Here's What I think About Stiff Kittens

I've always liked wearing hats. Especially baseball hats. And to me the perfect hat--indeed any hat worth wearing--is a pro fit hat, none of this one-size-fits-all crap. I want to wear what the pros wear and you've never seen them wearing a one-size-fits-all hat. The worst of the worst hats are the ones that have the mesh on all of it but the front panel and are adjustable to top it off. In the 90's I felt like my fellow hat enthusiasts and I fought against those stupid mesh hats with the adjustable straps. And it worked. We got professional quality fitted hats and no one wore the stupid mesh hats with the adjustable straps. So guess what becomes popular in the mid-2000's? Stupid mesh hats with the adjustable straps.

So. How does this relate to Stiff Kittens? We talked earlier about how I despise the time in my life where I thought Depeche Mode and The Cure were the greatest things in the world. I hate that pseudo-goth, superficial, romanticized crap. And now there is a part of me that cringes every time I head Dave Gahan's or Robert Smith's voice even though I know they and their bands made some good stuff (see Violator and Disintegration). So, that DM/Cure sound is the flippin hidious trucker hat on my soul. And when I hear a song like "Stiff Kittens" that I've never heard before but has even the hint of DM/Cure to it I fight it. Like I said earlier in the IM the song was growing on me. And it's not like it was bad. I just have some barriers I have to escort it through before I can enjoy it. Meanwhile, I'm still collecting awesome music and wearing professionally fit baseball hats.