Popsicko’s “Off To A Bad Start” Vinyl Reissue Announced

Big Stir Records have announced the long-awaited, first time on vinyl reissue of Off To A Bad Start, the 1994 debut and only full-length album from Santa Barbara, CA’s Popsicko. This deluxe edition packages the album with a new book, To Would Have Beens: The Official Oral History Of Popsicko, that is edited by S.W. Lauden and features insights from all surviving band members and others who were there during the band’s all too short career. The album artwork and book also offer up a generous selection of never before published photos and memorabilia from the Popsicko archives, as well as remembrances of the band’s frontman Keith Brown, whose tragic 1995 death in a car accident prematurely ended the band’s career.

Brown was known to say of the band, “The description of our music is supposed to be in our name,” and the tunes on Off To A Bad Start emphatically bear that out. Legends of their local scene and beloved on the road, Popsicko possessed everything it took to rule the airwaves in the ’90s heyday of the alternative rock and pop punk. Seemingly destined to join the ranks of Weezer and Green Day, both bands with whom they shared stages, on the charts, the band’s trajectory was tragically halted by Brown‘s passing. The surviving members would go on to build impressive resumés of their own in outfits such as Summercamp, Sugarcult, Bad Astronaut, The Rentals and The Playing Favorites.