Pinhead Gunpowder's full-length (if you consider 24 minutes to be full-length) Goodbye Ellston Avenue often sounds like Green Day without a producer -- which isn't a bad thing. All the songs have a certain first-take rawness, and the recording quality is appropriately gritty. Billie Joe Armstrong handles most of the singing here, which ensures a certain amount of pop sweetness, but when co-vocalist Bill Schneider takes the mic, his less tuneful shouts offset Armstrong's melodies nicely. Goodbye Ellston Avenue feels like a record made in a low-pressure environment, and that looseness gives the record its low-key, basement punk charm.
Pinhead Gunpowder
Goodbye Ellston Avenue
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AllMusic Review by Andy Hinds
Track Listing
| Sample | Title/Composer | Performer | Time | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 01:48 | |||||
| 2 | 01:29 | |||||
| 3 | 01:36 | |||||
| 4 | 01:30 | |||||
| 5 | 02:28 | |||||
| 6 | 01:47 | |||||
| 7 | 01:18 | |||||
| 8 | 01:29 | |||||
| 9 | 01:47 | |||||
| 10 | 03:19 | |||||
| 11 | 01:38 | |||||
| 12 | 01:32 | |||||
| 13 | 02:13 |
