Mommy's Little Monster (album)

Mommy's Little Monster
Studio album by
Social Distortion
ReleasedJune 1983[1]
RecordedDecember 24, 1982 at The Casbah in Fullerton, California[2]
Genre
Length27:25
Label13th Floor Records[10]
ProducerSocial Distortion, Chaz Ramirez, Thom Wilson
Social Distortion chronology
Mommy's Little Monster
(1983) 		Prison Bound
(1988)
Singles from Mommy's Little Monster
  1. "Another State of Mind"
    Released: 1983

Mommy's Little Monster is the debut studio album by American punk rock band Social Distortion, released in 1983 through the label 13th Floor Records.[10] The album is notably different from the band's subsequent releases, featuring styles of traditional punk rock,[7][8] both traditional hardcore and melodic hardcore,[3][9] and pop-punk.[7] This is Social Distortion's only studio album to feature bassist Brent Liles and drummer Derek O'Brien, both of whom were out of the band by early 1984 and would be replaced by John Maurer and Chris Reece respectively. The album received underground acclaim from punk rock fanzines,[7][11] and it has been acknowledged as influential and inspirational to the then-burgeoning pop-punk and skate punk scenes.[8][9][12][13]

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  9. ^ a b c d Sacher, Andrew (July 29, 2020). "15 '80s punk albums that shaped the '90s/'00s pop punk boom". Brooklyn Vegan. Retrieved July 18, 2022.
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  12. ^ "10 Cali punk albums that paved the way for the Offspring's Smash". August 14, 2014.
  13. ^ "Orange County's Little Monster".