Radioactivity may be the most articulate response to a question nobody was asking. What happens when you taken phenomenal talent, genuine love of a genre, precision, thoughtful restraint, eerily catchy, yet organic sounding harmonies, and infuse it into wax? You have one of the greatest records ever made.
"It's the Mind Spiders against the humans. And humans kinda suck. Basically, in the end, the Mind Spiders are going to win." -Mind Spiders
"What you're saying about punk being a lifestyle and the politics involved, I'm down with all that shit, but I don't do it." -Tony Molina
"I was kinda thinking about how fucking stupid pretty much everything is. We're kind of culturally bankrupt, I guess." -Low Culture
It’s sort of like The Warriors but with a better soundtrack and less racial stereotypes. Can you dig it?!
“We are all devices, novelties forced to feel like necessities.” –Criminal Code
Take your pick of takeaway: Nardwuar: “Alice Bag from The Bags, did you invent the term “douchebag”? Alice: “I didn’t invent it. I didn’t.” OR “I was a total failure at working at Arby’s.” –Alice Bag
"I wanted to talk to Steven Tyler. I wanted to learn English and talk to him. That was my dream." –Birthday Suits
"Yeah! Let's fucking do it! Let's keep going!" -The Taxpayers.
Climb inside the Florida storage container The Taxpayers lived in to read about the knuckle tattoo genesis of Goof Punx and the band’s origins as a way to pay homage to the Minutemen.
"We asked Greg Cartwright if he wanted to start a band. He said. 'That sounds stupid. Why not?'" -Eric Oblivian
“At the end of those punk documentaries you just get somebody who’s completely arrogant and has no idea. They think it stopped as soon as they stopped going to shows and started working at Home Depot.” –Night Birds
"As long as my mom still loves me, and I get to smoke pot, I don't give a fuck." -Isaac Reyes, Lenguas Largas