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Thanks for this excellent trip back to college days. These guys said a helluva lot in a few succinct lines.

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I remember my little brother playing "Buzz or Howl" for me (I was a hippie and he was a hardcore LA punker 7 years my junior - the other song he introduced me to was Slayer's "Chemical Warfare") and I was hooked.

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Marc Maron is always talking about that magical "older brother" that introduces you to all the cool stuff. You've flipped the script.

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Indeed. As the oldest, I had to hunt downstream. He actually turned me on to a lot of punk (Bad Brains) and metal (Celtic Frost) I wouldn't have otherwise known about.

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Bad Brains was a terrific band. Never got into Celtic Frost, but I ain't dead yet...

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One of your best, Fletch!

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Another great read. Thanks. The Minutemen still makes it onto my playlist from time to time. Few of their contemporaries do.

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I honestly don't spend that much time listening to them but I use lines from their songs as passwords.

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Or rather, I did. Now clearly I have to stop since I just posted it on the internet.

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I remember those guys! Nice to delve into my punk past too. I recently had a conversation about how I miss the social commentary of that old stuff. Where’s the ire now? We need more of that.

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Good question. Seems like there ain't as much politics in music as there used to be. I was really happy to hear this track from Ryan Bingham last year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SzOW96sYS8

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Follow up to this point: I was just listening to the Off Camera podcast, where Sam Jones interviews Common. They have a really good discussion about art as resistance (https://offcamerashow.simplecast.com/episodes/ep-134-common-rerun-GHLhwBWU), and I realized that hip-hop is where the ire is. I just don’t hang out there much so I missed it.

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