Seahawks End Preseason Poorly + Saccharine Trust + Minutemen

Quickly some housekeeping at the outset of this holiday weekend. The Seahawks, minus Russell Wilson's quick scoring drive to open the game, looked poor last night in the last game of preseason against the Raiders in Oakland. It was the defense -- mostly starters, not scrubs -- that collapsed. The Raiders offense led by rookie QB Derek Carr and some hard running by Latavius Murray shredded the Hawks. It verged on the embarrassing. Not a good way to enter the NFL regular season opener.

Two songs from the golden age of SST Records. Saccharin Trust's "A Human Certainty" off Paganicons (1981), the last track on the band's debut EP. (Note how this cut prefigures the Sonic Youth sound of the mid-80s.)

And a live version of Minutemen's "Sell or Be Sold," off the super-historic What Makes a Man Start Fires? (1983):