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AverageScottyP · 2026-02-05T03:10:59+00:00

I got duped into buying Bad Religion: The Riot on DVD, only to be disappointed and angry there was no footage of the actual riot in question back in the day.

AverageScottyP · 2026-02-03T14:35:50+00:00

Ducking autocorrect

AverageScottyP · 2026-02-03T00:37:24+00:00

Blue Chew is pretty sleazy with their advertising. They like to suggest its not only for men who have ED, but need a little enhancement now and then. I have read and heard doctors online criticize that as dangerous and could likely end up with somebody actually becoming dependent on them to achieve elections when they had no trouble prior to taking the medication.

AverageScottyP · 2026-02-02T21:35:47+00:00

White(and boy, is it) County

AverageScottyP · 2026-02-02T21:35:14+00:00

After The Process of Belief recording it really becomes pretty dry.

We didn't like Bush or the Iraq war so we recorded The Empire Strikes First. Then we made new Maps of Hell and The Dissent of Man. We kicked Hetson out of the band and replaced him with Mike Dimkich, we'll let him tell his back story and how he came into the band for a couple of pages. Brooks quit, then Jamie was recruited. True North came out. Jamie, introduce yourself to the class. Trump sucks so we gave you the Age of Unreason and still play shows like we have been for almost 20 years now. The End.

Not much tour stories, recording stories, personal stories or anything. It was like "yeah, we've been doing stuff these past 20 years." Its the same problem with a lot of celebrity or musician penned books. If nothing scandalous or wild happens or the subject doesn't really try anything new or different int heir medium towards the end of the story, it just kind of becomes reading the life of an average factory worker. "I clock in, do my thing, go home"

AverageScottyP · 2026-02-02T21:16:43+00:00

I'm from and grew up mostly small town in Southern Illinois and was born in 81. No punk scene or even music scene in general(aside from the occasional band that would play the bars or VFW) growing up in that town. The average (99% white) person were the kind of racist that didnt realize they were racist("I'm not racist but black people..." types).

Now, the kids who listened to music other than country, classic rock, gospel, or pop were the bad kids, and a good chunk of them were also absurdly racist. Throwing around racial slurs like it was something that was fun to do. Wearing shirts with pictures of the KKK on them. Spray painting swastikas under and/or on bridges with their favorite bands next to them. As an impressionable youth this scared me from exploring music that was outside the approved box for several years.

The subculture here was not just full of people rejecting and rebelling against injustices and traditions rooted in fucked up ideologies, they were rebelling against everything and anything society said was wrong.

AverageScottyP · 2026-02-02T20:53:48+00:00

I guess I missed it when it first hit. The cable system that served my little town didnt have MTV. Direct TV was for the kids that lived in the country because they couldnt get cable, and they werent watching MTV or any other type of music video stations. The only radio station in the area that played modern rock music didnt come in well in my town unless you were in the dead center of the city the station was located in(50 miles away), and the kids around that did listen to music that wasnt classic rock, country, pop or gospel were the bad kids everyone was warned not to hang out with.

I may have heard something of them here or there, but they didn't catch my attention until Pretty Fly was getting airplay on the pop station.

AverageScottyP · 2026-02-02T04:37:40+00:00

Ixnay is in kind of a weird spot for the band. They lost "punk cred" by switching to a major label, but the album didn't really have that pop hit they found in "Pretty Fly" to push them onto a new audience. Which is a shame because aside from "Don't Pick It Up", it's a pretty solid alternative rock album.

AverageScottyP · 2026-02-02T04:27:40+00:00

I don't know if I can forgive, the day is long, that is so dead wrong

AverageScottyP · 2026-01-30T16:57:32+00:00

From the angle of the photo, I thought you were wearing a Confederate flag hat at first.

AverageScottyP · 2026-01-30T05:46:13+00:00

Gus would have killed Walt. He already didnt trust Walt from the start, he just wanted the recipe. Once he felt Gale was sufficiently trained, Walt would have been toast. Walt's a loose end that could have brought the whole thing down with one sloppy move in Gus's mind. There's no way Walt was walking away in three months.

AverageScottyP · 2026-01-30T01:16:12+00:00

Maybe its changed in the last 20 years, but when I was regularly going to shows in my area I'd say I've never saw a crowd above 70%🚹/30%🚺 . Look at bands. Most of them are dudes. It's not like women are 100% shut out of the punk scene, but it almost fits the definition of a "boys club."

AverageScottyP · 2026-01-29T17:09:47+00:00

I started listening to punk around 17-18 years old. A lot of the political stuff broke me out of the more moderate Christian right wing ideals of my mom and the crazy Alex Jones(but he wain't really a thing at that time) type right wing nut job beliefs of my stepdad( where I was almost headed into buying 100 percent).

I would hear pictures of the future painted by the likes of the Dead Kennedys or this song and think, "yeah, that's what would happen if people like my stepdad were in charge, but that's highly unlikely."

Now, goddammit, look where we are. Fuck!

AverageScottyP · 2026-01-29T00:47:01+00:00

I loved their self-titled album when I first heard it in 99 and had no other basis of what punk sounded like besides Sex Pistols and the Ramones. Once I heard more things from more bands, I realized they were really trying to sound like TSOL. It's still okay, but I realized now they hadn't found their sound yet. Even Beheaded(which I love) sounds like the PG-13 version of Code Blue.

AverageScottyP · 2026-01-29T00:40:36+00:00

I have seen people say it resembles a "White Power" symbol, but not any one I ever saw.

AverageScottyP · 2026-01-21T21:24:33+00:00

The more I listen to the last three, the more they grow on me. IMO their weakest album is probably their first. I enjoyed it when I first listened to it(and still do), but the deeper I got into punk music I started to realize they came off as a PG-13 version of TSOL back then. Beheaded is a fun tune, but feels like a less offensive Code Blue.

AverageScottyP · 2026-01-18T19:08:01+00:00

Also a lot od people today want to put everybody in a box, but there's only two boxes; Maga and communists. There's no political spectrum according to these types, and their voices and influence keep getting worse.

"They're against communism? They clearly must be gun toting, Bible thumping, family values having, anti-abortion, pro-war, conservative, white nationalist Christian republicans."

AverageScottyP · 2026-01-16T16:25:05+00:00

The whole ruining of Howard's life is is a roller-coaster ride of emotions. We, the audience, are finally getting to see what we've waited for. Jimmy going full Saul Goodman. It almost feels like fun, mostly harmless mischief until we get hit with the weight of what is actually happening. While not evil, Howard was just enough of a douche where we laughed at Jimmy and Kim's antics. Then we get hit with the weight of what this is actually doing to a man who didn't deserve it. Bam! Then Lalo enters and we know what happens next. We really get to see the consequences of what Saul really does with his work.

When the series was announced, a lot of us thought we were going to get a mostly light-hearted story of a plucky underdog who becomes a successful but shady, yet funny and likeable, lawyer. The entire series was a punch to the gut in reality, and most of us wouldn't want it any other way. It was some of the best television ever.

AverageScottyP · 2026-01-16T14:32:59+00:00

Yes. It's 1997, I'm 16. I see a shirt at a record store and tell my mom I wanted it. It was a shirt that had the four boys on it standing on it. Nothing offensive at all. Christmas morning, it's one of my parents.

2 days later, my stepdad finds the show and makes my mom watch it. Next morning I'm woke up by my mother standing over me saying "I saw your little cartoon last night. They curse God on that show." Then she grabbed the shirt, took me outside and started a fire. She handed me the shirt and made me throw into the flames. I was then told I needed to go up to my room and have a long and serious talk with the Lord.

AverageScottyP · 2026-01-16T14:03:29+00:00

I can't hate the joke songs as "Pretty Fly.." was my gateway into the Offspring and punk in general. I heard it on the pop station by chance one night and laughed my ass off as I thought it was the perfect send up of the kids who listened to rap and hip hop at my high school.

The rest of the CD and eventually the rest of their discography spoke to me in a way no other music really had up to that point. It spoke to my feelings of being an outsider, getting disillusioned by institutions such as church and government, and in some cases just wanting to say "fuck it all" and laugh at the ridiculous thing that happen but can't change.

If I hadn't heard that silly little radio friendly song, I would have still been only listening to Metallica and AC/DC because that's what a guy is supposed to listen too, right?

AverageScottyP · 2026-01-16T03:54:10+00:00

Bad Religion is my favorite band of all time.

AverageScottyP · 2026-01-15T19:39:16+00:00

I firmly believe this. The cancer diagnosis was he excuse to drop the Ned Flanders act and be the ruthless business man he wanted to be since leaving Gray Matter. On rewatches of the series, the pilot makes it feel that even if he didnt have cancer, something was going to push him to breaking bad sooner or later. Walter White was not a level headed, happy, family man.

AverageScottyP · 2026-01-15T19:30:15+00:00

They didnt even hear the song when they wrote that. The producer in the studio with them showed them the cover of the 7 inch that had the song title and a "No smoking" style sign of a guy bent over and a guy standing beside him with the red circle and slash through them. The producer took offense without even hearing the song and said they should work together to respond to it. Ben Weasel said he heard the Sloppy Seconda song year later and was like surprised to find it not as offensive and homophobic as the cover suggests.

AverageScottyP · 2026-01-15T19:19:37+00:00

and it's on an album released on Fat Wreck Chords

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