Break Up Your Band

John Frusciante is a writer/performer living in NYC. His writing about music and comedy has appeared on AmplifierMagazine.com, The Onion News Network, Cracked.com, etc. He can frequently be seen at the UCB Theatre, where he is the Artistic Associate. He has the same name as--but is not the same person as--the guitarist for the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

May 24
A song from the 90s crypt: Dink’s “Green Mind.”

At first, the samples in this song don’t seem to have much of a connection to the larger material, but if we listen there arises a theme within the song of being lost and retreating into a sort of mental isolation, an every-man-for-themselves feel that springs from an agreement that things are all pretty fucked up, which is what most industrial music is about (even the hyper-sexualized “Do What You Want To Do To Me” grand scheme of Lords of Acid reflects this to some degree). This song is like the bad-ass, cynical cousin to lame momma’s boy Jesus Jones’ whiny, over-optimistic “Right Here Right Now.”

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