Go draw yourself a nice, soothing bath. You're going to need one after spending some time with Brooklyn scuzz-noise maniacs the Men. Singer-guitarist Nick Chiericozzi does his best grizzly-bear impersonation over a pile-driver attack that recalls old-school indie evildoers like Cosmic Psychos or Unsane. It's the kind of thuggin' audacity one would expect from a bunch of dudes who stole a Ramones album title for last year's seethingly not-nice Leave Home. But, as with Joey Ramone himself, there's a tender heart beating beneath the evil distortion and punishing blitz. "Candy" is vulnerable Replacements-style junk country, and the title track is a plaintive torrent: "Even if she says no/I won't let it go," Chiericozzi hollers. Hey, little girl, he wants to be your boyfriend – or else!

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“Help Me”

Joni Mitchell wrote and recorded this song for her album Court and Spark, but she had to switch from her regular band to make the song sound exactly the way she wanted. "I had attempted to play my music with rock & roll players," she told Rolling Stone. "They’d laugh, 'Awww, isn't that cute? She's trying to teach us how to play.'" Mitchell switched to a jazz band, Tom Scott’s L.A. Express, and scored the biggest hit of her career in the process.