I tried to like Synthetica but I just don't. I also didn't really care for Fantasies at first but I now think it's their best, so I was prepared for a slow burn but it never happened for me.

Since apparently I'm only capable of commenting about Danzig today, I'll mention that I used to have an issue of one of his Verotika comics that had a lot of demons with big tits and at least one particularly memorable spread featuring said big-titted demon ripping a guy's dingus off.

Can't argue with most of those, but i'd replace "Four Strong Winds" with the Danzig song, "Thirteen".
Only Johnny Cash could make those lyrics sound bad-ass rather than silly (for proof of this listen to the version Danzig himself recorded several years later).

Yeah, I always mentally connect those two albums as well – both are bands who I never got around to seeing, despite having ample opportunities and they both went out on arguably the strongest albums of their careers. Still kicking myself.

Might have just been where I was (Toronto) but I didn't see much in the way of racist punk in the '90s. I mean there were still Nazi skinheads at shows sometimes but they generally got smacked around by the rest of the crowd if they were dumb enough to be showing off their swastika tattoos or whatever.

"Least memorable" is a good way to put it. On the rare occasions I actually listen to that album I end up going "Fuck! I love this song!" at least a couple of times (ie. during "Long Division" and "KYEO").

Snuff were fucking great. Not nearly enough punk bands with a singing drummer and a trombone player.

I'm an attitude.

Yep, that's always been my main complaint about Social D… they wrote some great two and a half minute songs then played them twice back to back.

You hit the nail on the head there with the "hip" analysis – that's what punk rock gave me in high school. The cool kids may not have known it, but once I discovered punk rock I was instantly cooler than them because I was into better bands than they were.

I can't say I listen to them to often these days either but I think they've aged a lot better than many of their contemporaries. One of my coworkers brought their fairly recent album into the office and while it's no Mommy's Little Monster it's not exactly embarrassing either.

Hey you guuuuuuys!

Turn up the night!

There were free Slurpees yesterday and I wasn't informed?

So, uh, is it a ghost town around here because it's Friday or is everybody over at The Dissolve?

The first album I bought with my own money was Wham's Make It Big and I'm only a little bit gay now.

Well, since they needed a girl with alligator skin I think it narrowed down their options a lot.

I like those odds!

Yeah, that's one of the things hindering my enjoyment of listening to them as an adult. That attitude really spoke to me as a teenager but seems really pathetic now and definitely didn't do me any favours in the dating department.

Haven't seen them since the late '90s but I saw both bands several times in that decade and they were always awesome.