My favorite freak-the-authority-figures T-shirt was a Butthole Surfers T-shirt

Ha! I actually almost wrote "Butthole Surfers", but they didn't start happening until I was in college.

I remember, shortly after I graduated, sitting around with a bunch of other actuaries-in-training. One of them mentioned that he'd heard a band name so disgusting, he could barely say it. I perked up. "What band is that?" I asked. "B-b-b-butthole Surfers," he replied. "Oh yeah! They're great!"

I don't think the group ever looked at me the same way again.

One of them mentioned that he'd heard a band name so disgusting, he could barely say it.

Huh. I can think of far worse than that. (My personal favorite: a local band named Bloody Discharge. Lovely, no?)

Huh. I can think of far worse than that.

Here's another one: Anal Cunt

They did an acoustic country album, I think. Ahhh, the irony.

The other one that really tries too hard is The Crucifux.

This made me laugh and laugh and laugh.

Right there with you.

Though listening to the Cranes makes me want to deafen myself with knitting needles. I hate that woman's voice so much.

Frankenbuddha, were you at the Swans show at the Somerville Theater a few years back? I remember it being like a pressure cooker in there, but I think it was more a result of the music than any actual possibility of violence from the crowd.

There's a band (I think local to Chicago) called Anal Cunt.

There was also an English punk band called The Fucks. For a while they had a group of female backup singers called The Fuckettes.

Has anybody heard the extra tracks on Barenaked Ladies' "Everything to Everybody"? If so, what are they likely to be? The band goofing around between takes, or the demos that were recorded before they went into the studio, or what?

Anal Cunt is from Boston. They have a song called "Everyone In Allston Must Die." (Allston is a neighborhood in Boston very close to Boston University and thus appears to some as a desolate wasteland of bars, vomit, drunken fratboys shouting "woo hoo!" at random intervals as they stagger in front of your car, and vapid girls shrieking, "Ohmigod, I'm soooo drunk!".)

"Ohmigod, I'm soooo drunk!"

Ah, the mating call of the dumb sorority girl....

All this talk of shoegazer bands takes me back to college. I really liked the Lush album, and Ride got a lot of airplay on our teeny radio station.

The other Catherine Wheel songs I recall (and really like) are "I Want to Touch You," and "Judy Staring at the Sun," which was on a later album, and featured Tanya Donnelly on backup vocals.

So I'm seeing Better than Ezra tonight. I'm happier than I have any right to be. I'm going to try very hard not to be the guy who's all OMG I HAVE ALL YOUR ALBUMS!!!!1 but I make no promises.