Mike Adams At His Honest Weight

I'm really not trying to sound like an old fuck who complains about millennials, because fuck those old fucks. Technology changes different generations and we shouldn't hold these advancements against them. The same hypocritical assholes complaining about participation trophies would proudly don a ribbon advertising that they had it harder than the youngin's. 

BOO fucking HOO. 

They complain about mundane shit like: "We couldn't simply skip songs with a touch of the button back in my day. We had to fast forward a fucking cassette tape, stop and listen, fast forward a little more, stop and listen, rewind a little, stop and listen, decide to give up and just listen to the end of the song that proceeded the song we wanted to skip to in the first place.  And if we fast-forward it too many times the fucking tape player would eat the ribbon and then we'd have to carefully pry it out of the stereo, find a hexagonal number 2 pencil and wind that fucker back up." 

Guess what? Young people don't care about your struggles. And complaining about them makes you look like a fucking piece of shit with old balls and one too many skin tags. Every generation has had their struggles throughout history. After the wheel was invented, the elder caveman were probably saying some shit like: 'these kids have it so easy...they don't even know.'

BUT there is something that 'the kids these days' will miss out on. And it's not necessarily good or bad and I'm not holding it over their head: compilation albums. With the inventions of iTunes, Spotify, etc. you can easily make your own compilation album. It's called a fucking playlist. 

However, back in my day, sometimes artists would only release a single as part of a compilation. This would always initially suck. I'd say to myself, 'In order for me to own this song I have to buy a CD full of songs by artists I've never heard before?????' If I liked the song enough, I'd bite the bullet and buy the compilation. Sometimes the compilation would suck and sometimes it'd be a trojan horse of awesomeness. 

My favorite compilation album of the 90's was No Alternative. A lot of my friends had the album and we all bought the album for the hidden track: Nirvana's 'Verse Chorus Verse.' Sure, maybe some got it for the Smashing Pumpkins track or the Soundgarden track, but 'Verse Chorus Verse' was blowing up the radio. 

MY POINT IS that No Alternative introduced me so many great artists that I ended up listening to when I need a break from grunge. Artists like Bob Mould, Buffalo Tom, Matthew Sweet, Urge Overkill, Pavement, etc. And those artists led me to other artists like Adam Ant and Toad The Wet Sprocket. All these artists represent this era of mid 90's alternative rock that sounds so distinct to me. And because I don't hear many of these songs anymore, when I hear anything that remotely resembles this era, it taps into my nostalgia and I feel fucking great. 

This brings me to (finally) Mike Adams At His Honest Weight and his new album Casino Drone. Not only does it tap into that era, I swear this shit was meant to be the 4th hidden track on the No Alternative compilation. Bright rock and fucking flannels. This shit makes me want to watch Ethan Hawk movies and sneak some Zimas from my parent's fridge. 

So, in conclusion, I barely talked about Mike Adams in this review specifically meant for his new album. But if it made you reflect back to the alternative-but-not-so-grungey music of the mid 90's I said all I can say. Sometimes a review needs to describe the music. This one just needed me reflect back to an earlier time. I banged out this so-called-review in 15 minutes because the music immediately inspired me, and as I write this, I'm not even finished with album, but I'm still giving it 10 stars because it's so fucking tits. Thank you for the nostalgic trip Mike Adams. 

Casino Drone comes out 5-20 via Joyful Noise. You can pre-order here.