ROCK
AGAINST BUSH
Two-Volume CD Compilation
Powers Us Thru The Night
08.24.04:
As the long-suffering subscribers to t2k's aptly-named
Irregular Updates know all too well, we tend to be at
our most irrepressibly chatty late at night. Very late at night.
So late, in fact, it's often light again and we're still at
it here, cackling over our keyboard, gleefully teetering upon
the very cusp of total, solipsistic incoherence.
Folks
write in, concerned, wondering: "how do you stay up all
night, and all day, too?"
The
answer to that one is really pretty simple: whenever possible,
we don't. In fact, the t2k uber-credo is scrawled
upon the wall here in resilient magenta Crayola: "if it's
light/something ain't right."
On
those rare occasions when we do have to venture out amongst
the Day People, we usually pool our prescription drugs, slap
our Oakleys on tight and then it's like ... whatever. This is
Morningside Heights, after all. If we miss-negotiate a curb
or two, we just blend right in.
But
now -- thanks to the attentive efforts of Floyd and Toby
of SF's own Fat
Wreck Chords, we have something better than whatever's on
discount at Rite-Aid to get us through the (day) and night!
We're
talking about the 2-volume Rock Against Bush CD/DVD super-comp
set (26 tracks on Vol. I; 28 on Vol. II).
Both
Vols. offer a good mix of old faves and new treats, with
Vol. I being more of a discovery (for us) with The
Soviettes (chicks rock!), Alkaline
Trio (watch out; deceptively melodic), the appropriately
plastic organ-laced yodeling of The
Epoxies and Strung
Out (burn, axeman! burn!). Plus it was good to hear those
anthemic boys from Indiana, Anti-Flag
again, as well as our old chums Ministry,
which reminded us that listening to Al Jourgensen snarling
and howling is kind of like experiencing Rob Zombie
in the terminal deathgrip of a political consciousness. How
scary is that.
Vol.
II brings out the heavy artillery with Bad Religion,
Foo Fighters, Sleater-Kinney and No Doubt
but also offers up new (for us) discoveries Sugarcult
(hooky pop confection), the Dwarves, and -- ohmygod --
the thrill of rediscovering Flogging
Molly. There's something about a fiddle-wielding hottie
that just ... inspires ... us.
That's
the word. Inspires.
And
what is even more inspirational is Fat Wreck's price on these
double-disc babies: SIX BUCKS EACH!
And
for the very best of causes. As the Vol. I jewel case puts it:
The
bands on this comp have come together for one reason, and that's
to express our outrage at -- and form a unified front against
-- the dangerous, destructive and deadly policies of George
W. Bush and his administration.
Couldn't
have said it better ourselves. No matter how late it gets ...
Archived
January 2005
