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Pissed Jeans – I’ve Still Got You (Ice Cream) (2007)

Overall, hardcore kids are really lame, and are still considered losers in pretty much any social circle, especially those growing up in a place like Allentown, PA. That hardcore has stayed important to some people, and, more surprisingly, has even started to come back into favor, is rather astounding considering how preposterous the movement was from the start. But if you’re going to have a hardcore revival, you have to address that lameness head-on. How else to do it than with a song with basically the most pathetic image you can imagine: a guy staying at home on a Saturday night with a bucket of ice cream, and he’s actually happy to have it? If you can’t laugh at that idea when you’re penniless and feeling pretty lame with nothing to do, what else can you laugh at? It’s why losers of all ages have listened to bands like the Stooges, the Ramones, and the Big Black, and it’s why Pissed Jeans that may very well be their modern-day successors.

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