The Descendents Enjoy! (Wild Cherry Vinyl) vinyl is a reissue worth paying attention to, pressed by ORG Music (catalog ORGMC1 2332) and arriving on a wild cherry colored LP that does justice to one of the more underappreciated records in the Descendents catalog.
Who the Descendents Are and Why Enjoy! Matters
The Descendents built the template that hundreds of bands spent the next two decades borrowing from. When Milo Aukerman joined in 1979, the band pivoted from power pop toward something tighter and harder, stacking real melodic intelligence on top of punk velocity. They kept the same core lineup through the mid-80s and never chased trends, which is part of why their output from that era holds up so well. If you have any interest in where melodic hardcore and pop punk came from, the through line leads here.
Originally released in 1986, Enjoy! is the band leaning completely into their instincts. Short songs, fast tempos, hooks that land immediately and stay. At eleven tracks, it wastes nothing. The band pairs juvenile irreverence with genuine musical tension, and the subtle new wave and pop influences woven through the record broaden things without softening them. Their take on Wendy, originally by The Beach Boys, is a useful reference point: it signals how wide their listening was, and how confident they were processing it through a punk filter without losing the edge. Forty years out, this is the band reclaiming and reissuing the record on their own terms.
Descendents Enjoy! (Wild Cherry Vinyl) Vinyl: Format and Pressing Details
This is an ORG Music pressing, a label that has built a reputation for taking punk and hardcore catalog titles seriously in terms of production and presentation. The wild cherry vinyl is the obvious draw for collectors, giving a physically distinctive copy of a record that has rarely had much attention lavished on it as a physical object. Catalog number ORGMC1 2332 puts it squarely in ORG’s ongoing series of thoughtful reissues rather than a quick cash-in repressing.
Why a Collector Would Want This Copy
Enjoy! has always sat slightly in the shadow of Milo Goes to College in terms of collector attention, which arguably makes it more interesting to own. This pressing gives you a colored vinyl copy of a record that deserves more shelf space than it typically gets, in a format that reflects some care about how it was put together. If you already own the Descendents records everyone talks about first, this is the gap worth filling. If you are newer to the catalog, it is a strong place to start understanding how much ground this band covered in a very short runtime.
Tracklist
1. ENJOY 2. FLOATER 3. 50/50 4. SAUSAGE 5. BARNACLE 6. LOAF 7. CARBUNCLE 8. CHODA 9. HALF PIPE 10. CABLE SERVICE 11. LOCKOUT
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