Screaming Skull

Track 5 on Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star

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This song’s lyrics were written after a conversation with Dave Markey about the SST Superstore, an independent record store in Los Angeles. Markey is a movie director… Read More

May. 3, 19941 viewer

Screaming Skull Lyrics

SST superstore
Society, Screaming Skull
Lemonheads, superstore
Society, SST
I go there, I don't care
I go there, it's just to stare
Let's go there, it's just it's fair
I go there for Pat Smear

Superchunk, Society
Sunset Strip, Screaming Skull
Society, Hüsker Dü
Lemonheads, SST
I go there, but I don't care
I go there, it's just to stare
Let's go there, Sister's there
I go there for Pat Fear

Society, superstore
SST, Lemonheads
Sunset strip, society
Screaming skull, Hüsker Dü
I go there, but I don't care
I go there, it's just to stare
Let's go there, it's just it's fair
I go there for Pat Smear

About

This song’s lyrics were written after a conversation with Dave Markey about the SST Superstore, an independent record store in Los Angeles. Markey is a movie director famous for 1991: The Year Punk Broke and many music videos for underground bands (including Sonic Youth and Black Flag).

By the time Experimental Jet Set… came out, it was already their third album on a major label, and here they seem to be longing for their time as underground artists, releasing albums through SST records.

Throughout the song, the band name-drops a few of the bands, persons and records that made their underground music “society” of the 1980s great.