In North America, opossum and possum describe the same thing, but in Australia the word possum refers to a completely different animal. OPOSSUMS AND POSSUMS AREN’T THE SAME ANIMAL. The truth is just the opposite: Opossums are smarter, cleaner, and more beneficial to humans than many of their woodland neighbors. They’re often thought of as dimwitted, dirty creatures whose most impressive trick is acting like roadkill. Opossums, which include the roughly 100 species in the order Didelphimorphia, are some of the most misunderstood animals in the Americas.
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"The Awesome Snakes Discuss The Awesomeness Of Various Snakes". ^ a b "AWESOME SNAKES, THE: Cheap-Ass Cassette Demo: CD-R".^ Jacob Harkins, Brandon Erkkila (April 5, 2019).^ a b Simpson, Greg (February 20, 2007)."You Don't Like Snakes, I Don't Like You"īonus tracks, 2021 Stand Up! Records reissue, originally released as Snake Cake EP No. Track listing 2006, Crustacean Records No. The song "I Want a Snake" is featured in the Electronic Arts skateboarding video game Skate 2. Reviewing the 2021 re-release, Roctober Magazine said "This reissue of an early 2000s Midwestern ridiculous riff rock relic proves that nothing is as timeless as lo fi, stripped down, absurdist snake songs." In popular culture The album also received critical praise from several national publications, including Alternative Press, which called it "lo-fi, furious, primal garage-rock voodoo" Maximumrocknroll, which called it "smart-arsed, snotty, arty and funny " and Punk Planet, which called it "a fuzzed up and confrontationally comedic dose of garage bangers and pogo punk punishers." Punk zine Razorcake praised two early demos, 2006's The Stupid Demo and The Cheap-Ass Cassette Demo, calling them "low-fi garage punk that is poppy yet very psychedelic in a go-go kid way." The publication was less impressed with Venom itself, saying: "Overall, this seems like a joke band that must be really funny for the people who made it, but for the rest of us it's worth listening to maybe once at the most." delivering an almost disembodied psychedelic freak-out in the middle of a garage-punk record." The album is the sound of people having fun, and people being honest about their musical intentions." Tim Thompson of Wisconsin's "Local Sounds Magazine" praised Venom's "huge, manic, underground sound. Īndrea Swensson of City Pages said "they play with a seriousness that sharply contrasts the silly nature of their music." Stephanie Soucheray, writing for Sliver Magazine, said " Venom may be self-referential, vulgar, goofy and weird.
Venom enjoyed great critical success in the band's home state of Minnesota, being named one of the best albums of 2006 in the Star Tribune's annual Twin Cities Critics Tally and also making the best-of lists for The A.V. On October 15, 2021, Venom was re-released on vinyl by Stand Up! Records, with four songs from the band's 2009 digital EP Snake Cake included as bonus tracks. A significant step forward in production from their 2004 self-titled, cassette-only debut, Venom featured fifteen tracks recorded in much higher fidelity by their friend Ross and mastered by Dave Gardener, and features a guest appearance by Twin Cities MC P.O.S. Venom was released July 17, 2006, on Wisconsin record label Crustacean Records. Club writer Christopher Bahn noted that the song topics revolve around "two subjects: snakes and/or things that are awesome." The instrumentation is deliberately simple, just Holoien on bass and Henry on drums, with the bass played through a Fender Blues Deville amplifier on high distortion. Holoien and Henry began The Awesome Snakes as a way to ease the pressure of the Soviettes' increasing success by making what Henry described as a "jokey" and "free and loose" set of punk songs, spiced with audio samples from Henry's collection of odd self-help and how-to tapes.