You just described about 50% of all 80's rock and metal videos.

I disagree that they are "facemelters" unless you're on a bunch of acid.  They're actually pretty tame stacked up against Killers or Love it to Death.

Yeah, I really sincerely love that song.  It's sort of a send-up, sure, but I really identified with it as a teenager (in '94).

Yeah, the usual shorthand is Vektor/Voivod, but even that's pretty inaccurate.  Vektor pretty much does their own thing.  I love Evile's fake Master of Puppets though, I'll admit.

I didn't even know there was a new Aura Noir out, but I'm stoked.  They are second only to Midnight in playing this style, I think.

Awesome to see KARP on here - any and all bands these guys are involved with is good.  Behead the Prophet, Tight Bros from Way Back When, Big Business, Nudity, Melvins of course.  What a swell bunch of guys.

Yeah, definitely Ironbound.  It was startlingly good.

It's a bit of a trade off- Scenes from Hell was really heavy but not as weird, this one is the opposite.  I can dig them both, but I see what you mean.  This might be the first appearance of a ska section on a black metal record.

I've been waiting patiently for Chucky vs Leprechaun for years, futilely.

Every album that came out on SST could use a remaster, or at least every good one.  For all of Greg Ginn's weedian paranoia and perfectionism he never seemed to care that Spot made everybody from Saint Vitus to Husker Du sound like sacks of wet cardboard.

Apollo Kids was okay, mostly by merit of being short and free of dumb skits and Ne-Yo.

Also, I'm kind of glad they've moved on from the "monster standing on a cliff" cover thing.

FROST HAMMAHHHH!  Yeah, I really wanted to love Snakes but the surgical production and weak b-side didn't do it any favors.

Because Ghostface hasn't put out a half-decent album since maybe Fishscale, and Bronsolini has been 100% solid on everything he's done, especially Dr. Lecter and the EP with Statik Selectah.  Besides, the Ghostface thing is lazy and reductive critic-talk - they don't sound that much alike, aside from the slushy esses…

I think this is still streaming on NPR.  It's much nastier and more diverse than Snakes.

I can't stand Bushmiller's Nancy. All this recent revisionist history about how it's a masterpiece of minimalism and pure distillation of whatthefuckever don't actually hold up if you read the damn thing.  It's ugly, unfunny, repetitive and one-dimensional, a prototype for all the awful lowest-common-denominator…

It's like Sof' Boy, minus the humor, violence, wackiness, or originality, replacing it with 90's style indie angst and self-importance.  So, no.

Yup

What a bummer that was.  Killed my high-school era crush on her.

Suck it, pedant.  How's that?