Zolof the Rock & Roll Destroyer "Argh... I'm a Pirate" & "Crazy = Cute" from Popsicle Live at The Journey Music Madison, WI May 25, 2006

After the first opening band finished (a local act called Clamorous, who reminded me a lot of Hello, Trauma, who opened last year for Karmella's Game, who remind me a lot of Zolof), we went upstairs to buy some merch. While I was deciding on a shirt, Emily asked the Zolof guy to play "Popsicle," because she thought it was the song I'd been talking about wanting to hear earlier in the day. He said that because he was new to the band they'd been playing a pretty strict set, which didn't include that song. In actuality, the song I wanted was "Crazy = Cute," the second song in this brief medley. This was the song that really awakened me to the band, and it's maybe the best two minutes of insane, 12-year-old scream pop ever made. If this song doesn't make you want to run around and jump and yell, you have no soul and you're a jerk.

("Argh... I'm a Pirate" is pretty good, if only for the lyrics about "plunder[ing] each other.")