Because, why not? Why not, after all?
Because any day is a good day to take in some Pylon-- especially their growling, raging dance song "Stop It".
Because dance music really used to sound like this. Really.
And because you have to love a band whose members decided to stop playing rather than tour with U2. Is such an anti-market stance possible today?
And also because, as much as I like the happy, twee giggly summertime funstuff music being produced today (really, I do! It's nice!), sometimes you just want to hear a young Athens art student snarling "No rock and roll--nononono!"
And because I owned this album twice. Once was on a cassette. I played it over and over again until a 98-degree New Orleans September day melted it in the tapedeck of my dad's Datsun 210 Hatchback.
So I got another one. It's vinyl. I still have it. When I play it I still get pale ghostly visceral reminders of how big and wild and anarchic and fun the world might be. My hair doesn't stand on end quite as it did when I was 16, but there's still a twitching, and a desire to stay out all night killing brain cells and ruining my hearing.
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