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Hello Sorry Staters! We have seen some great weather and sun and I think we have finally gotten rid of the snow for this winter season. I hope everyone can go outside and get some sun on their face and enjoy some great weather! We have been restocking a lot of great records for ya’ll this past week, including one of my favorites, the Prison Affair EPs and the split with Research Reactor Corporation! After reading Daniel’s pick last week talking about about watching old videos of Headbanger’s Ball on YouTube, I thought it would be fun to chat about some skate videos that bridged the gap between me listening to christian punk in my early formative years to watching skate videos on the weekend and discovering bands like the Sonic Youth and The Sundays.
One of my favorite videos that I always go back to watch even in my early 40s is “Welcome To Hell” by the mighty Toy Machine Skateboards. The video starts out with an animation of the Toy Machine logo laughing in slow motion and sounding very creepy, and I know as a 16 year old watching this video with friends I thought “oh hell yes, this is going to kick ass.” Out of nowhere Lard starting playing the background and the video blasts into non stop back to back clips of the Toy Machine skate team flying off of ramps and rails. I was hooked by not only how fucking cool skateboarding looked, but the power of the music behind the scenes.
The soundtrack of this video included so many great bands and songs that I had never heard before. It was my first introduction to bands like Sonic Youth, The Sundays and Lard. It was the first time I had ever heard Black Sabbath outside of hearing it or seeing it on MTV. Even though I could not skateboard, I was obsessed with the culture and the music scene that pushed all the music that I still love today.