9/12 Celebration - (hed) P.E. - IFO

I was literally about to post a bunch and the next one was going to be Unmarked Helicopters. One of the greatest songs written about UFOs ever, even if it didn't have the added cache of being (extremely briefly and badly mixed) in the bacjground of an X Files episode. Max fucking rocks, both as a character and a double-episode. Fuck the 'Keys of X' version that shortens it and forces the theme in at the end.

They were a band I saw sometime in the late 90s (not sure if it was before or after the Jive deal) on recomendation of a work friend because "you like that rap and metal stuff". I saw them a few times later, but that early energy was incredible. I've never really gotten over that first album, for all its flaws, as a result.

Obviously it was later and rawer and maybe full on all the time, but It reminded me of the the first time I saw Dub War who might be one of the most underated / overlooked bands of the 90s. Partly because I went back to wathcing UK bands and when the rap/metal thing kicked off a couple of years later it already felt old and kind of a US import (apart from the aforementioned).