‘I Totally Despised You’ One of life’s great pleasures for me is discovering new music. Now, mind you, this is rarely new in the sense of being a new group which has just broken onto the scene; in most cases, I’m discovering music, artists, or groups which have been around for some time, unbeknownst to…
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Everybody Must Get Stoned
Archives He was an average-looking kid, maybe 25, what statisticians might call “an outlier” — not quite strange enough to be bizarre, but definitely a bit “out there” — a little “goosey” in mannerisms, pleasant but slightly inappropriate in the things he laughed at, with his facial expressions, and with those other subliminal messages some…
Alice in Wonderland
Alice Cooper was over the top, even for me — and I was a fan of King Crimson and Kiss. Never much cared for gross-out rock (vomiting blood? bat beheadings?? But as it turns out, it was — and still is — all an outrageous act; late twentieth century vaudeville, in essence. Count among his…