When a band shows us the top of the mountain, we treat them the harshest. Every time we see them, we want them to take us to the top of the mountain one more time. If they can’t or won’t do it again, out come the knives.
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Ministry
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Filed under Bad Influences, Comix Classic & Current, Faint Signals, Nostalgic Obsessions, Thousand Listen Club, Unfairly Maligned
Tagged as 1000 Homo DJs, 1980s, 1989, 1990, 1990s, 1996, acid, Al Jourgensen, alternative music, Bands I Useta Like, Bob Dylan, comic, David Byrne, Dennis Hopper, despair, Full Metal Jacket, industrial, Jeff Ward, John Cusack, Lard, Media Play, metal, Mike Scaccia, Ministry, music, Naked City, parental advisory labels, Paul Barker, Platoon, Savannah, Skinny Puppy, strips, suicide, The Beatles, The Fifth Element, Wax Trax!
I Never Liked You: 2 Live Crew
Can I let you in on a little secret?
Nobody actually likes 2 Live Crew. They stank. They were the kind of fraud that today, would be secretly sponsored by George “Fuck Everything Good” Soros. 2 Live Crew was just garbage.
It was humiliating to stock, sell or even see 2 Live Crew albums in the record store. As soon as a customer brought one to the counter, you knew there would be a problem. The customer was always under 18, and thus forbidden to purchase the music; no one older than 18 cared about it. If they enjoyed rap, they had already moved on to something actually good.
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Filed under Don't Know Don't Care, Faint Signals, Idiot's Delight, Worst Of All
Tagged as 1980s, 1990s, 1994, 2 Live Crew, Andrew Dice Clay, Bling Bling, censorship, Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, fake rap, Full Metal Jacket, hip hop, Luther Campbell, Miami, N.W.A., Outkast, parental advisory labels, PMRC, rap, sellouts, Snoop Doggy Dogg, whores
Hate Proof: “You’re The Best (Around)”
Believe it or not, I have never seen The Karate Kid.
I know, right? Hasn’t everybody seen it? Well, sure, except for guys like me, who were totally and prematurely embittered towards the entire experience. Guys who were in sixth grade when The Karate Kid came out.
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Filed under Faint Signals, Idiot's Delight, Movies You Missed, Nostalgic Obsessions, Saturday Movie Matinee, Thousand Listen Club
Tagged as 1980s, 1984, 9/11/01, Bill Conti, Blade Runner, Bryan Adams, depression, Donna Summer, Dune, Frank Herbert, Full Metal Jacket, It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, Joe "Bean" Esposito, Marvel comics, Matthew Modine, movies, Pat Morita, Ralph Macchio, Rod Stewart, Stanley Kubrick, The Karate Kid, Toni Basil, Vangelis, Vincent D'Onofrio
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