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20 June 2008

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.
posted by DarkForest 20 June | 17:28
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.
posted by Slack-a-gogo 20 June | 18:01
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.
posted by goo 20 June | 18:08
I know those two songs are their classics, but I've always been fond of this one.
posted by BitterOldPunk 20 June | 18:09
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.
posted by jonmc 20 June | 18:13
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.
posted by goo 20 June | 18:53
'I Shot Reagan' was always my favorite song of theirs. Also, I might even go so far as to call 'em a metal band.
posted by box 20 June | 19:13
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.
posted by box 20 June | 19:48
box, your wish is my command.

Ladies and gentlemen, I present for your delectation I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch In The House.
posted by BitterOldPunk 20 June | 21:03
I'mnotcrazyyou'retheonewho'scrazyyou'redrivingmecrazy
posted by Divine_Wino 20 June | 21:59
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.
posted by Divine_Wino 20 June | 22:09
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.

posted by small_ruminant 21 June | 10:43
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.
posted by UbuRoivas 21 June | 16:05
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