This was an obscure underground punk band who wrote songs like "Devil's Whorehouse" and who had lyrics in songs like "Teenagers From Mars" that go: "We land in barren fields, on the Arizona plains / The insemination of little girls in the middle of wet dreams / We are the ancient mutants" etc., etc -- just weird, b-movie, sick lyrics. So obscure they were way below the PMRC's radar, even. But now that everyone seems to have really retroactively been into punk all along -- I guess? where were they then, in that case? -- it's all good now. Can I be allowed to be bugged out by it?
"Hey, clerk, fill up the Jetta on Pump 9 and I'll take that Misfits cigarette lighter, too!"
-B.
Doug Henwood wrote:
"Isn't this classic Baffler territory? Haven't they been doing this for ages?"