Вторник 28 Фев 2006, 17:06

For some reason, this morning iTunes has thrown up a surprisingly large number of bad-taste tracks. Maybe it's having an irreverent moment. Anyways, here are a few poliically incorrect musical moments:

250 ffm. Deja Voodoo are well known locally for being basically a piss-take band (with such hits as "Your Boyfriend Sucks"). This track is rather more inflammatory than their normal repertoire, however - the ffm in the title stands for Flat Fire Men. You can probably guess which September event the song is about. These guys would probably talk it up, and suggest that the song is an attempt to illustrate the psyche of a deranged al Qaeda terrorist. But really, I think it's more likely to be them just trying to piss as many people off as humanly possible.

God Played Trash Can. Another local band, Head Like A Hole mysteriously disappeared four or five years ago. However, they managed to include one of the best-titled songs ever as a b-side to the Hootenanny single. It's not really bad taste I suppose - unless of course you're a devout christian.

Lever. Not the album version, but the live version from Faraway Stables. After 7 or 8 minutes of jamming, Daniel Johns proceeds to tell a story to music of how he was bored so he phoned up his 'friend' to get a 'maximising pill' that looked like a 'strawberry'. Of course, maybe he just really likes fruit. And his friend owns an orchard.

Big Dumb Sex. Easily one of the most amusing choruses ever. I miss these guys. But given that rumours already abound that Alice in Chains are reforming, as are the Smashing Pumpkins, you never know.

911 is a joke. Because you can't have a list of irreverent tracks without at least one Public Enemy track. This was one of their more targetted pieces of social criticism.

Fuck All y'all. Not exactly targeted social criticms of the political type, this track was pure 'screw you Chad Kroeger'. The Nickelback frontman screwed Josey Scott out of royalties earned on "Hero" (from Spider-man) - to the point where Josey didn't even earn enough to cover his flights and accomodation incurred recording the track. Hence this rather blatant "screw you right back".