Funny / Anthrax

• "I'm The Man" is plainly full of CMoF.
  Now we're Anthrax and we take no shit
  And we don't care for writing hits
  The sound you hear is what we like
  I'll steal your pop-tarts like I stole your...
  Socks!
  No man, what's the matter with you?
  I'll get it the next time, I mean it...
• The end of Gung-Ho. After a wild, mad-tempo speed metal song, the band is just goofing around into the mic like maniacs.
• Startin' Up a Posse is an already awesome Take That! aimed at the PMRC. The whimsical delivery just nails it.
  Now you might take offense
  To a word like "fuck" or "shit" (dick!)
  But you fuckin' don't have the right (cunt!)
  To discriminate me for saying it!
  You fuckin' whores (you fuckin' whores!)
  That's all you are
  (go suck a dick, eh?)
• "Milk (Ode to Billy)" is a thrash metal song about really wanting some milk. It's a reference to S.O.D. vocalist Billy Milano.
  I can't go, out to the store
  I'll just wait 'till Mommy buys more
  I'll just have, wheat thins and beer
  If I get sick the toilet is near
• N.F.B. (Dallabnikufesin)^note nisefuckinballad is a perfect parody of the cheesy 80's Power Ballad.
  You left me standing in the mud
  Crying to myself
  A heart so full of pain
  But we fell in love again
  This time forever
  True love prevails over all
  ...
  She got hit by a truck...
  [Cue Inelegant Blubbering]
  (Joey, Joey, get me some tissue)
• "Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun" is a Beastie Boys cover from the Beavis And Butthead Experience that starts out with a skit where the titular duo hang out with the band, eventually pissing them off and getting kicked off the bus after Beavis runs off into the bathroom with the band's porn.
• "Bud E. Luv Bomb And Satan's Lounge Band" is about a lounge singer backed by a thrash band. "Joey was Bud E. Luvbomb; the rest of us were his lounge band," as Scott explains. This is 13 years before Richard Cheese debuted.
• The video to "Monster at the End", with a few dashes of Nightmare Fuel in between.
• Scott Ian telling Marc Maron about opening for Ozzy for a leg of shows he did, then leaving but no announcement going out that Anthrax wasn't opening any more. A few nights later, Anthrax fans were horrified to find that the new opening band was Winger. It didn't go well for them.
• One time during a gig the security thought it would be a good idea to tackle their singer, mistaking him for a Loony Fan. Cue Scott Ian saying "nice going, suppose you didn't see him on stage the last 90 minutes."
• After 9/11, several people received actual anthrax spores in the mail, the band purchased the antibiotic drug Cipro to "avoid dying an ironic death."
  • Speaking of which, there's also the 2002 April Fools joke where they said they would change the band's name to "Basket Full of Puppies" in response.

---