| Hot Cross – Solanka Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Because Hot Cross' vocals overlap one another, making it very difficult to convey what goes where using just text. So people just usually write for one vocalist as the lyrics. We really should make up a system that has a way of clarifying this. | |
| Crass – Big A Little A Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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"But no one ever changed the church by pulling down a steeple And you’ll never change the system by bombing number ten" How brilliant. Crass is one of the few bands, few thinkers even, that can mix idealism with realism. Kudos to you Crass, kudos. |
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| This Bike Is a Pipe Bomb – the Argument Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| Great song about how we need to continue to strive for reform. We've changed the face of the world before, and we need to keep doing it now. No more complacency, don't be satisfied, continue to struggle. | |
| Strike Anywhere – Laughter In a Police State Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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"You screamed in my face but I waited quitely religious leaders, politicians, and the lies you say" just...scrumpcious. |
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| Dead Kennedys – Holiday in Cambodia Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| Thank you dulio, for the wonderful piece of criticism. Anything else beneficial you'd like to add to the board? Maybe criticize somebody's momma? Perhaps you have a dead baby joke or two to go along with that completely original statement that all *insert loosely tied group here* are the same. Thanks for your help! | |
| Dead Kennedys – Chickenshit Conformist Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| ZYKLON-B, what's so great about these days is that you don't have to go to hot topic simply because it's close to you, as we have the internet. E-bay, interpunk.com, and the like can all give you much better stuff than Hot Topic, for about 7 bucks cheaper, which would cover the shipping even if you bought one t-shirt at a time. Don't simply give in to convenience. | |
| Ramones – Blitzkrieg Bop Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| No way whofreak777! The Who as punk? Punks loathed moders, and The Who were like the embodiment of a mod. Mod's were about being fashionable and "modern," which translated into an excuse to be really stuck-up and pretentious. That's pretty much the antithesis to everything punk. Saying The Who's punk is quite a stretch. | |
| Smoke Or Fire – Culture As Given Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I will take the honors and pop Smoke or Fire's comment virginity. What a beautiful piece of work here. I believe it's a warning against what is packaged to the public as to what to put your faith in. It's a warning against being seduced by the culture that surrounds us; the siren song that lures us into believing a war's alright or that certain agreements are justified. "Killing is easy when you don't see faces, and you don't have to dig graves." mmm....delicious. |
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| Cheap Sex – Fuck Emo Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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C'mon oldskoolpunker23, he doesn't "deserve" to listen to the song? That's got to be the most elitist thing I've heard in a while. Heaven forbid someone else listens to your band, or else it wouldn't be cool anymore. What Heinous Bitch was trying to say is that emo as a trend is ridiculous, which it is, but that its origins has good stuff, which it did. I don't think that I would agree that emo music is calm and tranquil, as most of the stuff that isn't the trendy things push the limits of speed and are some of the hardest core stuff out there, take Antioch Arrow for example. And all music can speak to your soul, not just emo; I always think it's rather pretentious for emo kids to claim that their music is the only type that's emotional. Those bands you were talking about though are emo, just post-emo; it's the equivalent to us punk's pop punk; nobody wants it to exist, but it still is an offshoot of our beloved music, as is the original emo. Back to the song though, I thought it was, while quite stereotypical scene criticization, pretty funny. "You're acting like you're gay just to get laid" I think is my favorite line of the song. Obviously it's Cheap Sex's disgustion of how it has become very fashionable thing in the mainstream community to dress in such a manner and pretend to be part of the underground, and as such Cheap Sex does the fashionable thing for the underground and criticizes those trying to get into our subculture. Luckily they do it in such a satirical manner and manage to hit the right target, not criticizing the music (which actually has some really good stuff such as Heroin and Hoover) but instead going after the kids who don't get into it for the music but just for the fashion. I don't think it's good for the punk community as a whole to feel so superior to emo; because you're cutting yourself off from some good music simply because it's not cool to listen to it since so many kids are getting into it. It's perfectly alright to listen to Smoke or Fire and enjoy Hot Cross, throwdown to F-Minus and still like Dag Nasty, or thrash to McRad and appreciate Moss Icon. And watch the queerbashing, know that most (almost all) of punk's founders were bi, experimented, gay, or outright drag queens. The problem is that many make the mistake of thinking if you're gay you're cool, when really it was if you're cool you're cool, no matter your sexual preference. /rant |
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| Crass – Asylum Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I don't think it's fair to say that posting an interpretation of punk lyrics is stupid, pinkcore. That's trying to imply that no deeper meaning or backstory are in punk songs, that they are inherently shallow. I would have to completely disagree with you. Crass especially, has some really deep ones. Certainly there are some less than deep ones that can be taken at face value, such as Fight War, Not Wars. This is politi-punk, and as such has some great messages that should be interpreted and find the meaning of, which is the point songMEANINGS.net. | |
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