“JUST HIT PAUSE. Three guys from Queens that changed the way we look at Aerosmith. No, wait, that’s Run DMC.
Three brothers that changed the way the world thinks about salty snacks. Uh, hold on, that’s the Snyder’s of
Berlin. I’m not sure what exactly these guys did to deserve a deluxe retrospective like this – and come to think
of it, I don’t know why they asked me to write an introduction for the release notes. Did I sleep with one of them?
… no, I just looked at the photos and that’s definitely not what happened. Can someone call my agent?...”
Grace Slick, forward to the book Goodbye Porkrind Hat: The Just Hit Pause Story, Feral House, 2003.
“If there is a boil on the back of popular music, this is the band to lance and drain it! B+++++++”
Peter Blint, Rolling Stone, reviewing MUSIC FOR DOLTS
"These guys know how to rock and any portion of rockin' they inadvertently forget, they'll bone up on so that next time
their rockin' will be complete."
Lester Bangs, CREEM, reviewing their debut shows at CBGBs, 1980.
“Live…[Just Hit Pause is]...sort of like watching children hit each other over the head with mallets, except
with a faint scent of irony."
Andy Niacin, Chicago Tribune review of I’M A NEGATIVE CREEP Tour, 1993.
“When you look up 'funky' in the dictionary, you’ll find a picture of these muthas – well, not the redheaded
guy. He’s not funky. And not the fat guy. He’s definitely not funky at all. Hell, my kid’s poopy diapers
are funkier than the fat guy. No, the skinny guy – he is funky. I mean in-the-pocket funky ...that’s FUN-KAY
funky. Damn, he’s funky. But those other guys are bullshit. Why the hell are we talking about them?”
Rev. Al Sharpton speaking at Indiana KIWANIS Club, 1997.
“MUSIC FOR CHOLICY CHILDREN is the acme against which all sociopolitical, Marxist children’s albums will be
compared. It doesn’t get any better than this, parents.”
Bunny Provocs , Parents Magazine, reviewing an advance copy of the never-released MUSIC FOR CHOLICY CHILDREN, 1995.
“HERE COMES ANOTHER ONE! Check your pornography at the door, ladies!”
Dan Rather reviewing KNUCKLE SANDWICH on his shortlived "Rockin' Dan Rather" MTV show, 1994.
“[Their] version of Bowie’s LODGER stands as a testament to the effectiveness of prostate self-examination.”
Modern Maturity, Fall 1995
“Sign me up for everything they put out! Genius!”
Kelly Ripa on the CBS morning show "Regis & Kelly & Two Monkeys with Funny Hats".
“They're f****in' great, now where's the crackpipe?"
Stiv Bators (Dead Boys)
“When the History of Rock and Roll is written, JUST HIT PAUSE will be right there between Gilbert O’ Sullivan
and Lou Bega. Oh, by the way, all three of them had me.”
Nicole Kidman
“I wish Joe and Ian were funkier”
Chip Salerno on The Oprah Winfrey Show, 2002.
“ENDURANCE TEST exists in a music-fanatics dream-world with Dylan’s BASEMENT TAPES and the Beach Boys’
SMILE; dozens of books have been written about what might have been, how it might have happened, and what actually did happen.
Speculating on the intended contents of their final album has become the music-lover’s favorite parlor game; put three
pop fans in a room and if they aren’t discussing the existence of God as proven by Jennifer Love Hewitt’s breasts,
they’re pontificating about ET song orders. A lot of hoopla for an unfinished collection of songs that are neither
very good nor very funky.”
Greil Marcus, ANOTHER HARD TO READ BOOK ABOUT SOMETHING THAT’S NOT TOO IMPORTANT, 1999.
“F--k Greil Marcus! That sack of s--t wouldn’t know good (or funky) if it kicked his a--. JUST HIT PAUSE are
godhead!”
Lester Bangs, COMMUNIQUÉS FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE, 2000.
“When the Dogs of War stop at the pub to get a drink, this is what the jukebox plays.”
Ezra Pound writing about 7TH GRADE in the Evergreen Review, 1994.
“F--k Chip! He wouldn’t know funky if it was tattooed on his butt with a burning poker while he was going
through a whirling hall of knives!”
Lester Bangs, I’M NOT DEAD: I JUST SMELL LIKE CHEESE, 2002.
