Am I a bad person for liking the Mentors?  That may very well be a fair, debatable question.

Just so we're up to speed, the Mentors are an extremely vulgar and sexist metal band.  Yes, I say "are", because they still exist.  They first came to moderate prominence in the mid-80s, when speed metal lived in the underground and hair metal dominated radio and video airwaves.  They attracted the attention of some rather influential people when one of their songs was quoted during the PMRC hearings.  Man, the band members must have seriously loved that.  If you're roughly my age or older, you know all about the PMRC.  That was Tipper Gore's outfit.  They are at least somewhat responsible for the "Parental Advisory" stickers you see on CD cases even today.  She became a whipping girl for musicians for years after that.  Of course, many of them would go on to practically jump out of their shoes to try to make her our First Lady, but that's beside the point...

Anyway, what it boils down to is this - when you take away the controversy and the vile subject matter, you still have a band that rocks pretty hard.  Sure they didn't have Van Halen's talent or the production budgets of the Ratt Poisons or the Motleyrellas of the world.  They're just a lot of fun to listen to.  So, here is "Four F Club" (I'll let you discover what the F's mean) from 1985's You Axed For It.  This was when the late El Duce (who was hit by a train and killed in 1997) was still their drummer and lead singer.  I just get a huge kick out of hearing him "sing."  He amuses me greatly.

Hear "Four F Club" on YouTube.

Wikipedia article on the Mentors.  If you go from there to El Duce's Wiki, check out the YouTube segment of one of the band's appearances on the Wally George show Hot Seat.  It's a howl.  Wally George was an overly moralistic version of Jerry Springer (and the father of Rebecca De Mornay), so you can imagine what went down when the Mentors appeared there.