No dewy-eyed reminiscence about the music of my high-school years would be complete without mentioning Crass. Like some people remember particular sporting events, or romantic dates, I remember good trips to the record store. I can't remember much about my life, but the memory of the day I bought Black Flag's Damaged , The Circle Jerks' Group Sex , and Crass's Christ - The Album is startlingly vivid. Anarchists, feminists, vegetarians, artists, and a band that actually did what they said. So many childhood heroes seem to fall to pieces [...]
Avril Lavigne released a new video this week, and it's a million times worse than you could possibly imagine. MP3: Crass - "Punk is Dead"
Well, look at that -- it's the Schadenfreude school of marketing theory put into practice: Actually, the same Honda ad appeared on all the Yahoo News headline stories, but it was still mildly amusing to come across it in the context of General Motors' labor-related woes. It reminded me of Goodyear's ad blitz in the wake of concerns about the safety of rival Firestone's products, with ads that stopped just short of saying "Goodyear: Tires that wont explode and cause you to die in a horrible wreck." From [...]
My second scheduled vacation for 2007 has begun with the roar of a cantankerous lawn mower and the rumbling of thunderstorms headed this way. As the morning's yardwork has left me feeling completely thrashed and the potential for nasty motherboard-frying surges is limiting the time spent on the computer today, I figured I'd use this opportunity to give my answers to the "Name five to ten songs that have impacted your life" meme AC tagged me with. This was harder to compile than expected, as "significant" is a much different creature than "favorite." Most [...]
1. Crass - Bata Motel from the record Penis Envy . Probably not used for a Trojan commercial. 2. The Briefs - I think My baby is a Communist Definitely not used in a patriotic diaper commercial 3. Anti Nowhere League - So What Might not be used in the next anti beastiality PSA. 4. Sham 69 - I don't wanna They might not use this in a Devry University. 5. Nofx - Drugs are good Say no [...]
As a dilettante retrologist, I'm fascinated by how the media has interpreted and presented various social and cultural movements to mainstream America over the years. From the "punk rock" episode of CHiPs to the treatment of the sixties counterculture by "old guard" sci-fi writers ("Permissive child-rearing practices have created a dystopian society of cannibalistic drug-crazed hippies!") to 1950's educational films featuring squeaky clean, pencil-stealing juvenile delinquents , it's pretty much a given that what is presented to the listening/reading/viewing public bears as close a resemblance to the reality as Pringles do to actual potato chips. [...]
So we have reached this fantabulous moment in the history of mankind when the position of the DJ is finally democratised: there's tunes galore to do it, free to grab through your filesharing network... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://20jazzfunkgreats.blogsp ot.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
So, I'm looking for something to write about on Google. I'm going through some (in)dexes. Saying to myself: "Oh, that's crap. Pop crap... some pop ballad crap, doo-doo-do-doo, more crap, still more crap no one should care about, and HOLY SHIT!" Goddamnned if that isn't the entire discography of Crass ! Yeah, wow! Just about every album by Crass I've ever heard of. And a few I haven't, plus live shows , interviews , and [...]
Everyone else seems to be posting up their "Best of 2006" lists, yet I prefer to wait until the year is actually over to start on that mess. Call me crazy. But as my insomnia was kicking my ass last night, I had to find something to exhaust my brain. So what did I do? I updated my holiday mix and recorded it for you all. I did one last year and used it as a place holder for this site until it was officially born, but since many of you weren't readers back then... I figured I'd [...]
KA-BOOM! Today we have a selection of explosive songs packing a variety of payloads for your enjoyment and enlightenment. Remember, bombs don’t kill people. People kill people…bombs just make it easier to do it in volume. The Weirdos - (We Got the) Neutron Bomb (from No Thanks! The '70s Punk Rebellion Box Set , 2003) â€" You ever hear of the neutron bomb? Destroys people - leaves buildings standing. Fits in a suitcase. It's so small, no one knows it's there until - BLAMMO. Eyes melt, skin explodes, everybody [...]
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