@therealahall Back in school my mom would always pack up loads of cookies and stuff for field trips because I usually wouldn't eat what they prepared for us.

This is the grown-up and more ethical version of that. 😁

@tomroberts I hadn't heard about Bloodywood (or maybe I did see you post about them before?), so I put their name in a search engine the usual way: "Bloodywood metallum"

One thing I never understood is why nu metal and (some) metalcore are excluded from the archive. It seems so arbitrary, not to say elistist or gatekeeper-ish.

@tomroberts Which reminds me, Blut aus Nord: I bought their latest album but haven't listened to it nearly as much as I should have.

Good playlist, though!

@therealahall I've gave the album a proper listen today (with headphones and all), and I liked it a lot. Everything about it sounds as if the individuals as well as the band as a whole had something in them that needed expression.

The last two albums were good but my first impression is that this is something special again.

@jake4480 I was born in '88, so I wasn't there for Dookie, and I suspect it must have been a very different sensation in the US. But it was among the first bands I ever liked.

I still have a soft spot American Idiot, because it was all the rage at the time I finished high school. I really don't know why (it's not a time of my life I'm generally nostalghic for), but for some reason I still remember these days very vividly, and it feels like Green Day was always playing in the background.