...I'm really liking The Darkness. They're a British band that plays basically hair metal, cock rock, whatever you want to call it. Pretending the last 20 years never happened, which seems like an okay idea to me. The lead singer has this ridiculous Tiny-Tim-being-castrated-in-a-helium-tent wail and wears outfits that would make Freddie Mercury go "Tone it down, sissy," and they've got songs with titles like "Get Your Hands Off My Woman (Motherfucker)" and "Love On The Rocks With No Ice." I can't tell if they're making a big joke (like Satanicide) or if they really mean it, or some combination thereof, but I like it. It's kind of like if Tenacious D lost 70% of their body weight and started rocking even harder. Or Spinal Tap if they weren't faking their accents and maybe, just maybe, weren't kidding.
Check out their videos and see just how lame I am. The best one is where a pterodactyl humps a spaceship and the spaceship drops giant eggs from the sky and the band hatches out of the eggs as little kids, and then the kids fly around in a helicopter and it gets hit by lightning and turns them into adults, and then they land and run into a big mansion and start rocking out. We need more videos like that.
Posted by Jim Treacher at November 17, 2003 07:59 PM