This Throwback Thursday I can credit my cousin, Van, for putting me on this when we were kids. At this time I was fully entrenched in hip-hop music listening to Ice Cube, NWA and shortly after getting into the whole native tongues crew with A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Jungle Brothers, etc. Every summer I’d visit my cousin down in Virginia, but I can remember this particular summer he had some new jams he showed me that I ain’t even heard of at the time. I still remember walking into his room and seeing the GWAR poster that he had up on his wall near the door, bet you didn’t think I’d remember did you. Anyways he proceeded to show me some new music he had picked up and within the assortment of albums was the 1988 Danzig self-titled album. I remembered listening to that cassette all day and all night long, ahhhh memories of when we were young. Just wait til next week to see what he introduced me to only a few years later. Back to the topic, the track that still gets me pumped up to this day is Danzig’s “Mother”, the song is fuckin’ hard and mad satanic, but shit I love it. Also Glenn Danzigs’ vocals are ridiculous, I think his voice is the essential heavy rock voice. The above video is the original video that came out in ‘88, but this song blew up again in like ‘93 or some shit and they remade the video, which can be seen below. Enjoy.
