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Comers: Angry Samoans

Mark Leviton, L.A. Weekly, 13 June 1980

PEOPLE GET upset by the Angry Samoans. It's not just that this feisty five-piece group trashes every cherished ideal of the middle class in language so directly obscene even so-called punks get offended, but that they match verbal audacity with a powerhouse attack that blowtorches your ears as well as your preconceptions.

Total word count of piece: 415

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