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1	!!The band
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3	* BreakupBreakout: Though D.O.A. and Chuck Biscuits's contributions on drums are respected as it is, Chuck's later stints in Music/BlackFlag, Circle Jerks, Music/{{Danzig}}, Music/SocialDistortion and even Music/RunDMC (on the album ''Tougher Than Leather'', at the request of Music/RickRubin) are what cemented his legendary status.
4	* CreatorBacklash: Joe Keithley also disliked ''Let's Wreck the Party'' just as much as fans did, though mostly because the album's mixing was poor. None of the tracks from it have been played live since the early 90s.
5	* DiedDuringProduction: Though several D.O.A. members have passed on, drummer Ken Jensen was the only one to do so while still a member; he died in a house fire in January 1995. The band’s next album ''The Black Spot'', featuring John Wright of {{Music/Nomeansno}} filling in on drums, was dedicated to his memory (as well as that of Dimwit, who died of a heroin overdose in 1994).
6	* GenrePopularizer: The title of the album ''Hardcore '81'' and the subsequent extensive North American tour to promote it is generally credited with popularizing the use of the term [[Main/HardcorePunk "hardcore punk"]].
7	* HeAlsoDid:
8	** Though music has taken up most of his life, Joe "Shithead" Keithley is also a published author (having written two books about his experiences playing with D.O.A.) and an occasional actor (most notably playing Officer Friendly in the Vancouver-produced dystopian satire ''Film/TerminalCityRicochet''). Since 2018, he’s also served as a city councilor in his hometown, and several news articles noted the irony of someone who wrote songs like “Smash the State” becoming an elected official.
9	** Though it's still in the realm of music, Chuck Biscuits is best known for drumming for various punk bands but also contributed drums to the seminal hip-hop album ''Tougher Than Leather'' by Music/RunDMC.
10	* NoBudget: D.O.A. is known for recording, touring, and making videos on a shoestring. Their self-released debut EP ''Disco Sucks'' was paid for with welfare cheques, and Joe's books ''I, Shithead'' and ''Talk - Action = 0'' are full of stories about living and touring in abject poverty in the band's early days, including an anecdote about touring on a ''two dollar'' per diem per member in early 1983--equivalent to about five-and-a-quarter dollars a day in 2020--with beer and cigarettes substituting for food. It was rumoured in 1983 that D.O.A. had provided their new drummer Greg James a luxurious lifestyle (including a Corvette and a penthouse apartment), when in reality he and guitarist Dave Gregg would often feed themselves at soup kitchens.
11	* NoExportForYou: The 1987 album ''True (North) Strong and Free'' was never released in the band’s home country of Canada. Also a case of ScrewedByTheNetwork, as the band’s label at the time, Profile Records, did little to promote the record and refused to put out another, yet also would not release the band from their contract and prevented them from recording for another label for three years.
12	* ThePeteBest:
13	** The band’s original lead singer was a guy known as “Harry Homo” who reportedly barged into a rehearsal studio during an early jam session and announced he would sing for the group, that it would be called D.O.A. and that they would “make a million dollars”. He lasted one show before he was sacked for having no sense of timing as a performer; Joe Shithead then assumed lead vocal duties.
14	** According to an appendix of Joe’s autobiography ''I, Shithead'', the band’s first second guitarist was a Texan named “Randy Romance” who only played with the band for a month in the spring of 1978.
15	** Brad Kent (a.k.a. “Brad Kunt”) also briefly played guitar for D.O.A. in the summer of 1978 and [[https://youtu.be/nXBkhbJshws can be seen playing with the band at a Canada Day show that year]], with Joe on vocals only. The ''Disco Sucks'' EP was likely recorded either right before he was hired or right after he was fired.
16	** The band’s original lineup briefly broke up at the end of 1979, with Joe quickly recruiting drummer Andy Graffiti and bassist Simon “Stubby Pecker” Wilde to start work on the band’s debut album ''Something Better Change''. However, after a show in the spring of 1980 that “stank”, Andy and Simon were sacked and Randy and Chuck rejoined. ''Something Better Change'' still features Wilde’s bass playing on a few songs.
17	* RecycledScript: Several songs appear on more than one album, sometimes slightly reworked.
18	** The band’s earliest original song, “Disco Sucks”, was re-recorded as “New Wave Sucks” for the 1981 EP ''Positively D.O.A.'' and appears on reissues of their debut album ''Something Better Change''.
19	** The song “Fucked Up Baby” was re-recorded as “Fucked Up Ronnie” (referring to then-United States president UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan), also for ''Positively D.O.A.''; this has seemingly become the definitive version of the song. The song has been rewritten and re-recorded a few other times over the years to attack other political leaders: “Fucked Up Bush” (referring to UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush), “Fucked Up Stephen” (about right-wing Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper) and most recently “Fucked Up Donald” (about, you guessed it, UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump).
20	** The songs “Bombs Away” and “Just Got Back from the U.S.A.” both feature the repeated chant “Hey, hey, get outta my way, I just got back from the U.S.A.”, which Joe claims was a common schoolyard chant when he was young.
21	** The album ''Win the Battle'' features new versions of "Lumberjack City" (retitled "Return to Lumberjack City") and “We’re Drivin’ to Hell n’ Back”, presumably because their original album ''True (North) Strong and Free'' was never reissued in Canada.
22	** ''Live Free Or Die'' features new versions of the songs “Concrete Beach”, “The Agony and the Ecstacy”, “You Won’t Stand Alone”, “Kill Ya Later”, “Marijuana Motherfucker” and “Road Kill”, probably for similar reissue difficulties.
23	** ''Talk - Action = 0'' contains rewritten versions of "I Hate Punk Rock" and "Royal Police", respectively re-titled "They Hate Punk Rock" and "The R.C.M.P." The same album includes a new version of the song “‘Rebel Kind”, which had appeared on a Joe Keithley solo album a couple years previously.
24	** ''Hard Rain Falling'' features a rewritten version of "Warmonger", which originally appeared on ''Win the Battle''.
25	** 2018’s ''Fight Back'' and 2020’s ''Treason'' both feature the songs “Gonna Set You Straight” and “Just Got Back from the U.S.A.”
26	* RoleEndingMisdemeanor: Joe has sacked a few D.O.A. members over the years, but original bassist Randy Rampage was fired on New Year's Eve, 1981 for leaving the stage mid-show and not returning for over a half hour; he had already been missing practices and showing up at concerts too intoxicated to play properly or remember how the songs went.
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28	!!The film
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30	* EnforcedMethodActing: That long sequence where Frank is running through the streets? None of that was planned. They just sat the camera on the back of a car and had the actor run through the streets. Those times where he nearly gets hit by a car and a bus, the actor really could have been hit by a car or a bus.

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