Smash Your Idols – Smash Your Idols

Smash Your Idols
Smash Your Idols
1996? (no label)
Colonial Heights, Virginia, USA

Lin Doak – Guitar, vocals
Kevin Poynter – Guitar, vocals
Doug Fletcher – Bass guitar
Swayne Castillo – Drums

Side 1:

1. Hate Things
2. Looking for Jesus
3. Lost Soul
4. Lies
5. That’s Not What Love Is

Side 2:

1. Waiting
2. The Dark Side is Calling
3. All I Wanna Do
4. My Rock

No date on this one, but I picked 1996 because that is the copyright date on the archive of their website, which has this tape for sale (but it could have been earlier). They label themselves as “modern rock” – which is a pretty good description. In the mid-90s, it was a good way to identify the bands that wanted to rock out with loud guitars while not being full-on grunge or alternative. This was often because the lead singer sang in a higher range than grunge, or the guitar player wanted to do metal solos, or both. “Smash Your Idols” doesn’t really work that well as a band name, but they do a pretty good job at their chosen style of music. Their website indicates they were planning on releasing this on CD – wonder if that ever happened? Unfortunately, even though this is a fairly newer tape, there is a lot of tape warble in the last two songs on side 1 and the first two on side 2 (“The Dark Side is Calling” nearly grinds to a stop from tape damage).

Missing Information: Confirmation of release date