Consumer Confidence!

[matthew]

The beats aren't bad, but that front man is totally lame-o.

Keith Flint, the guy who "sings" on Firestarter was not really the "front man" (he is their lead dancer) for Prodigy (Liam Howlett , the white dude in the sweater that they cut to repeatedly, is the guy who writes and performs the music) until that album/that song and the arrival of their post-grunge sound (while not a guitar band, everything did sound more sinister/aggressive/angry post-grunge).

Having always been gay for had a soft spot for that late-80s early 90s dance music I really loved their fruity early 90s album "Experience", which is markedly different in sound from the album with "Firestarter", where Flint began to openly ape John Lydon.

Here is the same group a couple of years earlier (on the very Technotronic/Ya Kid K sounding "Everybody In The Place"):

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/hGPibfYnB5c" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/hGPibfYnB5c</a>

The dude, seen alternately in the dorky blue sweat pants with the white socks visible, and the Blossom hat and the multiple layers of jacket flapping around and smiling his big ecstasy smile at the camera is the scary Johnny Rotten wannabe from the Firestarter video.

He is most easily identified by his long hippy hair:

Wind it Up
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/oJzGyBTEzfg" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/oJzGyBTEzfg</a>

Charly
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/W0PU5kox404" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/W0PU5kox404</a>



 

[Tripp]

naw, seriously I want to NOT think about politics for a while. Let my blood pressure get back down.

[Tripp]

In fact it's not letting me do a lot of stuff.

Are you drinking?

yeah but it's my computer at work.

[Tripp]

my ole friend Greg Roberson is about to be here. He's drunk and down on his luck.  heh...   yeah..   

..shit.

[matthew]

naw, seriously I want to NOT think about politics for a while. Let my blood pressure get back down.

er...skip my post maybe.


[spoiler]

well everyone prospered under Clinton so what's the problem?

The problem would be that that is not at all true. Bush, for the most part, only continued along the path that Clinton was already on when he left (ex. if not for Monica's stained dress the US social security would have already been privatized). Many of the policies that are currently sinking the U.S. are ones of the Clinton years and have nothing to do with Bush (think of simple things like NAFTA), throwing many millions off of welfare and doing nothing to impede grotesque abuses of labor (as the unions evaporated in the face of Clinton's push into China and his signing of NAFTA) and in fact forcing people to work unpaid jobs for their welfare ("workfare"), the clamping down on gay marriage with the "Defense of Marriage" act, the illegal war in the Former Yugoslavia where he helped fly mujahideen in from Afghanistan and Pakistan to butcher Serbs (again, 9/11 was based on a plot named Bojinka, a Serbo-Croatian word that 9/11 mastermind KSM learned while working in Bosnia), allowing Taliban officials to visit the UNOCAL facilities in Texas (even Washington), a doubling of the number of immigrants rejected, etc.

Mostly the same shit...and much of this economic collapse is actually HIS doing...and Obama is seeing fit to hire many of those responsible for it to work in sorting out what remains of the empire.
[/spoiler]

[Poop Fresh-Herbed Pickles]

Keith Flint, the guy who "sings" on Firestarter was not really the "front man"

I only meant front man for that song.  I remembered he didn't smack my bitch up.

The Johnny Rotten bit is very transparent and talentless.  He's about as scary as Billy Idol.

Everybody in the Place and Wind it Up are pretty cool.

[Doctor Rock]

There are many things you can criticize the Clinton administration for... On a strictly internal US politics level (Matt already kind of covered the foreign relations angle), here's two of my pet peeves: they should be slammed for the half-assed incompetent way they tried to reform healthcare.  That, and the fact that the Clinton administration expanded the things you could get the death penalty for. 

The Clinton administration looks good these days, in retrospective, in great part because the 8 years that followed it were so damn dreadful.   

[Tripp]

I know yall are right and I'm mister knee-jerk.  And NAFTA blows.  But at least we might see a return to science.

Isn't Daschle suppose to be a good choice for healthcare reform?

[Tripp]

Greg just left..  I may have committed to being a stop on his couch tour.. I'm not sure.

[matthew]

Keith Flint, the guy who "sings" on Firestarter was not really the "front man"

I only meant front man for that song.  I remembered he didn't smack my bitch up.

The Johnny Rotten bit is very transparent and talentless.  He's about as scary as Billy Idol.

Everybody in the Place and Wind it Up are pretty cool.

Yeah, I wasn't trying to show off my knowledge of Prodigy or anything. I never got into the big album (though W____ had it) ...probably because it took itself too seriously.

Also, I fucked up ...he is not the guy with blue sweat pants - that's the Howlett guy. Flint is the one in the Blossom hat.

According to the Wikipedia page, Charly refers to a certain white powder. I associated Charlie with heroin...but maybe because of the horse thing.

The Flint guy actually looks somewhat menacing in the quick club shots cut into the fruitier videos... probably all the Charly.

[matthew]

But at least we might see a return to science.

That's actually what I keep reminding myself.

[Tripp]

the circle of life.

[bebopbalogna]

Apparently Shudder to Think reunited for some shows this fall.

my friend bob "THAT GUY" cross (super drunk ass from crappitystock)  saw them in new orleans halloween weekend.  said they were a-maz-ing.  i saw em back in 93 or so and they were pretty frickin good.  they do a pretty smokin version of ARS' "so into you".

[bebopbalogna]

I just got approved for a promotion at work. As of January 1st, I'm no longer considered a trainee. I'm the real deal. This opens me up for a boost in income.

right on the heels of obama's economic appointments, too!  the stock markets biggest jump in 20 years, increased income for average americans,  its the 90s all over again!!   

(by the way jeff, i would definitely consider you an above average american.)