The Finger

Though the album cover looks like a Mentors bootleg, this sounds nothing like the late Elden Hoke (or "El Duce," as he liked to be called). If the Finger sounds like Jesse Malin and Ryan Adams playing old school punk, it's because the Finger is Jesse Malin and Ryan Adams playing old school punk. Although to be fair, this sounds more like Henry Rollins-era Black Flag outtakes than Malin's former band D Generation or Adams' early thrashings with the Patty Duke Syndrome. Previously limited to 1000 copies, We Are F**ck You takes itself less seriously than its obvious influences did.