This laudable punk-pop cauldron was written, recorded, and completely performed by Jeff Dahl, a guy who’s ostensibly the missing link between Johnny Thunders, D Generation, and The Biters. Recorded at Dahl’s own Devil Tree studio out in Cave Creek, Ariz., this 2000 album is crammed full of gnarly power chords, perfectly strained girl-group style punk chorales, lots of tortured blooze, and Lou Reed–meets–Mink DeVille talk-singing. On the hook-filled “X-Punkrocker,” Dahl heads out on a freakout nostalgic trip for those he knew from the late-’70s Hollywood punk scene, namechecking punk club The Masque like Johnny Thunders did Max’s Kansas City. “Girl I Used” could’ve been a Holly & The Italians place-setter, and old Mick Ronson gets a wicked nod by way of Phoenix in “Slaughter on Van Buren Avenue.” “Ashes” is all about rising from the musical dead, a glam-punk Easter of sorts; “All the Wrong Reasons” is a rare Dahl ballad about, well, the usual stuff of train-station blues and getting lost in the streets.