Funny, Laredo is now a pretty big town. Over 300,000 if memory serves. I guess they grew beyond their old west days.
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Probably the funniest song this month. Who doesn’t love Weird Al? Soulless demons, that’s who!
My first time posting Slayer? No way… Well, this is one of my favorite Slayer songs. And it does a pretty good job of graphically describing what a bullet does to the human body.
Bono is a giant prat (the largest turd ever!), but I still love U2. Exit used to scare me as a kid. It is a dark, violent track and kind of sneaks up on you.
I love the intro bit. Back Porch Videos seemed to play a lot of great videos back in the day.
Albert Camus’ The Stranger in a 2 minute post-punk song. Trust me, it’s better than reading the actual book. A short aside: I used to pronounce Albert Camus the way it looks. I had no idea that his name was actually pronounced Al-bear Cam-oooooooo. I felt stupid at first, but I had a literature professor […]
OK, this song is technically about a penis, but it’s the old “my dick is a gun” metaphor. And cut me some slack… coming up with 28 songs by 28 unique artists about guns isn’t easy. Not to mention this is a nice little throw away track from The Downward Spiral. Throwaway, but still a […]
This is why I love Nick Cave. Of course his cabaret songs are going to be theatrical, but he took a poppy garage punk song and made a movie out of it. I’m not talking about the video, the lyrics and song tells a story much more vivid than Natural Born Killers. And here is […]
I could probably do an entire month of Johnny Cash gun songs alone. But hell, it’s Johnny Cash! You can’t have too much Cash. And I swear to God I didn’t choose this song for Valentine’s Day on purpose. It just sort of happened that way. (Forever alone).
