In the sixth round, in the 2000-2002 category, team 'Are you sure you're a doctor?' picks
Suicide Invoice by Hot Snakes.
Suicide Invoice is the second Hot Snakes record. It sounds exactly like the first Hot Snakes record and almost exactly like the third Hot Snakes record, which is great news because when something is this good the last thing you'd want to do is screw it up. Hot Snakes was the reunion of John Reis (Rocket from the Crypt) and Rick Froberg, who'd formerly been together in
Drive Like Jehu.
Around that time (2000-2003ish) there were a thousand bands trying to sound like Drive Like Jehu (I was in a few of them, trust me) - that kind of screaming, complicated, At The Drive In sort of post hardcore screamo sort of thing. Hot Snakes came out and made all that stuff unnecessary. The new band was similar in ways to the old one - Rick Froberg is always going to sound like Rick Froberg - but the long, extended songs were gone, and everything was quicker, punchier, and a little rawer. Hot Snakes are more of a punk rock band than DLJ was. I still love Yank Crime, but I'm more likely to put Suicide Invoice on.
Suicide Invoice is my favorite one of there records kind of by default, in that it has most of my favorite songs of theirs. I never got to see this band while they were around, which kills me.
LAX
Bullet Train to Vegas (a Drive Like Jehu song) and 10th Planet (from Automatic Midnight)