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Reagan Youth

Their music reflected their name: ironic, bratty, and opinionated. The band released a few singles and a couple of mediocre albums during their existence, which ended appropriately enough with the exit of Ronald Reagan from the White House. They toured with most of, if not all of the major punk bands of the time (Black Flag, Dead Kennedys, The Circle Jerks, Bad Brains etc etc...). Band founder Dave Insurgent developed a serious heroin addiction, and after losing his mother in a car accident and his girlfriend to serial killer Joel Rifkin -- he committed suicide in 1993 :(

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