Your Idea of Heroism

Often bands with stupid or long, or long and stupid, or stupid stupid long long, or just dumb band names, refer to themselves by some consonant ladden acronym (I'm talking to you, potential metalcore band) like GFKTGIF
Ages ago, or before 2005, there were a lot of great bands using short formed names, like TSOL, DRI, GBH, DOA etc. Since the hayday of these bands, if any other band were to refer themselves by these acronyms, they would be chastised, and rightly so.

Unfortunately, some things are never sacred and I've noticed online rimjobs referring to bands like Diddling Boy Squad or Doing Ben's Sister, as, you guessed it: DBS. Dammit!
...Forcing me to refer to the best band to use this moniker, as the lower case d.b.s. (Which is more correct anyway, but I digress)
In this case, d.b.s. Stands for... well, I never managed to figure that out - like FUGAZI, sometimes we'll just never know what a name stands for.



d.b.s. was one of the first non-mainstream-popular punk bands I got into. The combination of raw emotion and aggressive energy/melody struck a note with me as a middle class white kid fighting for freedom in Northern Ontario. Fuckin' eh.



I remember being 16 in my girlfriend's basement listening to "David O is a Nazi" and knowing that deep down, I too wanted to declare someone a nazi with such knowing vigor. I did this of course, later, at indoor soccer; only to find out the guy I likened to Hitler and made Stuka noises towards was German, and I got punched out in the locker room for it. Rock on.
Later, after my eventual ex girlfriend slept with a bunch of my friends, I screamed out David O with different lyrics while my parents were out. (They came back early and asked if I had been crying. Fuck that!)

Years later, trying to find albums and info on d.b.s. while using a much more mature internet, I'm amazed at how little there is kicking around about them. It could have just been luck that I ever got turned onto them before many other more accessible acts, or maybe because they're canadifian..
Regardless, d.b.s. is damn bloody sweet any way you spell it, and you can still buy some of their albums from Joey Shithead's Sudden Death Records.

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