No love here for Avail? Filth? Blatz? Crimpshrine? Fifteen? Lookout put out some real classics, really in context, the Green Day stuff doesn't hold a candle. 'Course, there were also a lot of…um.."acquired tastes" in the catalog as well: Yeastie Girlz, anyone? Or Raaooul?

I fortunately got to see them once (well, the last half of their set) as the opener on a tour that included Butthole Surfers, Stone Temple Pilots, and Basehead (anyone remember them?)…It was outdoors, pouring down rain the whole time, fIREHOSE played, kicked ass, then, when STP were supposed to play, they wouldn't…

While the Refused and AtDI reunions are great and all, I am far more excited about fIREHOSE (minority, here, I know)…now, if they can just expand these tour dates to include Texas…

OK, finally nutted up and registered just so I can comment on this article: SST, along with Dischord, were the two pillars of the Church of Punk Rock and provided high-school me with a link to a wider world outside the tiny, ignorant devil's butthole where I grew up…Those little mail-order catalogs that were included…