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| The Replacements – Androgynous Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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@[otto88:41871] How old are you? You weren\'t around in the 80s, were you? If you were, you sold your soul and became, in the immortal words of Dead Kennedys, a chicken$#!+ conformist like your parents. \r\n\r\n\r\nDifficult to reconcile blunt homophobia and transphobia with being a "Mats fan in my experience. Kids like you in the 80s were into bad hair metal, not the Replacements and Hüsker Dü. You DO realize that this music is by and for people who seek to overturn the status quo, right? \r\n\r\n\r\n60+% of high school kids identify as gender-fluid now. Get over yourself. That culture war has been dead and buried for a long time, regardless of the pathetic efforts of various Nazi jackwad Republicans to revive it. \r\n\r\n\r\nEver wondered why real, lifelong dedicated punks like me were so flamboyant and sexually uninhibited and cooler than you in the 80s? And often still are? \r\n\r\n\r\nIt\'s because we LOVE triggering uptight white suburban wannabes and exposing them for the poseurs they are. The Replacements broke up in 1991, yet they\'ve triggered your phobias and exposed your true face from beyond the grave! I find that HILARIOUS. The raison d\'etre, the very soul, of punk rock.\r\n\r\n\r\nGeneration X. Still pissing off cultural conservatives after all these years. My heart swells with pride! |
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| Hüsker Dü – Crystal Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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No song, perhaps with the exception of "White Light, White Heat" by Velvet Underground, has captured the effects of methamphetamine in lyrics quite a well as this one. Shatters your brain in a million tiny pieces. Also just about as classic a Bob Mould-penned track as there ever was. \n\nI love his first series of images, about being sucked out of an airplane, and the images running by a thousand miles an hour, but time seeming to stand still. Coming down off a meth high, one asks, "how long was that? Days? Years?", then you look at the calendar and realize you only got high a couple days ago. But, you WILL feel the effects for a hundred thousand nights. The rest of your life, in my personal experience. \n\nThe image of the lines of crystal (he obviously snorted it) being watched over by the GI Joes captures the paranoia, the CIA people looking in the windows at the end of a weeklong binge, is also perfect. \n\nThere is a reason the first live Hüsker Dü album is called "Land Speed Record". It was recorded over a long tour of various dives during which the band covered a lot of land, did a lot of speed, and made a record. \n\nThere are a million songs and heroin, acid, etc.. There are only 3 good songs about meth. The Velvet Underground one, Third Eye Blind\'s "Semi-charmed Life", and this one. |
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