Man, I know this is becoming something of a Friday theme, but I am BEAT. Given its effectiveness last week, I’m thinking the cozy blare of fuzzy power chords played at eleven is the surest remedy. The Mats really did the trick before, so I’ll stick with the 80s underground, but this time switch up the beer-fueled carousal of Minneapolis’s finest (that’s right, I said it, Mould) for some heroin-blitzkrieg by LA punk legends, X. Probably best known for “Johny Hit and Run Paulene”—the most disturbingly catchy song about rape you’ll ever hear—the band peppered their sound liberally with elements of rockabilly, blues, and country, which for me makes their music a lot more listenable (and, more importantly, re-listenable) than many of their contemporaries’. The fact that the members of X could actually play their respective instruments, ranging from the good (John Doe’s Jim Morrison impression) to the virtuosic (Billy Zoom on guitar), also helps matters. Anyhoo, here’s a couple off the band’s major label debut, Under the Big Black Sun (1982). Everybody have a pleasant Easter weekend.