Urusei Yatsura
I was reading an article today about Franz Ferdinand, and learned that the lead singer once guested with a little know Glaswegian indie band called Urusei Yatsura.
Now I know precisely nothing about Urusei Yatsura except that they had a song called "Slain by Elf" and a song called "Flaming Skull". Also a song about a girl in a bikini made from tiger fur, which I think was called "Hello Tiger". Oh, and they're named after some kind of, probably appalling, Japanese cartoon.
Flaming Skull was great, and it had an awesome bit in it where all the instruments dropped out but the drums, and the guy went: Inside the beat now, we're ripe to feed off the system. Or something like that, I don't have the song so it's hard to be sure.
Slain by Elf is a song that I do own. It's a kind of sub-Pavement thrash redeemed by the lyric:
"Hey Satan the mall's in chaos,
So help us to kill our parents"
They were joking, I hope.
All of this was pre-Columbine, and predicted the factors which would be blamed for the perpetrators' delicate mental health. Could Dungeons and Dragons drive a man to murder? Having watched the awful Jeremy Irons starring film debacle, I'm happy to believe it could.
Now I know precisely nothing about Urusei Yatsura except that they had a song called "Slain by Elf" and a song called "Flaming Skull". Also a song about a girl in a bikini made from tiger fur, which I think was called "Hello Tiger". Oh, and they're named after some kind of, probably appalling, Japanese cartoon.
Flaming Skull was great, and it had an awesome bit in it where all the instruments dropped out but the drums, and the guy went: Inside the beat now, we're ripe to feed off the system. Or something like that, I don't have the song so it's hard to be sure.
Slain by Elf is a song that I do own. It's a kind of sub-Pavement thrash redeemed by the lyric:
"Hey Satan the mall's in chaos,
So help us to kill our parents"
They were joking, I hope.
All of this was pre-Columbine, and predicted the factors which would be blamed for the perpetrators' delicate mental health. Could Dungeons and Dragons drive a man to murder? Having watched the awful Jeremy Irons starring film debacle, I'm happy to believe it could.

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