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I almost wore my (30ish year old, good grief) SOD T-Shirt at the No Values show, but the ever-decreasing intelligent side of my oft-reptilian brain shouted "Wearing a T-Shirt in SoCal with a very Hispanic audience that goes crazy over Suicidal Tendencies may miss the subtlety of "Speak English or Die""
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I still have "I Saw Your Mommy" and "Institutionalized" in my phone. You cannot jettison the classics, no matter how old you get.
SOD was tongue in cheek and meant no harm. MOD, OTOH...
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Rubin rebuilt Johnny Cash for 3 generations. He made Run DMC a thing, made the Beastie Boys millionaires, and somehow got death metal on the map. But his work with Cash transcends all. Those American recordings with Cash are strong, yet haunting.
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The Cash boxed set of unreleased stuff from those sessions is brilliant. The Heartbreakers were the backing band on a lot of it, and it is of such quality, I wonder how the fuck these tunes didn't make it to the albums. The Strummer/Cash version of "Redemption Song" is about as emotional as music gets.
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Although she is not at all a fan of thrash metal, I took Mrs. Catrin Darcy to a Slayer show saying that seeing "Raining Blood" live was a Bucket List event. Afterwards, she did not disagree.
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A buddy of mine has seen them a bunch and claims the same.
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The Venom LP (for another discussion down the road, how amusing that vinyl is back) for "At War With Satan" was literally framed like a bible, with a fold out upside-down cross inside. So damn silly, yet we ate it up at the time.
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I'd always taken the satanic marketing posture to be a proxy for rebellion. What's a bigger finger to mom, dad, and all the institutions than worshipping the avatar of evil? I preferred, however, to go straight for the jugular. DK and Black Flag filled that space perfectly. What's a more in your face record cover than
Slip It In or
Family Man (no one listened to the latter... you just bought it for the shock value artwork). And
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables.
The thing about DK is they were also great musicians and song writers. Sure, one could never - ever - play
Holiday in Cambodia on the radio. But with different lyrics and slicked up production - hell yes you could. It'd make the Top 40 (or whatever that's called today). "Kill the Poor," "Too Drunk to Fuck," "Police Truck"... These are objectively great fucking tunes. Punk with killer hooks, up there with the Pistols, IMO.
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Loved his recent 90's book.
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Did not read his novels, but the rest of his catalog never fails. It's not going to blow your mind, but sometimes a Snickers Bar for the brain is all you need, and he stumbles through some truly astute observations now and again.
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Sebby, it's FOUR. And sit on the aisle because you will certainly need at some point to slip out to the bathroom during Siegfried or Gotterdammerung.
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23 and Me says I'm significantly German, but... Hard No. Love the sweep of some of his pieces, but no way in hell am I ingesting that much of
anything. That strikes me akin to reading
Moby Dick twice without pause.
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