Holy Crap!!! This is the album I would have expected If he had reunited with his old bandmates in Generation X. This is almost a perfect Pop-Punk record, and I mean that in a good way.
Most of the songs, especially “World Comin’ Down”, take modern radio punk production and apply it to 1978 sensibilities. If I didn’t know better, I would have bet my left nut that “Sherri” was a lost Gen X track.
Billy even flirts with Country in “Plastic Jesus” (…“If I weave around at night/Policeman think I’m very tight/They’ll never find my bottle tho’ they ask./Plastic Jesus shelters me/For his head comes off you see/He’s hollow and I use him like a flask”) Haha…that’s awesome!
And then there’s the single “Scream” which is probably his stongest single since “Rebel Yell”
A few songs don’t really work. “Rat Race” sounds just like a sub-par Cult song, “Body Snatcher” is a bit too nu-metal and “Yellin’ At The Christmas Tree” would have been an OK single, but doesn’t work in the context of the album. Overall though, It’s a great ROCK record, and there’s not a crappy techno or dance song in the bunch! Not bad for a guy who was pretty much a has-been before the 80s were even over. I hope this comes out on vinyl.