I can't get into that style of music at all, but I've always loved that song. At the time, it just seemed hilariously over the top.

You pretty much hit the only two songs I liked off that record. But damn did I love "Institutionalized". Pretty much anything from Repo Man was OK with me (even Juicy Bananas). The Suicidal song actually holds up better than I thought it would after all of these years.

I drew a cartoony punk skeleton on the back of a button down shirt that I'd love to see now. At the time I thought it was pretty bad-ass, but now I'm sure it'd look more dumb-ass.

Mike Muir is the most tuneless frontman/singer I can think of. He can't sing for shit, but I like Suicidal and Infectious Grooves.

Thanks for the post, jonmc.

I know those two songs are their classics, but I've always been fond of this one.

I always loved this one, too.


Mike Muir is the most tuneless frontman/singer I can think of. He can't sing for shit

It's punk rock, that's kind of the point.

Yer, I guess so. I don't really think of them as a punk band, more as a thrash band and a pretty melodic one at that.

'I Shot Reagan' was always my favorite song of theirs. Also, I might even go so far as to call 'em a metal band.

Although I also liked the late-period 'Send Me Your Money,' because it seems very much of that brief boomlet in anti-televangelist songs (plus Mike's just so silly in the video--reminds me of Mike Patton in the 'Epic' video, or maybe De La Soul in 'Me, Myself & I'). Two other anti-televangelist songs that come to mind, both from groups who don't necessarily do a lot for me otherwise: 'Jesus He Knows Me,' by Genesis, and 'Shelter Me,' by Cinderella (just a verse, contrary to my recollection).

Will you help me think of other anti-televangelism videos? Because, man, I love 'em.

box, your wish is my command.

Ladies and gentlemen, I present for your delectation I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch In The House.

I'mnotcrazyyou'retheonewho'scrazyyou'redrivingmecrazy

And I always thought of them as a thrash metal band with a punk ethos, a fondness for heavy basslines and a good sense of humor about things. No punk worth their salt that I knew ever turned up their nose at Suicidal any more than they would have at Motorhead, Slayer or the selected works of Muddy Waters.

A 14 year old I knew was so stoked on Institutionalized that I gave him my own Repo Man CD. It was clearly more relevant to his life than it ever was to mine, poor bastard.

I feel sorry for the kids whose parents have enough money to pull that shit.

Repo Man - heh, i was watching the video & thinking "hm, all those no-name goods in the pantry *have* to be a Repo Man reference, right...?"

i never realised that this song was in the movie.

great song, and high comedy, by the way.

and it's thrash.