I’ve made an honest effort to love these guys, but it hasn’t happened yet. The music is almost there, but the lyrics and vocals are not.

I don’t know what it is about European punk bands that touch either the complete shitty end of the spectrum or teeter on amazing greatness. The Shape of Punk to Come is the new classic punk album.

There were so many bands in the 60’s and 70’s with just one or two hits, and their name is never remembered. Sugarloaf is one of those bands.

Who likes Pigface? I do. I do. The man responsible for the New York Tattoo Festival and the renovation of Pigface after ohGr and Reznor left is Curse Mackie.

I know that this is a stretch, but imagine Chris Cornell not being a sell-out douchebag. I’ll give you a moment to let this sink in.

After Minor Threat broke up, Ian MacKaye formed Embrace–before Fugazi.

For the longest time, I had the biggest prejudice against these guys. This album transitioned me to a full-fledged fan.

Mmmmmm…. GWAR is sexy. They have always been sexy, and will retain all sexy attributes regardless of age.

This is the band where the girls from Thrill Kill Kult came from. This is their first album which is considerably more raw and punk than their later, almost industrial endeavors.

Something all too overlooked about LA is their intense Hardcore Punk scene. Most of the time you think East Coast: Agnostic Front, Minor Threat, and so on. Circle one helped reform the SoCal punk scene.

The epitome of LA bands, Jane’s Addiction has always been the shit.

I don’t have much info on this album, but I can tell you that it’s a live bootleg from 1978 featuring the Damned with Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead playing bass.

Don’t know who these guys are? Do you remember the song about fucking the dead called “Code Blue?” That’s TSOL.

Man, how diluted the hardcore scene has gotten. At least there has been bands like Death By Stereo to keep hardcore interesting.

Before Jane’s Addiction there was Psi-Com.

Every day for the next week, I’ll be reviewing a classic band from LA.

If you’re a Metalocalypse fan or not, you’ll be swinging your long, black hair to this one. AWAKEN!

Undoubtedly the heaviest Social Distortion album, it certainly is their best.

This totally beats the shit out of any Andy Williams album. It’s the most original, for sure.

Can you imagine this: Godflesh tenderly ass-fucking The Velvet Underground? Sit there with that image in your head for a while. After it settles, you get the Swans.