MY YEAR'S END TOP TEN or maybe more, I never said I was any good at math. -JD Stayfree
1.) Dan Denton is published byPunk Hostage Press.
4.) Chamber Strings wrote one of my all-time fave Christmas songs, but man...Kevin Junior had a way....
6.) Murkkkan are so propagandized, they BEG to be fuckedover some more by creepy genocidal billionaires and big business shareholders. I can't help them, they're sadly fucked. FREE JULIAN ASSANGE!
“Haunt” by Paul K and the Weathermen
9.) When I got my sleazy basement band together in the ‘80s , we were promptly banned from the town's two heavy metal holes because of our refusal to play Bon Jovi and Europe covers. We had some greasy kid protest punk songs with trite sub Dead Kennedys lyrics about raging against the suburban high school dress codes and wrestling team ultra violence with titles like, ha, "Victims Of The System". 'A spaghetti Western tune about wanting to flee to an abandoned western town and form our own commune called, "Death Valley Days."
We initially played covers-the Cramps’ "Garbage Man", Gun Club’s "For The Love Of Ivy", Alice Cooper’s "Is It My Body". We liked some of the hard rock in bandannas, but mostly, the Southern Death Cult, Tex & The Horseheads, Little Kings, and Lords Of The New Church.
One big city band we always felt a special kinsmanship with was the Hangmen. Somehow, they fought through the spandex years and grunge, and still have a cult following all over the world. They have the stuff o' greatness.
We used to drink on the actual railroad tracks in between the golf course and the cemetery, listen to our heavy metal cassettes on a ghetto blaster with a broken speaker. I reached out to summa the old punk n metal dudes this autumn, but they had all kinda changed, grown up, assimilated, gone straight, joined the army. Not me, man. I'm signed on for life.
13.) This guy is my favorite modern-day rockstar. We could be related. All his stuff resonates with me. he's about to release a new record that is absolutely epic. Wait for it.
14.) This cat Rev Paul S Cunningham is one badass motherfucker. Reminds me of my dead friend Tattoo Mark, Doc Holiday and Bobby Durango, early Axl Rose. And me. I love him.
15.) Kings of The Wasteland!
