Creating a mishmash of five-minutes-ago punk, early 80's college-radio sounds, FM rock, and general goofiness, the Degrads foisted a batch of quirky, original, musically-accomplished-but-deliberately-silly songs upon the sleepy Rochester suburbs in the summer of 1982. From the whiny, lightweight punk of Dopes! and I Should've Worn Shorts With Pockets to the snotty party grooves of Dancing in My Underwear and Get Down – Get Back Up Again! to the sophomoric comedy of I Don't Care if She Smells and Eat Roughage to the bizarre musical theater of Eggplants and Venison Stew (which was performed live by hand-puppets) . . . well, the titles say it all, don't they? Among the tracks heard here are signature tune What's My Problem? and tongue-in-cheek ballads Fun with a Porpoise and Nancy (both sung by 15-year-old Spuzzy Dynamite).

The Degrads returned in the summer of '83, by which time they had begun to take themselves more seriously as a new music band. That season brought them Rochester club outings (notably with the Chesterfield Kings), college radio airplay, and a local TV appearance (see pictures). Their self-released pop-punk single, I Saw Bobbie Sobbing in the Lobby, earned them a review in Trouser Press before they disbanded.