BORN TOO LOOSE


One of the other pleasures of satrad is the incidental exposure to unexplored levels of Suck.

Just the other day I listened in slack-jawed awe to something called The Scum Lives On.

The name of the band was Demolition 23, which it turns out was basically a mid '90s solo project for Michael Monroe.

Now Michael Monroe was the lead singer for Finnish Dolls jackers Hanoi Rocks. Their main claim to fame was the fact that their drummer Razzle was killed by Vince Neil in a drunk-driving escapade.

Yes, Finnish.

And yes, Razzle. As in, “first it's a candy, then it's a gum”...

So anyway, this song starts out by lamenting the deaths of Monroe's friends Johnny Thunders and Stiv Bators, then mourns the passings of Brian Jones, Keith Moon, Bon Scott, and Rob Tyner, and slips in a line questioning whether Abbie Hoffman's death was really a suicide, which seems like an oddly placed little conspiracy theory.

There is then a long list of the scum that still lives on (or at least lived on in '95)-- Jimmy Swaggart, Jesse Helms, Ronald Reagan, Donald Wildmon, etc.

It's all so ham-fisted that it borders on cute. But its true country of residence is indeed the land of Suck...