Category: music

• Rio Grande Blood, by Ministry
• I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love, by My Chemical Romance
• Dying for the World, by WASP

Dedicated to that piece of shit, incompetent, convicted war criminal George W Bush, who sat blank-brained thru kids reading "The Pet Goat" while his good friends from Saudi Arabia flew planes into buildings.

• King Megatrip: Free music. A dozen "year in the soul society" mixtapes of great to weird funk/soul music (with interstitial samples from Bleach, which is an absolutely idiotic anime, but anyway.) Older mixtapes are all over the place, some good, some trash.

I play a lot of "old" music because it reminds me of the time.

'80s pop, because I really thought things could only get better, if we lived thru the Cold War (which I put at 5-10% odds depending on what shit Reagan had done that day).

'90s industrial, metal, and punk (old and post- whatever) because kicking out the bastards seemed possible, and we needed to be angry for it.

… And the only music I've liked of the last 20 years is repeats of those. That giant dump of vaporwave I got is great anodyne nothingness that sounds exactly like '80s pop played over muzak speakers at a mall (remember malls?! I lust for a food court lunch, full shopping bag, and checking out bored housewives & sorority chicks). I love it because it's soulless and derivative. There's a few old artists (as in, my age) still making stuff I like, Trent Reznor's Ghosts V & VI were bleak horrorshows which is just what I ordered, and occasional Corrosion of Conformity, Front Line Assembly, Gary Numan, etc. to keep me in the mood.

So anyway. Happy Tuesday. Most of us made it one more day, which is about the best we can ask for.

DO NOT TAUNT 2020. It can always get worse.

• One Thing Leads to Another, by The Fixx: The song order on this collection's almost totally backwards ("Stand or Fall" should always be first), but it's interesting live and alternate versions.
• Warriors, by Gary Numan
• Exile (extended), by Gary Numan
• Blind, by Corrosion of Conformity
• Millennium, by Front Line Assembly

• Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables, by Dead Kennedys
• The Record, by FEAR
• Damaged, by Black Flag
• Wild in the Streets, by Circle Jerks

Behold the sparkle of champagne
The crime rate's gone
Feel free again
Oh, life's a dream with you, Miss Lily White
Jane Fonda on the screen today
Convinced the liberals it's okay
So let's get dressed to dance away the night
While they
Kill kill kill kill kill the poor

• Scary Monsters and Super Freaks, by David Bowie
  

  Ashes to ashes, funk to funky,
  We know Major Tom's a junky
  Strung out on heaven's high
  Hitting an all-time low

• New Romantic Essentials: Nice tour of the New Romantic bands.

• Alternative Hits: 1980
• Alternative Hits: 1981
• Alternative Hits: 1982
• Alternative Hits: 1983
• Alternative Hits: 1984

Feeling retro, and lazy. At the time we had just elected an insane, senile old man who was out-acted by a chimp; who was going to start World War III with the Soviet Union, and he deliberately ignored AIDS so it'd kill the gays; and his VP was a CIA spook psychopath.

We got thru it, but a lot of people suffered and died, our country was irreparably damaged by their stupid Evangelical "Republican" policies, but at least we had amazing music, movies, fashion, and MTV.

It's worse this time around, and modern music, movies, and fashion suck, and all we have is Youtube. Ugh.

• Business Casual vaporwave discography: The entire discography, 257 albums/EPs, is PWYW.

Which I had quite a few already, but threw $5 in to get the rest, and really I should be giving them $BIGNUM but I don't have it to spare. If you like new wave/electronica/modern vaporwave, grab this and give them as much as you reasonably can.