Like countless other alt-adjacent post adolescents in the early '90s, my first introduction to Shimmy Disc records was KING MISSILE's "Detachable Penis." So after Shimmy Disc led me to BONGWATER and 1/2 JAPANESE (through Jad Fair) I was intrigued to find RUINS, a band who I connected (rightly or wrongly) to BOREDOMS, who I already knew through Zorn (who, in turn, collaborated with RUINS). I tried....I really did. I tried, but I simply wasn't ready for RUINS. It was total freak-punk, intentionally impossible to listen to with unrefined ears (like mine). Not saying 1992's Burning Stone is any more palatable today, but perhaps my palate is just a little older today. Like the rest of me.
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