The industrious work of the Toot’s prog rock auxiliaries has revealed the following masterpieces of musical packaging:
Gert Jonnys, eat your hearts out:
And, in what might be the ultimate commentary on the genre:
See also: here, here, here, here, here. I tried to decrease the overall Swedishness of this selection by including some horrible Glenn Danzig covers, but that would just open up whole new vistas of Swedish nonsense that are best left unexplored. So, instead, here’s Glenn Danzig deservedly knocked on his ass:
And here’s Jim Rome, receiving a partial shipment of same:
Good times.
October 23, 2008 at 4:54 pm
Great stuff.
I’d like to offer up this OT link for no other reason than it’s full of immature shots at Palin. In other words, it’s hilarious. Easter eggs everywhere.
http://www.palinaspresident.us/
October 23, 2008 at 5:22 pm
I think I went to a “stuff party” once. The stuff was pretty good.
October 23, 2008 at 5:23 pm
How about Stossel? Certainly his mustache is bad album cover material.
October 23, 2008 at 5:31 pm
David Schultz is my new hero.
October 23, 2008 at 5:38 pm
That is just *so* wrong on many levels.
October 23, 2008 at 6:08 pm
The comments thread to the Danzig YouTube video is probably the best thing that exists on the Internet.
October 23, 2008 at 6:14 pm
WHATEVER GLEN DANZIG IS OVER 8 FEET TALL 600 LSB AND HAS A BLACK BLET IN MARTIAN ARTS FROM SENSAY LUCIFER!!! THAT GUYS FAT AND YUOR FAT!!!!
October 23, 2008 at 6:18 pm
AND YES MY NAME IS VOX DAY AND FUCK YOU FOR ASKING!!! I WILL BENCH PRESS YUOR FAGGIT FACE OFF!!!
October 23, 2008 at 6:25 pm
I WOOD SAY MORE BUT EVRYTIME I PUNCH A LETTER ONTO THE INTERNET MESSAJE BORED MY KEYBOARD EXPLODES INTO 50 THUOSAND PEICES – 1 FOR EACH TIME I PUNCH YUOR FACE!!!! AND YES MAYBE I CUOLD USE LESS EXCLIMATION POINTS BUT MAYBE YOUR FACE COULD USE MORE PUNCHES!!!!!!!
October 23, 2008 at 6:33 pm
…MY KEYBOARD EXPLODES INTO 50 THUOSAND PEICES – 1 FOR EACH TIME I PUNCH YUOR FACE!!!!
Wow – Jeff K. discovers meth!
October 23, 2008 at 7:32 pm
” …MY KEYBOARD EXPLODES INTO 50 THUOSAND PEICES – 1 FOR EACH TIME I PUNCH YUOR FACE!!!!”
I rode in here on a William Gibson riff and I *still* ain’t afraid to use it: this is obvious evidence that “the internet is everting”.
And remember, pro-wrestling was the first post-modern self-referentially ironic sport to use real vat-grown cyborg giant-size action figures.
October 23, 2008 at 7:36 pm
“8 FEET TALL 600 LSB”
Sounds like a description of lysergic acid biothyromad, or psychedlic steroids, and the way you make you look in the mirror when your… peeking. (ouch! forgive me, Shakira)
Watch out for Kenyans.
October 23, 2008 at 7:37 pm
Huh. I wrote ‘your’. Gotta lay off the energy drinks.
October 23, 2008 at 7:40 pm
Those links take you to endless vistas of wet mustaches.
October 23, 2008 at 11:33 pm
It begs the question: why isn’t Jim Rome beaten more often?
October 24, 2008 at 1:52 am
Knock the Swedes all you like. So long as you don’t diss Denmark, there won’t be any trouble.
Oi, how come Thers gets a Pint of Plain for his gravatar? Favouritism.
October 24, 2008 at 3:59 am
I think it’s really clever that in the middle of one of those links, they actually try to fool the reader by throwing in the best record cover of all time, Scorpions-Animal Magnetism.
Don’t make me get Greil Marcus and Cornel West over here to argue for it.
October 24, 2008 at 7:25 am
In a Pitchfork interview with Dave Willis, creator of Aqua Teen Hunger Force, there was a funny part where Willis describes the struggle of working with Danzig:
Danzig played himself in a 2002 episode titled “Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past from the Future”. “He sent us back on design elements quite a bit,” Willis recalls. “We’d fax him pictures of himself, and he’d be like, ‘I’m way more cut than that!’
“So we’d keep redoing it, and at a certain point, one of our animators said, ‘I really can’t make him more cut, then it will just be– I know it’s a cartoon, but it will be beyond cartoonish.’
“Fortunately Danzig was okay with the way we had done his abs on that particular drawing. I think he was also concerned about size, too, and in the episode I think we made him like 6’6″, you know, he’s a giant…and we all know that’s not true.
October 24, 2008 at 8:31 am
If that Swedish guy is going to chop up and eat his wife and eight children, you’d think he’d put the bleeding gobbets of their flesh on something tastier than Wonder Bread.
October 24, 2008 at 4:07 pm
OMG! Seeing Danzig getting popped like that is sweet. The only martial arts technique he seems expert at is the “lead with your chin then lie unconscious on the floor form.”