It Just Deserves To Die: An Introduction

Rolling Stone Magazine put out their list of the Top 100 Punk Albums of all time. This is my response.

I’ve written and rewritten this introduction a half dozen times now, never quite knowing what sounds right. It’s never gonna sound right, though, is it? What I need it to sound is real. Real I can do.

I’ve been looking to get back into writing. I’ve flitted about from idea to idea, trying to find what passion I have that can sustain writing long enough to actually make something of it. Then inspiration struck.

Punk music is one of my life’s greatest passions. I fell in love the first time I heard Jello Biafra singing about hippie-fascists taking over the United States; the blend of his actual anger and his satirical humor awoke something in me that day. I had to seek out more music like this! I’ve cultivated my tastes since, gone through the phases of poseur to diehard to mellowed out, eventually I’ll reach oldhead status. Dabbled in everything from folkpunk to ska to hardcore to psychobilly. So yeah, I think I could write about punk music.

Then Rolling Stone put out their list of the top 100 punk albums of all time. I figured this was the perfect opportunity to get back into writing. I’m going to listen to every single album on the list, write my own thoughts and feelings on it, give you my favorite song off each album, and maybe at the end do a retrospective on the whole project. The plan is to have a post up every Monday and Friday, but sometimes life gets in the way so don’t hold me to that.

Welcome, my friends, to IT JUST DESERVES TO DIE.