Metallica/Slayer/Megadeth/Anthrax

[stewvee]

But that was thing about Cliff -- he was such an individual. I winced every time that I saw him in the bell bottoms. Yet he pretty much single-handedly introduced the Misfits to metalheads, by convincing James and Kirk that they were cool. He was simultaneously cool and deeply uncool.

I didn't wince; I just thought it was real weird. And the horror tees. No one wore that stuff then. Wasn't he always wearing a jean jacket too? Like even in the summer?

Simultaneously cool and deeply uncool is something to aspire to.

[badcarburetor]

Simultaneously cool and deeply uncool is something to aspire to.

Yes. Exactly. As a teenage chick in the 80s, there was nothing sexier than a dude like Cliff who proudly flaunted his love of punk and Skynard simultaneously. Cliff was always mad cool - and had mad style - but far from trve. Trve is about following a straight line. Cool is digging what is really awesome, but not on everyone else's radar of approval.

In the words of a friend, "I hope that Cliff comes back from the grave and hits those other douchebags with a big piece of metal, just to remind them what it is."