Trichotillomania

No rhetorical introduction on this one..."just the facts ma'am"...besides the title of the post sez it all, except that I'm bald headed...hahah...Betty Boop knows what's up.

In 1966 these guys knew what was up...I didn't know about them until about 15 years ago, during the music blog heyday, on Herr Keller's Good Bad Music. Such an important band, a standout when in 1966 there was so much goodness going down in the underground garage scene.

You're standing on a hill, looking down at the city

Thinking 'bout your life and your bottle of pills

They released you from the hospital, you're cured!

So this is how freedom feels?

Largactyl Relax (it's only paranoia)

Feel a little numb? Feel a little tired?

Your brain's asleep and your body's retired

You've learned to fit in. OBEY!

You're just a shadow of what you used to be

Largactyl Relax (it's only paranoia)

A comfortable life? A car and a wife?

It's only a dream but it's fuckin' obscene

You've learned to fit in, a vegetable!

Senility! At 21 they'll be coming for you

This song should be in the curriculum for all high school kids...then again, I heard the message early on and didn't listen too well.

I didn't know about the Cure until they were popular among other teens in the early 80s and the gothy folks ate them up (Boy's Don't Cry), but they were a much different band just a few years early. Their even earlier incarnation, Easy Cure, is quite delicious in my opinion.

My pals, retired Navy Senior Chiefs, Brian & Joe at the Madness concert recently in Seattle.

If you have a hankering for some 2nd wave Ska, Dance Craze would be the best 86 minutes spent in your fucking life...you already knew that, right? Still wish I knew how to skank like these folks did, but even when I was young my body wouldn't cooperate, now it would be like raising the dead.