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May 7 Chalupa commented on What's the Best Motown Cover by a Non-Motown Act?.
If Tamla counts I'll go with "Money (That's What I Want)" by Flying Lizards. If not, it's the segue into "Where Did Our Love Go" on the long version of "Tainted Love" by Soft Cell.
Jan 25 Chalupa commented on Songs About Being Sick.
Jawbreaker, "Outpatient"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wq9okbE…
Nov 26, 2012 Chalupa commented on New Trash Fire Songs Up!.
The show is actually Friday December 21st at Comet with Constant Lovers and Murmurs.
Nov 22, 2012 Chalupa commented on Candy Minute.
Bonkers ruled and so did their commercials: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bf9i-XVeF…
Oct 17, 2012 Chalupa commented on You Got Your Sodium Benzoate in My Tapatío.
Aardvark on eggs and breakfast food
Crystal on fried chicken and southern food
El Yucateco green on Mexican food
Uncle Chen's Chili Garlic sauce on Asian food

Honorable mention to the orange mustard-y Caribbean sauces made with scotch bonnet peppers, particularly the ones that have curry in them. Holy shit hot and holy shit awesome.
Oct 3, 2012 Chalupa commented on Classic Rock Garbage Thunderdome.
"Hi-Infidelity" and Foreigner's "Records" were among the first albums I bought with my own money. Listened to 'em both non-stop in grade school. I would never be like "dude, you gotta check these guys out" in 2012 but for nostalgic purposes those tunes are as comforting as a rerun of Happy Days. Isn't that what classic rock radio is for, anyway?
Sep 19, 2012 Chalupa commented on What Are the Best Songs About Grandmothers?.
Kool & The Gang's "Funky Granny"
Aug 30, 2012 Chalupa commented on Refused Seems To Be a Big Deal, if You're 30.
I saw Refused around '93 at a teen center in Belgium. They were on a bill with three or four unremarkable bands and they themselves were unremarkable, though they were probably the best band on the bill that night. I bought their "This Is The New Deal" CD at the show, gave it 2-5 spins, shelved it and didn't think much of the band for five or six years. Like #9 up there, my taste in music outgrew hardcore also, around '95 or '96 for me. Fast forward a couple years and I catch the "New Noise" video on MTV2. I was surprised to see it was the same band I'd seen years before and impressed by the video and song, I picked up "Shape Of Punk". Where most of their peers were stuck making the same record over and over (I'm looking at you, Earth Crisis), these dudes made a unique, well thought out, written and recorded, and catchy as fuck heavy rock concept record. It holds up to this day and is still in rotation on this guy's turntable/MP3 player. I also caught their show in Vancouver on Monday and they fucking killed.

So, one of the most influential? I dunno. I do know they made a kick ass record and put on a kick ass show. I think a lot of the deification comes from how they checked out in the first place with the heavy rhetoric, politics and "Refused are fucking dead" business.

And with that in mind my vote for 80's hardcore reunion that'd cause the most ruckus would have to be Minor Threat.
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Aug 27, 2012 Chalupa commented on Humpty Hump's Head Emerges From The Underground.
"Sons Of The P" is a crusher, as are the two releases prior. Why "Hip Hop Doll" was left off the CD release of "Sex Packets" still confounds me.
Aug 10, 2012 Chalupa commented on NEWS FLASH: These Ear Buds Are a Piece of Garbage.
http://www.amazon.com/Urbanears-00150609…

Pros: lightweight, portable, comfortable, sound great, have a microphone, and AREN'T ear buds.
 
 

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