“Super-Fire” by Girls Against Boys

"Super-Fire" was the opening shot from House of GVSB, the 1996 album Girls Against Boys made for Touch and Go, pulled as its first single ahead of "Disco Six Six Six". The writing credit is split four ways, between Alexis Fleisig, Eli Janney, Scott McCloud and Johnny Temple, post-hardcore by committee.

It came out in a handful of shapes: a vinyl single with nothing but the title track, a CD backed with "If Glamour Is Dead", and a longer CD that added "Cash Machine" from the album plus the non-album "Viva Roma Star". The video was where the trouble started. It showed the band playing inside a room built out of tungsten light bulbs and then smashing the place up, MTV judged the whole thing too violent to air, and the band had to go back and cut it again.

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