audience. Got my interest piqued right off the bat.

I always wondered why the Junkyard guys were listed as co-writers on “clean the dirt.”
Do you know about it?

No but I figure the Junkyard guys were around the LA music community long before they released anything as Junkyard. Mike Martt and that band were from LA too. There was a punk flophouse / practice facility in Hollywood called Disgraceland and they were all involved with that. Probably wrote it together there. But I don't know all the details.

Check out Waste of Time from their 2002 ep
"It's much easier to live a lie
You think I'm kidding man give it a try"
Some good good stuff on their debut 1988 ep too.



It's a shame Joker and XXX weren't actually released when they were recorded. At least half of the songs got released on Old Habits Die Hard, but a lot of good songs left off. They should have just put both out instead of mashing them together.

"Hands Off". That's it.

"Hands Off". That's it.