Better Than: Playing DropkicktheFaint over and over again. It's easy to forget just
how ahead of the curve the Faint has always been. Way back in 1999,
the Omaha quintet decided to add squelching keyboards to the vanilla
guitar-bass-drums combo. The result of the band's decision (1999's
Blank-Wave Arcade) pre-dated the dance-punk and new-wave explosions
by nearly a half-decade. In fact, the Faint arguably kickstarted these
movements with its 2001 batcave-electro masterpiece Danse Macabre,
