I’m, as I’ve mentioned before, a Live and Let Die kind of person. I don’t really care if people do stupid things to themselves.

Where I do draw the line is when the stupid things that people do affect innocent people. Over 4th of July weekend, the Los Angeles Fire Department responded to over 1000 fires. There was also a wildfire in the mountains.

Care to hazard a guess as to why there were so many fires?

There were too many damn idiots lighting fireworks without knowing what the fuck they were doing

Listen, I laugh heartily along with the rest of you when JPP loses fingers from his hand. I don’t laugh at all when people’s houses and kids’ classrooms get burned down because idiots don’t know how to properly set off fireworks.

It’s stupid and it’s time to do something about it. It’s time to ban the sale of fireworks in Los Angeles County.

Clearly there are too many idiots that don’t know how to safely use them. This is why we can’t have nice things.

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Today, I will be showing you Tik Tok girls that have something in common, but I won’t tell you what it is. I’ll make it a hidden theme and see if anyone can guess it. My money is on Moose.

Without further ado, here are this week’s dirty dirty Tik Tok girls. Enjoy:

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And now, the next episode of our new feature!

As I mentioned before, I’ve decided that I must take up the mantle that tWBS ran with and help to make this world a better place. I will do this in the one way he couldn’t: By introducing you to good music!

My aim each week will be to showcase a tune or band from the 80s (the best decade EVAR!) that not many people know about or have heard of. In this way, hopefully these artists will find new audiences and the old audiences can reminisce about what they were doing in the 80s.

Today is the first of a two-part post!

The subject of today’s first part gets into the songs produced by the band that bears this artist’s name yet preceded his solo work. I will delve more deeply into his solo work next week.

Started in London, produced by Malcom McLaren, and eventually dismantled to form Bow Wow Wow, this band put out a brilliant debut punk album in 1979 followed by successful follow-ups in 1980 and 1981. They were hugely influential and introduced the world to the concept of having two drum kits playing at the same time. And they also made me want to be a pirate.

The band, of course, was Adam and the Ants.

As I mentioned before, KROQ in LA was my source for discovering new music in the early 80s. They were very good about playing every kind of new music type and they played Adam and the Ants quite a bit. Their early sound was raw and punkish.

You can hear that raw sound in one of their early hits, “Whip in my Valise”:

You can also hear it in Physical:

Shortly after the release of their debut album, the Ants were shipped off to join 13-year old Anabella Lwin in Bow Wow Wow. With a brand new set of Ants, Adam recorded his second album, Kings of the Wild Frontier, and released it in 1980. It was full of slightly less raw but still rocking and danceable songs like “Antmusic”:

“Dog Eat Dog”:

and another more polished version of Physical.

The band quickly recorded another album, Prince Charming, and put it out in 1981. It produced the classic “Stand and Deliver”:

In 1982, Adam felt the Ants were not as “into” the band as he was and decided to disband and follow a solo career. He did keep a few of the Ants and did follow along the same musical footsteps as Adam and the Ants such as continuing to use two drummers. His sound also became a little more New Wave-ish, which led to greater success.

But that’s a story for next week. Adam and the Ants were so influential that their song “Physical” would end up being covered by Nine Inch Nails:

I bet you that you had no idea that was originally an Adam and the Ants song.

While Adam and the Ants only lasted for a little bit, they left behind great songs and paved the way for the mega success that Adam Ant later enjoyed during his solo career. Plus, TWO MOTHERFUCKING DRUMMERS AT THE SAME TIME!

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That’s all for this week, folks! Be good to each other and try to stay the fuck away from stupid people. That’s not COVID-19 advice, that’s just general good sense. See you next week!