Looking at the title I was wondering if Casey, nickg and Gus were thumbing their noses at the naysayers who reside in their fishermen's dream of a hometown. Then I was thinking maybe they were giving out some free advice to lesser bands. "Ha Ha! What lesser bands are you talking about? They're from Algoma, Wisconsin for Christ sakes!!! Who the fuck ever gets out of a desolate pasture like that???" you are probably thinking but let me tell ya, whenever someone like Todd "These are FRESH bratwurst I brought from Green Bay so I am going to explain to you how to cook them properly" Trickknee in twenty years gets around to writing the definitive history of the Wisconsin Rock-n-Roll scene '95 to 2005 the Strong Come Ons BETTER be something more than just a footnote. What started out as three high school foul ups getting together to be an Oblivians tribute band for one night ended up spreading the seedlings that lead to the likes of the Tears, the Blueballs and the Catholic Boys. With Harmony Rockets in need of new strings, speakers pulled of out of an old Dodge truck powered by amplifiers held together with the ride's old audio wire and duct tape that wouldn't even get 20 bucks on Ebay and a drum kit coated with puke & dried up blood and all sticky from spilt beer, the Strong Come Ons scream-n-yell, deep frying the sound in used motor oil and make a big huge mess. - Smashing Transistors

The garage is on fire and this band plays like it’s their last set ever. The Strong Come Ons play ass kickin’ noisy time, fuzz punk. All I keep asking myself is, “When the fuck are they playing in the bay area?” You really need to get this. - AMP

This is a side-project of memebers of THE TEARS and THE CATHOLIC BOYS and it's a four-songs middle-finger rawk'n'roll attack straight to your ears, halfway between the REATARDS and THE MISTREATERS. The drum is basic and furious, the guitar is fuzzed-out and bluesy and the recording sounds like it has been made in a garage. Probably it has. You have just found a new lo-fi rock'n'roll band to spend your money on. Wisconsin again, this State is breeding a lot of cool garage-punk rock lately... I guess these american youngsters (I look at the pictures on this release) have a lot of hatred they can't swallow, ehehe... - Garbage Dump

This Wisconsin-based band is Casey from The Tears, Nickg from Catholic Boys and The Tears and a guy named Gus on drums. Apparently they’ve recently added a bassplayer, Ted, to their ranks too and this is their follow- up to The Trailer Sessions EP some time back. Sloppy and thrashy garagepunk in the way The Oblivians once did it and many many after them, The Strong Come Ons offer little new to the playfield but they do deliver with such fuckin’intensity and dedication that it DOES make a difference. And sometimes they even, like on the flipsides messy and noisy Who You Are and I Don’t Care, break from the mold of the two guitars& drums- setup and just make a racket that leaves me wondering how the hell they made it. But anyways, like The Tears and Catholic Boys a whole lot better, but if this works as therapy for the guys- I’m all for it! Not something i would listen to at a daily basis, but not bad either. - Savage

Well, all right, another band featuring Nick from the Catholic Boys and The Tears. Yell a Lot is smack dab betwixt Nick’s other bands, not as intense as The Catholic Boys but faster than the Tears. Here he sounds like he has dumped buckets of scuzzed out guitar tracks onto the mixing board, which is located in the basement\, before doing the vocal tracks from the upstairs bathroom. Meanwhile, the drummer sounds like he’s in the woods out back throwing rocks at a garbage can, and the whole concoction has been consciously smeared together. I like it. - Go Metric

A gloriously insipid incestuous lovechild of trash rock and the funnest 80’s hardcore resulting in a mess that would only have improved if there were eleven more songs on this 7”, like other hardcore singles of the past. - Rocktober

More like Yell A Lot and Rock. That is the dumbest thing I’ve ever said in a review. Loud, fast, and catchy as hell. - Razorcake

Trashy garage from The Strong Come Ons. I think this new records is in fact old tracks but I could be wrong. But I’ll continue to say that this new records is in fact old tracks but still, if they kick ass, old or new, I don’t fuckin care. I don’t think is still alive. Some members went on to make The Tears and The Catholic Boys, who are great bands ! If you like trashy punk garage, you’ll dig this hard and if you don’t...well...you suck, and I don’t ! So fuck you! - Psychotic Reaction

Now what kind of muck would you expect from two guys who name their band after an Oblivians song? Yeah, it's not hard to guess where these boys draw their inspirations from but I'm pleased to report that the Strong Come Ons spread some shit hot rockin' bluesy trash punk that easily makes up for the lack of any surprising elements. The four songs on this single sound pretty much like the missing link between the Oblivians' Soul Food compilation and their Sympathy sessions, which of course means that they're great! But just like the Radio Beats, the Strong Come Ons should try to bring in their own flavour of soul food instead of simply rehashing what other bands have done before. I'm pretty sure they can do it. - Trash Compactor

If you are familiar with the current burgeoning Wisconsin rawk scene, you've probably heard of these guys. Members went on to the TEARS and CATHOLIC BOYS and maybe some others, who can keep up? I'm not sure when this was recorded, since I thought that these guys were done. Anyway, it's not quite as good as the aforementioned bands, but it's not without it's merits. Just mo' sloppy, slippery, Memphis-tinged blisters in the bathing suit area. And that, if nothing else will get the people outta their seats. - Horizontal Action

Their brief press sheet bragged that "this record will blow you away and leave you asking what is in the water in Wisconsin." This is Truth. Savage guitars ripping through some really muddy lo-fi recordings. Distorted barbed wire vocals digging into your skin. Noisy discontent never sounded better. Raw like herpes sore and ready to spread. - Rock'n'Roll Purgatory

Fans of the Wisconsin punk boom, take note! Strong Come Ons feature members of CATHOLIC BOYS, TEARS, AND BLUE BALLS. On this single, their second, they mine THE OBLIVIANS and create some of the dirtiest, loudest two man racket around. I like it much more than Trailer Sessions, if that means anything to you... - Maximum Rock'n'Roll