wait, what fucking year is it?

There's a new Ghostface Killah record in stores right now, Def Jam is the leading hip-hop label, Green Day is playing to millions of people on a stadium tour and there's a Clinton in office somewhere. So why exactly has time stopped and I've kept aging?

I'm not exactly sure, but I can tell you that apparently the 90's have come back into full effect. Let's ignore the fact that the decade really didn't happen too long ago and that many of its clothing trends such as big, baggy jeans for the rap kids and tight pants and sweaters for the rawk set are still par for the course, but what the fuck is up with this shit?


It's bad enough that we've had to get bombarded with a lackluster Smashing Pumpkins tribute album featuring repulsive covers by equally repulsive bands, but "Punk Goes 90's?" First off (as Adam Barone of punkrocks.net pointed out), there are no punk bands on this compilation. They're either that ridiculous "screamo" hybrid that died out ages ago, or an oversensitive "indie" poser band. Well, except for Gym Class Heroes, whose hip-hop cover of Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Under the Bridge" is sure to have backpackers racing to their nearby Best Buys to get a copy of "Bloodsugarsexmagik." Not.

Gym Class Fucking Heroes? Aren't they the second coming of Crazy Town? Wouldn't it have been truer to their nature to cover "Butterfly?"

What person at Fearless thought this was a good idea? Seriously, are you really trying to hang onto your youth so badly that you would have a subpar band like Emery destroy (and not in a figurative sense) Toad the Wet Sprocket? Or the Starting Line cover Bjork? That's just idiotic.

With the better part of the 00's over, there's still nothing that speaks volumes about anything that has stood out culturally outside of "American Idol" or "Desperate Housewives." We have more or less been living in an extension of the 90s and to "rehash" it to a new generation of stupid kids who'll probably start wearing Pendelton and pick up a used copy of "In Utero" and act like they've always been down is no different than when Jon Bon Jovi started rocking the flannel and pretended he was some working class rocker (word to the Boss).

Fearless Records needs to stop putting out these worthless, punkless "Punk Goes...." comps, and go back to putting out At the Drive In reissues.