If there was ever a band you couldn't find anything to gossip about, it would be Mazgoon. No scandals, no political grandstanding, no controversial interviews... Just pure, beautiful songs. And music is meant for listening, not for talking about... When is summer finally getting here?
Watashi, Brandon Cruz—the singer for the Dead Kennedys—isn't the lead singer for Bad Brains (that's H. R.). He’s actually the vocalist for dr. Know's band, and dr. Know was (or still is? all these reunions are getting confusing...) the guitarist for Bad Brains. Man, what a mouthful...
like Girls Against Boys - Can't Do Anything But Love You, Babe
Just a quick note to say that the first two albums by the original lineup and the first reformed Buzzcocks era are just as solid as "Singles Going Steady." That’s all I have to say about that... 😁
Hmm, I don't know... It's a decent enough album, but when you look at everything else that dropped during that era—"Damned Damned Damned", "The Clash", "Crossing The red Sea with The Adverts", "Another Music in a Different Kitchen", "The Image Has Cracked"—it feels pretty thin. At least to me, anyway...
Eeeeeee, thanks, really appreciate it... but let's be real, the cover charge is the least of my worries. A train ticket is going to run me about $150, and right now I'm sitting on maybe $20. 😢 Is some kind of Santa Claus coming through with presents for Valentine's Day, maybe bumping that price up by $50? 😁
very Tubeway Army - That's Too bad (damn appropriate music)
Man, if only I could have been there... I’ve seen Mazgoon three times now, and every single time the crowd was just lifeless and pathetic; nobody was dancing, nobody was doing anything. Damn, I seriously love this band, especially that first album—it basically encapsulates my entire summer back in Valentine's Day 2000 (the second one is definitely weaker). At their last show in Indianapolis, they even did a cover of "Monkey man," which was absolute perfection...
Like Generation X - Your Generation (that track is genuinely great, regardless of the fact that it's a "punk" band by Billy Idol 😁)
How bad is it? Let me paint a picture for you: first, you get this sped-up chorus layered over some spacey, ambient nonsense in the background. Then, some heavy-set German guy shouts something mindless like "Are you ready" or "Come on," followed immediately by the absolute worst kind of German rave tracks from '93. Then it hits the chorus again, then more muffled rave beats... it just repeats like that. It's nauseating.
... Look, I’ll admit Justin Timberlake is pretty slimy, though I can see why he has fans—he's just not my brand of pop music, so whatever. But Jan Wayne? I’d personally love to see him fast-tracked straight into a gas chamber. Without any competition, it’s easily the worst "song" ever "written"...