Every Friday the punk rock geniuses here at Dying Scene unleash some punk rock trivia. Today’s “fun factoid” is about one of the all time best songs by Florida ska-Punk legends Less Than Jake, “All My Best Friends Are Metalheads.”
If you’ve heard the song off the band’s 1998 album, “Hello Rockview” then you know there is a comical soundbite as the intro, but did you know there are actually 2 versions? One has a stoned sounding kid rambling about how “Punk belongs on f’ing Mars, man!” which came from a short documentary called “Heavy Metal Parking Lot” that chronicles the parking lot antics of Judas Priest fans. The other intro for the song contains a clip about teenagers sniffling glue from a Victor Lundberg speech called “An Open Letter to My Teenage Son.”
You can check out the various intros and their origins right here.