For starters, the guitar riff 3:19 into the classic Meatmen cut, “Centurions of Rome” could have been a chart-burner in modern rock a-la 5-7 years ago.

For those not familiar with the band, The Meatmen, it’s basically a ranting madman along with Brian Baker (Badger Legion, Minor Threat), Lyle Preslar (Minor Threat, A&R dude for major labels) and some dudes with a million nicknames (don’t worry, he’ll tell you most of them on the album “We’re the Meatmen, And You Still Suck!!!”. Kind of a metal-sounding parody of the hardcore punk scene of the early-to-mid-1980s. I was listening to listening to a good deal of crap metal at the time they were around, so you think they’d be on my radar, but apparently not!

Apparently people actually think this band is non-ironically cussing out foreign people, lesbians, and Morrissey but also in a round about way conducting homosexual stage antics and picking fights with rednecks. So is the enigma of this band.

And so is the enigma that is this life.

The Meatmen - “Centurions of Rome”