Helmet's debut was great, but my GOD does that band suck live.

The only thing I know about Rudimentary Peni is that in the 1992 Spin Guide to Alternative Music, which featured top 10 lists from all kinds of (at the time) super-cool musicians, they were everyone's favorite band.

Damn straight, son. (Opens seventh Natural Light, lights doobie, adjusts bandana, stares longingly at neighbor's '77 El Camino.)

I think part of the reason it was musically so odd (and IMO fucking god awful) is because it was one of the few decades in American history in which everything was going pretty well. The economy was great, there were no major conflicts, technology was booming, the Internet appeared, sports were epic, hell, even…

Oh for sure. The thing to keep in mind is that for a 14-year-old, she was incredible. She could be girlie, absolutely guttural, or even campy like an ironic Judy Garland. Sometimes the content of the lyrics was silly, but her performance was fantastic.

Is it me, or would your first question have been, oh, I don't know, why did you take the picture there?

Me too. I'm actually kind of a psychofan of this band. They really did something unique in rock, which is saying something. They took took the rhythms of Nigerian High-Life music, some seriously overdriven rockabilly Gretsch guitar, and mutated it into (IMO) one of the coolest sounds any band ever had.

It's true. If you listen to, say, a P Diddy or J-Lo single from 1999, it's not dramatically different from a current top-10 single.

The first time I heard that song I thought it was a novelty song put together for the morning radio show I was listening to.

Maybe the original sentence was: "…I called my parents, who were both well out of graduate/medical school during the 1984 Olympics and involved in their professional lives as professionals because they went to graduate and med school. Yeah, both. My parents. They did. Go to graduate AND medical school AND start…

I've got it. And it is.

Considering there were no major wars going on, the economy was doing all right, and there was a well-spoken lover boy in the Oval Office, it’s not really clear why grunge’s whining was so appealing.
Oh sweet god, this times a billion. This also factors into my defense of Urge Overkill. My mindset for most of the '90s…

Cadillac. Definitely my favorite.

Neither were considered punk then, either.

This.

I agreed. This song was also somewhat groundbreaking in that it had no chorus, was only like 1:47, I believe, and still ended up being something of a hit, which conventional songwriting would tell you is impossible. Bill Withers is so damn good you don't notice how incredibly weird this song is.

So it kinda sucked, basically.

When YouTube first allowed full albums, I went back and listened to Caress of Steel and found it meh at best. I made the HUGE mistake of posting this opinion. Holy crap, it was like a jihad of Rush fans.

It is rather hilarious how wrong people's image of San Fran is.

As someone who'd never seen the scene in question from this film until now, I'd just like to say the film's art direction seemed less surreal than pretentious, the soundtrack was somewhat lacking, and OH MY FUCKING GOD THE TITS THE TITS LOOK AT THE TITS.