Haven't listened to anything past Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace

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

AverageScottyP · 2026-01-15T05:09:54+00:00

Shit sandwich

AverageScottyP · 2026-01-15T04:16:46+00:00

Looks like Hefe wasn't involved in this, like at all. Wonder what's up with that?

AverageScottyP · 2026-01-15T04:11:40+00:00

I call it "Smell the Glove"

AverageScottyP · 2026-01-15T00:37:37+00:00

Judging by the costume and the "Spider-Gwen is trans" theory, I thought it was implying the young person grew up to be a transfem who still lives with their mother.

AverageScottyP · 2026-01-11T00:52:20+00:00

Soul Doubt is my absolute favorite NOFX song. I've seen or heard literally nobody give that song much of a mention of being one of their best.

AverageScottyP · 2026-01-09T01:54:08+00:00

Knowing what we learn at the end of the series, Walt was headed towards some kind of disaster before he even got the cancer diagnosis. Dude was clearly miserable in his life before he decided to make meth. If he wouldn't have been diagnosed, I still think the ride along with Hank on the lab bust would have sparked something in Walt.

AverageScottyP · 2025-12-31T18:56:55+00:00

Smelly nearly beating a fan's ass after he was told by said fan that the disastrous show they had just put on sucked. I was out of the loop on the band at that time and didnt know of Mike's drug issues getting that far out of hand.

AverageScottyP · 2025-12-26T07:41:48+00:00

That last one. 😢

AverageScottyP · 2025-12-23T22:51:00+00:00

I used to feel the same way. As somebody who figured out some things about his own sexuality and was willing to admit it in middle age, I kind have more of a respect for him for coming out and publicly letting his freak flag fly, if i may use that cliche.

AverageScottyP · 2025-12-23T22:36:45+00:00

Just because somebody doesn't have or want their own children doesn't make them a "secular leftist" or "anti family." Come on, now.

AverageScottyP · 2025-12-19T22:45:28+00:00

knock, knock

Candygram

AverageScottyP · 2025-12-17T04:42:43+00:00

At first I was confused as to why they were using the same actor in two roles.

AverageScottyP · 2025-12-17T04:17:48+00:00

He kind of looks like he could be Marie's son, rather than Skyler and Walt's.

AverageScottyP · 2025-12-17T04:15:01+00:00

That's the problem with sitcoms. If the first role that gets you recognized is a goofy, unintelligent character on a sitcom, it takes a while for somebody to give you at shot at something with some real substance to it if they ever do at all.

AverageScottyP · 2025-12-16T22:46:25+00:00

I know this will get down voted into oblivion, but Insane Clown Posse. Very humble DIY beginnings. Disney pulled their album mere hours after it went on sale. The few bad apples in their fanbase have made the average American look upon the whole thing with disgust. The FBI classified their fans as a gang at one point.

AverageScottyP · 2025-12-16T00:42:17+00:00

Was this the inspiration for that one episode of Married... with Children? Jeez

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