Didjits CD discography. The CD version of HEY JUDESTER also contains the FIZZJOB LP. The cassette version contains only the HEY JUDESTER LP. After a comparatively tepid debut, the Didjits amped up their guitar roar and stomped down hard on the accelerator for this second long-player, the first in a trio of furious punk rock & roll albums that celebrate brash arrogance, sarcasm, and dedicated hedonism. Hey Judester opens with the one-two punch of "Max Wedge" and "Stingray," a pair of breakneck riff machines that blaze by like drug-fueled drag racers, built on irresistible fist-pumping choruses and cement-solid rhythm. The tempo is slurred a bit for weirdo white-trash surrealism like "(Mama Had A) Skull Baby" ("And it screamed all night long/You'd scream too if all you had was a skull") and "Under the Christmas Fish," but for the most part the Didjits stay on course with hyperspeed Chuck Berry choogling and creative, minimalist song structures. "Stumpo Knee Grinder" needs only two chords to make its point, and "King Carp" rides a funky distorto-bass riff into a rapid-fire discourse on "the fish with the bad drug problem" who rules the beach with an iron fin. It's all wrapped up with "Dad," a tuneful ode to an abusive father given to motorcycles and belt-whippings, a relatively introspective track after all the ax-handle abuse, iguana farts, and Vietnam head-cases. Despite what appears to be a goofy sensibility, the Didjits rock with a vicious abandon that catapults them past joke-band status. Any potential "zaniness" is tempered with menace, like a drunken prankster at a keg party who knows the line between funny and scary and fully intends to cross it. The Didjits followed up Hey Judester with two more amazing albums (Hornet Pinata and Full Nelson Reilly) that advanced and improved upon the wild-eyed style they honed, but their final releases lost steam and don't maintain the momentum begun here. ~ Fred Beldin Didjits: Rick Sims (vocals, guitar, piano); Joe Evans (vocals, bass); Brad Sims (drums). Additional personnel: Brad Lumpp, Galva (piano).

Didjits albums. The Didjits' third project, Hornet Pinata takes a bold leap in energy and bite over 1988's Hey Judester, as Rick Sims' arrogant guitar and vocal assertiveness demand your attention. From the opening dragstrip riot of "Killboy Powerhead" (covered by The Offspring), Hornet Pinata blisters through hilarious tales of counterculture excess. Bodily harm, gambling, and dope are all present; ditto for dangerous sluts and Satan. Juvenile, brash, and with enough punk spirit in its tunes of wreckage, The Didjits had finally found their sound and attitude. ~ Matt Carlson

There's almost no way the Didjits could have repeated the genius of Hey Judester without divine intervention, and sure enough, on Full Nelson Reilly they don't quite top their own high-water mark. But they do come closer than they ever would again, and this album finds the Didjits in gloriously manic form. Short of a 3-D virtual reality hologram, no recording can capture the full rock spectacle of Rick Sims in performance mode (a man destined from birth to be one of God's own rock stars, regardless of his sales figures), but the best cuts here preserve his Nugent-on-speed guitar moves, his manic vocal presence, and his weird-ass sense of humor with remarkable accuracy, and his rhythm section is so good they can actually keep up with him. And two-minute bursts of genius like "Top Fuel," "Who's Ready to Get High," "Eat the Roach," and "Promise Not to Kill Anybody" merge punk fury, hard rock pomp, and post-adolescent snigger as well as anyone before or since; if Urge Overkill had the formula down this well, they ...

Most good rock bands manage to release one or two really good albums, them get progressively worse until they break up and move on to other projects. Although the Didjits disbanded after releasing their best album, Que Sirhan Sirhan, the ...

Little Miss Carriage, a brief five-song EP, hearkens more than usual for The Didjits back to '70s rock & roll; it's almost as if the original punk rockers had embraced heavy metal rather than distancing themselves from it. Then again, ...