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While shopping for a new album, you just can't pass up an album cover like this...
Killers by Iron Maiden
Maggots: The Record
Okay, so I'm writing a test plan for MyStrands website functionality and figured I may as well post about this record since I'm testing this part of the site.
One day back in 1987 I was in a record store with my buddy John. We were, as always, going down the rock aisle, thumbing through every bin looking for whatever we could find. John pulls out this Plasmatics record and says, "Holy shit, dude! Look at this album cover! I've heard of the Plasmatics and they're supposed to be really good..." so we both bought a copy and off we went.
Turns out to be one of the greatest records I've ever bought. The recording is really crappy, but that's not what's important - it's what went into the record that matters.
A concept album that takes place "25 years in the future" where global warming has run rampant. An organism called C Robustus had been engineered to clean up all of the polluted lakes and rivers (one side effect was that the retro-virus preferred living tissue), the theory was that once the rivers were clean, the retro-virus would die and fish could be reintroduced into the clean water. Well, the greenhouse flooding put Robustus in contact with life on land - the common maggot. The maggots began doubling in size every 24 hours...
There are campy skits all througout the record and the Plasmatics music is the maggots' point of view...very catchy, hard-core punk tunes.
This album gets a 10 out of 10 in my book.
I wonder why it is that there are no sub shops over here on the west coast. I don't mean Subway or Blimpie or Quizno's, oh no, I'm talking about a good old sub shop. I'm talkin' cooked to order hot stuff, like steak and cheese subs, cheeseburger subs, meatball subs, chicken parm subs, pepper-steak subs, Italian sausage with peppers and onions...the list goes on. We got nothing like that over here and it's really depressing. I don't often miss New England, but today I have got a hankerin' for a steak and cheese with mushrooms and onions. You can find a sandwich like that on just about every street corner in Lawrence. Sigh.
I'm listening to their album "Puss-n-Boots" and I have to say, it's really good.
Puss N Boots
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