{"id":488020,"date":"2019-07-15T11:10:21","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T17:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=859008"},"modified":"2019-07-15T11:10:21","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T17:10:21","slug":"idles-battle-demented-video-game-fighters-in-never-fight-a-man-with-a-perm-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/idles-battle-demented-video-game-fighters-in-never-fight-a-man-with-a-perm-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Idles Battle Demented Video Game Fighters in \u2018Never Fight a Man With a Perm\u2019 Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/idels-never-fight-a-man-with-a-perm.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The video game avatar of Idles frontman Joe Talbot squares off against demented fighters in the British punk band\u2019s hilarious video for \u201cNever Fight a Man With a Perm.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The clip, which conjures a lunatic version of retro games like <em>Street Fighter<\/em>, opens with a heavily tattooed Talbot facing \u201cBarry Biffa,\u201d a character with a metallic jaw and baseball bats for arms. The duo battle it out on a street facing storefronts of an RFC (\u201cRotten Fried Chicken\u201d) and Super Booze, and the chain-smoking singer survives into the next round.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Talbot then takes on \u201cTimmy the Thyroid,\u201d who resembles a wealthy school boy with a veiny neck, bloated head and sausage hands. After a close call via electrocution, the frontman rallies to victory \u2014 then makes out vigorously with his opponent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cNever Fight a Man With a Perm\u201d appears on Idles\u2019 second LP, 2018\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-lists\/best-metal-albums-2018-763783\/idles-joy-as-an-act-of-resistance-763800\/\"><em>Joy as an Act of Resistance<\/em><\/a>. The quintet will continue to promote the album with dates throughout the year, including a Lollapalooza slot on August 2nd and a headlining North American run in October.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Idles will release the physical edition of their new single <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/idles-new-song-mercedes-marxist-832543\/\">\u201cMercedes Marxist\u201d<\/a> (backed with \u201cI Dream Guillotine\u201d) on August 2nd.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/idles-never-fight-a-man-with-a-perm-video-859008\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The video game avatar of Idles frontman Joe Talbot squares off against demented fighters in the British punk band\u2019s hilarious video for \u201cNever Fight a Man With a Perm.\u201d The clip, which conjures a lunatic version of retro games like Street Fighter, opens with a heavily tattooed Talbot facing \u201cBarry Biffa,\u201d a character with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-488020","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-24 16:09:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}