{"id":1216,"date":"2010-07-08T19:17:34","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T01:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=1216"},"modified":"2010-07-11T16:42:04","modified_gmt":"2010-07-11T22:42:04","slug":"song-of-the-day-surf-and-slam-by-suicidal-tendencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=1216","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Day – “Surf and Slam” by Suicidal Tendencies"},"content":{"rendered":"

A transition from Skatepunk to Surfpunk is done with ease and grace, I gather.<\/p>\n

Now, as I have diligently collected a link for you to watch the video<\/a>, I noticed that the album cover reminds me of what a fucking coked out spaz their bass player was on this album.<\/p>\n

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\nThats’ him on the right.\u00a0 He’s all “Hey look at me!\u00a0 I’m in a band!” in that photo.\u00a0 And Mike Muir looks like someone I wouldn’t want to cross.\u00a0 I wonder what he’s up to these days.<\/p>\n

(One Wikipedia search later…)<\/p>\n

I guess he’s still making tunes.\u00a0 Good for him.\u00a0 ST as a group seems to only be a touring entity now, their last album was back in 2000.\u00a0 The album this song is from, 1988’s “How Will I Laugh Tomorrow When I Can’t Even Smile Today”<\/a>, is one of those albums that I ingrained into my mind at an early age.\u00a0 I had a cassette copy from a friend, and side two was slapped onto the C90 before side one was.\u00a0 So to my mind, “Surf and Slam” is the opening track.<\/p>\n

How you digging it?\u00a0 It’s fucking brilliant.\u00a0 I say that way too much, but I mean it.\u00a0 Now I’m reminiscing about my old cassette collection.\u00a0 Ah, so many cassettes… so much Punk and Thrash Metal.<\/p>\n

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But I’m glad the medium is obsolete.<\/p>\n

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\nThat’s about all you can do with them now.<\/p>\n

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\nShow off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A transition from Skatepunk to Surfpunk is done with ease and grace, I gather. Now, as I have diligently collected a link for you to watch the video, I noticed that the album cover reminds me of what a fucking coked out spaz their bass player was on this album. Thats’ him on the right.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[46,354,353],"class_list":["post-1216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-song-of-the-day","tag-80s","tag-cassettes","tag-suicidal-tendencies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1216"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1222,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216\/revisions\/1222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}