![]() ![]() I’ll use that word again that best describes this album: “upsetting.” ![]() One of the rare occasions when I don’t even think of a cover song as being a cover song, too. It’s not even open for discussion, and I’m getting hip to what MAGNET is trying to get out of me now. Try “Graveyard” or “22 Going On 23,” and then we can talk. But not even the best song on the greatest record they ever made. I saw Black Flag 103,000 times and have tried to live up to their work ethic ever since. You got 110 percent of the man, and that’s about the highest compliment I can give to anyone. I heard Michael Jackson once say that there was no separating him from his art-and I know that was true with Rollins in the Flag years. My War? Slip It In? Loose Nut? 350 gigs a year every year? I allow no one to diss that dude. Whatever time we’ve dedicated to our craft, it doesn’t even add up to one percent of what Henry Rollins gave to his. The shit with the earlier singers is all awesome, too, but it wasn’t the high art of what Rollins and Ginn made together later. ![]() This song is fun but also kinda silly compared to what came starting with My War. Despite what anyone says, though, I consider the real Black Flag when Rollins was on the mic on the albums after this this is the early Flag with Rollins. I grew up with this track, both the EP and the album Damaged. Also, “Rock ’N’ Roll Suicide”-just wanted to mention that one, too. “I’ll be a rock ’n’ rollin’ bitch for you”? One of my favorite songs- ever! I’m being set up here, I can tell. “I’m a mama-papa coming for you, I’m the space invader” or some shit. ![]() And it’s always the last song in the set. Cuz I have so much to say about this one, and I’ve played it live, like, 5,000 times. Obviously, MAGNET picked these songs for me specifically. At least that’s what it says on the internet. This song and Altamont pretty much caused the end of flower power. I don’t condone that or anything by any means, but it means it’s at least important enough to listen to. When you add the Manson factor, it’s kinda the most punk-rock song ever because it made dumb people on acid kill other people. If this is a means to an end, if it helps me sell 1,200 records and get 90 Vevo views … well, here goes. They picked all music that I publicly either hate or adore. The questions-or song choices-were all loaded, too. This was back in 1958, though: the good years, jobs, peacetime conditions, baby boomers, Ween making our 14th record, etc. They gave Ween a lot of great reviews over the years-they even put us on the cover once and named one of our albums the best of the year. But then I come to find out that I have to interview myself! Write all of this shit down in an email and send it over to the admittedly nice people at MAGNET. I’ve been playing music for 34 years now, and I hate doing “press.” Although it could be a lot worse: I could be blowing dudes inside a bathroom stall at the Trenton bus station like the people at MAGNET-and your mom-mom-for meth money. You see, I’m promoting my new record, Rock2, under the name the Dean Ween Group, which means once again, I have to do press to help convince you to buy it. MAGNET asked me to give my opinion on, like, 20 songs that they mailed to me. ![]()
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