Powerman 5000 rant

Powerman 5000. Villainous, destruction-fueled industrial-undertone rock.

If there was one thing good about my first boyfriend was that he introduced me to PM5K.

Since then frontman Spider One taught me about good and evil, harvesting my teenage angst, post-apocalyptic fashion, and the 1-man stompy dance. I pretty much aspired to achieve a stompy to sexy balance ratio as shown in their video "Bombshell" because well.. I really wanted to be an androgynously sexy cyborg.

And they taught me that on their album "Tonight The Stars Revolt" which was probably THEIR BEST ALBUM because of the content, and the kick-ass music videos which it produced.

After that was "Transform" in which they all started wearing denim and shooting cheap videos in an empty studio and singing about freedom, and being a rich American rockstar. I mean really? I think that suits Nickelback better, because they suck. You start your own record label and this is what you do? Fail. Transform was on a totally different spectrum than "Tonight The Stars Revolt." It's hopeful and inspiring and lacks evil substance AND THAT'S JUST WRONG!

They dropped their apocalyptic cyber stillsuits for DENIM?! I have no words to describe the atrociousness. What if hot cyborg-chick came back to destroy you and you were rocking out in denim in an empty studio? That is not a very honorable way to go. But holding an angsty concert in the apocalyptic desert wearing suffocating stillsuits while stomping around.. it's ever more redeeming. And epic.

Thankfully, they got their villain helmets back on, dropped the denim look, and started making hard music again and singing about the really important things like how awesome it is to be a villain, and even incorporated the traditional machinistic death arm of men-turning-into-machines-having-street-duels-to-the-death characteristic of cyberpunk Japanese movies into their videos. Much better.