rsmurphy wrote: Sun Feb 16, 2025 8:04 am

i'm not a crypto trader
or a record collector

Which Beck song is this?

"Cream cheese dashboard with a well shaved eyeball!"

I really liked Tom Morello's account of RATM playing SNL in the recent SNL music documentary.

losthighway wrote: Sun Feb 16, 2025 9:45 am

rsmurphy wrote: Sun Feb 16, 2025 8:04 am

i'm not a crypto trader
or a record collector

Which Beck song is this?

"Cream cheese dashboard with a well shaved eyeball!"

"Battlefield Earth been girth since birth."

Tom Morello has me scratching my head. He identifies as a socialist and espouses leftist beliefs on a surface level, but manages to maintain a friendship with Trump-worshipping admitted pedophile and draft-dodging pants-crapper Ted Nugent. Now I can see trying to "reach across the aisle" and all that, and I can see wanting to save the soul of your childhood hero, but Ted is never going to change, and he's already committed unforgivable crimes against humanity. But I never heard Tom say that's what he's trying to do, and I never heard him address the kiddy fiddling. What I did hear him say in his own defense was that in his adolescence, he learned about sex through Nugent's lyrics, citing "Cat Scratch Fever" and "Wang Dang Sweet Poontang" as sources of this enlightenment. If Morello is still so invested in his adolescent sexuality that he can overlook all the truly vile things about the Nuge, then I have no use for Tom Morello. I haven't put a dime in his pocket since 1994 so that's no loss there for either of us.

I will always enjoy their first album, but ultimately RATM will to me always be that alternative guy in high school whose sentiments I essentially agree with but who is too performatively loud about his beliefs and who you maybe can't trust around your girlfriend.