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xXRootsxRadicalsXx
Geek
Age: 34
Gender: Female
Posts: 156 | July 30th, 2006 at 01:24pm Do you like em'? |
Toxic Teeth
Idiot
Age: 30
Gender: Female
Posts: 645
 | July 30th, 2006 at 01:31pm post a link.  |
chump
Falling In Love With The Board
Age: -
Gender: Female
Posts: 7189 | July 30th, 2006 at 01:52pm Screeching Weasel was a punk band from Chicago, Illinois. They formed in 1986, fronted by future Maximum RocknRoll columnist Ben Weasel (aka Ben Foster) and John Jughead (aka John Pierson). Starting out as a heavily Ramones influenced band regularly playing all ages shows in the Northwest suburbs of Chicago, Screeching Weasel came to prominence after signing a record deal with the infamous East Bay punk rock label Lookout! Records also home to Green Day's first albums. Screeching Weasel along with Green Day inspired countless teenagers around the world to start punk rock bands in the 1990's and played a major part in influencing many of the bands that helped bring punk rock or more descriptively pop punk into popular music culture.
Through the years, the band went through many line-up changes up until their 2001 break-up. Members included renowned punk rock record producer Mass Giorgini on bass guitar, Dan Panic (born Dan Sullivan) on drums, and Danny Vapid (born Dan Schafer, currently in The Methadones and briefly Sludgeworth) on guitar and bass, depending on the band's necessity.
Their lyrics reflected Weasel's "anti-everything" apolitical orientation set to music that was melodic and derivative of the Ramones. Girls and paranoia were common subjects for songs as well. Many centered on his relationship with Weasel's then girlfriend Portia.
Their music has transformed from the traditional punk when they began, to their long-standing, distinctive punk/pop sound, and later to a more fast-paced and melodic type of punk. Through his writings in Maximum RocknRoll, fanzines, and lyrics, Ben Weasel established himself as one of the most pungent internal critics of the punk scene. As an example, in the 1999 song Tightrope, Weasel launched a rather pointed attack on the glorification of violence and chauvinism by what he termed "tough-guy, so-called working class or street punk bands." Later, punk band Rancid referred briefly to this song in the liner notes of their 2003 album, Indestructible.
Members of Screeching Weasel have gone on to form bands such as: The Methadones, The Mopes, Even in Blackouts, and Sweet Black And Blue. Screeching Weasel has also included members of Green Day, Sludgeworth, Common Rider, Squirtgun, and Teen Idols. For a short time during one of many break-ups, Weasel and Vapid also formed The Riverdales. Additionally, Ben Weasel released a solo record in 2002 entitled Fidatevi.
After breakups in 1988 and 1995, Screeching Weasel officially broke up for the third - and allegedly final - time on July 6, 2001.
In 2004 Ben Weasel rescinded all of the Screeching Weasel and Riverdales masters from Lookout! Records in the wake of long-running financial and personal conflicts. The masters were subsequently licensed to and reissued by Asian Man Records.
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CRASH!!
Idiot
Age: 36
Gender: Male
Posts: 713 | July 30th, 2006 at 02:02pm i love them, i heard mike played bass in a song or in a record i think in how to make enemies... can anyone tell me in what song?? thanx
try and tell us our future's at stake
we're gonna slam dance on your grave
cause we don't give a shit about tomorrow  |
xXRootsxRadicalsXx
Geek
Age: 34
Gender: Female
Posts: 156 | July 31st, 2006 at 10:01am Yea, mike played bass on the How to make enemies album. He plays throughout the album  |
CRASH!!
Idiot
Age: 36
Gender: Male
Posts: 713 | July 31st, 2006 at 10:03am thanx |
rollerpig
GSBitch
Age: 33
Gender: Female
Posts: 62283 | July 31st, 2006 at 10:04am Ah, I love them 
I have just 2 albums, erm How to irriate people .. and my Brain hurts. |
State Radio
Falling In Love With The Board
Age: 33
Gender: Male
Posts: 6583 | July 31st, 2006 at 11:43am I like the Girl Next Door. |
xXRootsxRadicalsXx
Geek
Age: 34
Gender: Female
Posts: 156 | August 24th, 2006 at 01:54pm I like the first track on Bark Like a Dog, it's called Get Off My Back, it's so awesome. I love I wanna be a homosexual too! It's lyrics are hilarious. "Call Me a faggot, call me a butt-fucking-fudge-packing queer, I don't care." "Cuz' It's the Staright ion staright edge that makes me want to drink a beer and be a fairy, wanna be a homo." lmafo |
Arcane-Inamorata
King For A Couple Of Days
Age: 33
Gender: Female
Posts: 3278
 | August 26th, 2006 at 12:42am I have Bark Like a Dog. It's pretty rad and I love it.
*sings* You're fat and ugly and an imbicile too, thats why they draw funny pictures of you... |
Rae.
Post Whore
Age: 34
Gender: Female
Posts: 22292 | August 26th, 2006 at 11:53am I've only heard a few songs.
Which I happen to love.
Yay. |
wfougoafoihqfe
Falling In Love With The Board
Age: 32
Gender: Female
Posts: 9656 | August 26th, 2006 at 12:36pm i do indeed like them a lot.... i've only downloaded a few songs but i like what i hear. |
B.J
Falling In Love With The Board
Age: -
Gender: Male
Posts: 8105 | August 28th, 2006 at 03:07pm I really need more of their music
but their stuff is so expensive to buy here |
xXRootsxRadicalsXx
Geek
Age: 34
Gender: Female
Posts: 156 | January 9th, 2007 at 04:54pm I just bought an early Screeching Weasel CD for the local record store. it only cost five dollars, but it has some really cool shit on it. My favorite Screeching Weasel song of all time, Hey Surburbia, is on there but it's an early version. |
worn-out astronaut.
Had A Life Before GSB
Age: 32
Gender: Female
Posts: 28177
| January 10th, 2007 at 08:53am Hey Suburbia rocks, but Im a big fan of I wanna be a homosexual 
SW rules! |
