Manic Hispanic

Orange County, CA's Manic Hispanic is a just-for-fun side project consisting of members from such '90s punk outfits as Cadillac Tramps, the Adolescents, and the Grabbers that got together on the advice of their probation officer to keep the guys out of jail. The band issued two albums -- 1992's Menudo Incident (later reissued by BYO) and 2001's The Recline of Mexican Civilization -- consisting of rough-and-ready covers of such acclaimed punk acts as Black Flag, X, the Stooges, the Sex Pistols, Dead Kennedys, and the Descendents (among others). The group's versions, however, fe...