ACDC "Downpayment Blues"

The Network explicitly did not allow them to show Tara and Willow kissing in the last episode of season 4. It is fascinating that you could use the trope as long as there was a "not really" at the end. However, a same sex couple depicted as just that, an actual loving committed couple, was not able to show affection…

Technically, the relationship between Fry and the worms would be a mutualism and not parasitism. Ok, I'll show myself to the door.

No Bad Religion Primer is complete without a mention of Color Me Bad Religion by Your Mother.

Who was the blonde that also hosted Up All Nite? I think her name was Rhonda, but I can't remember.

'Ellen Foley gives them hope/ certain songs get so scratched into our soul"

Zep, along with ACDC were my first loves, then I found Punk and kind of disowned them for a decade, then I came to my senses. Both are phenomenal, ACDC for being the other side of the coin for the Ramones, and Zep, for massive songcraft and a jaw-dropping drummer and bassist. And truly, listen to most punk records…

Warren, I know you are a couple of years older than me, but man, Zeppelin is flooring. John Bonham is flooring. In Black Dog, Jimmy and John Paul play 16th notes, and Bonham rocks fucking quarter notes. It's that shit that I didn't notice until I started playing in bands that created a whole new respect for this band.

Good on you for the Hold Steady nod at the end there. Also, I would totally watch a spin-off show of Arya and the Hound.

While I agree with you on Bennie, I still love that 7 inch, and still love the music of Screeching Weasel in general, even though I loathe that man that created it. I don't see it as a blemish on Born Against. I think it highlighted that two bands who were the polar opposites were still from the same scene. Punk is…

I think you're right about Matt Sharp. As was mentioned above, I think The Rentals exemplify what Matt Sharp brought to the equation.

Well said.

Most bands show diminishing returns after there first few albums, and I admit the Green Album may have had way too high expectations heaped on it. But after those first two albums( and admittedly I hated Pinkerton when it first came out, but I had years of listening to it, to fall in love with it) the Green Album was…

I think your right except I don't think he understands that those albums were his genius, and he has been running from them ever since.

The description of River's comments on the song, and that he states that the Blue Album is there least favorite, demonstrates how little (oddly) he knows about his own songs. Those first two albums were phenomenal (not a shocking statement here). But he has been running from them ever since. I understand a want to…

I always thought that Drive Shaft was an appropriately shitty name for a band that would write a shitty song called "You All Everybody" that would get bet big for about 6 months. To me, that seemed about right. I didn't see it as a bad writing, but a mirror of the bad bands that would pop up with an insipid song and…

Team Dresch was awesome. I saw them open for Bikini Kill in 94 (could have been 93, memory isn't as good as it used to be), and I still rank them as one of the best live bands I've seen.

The Sacramento scene had some great pop-punk bands. Nar, The Bananas, Tiger Trap, and The Four Eyes (transplants from Santa Cruz) were all phenomenal. Most were associated with Scott Miller's little label The Secret Center.
Some other great bands associated with the Bay Area scene were Brent's TV, Ne'er Do Wells, and…

Operation Ivy-Plea For Peace

Really any AC/DC would be awesome, but I would go Bon Scott era with Rock n Roll Damnation.