This is only loosely related to games, but I have to get it out of my head.

Remember, in February 2004, right after the Iowa Democratic Presidential Caucus, when Howard Dean gave his victory speech for coming in third place by screaming the names of U.S. states and ending with a high pitched screech?

Watching it live on CNN--the U.S. channel, somehow I doubt the international CNN carried the speech live--I thought Dean sounded an awful lot like MD.45 vocalist and harmonica player Lee Ving screaming names of U.S. cities in the song "My Town."

Ahhhh. Getting that out of my head feels good.

What does this have to do with games? Mark Masoumi posted an audio commentary on The Bishop of Battle, a forgotten made for TV special about some guy played by Emilio Estevez obsessed with a made up video game of the same name (The Bishop of Battle, not Emilio Estevez), in which he (Mark Masoumi, not Emilio Estevez) said he didn't know the name of the band Estevez was listening to at one point in the special but would look into it.

I knew, so I replied that the band was Fear (which shared with MD.45 Lee Ving as its vocalist and harmonica player) and the song was "I Love Living in the City."

Fear reminded me of MD.45, which reminded me of the Dean Scream, which reminded me that the Dean Scream reminded me of "My Town.".

If you haven't heard of MD.45, you're not alone. It was an obscure punk metal side project of forgotten 1980's punk band Fear's Lee Ving and thrash pioneer Megadeth's Dave Mustaine. The band released a single album, The Craving, in 1996, which saw limited distribution, and never toured. (A remixed and remastered [read: ruined] re-release of The Craving was made available in July 2004, but, among other changes, Lee Ving's vocals were replaced by Dave Mustaine's.)