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But the music sits completely apart from all of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFour working class kids from El Cerrito, California who sounded like they'd grown up in the Louisiana bayou.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFourteen consecutive top ten singles between 1969 and 1971 and not a single number one among them — which is one of the most remarkable statistics in rock history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBob Dylan and George Harrison eventually talked Fogerty into playing \u003cbr\u003ethe songs again in 1987.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe'd been holding out for fifteen years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWorth the wait.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe skull is the same.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA pure pour of clear over a slightly opaque base — simple, classy and genuinely one of the most popular skulls I've made.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePeople just stop and stare at it. I completely understand why.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSometimes the clearest things are the most beautiful.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Skull Guy London","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56882028806527,"sku":"1025_003_CR_C_L_E","price":180.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0979\/7858\/1375\/files\/1025_003_CR_C_L_E_forever.gif?v=1776884846"},{"product_id":"pink-turns-to-blue-ii","title":"PINK TURNS TO BLUE II","description":"\u003cp\u003eIf you've seen the first Pink Turns to Blue you already know where the name comes from.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis one picks up where that left off — and takes the restraint I showed on the original and throws most of it out the window.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhich feels right for a Hüsker Dü sequel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first description covered Zen Arcade and what the song meant. What it didn't cover is what happened after.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHüsker Dü were so relentlessly prolific they released New Day Rising and Flip Your Wig in 1985 alone — the year after Zen Arcade.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThree albums in two years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey signed to Warner Bros, one of the first hardcore bands to make that \u003cbr\u003ejump, and the tension between Bob Mould and Grant Hart — two completely different songwriters sharing the same band — made every record feel like it was being pulled in opposite directions at once.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat tension is what made them great and eventually what finished them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTheir manager died on Christmas Day 1987.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe band broke up weeks later.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGrant Hart died in 2017.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBob Mould still tours and still sounds like nobody else.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome things get better when you stop holding back.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSame DNA as the original lamp — spattered light blue and neon pink over a darker blue body — but this time I was a lot less restrained with the splatter and the impact is completely different.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt's the same song played louder.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Skull Guy London","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56882144510335,"sku":"0925_002_PK_BP_L_EP","price":180.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0979\/7858\/1375\/files\/0925_002_PK_BP_L_EP_forever.gif?v=1776884780"},{"product_id":"raining-blood","title":"RAINING BLOOD","description":"\u003cp\u003eSlayer, after whose song this skull is named, once said: \"hoowarrrr ahhhhh grrr errrrgh.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI'm not entirely sure I agree with that. But I do know that RAINING BLOOD was the only name that made sense for this one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSlayer released Reign in Blood in 1986 and it basically broke heavy metal. 29 minutes, 10 songs, produced by Rick Rubin, a hip hop producer who'd never touched metal before and somehow made the heaviest record anyone had heard.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Raining Blood\" closes the album. It starts with 33 seconds of rain, builds into one of the most recognisable riffs in metal history, and it's been in Slayer's live set ever since. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJeff Hanneman wrote it. It outlived him. Even Tori Amos covered it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnyway. 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You need to see the light come through it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt's my favourite skull, and honestly, I really don't want to sell it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Skull Guy London","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57249442038143,"sku":"0126_010_DR_CBR_L_EP","price":180.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0979\/7858\/1375\/files\/0126_010_DR_CBR_L_EP_forever.gif?v=1776884724"},{"product_id":"mellow-yellow","title":"MELLOW YELLOW","description":"\u003cp\u003eThey call it mellow yellow. 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