Post-Haste: 1500 Words That Won’t Tell You What Mark Lanegan’s Bubblegum Sounds Like
At age 26, you run out of markers. Your adolescence is just first after first after first: first wet dream, first period, first guilty masturbation, first fight, first drunk, first boob touch, first weird homoerotic dream, first crotch warmth detected through jeans, first high, first shoplifting, first lay, first heartbreak, first blackout. So, too, with rock ‘n roll–emblematic, iconic first after first: Look What the Cat Dragged in, Appetite for Destruction, London Calling, And Justice For All, Out of Step, The Real Thing, Nothing’s Shocking, Sticky Fingers, Nevermind, Highway 61 Revisited, Surfer Rosa, In the Flat Field, Revolution Girl Style Now, Extra Width. This is, of course, a revisionist history, as all history is revisionist, because genocide may be easier to explain than an affinity for the Steve Miller Band and House of Pain.