Mommy's Little Monster
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| Studio album by Social Distortion | ||||
| Released | 1983 | |||
| Recorded | December 24, 1982 at The Casbah in Fullerton, California | |||
| Genre | Punk rock, hardcore punk, pop punk | |||
| Length | 27:14 | |||
| Label | 13th Floor Records, Triple X Records | |||
| Producer | Social Distortion, Chaz Ramirez, Thom Wilson | |||
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Mommy's Little Monster is the debut studio album by American punk rock band Social Distortion, released in 1983.
In 1982, Social Distortion took part in the tour with Youth Brigade (as chronicled in the documentary Another State of Mind) and broke up shortly afterwards. However, because of the tour's success, the band reconciled not long afterward and decided to begin work on their first album. Mommy's Little Monster was recorded at The Casbah in Fullerton, California, on December 24, 1982. They recorded the album in a single session for numerous hours to cut down studio costs, which explains low budget production.
Mommy's Little Monster was reissued several times, with different formats and labels. The album was originally released on vinyl LP in 1983 on 13th Floor Records, a label owned by their manager at the time, Monk Rock.
The Triple X Records label reissued the album on CD, vinyl and cassette in 1989. Six years later, Mommy's Little Monster was re-issued once again when Ness started Time Bomb Recordings with some of the profits he made from Social Distortion's Epic releases, and reissued Mommy's Little Monster on vinyl, cassette and CD through a distribution deal with Arista Records. The 1995 version has remained in print ever since. The 13th Floor and Triple X versions are out of print. A third reissue was released in 2010 on Epitaph Records in Europe and the United Kingdom.
A gramophone picture disc version of Mommy's Little Monster was released in 2001, but it is rare.
Designed by Art Mortales, the front cover of the album has an image of a skeleton and human child (wearing a mask), who are seated in a chair watching a war movie featuring a mushroom cloud in a somewhat abandoned house, with nothing except for the chair, television, mailbox, a picture frame, three lead pipes and a lot of debris. It is suggestive of the after effects of an early hydrogen bomb test and an archetypal hardcore image.
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