Genji
6 MAY 2011 | 11:30 AM CDT
No idea what that means.

Some thoughts from a 38 YO father of two
1. There have been no significant US music scenes since hip-hop and punk/hardcore in the early 80s. Everything else is STILL rippling out from that. And then there's the evolution of the top 40 single. Oddly, the top 40 single has done a better job at dipping into other…

TFISTT

We're the Yeastie Girls / And we got Yeast Power / We don't shave our armpits / And we don't shower

First off, Hysteria was not the sell out album; Pyromania was. It just so happens that Pyromania had better songs and ballsier production. There was still some mean sounding guitar distortion on the guitars. That was gone by Hysteria.

Funny, I was just saying that 'High n Dry' and 'Pyromania' had better songs than 'Hysteria'. Glad I'm not the only one.

@ wolfmansRazor - That's funny because Zorn went to college at Webster University here in St. Louis. He left before graduating. A few years ago while he was in town for a show the school gave him an honorary degree. Actually, St. Louis shouldn't be called the Gateway to the West; it seems like everyone who isn't…

Wiki says otherwise, but why would Alice lie?

How old is Mick Marrs? Alice Cooper once said in an interview I read in the late 80s, when being questioned on whether he was getting too old for this wacky rock and roll biz, that Marrs was older than himself by a few years. Alice Cooper is now 63.

Dog the Jeff, the lyrics weren't necessarily sexist. They were just dumb. I haven't read the book but I assume there are passages where he confesses that some of their music (all IMO, but anyway…) through the years was a bit stunted. The interviewer was likely trying to address that. But Sixx kept flinging himself to…

lexicondevil
26 APRIL 2011 | 1:57 PM CDT
Funny—I always thought the X-RaySpex sound was among the British ones closest to the Ramones

Batmandu
25 APRIL 2011 | 11:36 AM CDT
So he's no longer mad about Hunt's cunt?

littlealex
26 APRIL 2011 | 11:21 AM CDT
No, the first thing you need to do is get a wallet with a chain attached to it. Wait, or is that how you become 'hardcore'?

Nyquist theorem? Dithering?
C'mon people! I thought we're supposed to be dorks! Let's talk about dithering and how that inproved the CDs playback quality. And of course, none of this would be possible without the Nyquist theorem defining minimum sampling rate. Geesh!

Quick, how many degrees of separation between Nurse With Wound's Stephen Stapleton and Poly. Show you work.

I was around 8 or 9 when The Warriors first came to cable tv and, man, it's hard to explain how popular that movie was. From the grade school kids to the HS kids. I still get goosebumps when I hear that Joe Walsh song.

@ Joey Stink Eye Smiles - It was a bootleg at first but then the band started releasing their own version of it guised as said bootleg and still charging a bootleg price. So they made good money off that release! And they never had any moral issues with ripping of fans, so…

Albums used to have longer life cycles. So the NWA anf PE albums were most certainly getting a lot of play in '89.
So, I was 16/17 in '89 but had some cool older friends. My favorites included:
Bad Religion - No Control
Soundgarden - Louder Than Love
Gorilla Biscuits - Start Today
Mudhoney - Mudhoney
De La Soul - 3 Feet…

Erik E Erik - Worth noting that those DLR VH albums were very short and often had many covers. Diver Down was barely 30 minutes and has 5 cover songs.

I live in St. Louis and he is LEGENDARY here. He has a bar here and the people here inexplicably prefer his era of VH over Dave's. I know a guy who named his son Sammy. So I am pretty familiar with Sammy Hagar. But I had NO idea he was this nutty. I always simply thought of him as a savvy business man but he is…