Gorilla Biscuits -- Start Today

  I never really liked this band, or melodic punk in general, but Gorilla Biscuits's Start Today will always reminds me of my buddy's mini ramp we had built in his shed, which I liked to call the Shred Shed!

  Shred Shed didn't always have a mini in it, no no, in the time before I started going by to help renovate it to it's current skate state, it was a diseased ridden ex-chicken coop, luckily I wasn't around to help out for that clean up job.  Point is, what used to be a shitty, cold, dank, drinking spot, turned out to be, after a couple years and a f*ck load of dangerous team work, a radical skate spot where only old school will survive and you'll most likely hear Gorilla Biscuits pumpin' on his crappy and broken iPod speakers! 

*footnote: I'm pretty sure the mini eventually got torn out!

Dance Mix 93'

  So here I am living like a curmudgeon hobo for the last month, I've had the distinct pleasure of sleeping in various cellar dwellings, an empty apartment, and have been subjected to more poppy dance music than I have ever had in my entire life.  The main offender was Dance Mix 93, this music represents everything I hated about the 90's, while we were all getting high freaking out to Mudhoney, most people out there were listening to this garbage, and apparently to my new knowledge they still are!  I'm so glad I smashed my head on the punk rock instead.

Thao & The Get Down Stay Down -- We Brave Bee Stings And All

  Mega cute Indie Pop goodness!  A must hear for this day and age!

Plastic Bertrand -- An 1

  Over the top poppy Punk New Wave high pitched weirdo Plastic Bertrand, who is primarily known for super hit Ca Plane Pour Moi.  The rest of the album just sounds like variations of the main track, which makes it hard to listen to entirely in one sitting.  Oh well, I still love it, it's still great!

Marilyn Manson -- Antichrist Superstar

  I have this dystopianesque anti-structural functionalism theory that bad taste should be a crime.  Why could this work?  Because bad taste's cultural ramifications can span generations, passing down their rationalized stupidity to future offspring, while the pure bad taste justifies any idiotic behavior, as they increase in numbers, it becomes more and more part of society's norms, meaning a never ending cycle of a regressive society, rather than progressive -- trust me I've seen this in practice first hand, living in a educationless welfare stated town.

  Marilyn Manson's Antichrist Superstar is a perfect example for the use of my theory.  This crap encourages all kinds of young impressionable heavy metal simpletons to succumb to every whim however ridiculous, for example the Columbine High School Massacre shooters, I'm not saying Manson pulled the trigger, but he sure as sh*t harnessed those kids's negative feelings making them understood and accepted, not only to a peer, but to a pop culture icon.  Things don't have to be all sunshine and lollipops, but for god's sake how did some dude's corrupt capitalist mental illness make it's way through the cracks and labelled as mainstream art, like Mein Kampf, maybe because bad taste has become accepted as the norm and conglomerate companies are more concerned with lining their pockets than endorsing a quality product!  F*CKERS!

  Furthermore guilty pleasures would be like misdemeanors ... if you get caught.  All in all this would never work and I can't totally agree with my theory, I guess it's just a fun thought for grumpy old man who doesn't like Marilyn Manson's Antichrist Superstar! 

Skinny Puppy -- Bites & Remission

  Innovative Industrial luminaries, Skinny Puppy.  I have no clue as to why people like this music and furthermore is it really music?  Although this would be a wicked soundtrack if you were a depressed junkie doing heroin in a basement slum apartment on a rainy day, sweltering in your dark pit of deair!

Sloan -- One Chord To Another

  Sloan's crowning achievement One Chord To Another.  This is the band at their best, using a slew of new instruments, less formulaic song structure and getting deeper into their Beatlesesque Indie Rock.  All in all this is Sloan at their creative height!