Classic Rock

“I BOW DOWN TO THIS SONG”

30 PARTY HARD

Andrew W.K. From: 1 Get Wet, 2001

It’s October 2001. One month has passed since the 9/11 terror attacks on New York. Grief and fury mix like a Molotov cocktail on the streets of America. George W Bush’s war machine rolls into Afghanistan to extract Osama Bin Laden, while back home popular culture is defanged to soothe a raw nation, with a list of 160 ‘lyrically inappropriate songs’ allegedly

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