Teen Love! (No Trend?)

Now here's a band that everyone loved to hate. "No Trend?" was notable in the DC punk-rock scene for insulting their audience, for example playing their genuinely atrocious (yet somehow almost danceable for all of that) song "Mindless Little Insects" while putting the spotlights on the audience and playing behind full-length mirrors. Their careers peaked when they played one year on July 4th at the Sylvan Theater, and really ramped up "Too Many Humans" NOT WORK SAFE (with the refrain "Stupid (redacted) Humans Breed Like Rats") and were reportedly pelted with no less than an entire cooler full of unopened beer bottles. Ad lib, the remark "and the really stupid ones throw full beer bottles". Reviled by almost all critics and having no fans whatsoever, shortly thereafter they disbanded, possibly because they were effectively banned at all DC area venues. Yet their career of mostly being Too Annoying Even For Punk Rock did contain one or two gems (okay, only one).

"No Trend?" somehow managed to get this track onto a list of "top ten essential college albums", published (I think) by Rolling Stone magazine. Well, that was this track. Have some heavy-handed social irony, early-1980s style.

We suspect bribery, or more likely, blackmail.

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