FOSSIL FUEL

I cannot express how essential this 1994 cassette only release is. FOSSIL FUEL were a studio only (or bedroom exclusively) SOCKEYE side project, and this 60 minute tape is nothing but pure Midwest drunken brilliance. Take teen angst, adolescent innocence and a brain treated by electro shock therapy and inject the perspective that can only come from adults who should know better - but don't. Total genius in the form of songs like "Weather Will Fuck You Up," "Alternative Kids Get Dead," "Michigan Is Shaped Retarded," and "Steal Your Face What" compliment works of lyrical genius that have rarely been equalled and never topped: "The 12 Step Program you're a dick // The 12 Step Program you're fucked unless you follow it now // The 18th step is to erase your nuts // Go and get killed you satanic motherfucker // You're gonna have an upinverted (sic) pentagram on your fukkn nuthole. " Yeah, I told you the shit rules - now download this immediately and get ready to go to school.

KICKBOY FACE

For those of you who missed this crew on their first visit to Terminal Escape. please revisit the ASS Clean As A Butt demo. More of the same irreverent nonsense...the fact that this can somehow qualify as music is one of the many reasons that I still love (and will always love) punk.