House of Pain: Same As It Ever Was (Tommy Boy)
Chuck Eddy, Spin, September 1994
IF I WERE in high school now, I'd feel threatened by House of Pain — they remind me of the burr-headed white gutterboys who congregate on each other's row-house porches wearing Bermuda shorts and backward Phillies caps all down my Quadrophenia-like street in the Manayuk stickball sector of Philadelphia.
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