History Music / TheMeatmen

* SignatureSound: Sophomoric lyrics delivered with buzzsaw guitars with typically short songs (even after transitioning to a metal band).

* ADateWithRosiePalms: "Orgy of One" is about this, complete with a spoken word interlude describing in detail what he does and why he does it.

** "TSOL Are Sissies" is meant to be a light-hearted one towards True Sounds of Liberty; however, apparently TSOL didn't get the joke.

* MeanCharacterNiceActor: Onstage and on the albums, Tesco has a notoriously vicious sense of humor, with lyrics that involve the handicapped, homosexuals, women, and even other bands in a derisive light. Offstage, Tesco is actually a pretty agreeable person who personally has nothing against the groups mentioned above; rather, he just likes to mess with people.

* NewSoundAlbum: "War of the Superbikes" has a more metal sound to it than any of the earlier records. Fans weren't very pleased.

-->''"We're the Meatmen - and you suck!"''

-->'''"We're the Meatmen - and you suck!"'''

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* MeanCharacterNiceActor: Onstage and on the albums, Tesco has a notoriously vicious sense of humor, with lyrics that involve the handicapped, homosexuals, women, and even other bands in a derisive light. Offstage, Tesco is actually a pretty agreeable person who personally has nothing against the groups mentioned above, rather, he just likes to mess with people.

The Meatmen are a HardcorePunk band from Lansing, Michigan. Formed in 1981 by former elementary school teacher/Touch and Go zine creator Robert Vermeulen (later dubbed Tesco Vee), the band quickly gained an infamous reputation in the underground scene for having a very controversial and puerile sense of humor in their lyrics (while not on the audience baiting level of Music/{{Fear}}, they were definitely up there), however the band folded two years after its creation when Tesco relocated to Washington, D.C. - where he released the solo EP "Dutch Hercules" before reforming the Meatmen with members from Music/MinorThreat and the Necros. This incarnation of the Meatmen, however, had a more metallic sound to them than the old Meatmen, and this quickly proved a good way to piss off and alienate a good chunk of the old fanbase. The band lasted until the mid-late 1990's, releasing three more metal/punk albums before splitting up.

* RefugeInAudacity: The band is pretty notorious for just straight-up not giving a shit about political correctness. Some of their song/EP titles include "I'm Glad I'm Not a Girl", "Crippled Children Suck", "Blow Me Jah", "TSOL Are Sissies", "One Down, Three To Go" (about the death of Music/JohnLennon) "Pope on a Rope"...

The Meatmen are a HardcorePunk band from Lansing, Michigan. Formed in 1981 by former elementary school teacher/Touch and Go zine creator Robert Vermeulen (later dubbed Tesco Vee), the band quickly gained an infamous reputation in the underground scene for having a very controversial and puerile sense of humor in their lyrics (while not on the audience baiting level of Music/{{Fear}}, they were definitely up there), however the band folded two years after its creation when Tesco relocated to Washington, D.C. - where he released the solo EP "Dutch Hercules" before reforming the Meatmen with members from MinorThreat and the Necros. This incarnation of the Meatmen, however, had a more metallic sound to them than the old Meatmen, and this quickly proved a good way to piss off and alienate a good chunk of the old fanbase. The band lasted until the mid-late 1990's, releasing three more metal/punk albums before splitting up.

* OldShame: Tesco refuses to play some of the Meatmen's older discography, either due to not liking the songs much anymore (as is the case with "Blow Me Jah") or because it pissed off his wife - ''and'' he wasn't too fond of the people who wrote it (as is the case with "Blowjobs Ain't Cheating").

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Many of the Meatmen's hardcore audience members strongly disliked their new sound; their label at the time actually ''dropped'' them just because they hated the metal influenced "War of the Superbikes".

** "Blow Me Jah" is often seen as being directed at the BadBrains after the underground punk scene informally boycotted them following a homophobic incident they'd found themselves in. Tesco claims it was originally written as "Blow Me God", but changed to be "less inflammatory" while simultaneously pissing off Rastafarians, however in the same interview, he claims that the song "might have been motivated" by the band, so take that as you will.

* SpokenWordInMusic: "Tooling for Anus" begins with a conversation between two homosexual friends inviting people via telephone to an "activity night at Korey Clarke's Dude Ranch"

* RefugeInAudacity: The band is pretty notorious for just straight-up not giving a shit about political correctness. Some of their song/EP titles include "I'm Glad I'm Not a Girl", "Crippled Children Suck", "Blow Me Jah", "TSOL Are Sissies", "One Down, Three To Go" (about the death of JohnLennon) "Pope on a Rope"...
* StageNames: Robert Vermeulen took on the name Tesco Vee after seeing a picture of ThrobbingGristle members posing in front of a Tesco store.

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* TakeThat: "Blow Me Jah" is often seen as being directed at the BadBrains after the underground punk scene informally boycotted them following a homophobic incident they'd found themselves in. Tesco claims it was originally written as "Blow Me God", but changed to be "less inflammatory" while simultaneously pissing off Rastafarians, however in the same interview, he claims that the song "might have been motivated" by the band, so take that as you will.
** "TSOL Are Sissies" is meant to be a light-hearted one towards True Sounds of Liberty, however apparently TSOL didn't get the joke.

* ToiletHumor: This is what drives a good chunk of the Meatmen's discography; Tesco has admitted to having a fondness for puerile humor even to this day.

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* ADateWithRosiePalms: "Orgy of One" is about this, complete with a spoken word interlude describing in detail what he does and why he does it.