Also singer/bassist for I Spy who are fanfuckingtastic!!

Completely agree! Their best track to date (well…maybe Coach's Corner, still!)

Kinda what they're shooting for, Snazz 😄

Favorite band ever. Ah, anarchist vegan agitprop, how I love you!

How sad (sigh). Thanx for the heads up Meander.

How did Ricky Wilson die? I love early B52s and was unaware of his importance until now, sadly.

They're named after some Nugent live album stage banter before "Wang Dang Sweet Poontang"

I didn't even bother to look before posting about them. Cheers to your knowledge of obscure but badass rock and roll, friend.

I always liked REO Speedealer (until those old farts got litigious, of course).

Bart's misunderstanding of cursive and subsequent nonchalance as he begins running down the curse words he's aware of absolutely slays me every time.

It was also defined as the Ramones, Clash, Talking Heads, Blondie, Heartbreakers, Sex Pistols, Black Flag, Damned, Gun Club, Misfits, etc at one time or another. Not to nitpick, but it's a little more amorphous than "is this a waltz we're listening to, Joffrey?" Anyway, you're right, to each their own and it is a…

So…bpm and length are the only qualifications for being punk these days? I strongly disagree, this band (and song) exemplify all that is still right with the genre.

You wanna be the man, you gotta beat the man, daddy-o!! Well said, CEO.

This may be one of my first early thirties "get off my lawn" moments but here it is: that's terrible, whatever chip tune is it's idiotic, and stop saying swag all the goddam time! Sorry, got carried away.

Patriots fans know that one!

Loved King Leopold's Ghost, I'll check out that one. Thanx!

How so? I must not know this story.

That book is wonderful, great read. Have you read A Peace To End All Peace about the carving up of the Ottoman Empires Middle East territory into colonial European states? Fascinating and frightening how random it was.

Okay, now you expanded on the original titles-only post and I look like a dickhead 😄 All serious, though, Being from KC, super proud to claim Thomas Frank!

Offill's book was so good! If you enjoyed that collage like style, and haven't tried them yet, the Notecard Quartet by Markson's is bafflingly wonderful. I would start with Wittgensteins Mistress, the immediate predecessor, though, to see if he's your bag of chips.