“TV Party” by Black Flag: a l’il retrospective
Somewhere I have a vinyl single of “TV Party” by Black Flag. I’ll sell it for a million dollas someday maybe.
(Don’t forget the allmusic review,
“…Boasting the closest thing to a pop hook that ever appeared on a Black Flag record (though it’s driven more by Chuck Dukowski’s percolating bass line than Ginn’s stun-gun guitar), “TV Party” is tuneful and almost melodic where the band usually served up a man-sized helping of fifth-gear dissonance. And the lyrics (delivered by Rollins in a “aw shucks” yelp while the band shouts the chorus in a gloriously lumpen bellow) are at once cutting and funny, an attack on television-inspired stasis that laughs both at and with it’s subjects (”We’ve got nothin’ better to do/Than watch TV and have a couple of brews!”). …”)
April 1st, 2008 at 5:06 pm
Henry Rollins is God. Or he was until he kinda sold out with his stupid TV appearances and his endless spoken word tours.
April 1st, 2008 at 7:55 pm
Don’t forget his unbilled cameo in “Heat” with Bob De Niro…
April 2nd, 2008 at 8:50 pm
Or the inexcusable turn in that horrible movie, Johnnie Neumonic (sp?) with Keanu.