Aug 24, 2026 · 1 hr 8 min · 10 segments
I'm actually not sure whether we're supposed to watch out for each other in the pit, so do what feels right. Scare away the art school kids as we determine: Which punk house is most livable? If Matt…
because like all the stuff that fear is as a joke the crowbags just like are like the the song world peace is just about how you can't have world peace which is like almost literally a fear song so this is i'll get it out of the way up top everybody go listen to the one the one fear album the first nine songs are fantastic they've they've titles like let's have a war let's have a war And New York's alright if you like saxophones.
which is legitimately one of my, I don't know, three or four favorite songs maybe ever.
It's a delight.
They're talking about the streets and living on the streets and surviving on the streets and the justice for the streets.
It's cool because in 2025, it's just like, oh, that's just called justice now.
We call the other justice inside justice.
we're indoor justice and our outdoor justice as it were
So one thing that makes Cro-Mags great is there are multiple stories of their origin, which is not unusual.
What makes it unusual is that there are multiple stories of their origin that have all come from the same person.
He claims to have formed the band in 1980 two times with different groups of people.
So much gear.
more insane and roided out and vascular than you can possibly imagine he's the
reddest
he's the reddest man in the
world and
he's just
straining against his face picture henry rollins at his most jacked and most angry and then turn that turn that knob up i don't know
turn the 75% more.
Turn the skinny knob to meth, and then you're on to something.
Yeah, so another indication of where crowbags are at is they had a fight over their name, and that, again, not unusual.
because like all the stuff that fear is as a joke the crowbags just like are like the the song world peace is just about how you can't have world peace which is like almost literally a fear song so this is i'll get it out of the way up top everybody go listen to the one the one fear album the first nine songs are fantastic they've they've titles like let's have a war let's have a war And New York's alright if you like saxophones.
which is legitimately one of my, I don't know, three or four favorite songs maybe ever.
It's a delight.
They're talking about the streets and living on the streets and surviving on the streets and the justice for the streets.
It's cool because in 2025, it's just like, oh, that's just called justice now.
We call the other justice inside justice.
we're indoor justice and our outdoor justice as it were
So one thing that makes Cro-Mags great is there are multiple stories of their origin, which is not unusual.
What makes it unusual is that there are multiple stories of their origin that have all come from the same person.
He claims to have formed the band in 1980 two times with different groups of people.
So much gear.
more insane and roided out and vascular than you can possibly imagine he's the
reddest
he's the reddest man in the
world and
he's just
straining against his face picture henry rollins at his most jacked and most angry and then turn that turn that knob up i don't know
turn the 75% more.
Turn the skinny knob to meth, and then you're on to something.
Yeah, so another indication of where crowbags are at is they had a fight over their name, and that, again, not unusual.
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