Word: glamming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These five musicians did not always call themselves Ugly Kid Joe. Eichstadt came up with the name first as a joke, just a one-time thing. The asyet-unnamed band needed something to put on the flyers advertising their gig with L.A. glam band Pretty Boy Floyd, whose lipstick and moussed hair strikingly contrasted with the simple, natural good looks of the opening band...
...Whiplash Liquor" celebrates the wild, weekend parties of high school. In this ode to "rock n'roll in the cul-de-sac," Ugly Kid Joe also offers a light hearted explanation of just who they really are: "Suburban white alcoholic trash/We ain't glam and we ain't thrash/We're victims of a society/That fucks with me about sobriety...
...alone conjure images of mayhem, torture and death. Heavy-metal rock, with its raw lyrics, pummeling beats, banshee vocals and buzz-saw guitars, seems custom-made for leather-clad lowlifes with tattooed biceps and lobotomized brains. Teenagers love it. Always have. But during the early 1980s, when the insipid glam-rock of Duran Duran ruled the charts, heavy metal was the idiot in the basement, shunned by music-industry executives and dismissed by critics as adolescent noise...