Napalm Death – Scum (1987)

[Album 698/1001]

Averages can be misleading.

For example, when talking about the songs Siege of Power and You Suffer, the average track length is exactly 2 minutes.

Most would assume that the songs were both hovering around the 2 minute mark in length, give or take a few seconds.

But that would be a dangerous assumption* to make.

As in this case, Siege of Power was a veritable marathon track, clocking in at 3:59.

And You Suffer, with its track length of 0:01 (!) was recognized by the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s shortest song!

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Luigi: Hey, Krusty, hey. Beautiful date tonight, huh? And such lovely children you have now.
Bart: I’m more striking than lovely.
Luigi: You come with me. Come with Luigi. You don’t want to sit with the rest of the scum.
Crowd: Hey! What’s going on?!
Luigi: I only consider you scum compared to Krusty.
Crowd: Well, I can see that.
Luigi: Yeah, you see how you scum.

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Do you have a favourite ‘Grindcore’ artist?

Thanks to the wikipedia, I learned this week that Grindcore is “an extreme fusion genre of heavy metal and hardcore punk.”

And the cheerfully-titled Napalm Death was at the forefront of the musical movement.

Like Bart in the quote above, most would agree that their album, Scum, is considerably more striking than lovely.

But how does Napalm Death appear when compared to Krusty the Clown?

Are they considered scum?

I’m not sure if Napalm Death would have enjoyed much success as children’s entertainers.

Then again, they likely didn’t bet all their money Against the Harlem Globetrotters!

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Verbalize the Positive

*I’m sure I’ve shared this clip before – but I was a huge fan of the teacher/coach character on Fresh Prince & I’d say he sums up the perils of making assumptions quite effectively!