Word: skag
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...skag heaven...
Although this Louisville quintet has existed since 1982 and released an eponymous debut in 1985, it is on skag heaven that Squirrelbait make their best claim to sovereignty. Basically, this disk features four-chord power rock played with an abandon utterly lacking in most AOR music. It doesn't matter what material Squirrelbait chooses--from an original composition sensitively entitled "Black Light Poster Child" to a cover of Phil Ochs' "Road Tape From California"-- every song on skag comes out rough and tumble...
...there who are belatedly purchasing Zen Arcade or other Husker Du albums, might want to take heed. Sample skag heaven by Squirrelbait and catch a new trend in the making...
...will be through hysterical efforts to control street crime. A general feeling among whites, he reports, is that "We've done enough for the bastards." A widespread belief among Detroit blacks, he learns, is that whites flooded the city's black slums with "skag"-cheap, low-grade heroin-as a deliberate pacification measure, cheaper and easier than giving machine guns to the police...