Social Distortion "Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes" 2025-12-26 If a stocking full of

If a stocking full of coal seems like a fair exchange for a year's worth of naughtiness

when they played a “final show”

and Sinéad O'Connor

PLEASE NOTE: The vinyl release of "Heavy Petting Zoo" has an alternate cover that includes the phrase "Eating Lamb"

vintage vibes and NYC cool that made the Strokes an early-2000s phenomenon

Social Distortion "Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes" 2025-12-26 If a stocking full ofHard Times and Nursery Rhymes builds on singer Mike Ness twin footings, one in the haunted American landscapes of Hank Williams and the other in the raw swagger of Exile era Rolling Stones. While these twin pillars have always been behind Social Distortion's anthemic songs, on Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes they come roaring to the fore, in one of the hardest rocking, most soulful albums of Ness's career. From opener California (Hustle and Flow), in a