highlights from free download album (dreamtowerrecords.com/free_downloads) of original 1977 protopunk. musicemissions.com says: "Punk history needs to be reconsidered in the light of The Scenics' 70's work. "See Me Smile" is full of their arty, hypnotic songs, that draw as much from Pere Ubu as from Television...There is also a Gang of Four feel to "O Boy," a lo-fi dignity to the more abstract "I Have You" & "New Part in Town." "See Me Smile" sounds like early Who with Tom Verlaine on vocals. Truly stunning are a run of songs-"Scenic Caves, "Have You Seen Your Mother," "Jaunty Castro" & "I'm Hurt," which cover so much of what was to come after them, from DNA to feedtime, minutemen to Huskers. This music...places The Scenics higher on the list of important first/second wave punk bands. "Punk haiku #2: See Me Smile" is beyond essential, and is probably the most revelatory of all the band's recent retrospectives.

Songs are pulled from thescenics.com/punkhaiku6 thru thescenics.com/punkhaiku10