Suicidal Tendencies

Fans of veteran punk outfit Suicidal Tendencies are impressively faithful, but the music establishment never warmed to the group’s often juvenile, sometimes brilliant output. That has to be disappointing to leader Mike Muir, who has dissolved and reformed the group out of disgust several times. The group hasn’t released a new album in 10 years, though 2010’s No Mercy Fool!/The Suicidal Family does include re-recorded versions of songs by Muir’s pre-Suicidal band No Mercy. It seems like nothing it does (or doesn’t do) will change the fact that 1983’s disaffected-youth anthem “Institutionalized” remains its best-known moment. Despite stadium tours and side projects that helped lay the foundation for the legions of funky skate-punks to follow, Suicidal Tendencies still suffers from a lack of wider respect.

Updated 11/02/2010