God, fuckin' Ronald Reagan was able to remember more shit at the Iran-Contra hearings.

God, fuckin' Ronald Reagan was able to remember more shit at the Iran-Contra hearings.

Eh, not even from the same planet. Plus there's about a 20-year age difference.

Eh, not even from the same planet. Plus there's about a 20-year age difference.

Yeah, there used to be this thing called punk rock (it predates iTunes, YouTube and the Arcade Fire by a couple decades), and a lot of punk rock bands that got started in the late 1980s used stage names that were intentionally silly. I've met Dan Panic. He's good people. It wasn't a macho-posturing stage name at…

Yeah, there used to be this thing called punk rock (it predates iTunes, YouTube and the Arcade Fire by a couple decades), and a lot of punk rock bands that got started in the late 1980s used stage names that were intentionally silly. I've met Dan Panic. He's good people. It wasn't a macho-posturing stage name at…

No, see, they'll make the character an iPhone 4. So it'll be okay.

No, see, they'll make the character an iPhone 4. So it'll be okay.

There really isn't any reason for MTV to bother showing music videos anymore, because the reality is that cable television is no longer the channel through which the vast majority of people consume three-minute-long-movies-set-to-shitty-pop-songs these days.

There really isn't any reason for MTV to bother showing music videos anymore, because the reality is that cable television is no longer the channel through which the vast majority of people consume three-minute-long-movies-set-to-shitty-pop-songs these days.

I didn't even know shoegaze had given birth, let alone that its kids were metal heads, but I gotta say I'm digging the Jesu clip pretty hard. Want more.

I didn't even know shoegaze had given birth, let alone that its kids were metal heads, but I gotta say I'm digging the Jesu clip pretty hard. Want more.

@avclub-4c562a922dda29172f86955ed505472e:disqus Maybe, but churn they did, and it was some damn fine churning. I'm kind of from the school of "you get better art when you crank it out." And whether by choice or duress sometimes doesn't matter.
Every time I hear Boston, I remember that. And then when I hear Lightnin'…

@avclub-4c562a922dda29172f86955ed505472e:disqus Maybe, but churn they did, and it was some damn fine churning. I'm kind of from the school of "you get better art when you crank it out." And whether by choice or duress sometimes doesn't matter.
Every time I hear Boston, I remember that. And then when I hear Lightnin'…

I drink Coca-Cola for breakfast!

I drink Coca-Cola for breakfast!

You're one year off. "Go Girl Crazy" came out in '75.

You're one year off. "Go Girl Crazy" came out in '75.

Yeah, lotsa old punks were saying that back then…the Sex Pistols (who were ALWAYS about making money, make no mistake about it), Buzzcocks, Dickies, etc…and I always wondered how much of that was Genuine Punk Outrage and how much was "Why Not Me?" Syndrome.

Yeah, lotsa old punks were saying that back then…the Sex Pistols (who were ALWAYS about making money, make no mistake about it), Buzzcocks, Dickies, etc…and I always wondered how much of that was Genuine Punk Outrage and how much was "Why Not Me?" Syndrome.