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| Dead Kennedys – The Man with the Dogs Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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The liner notes for Give Me Convenience have, next to the lyrics, the words, "PERFORMANCE ART AS A WAY OF LIFE." I see it as a guy who's given up everything to be the man with the dogs, following the wealthy elites around and laughing at them, making them wonder what he finds so funny... |
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| Dead Kennedys – A Child and His Lawnmower Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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Shooting a lawnmower is legal, but discharging a firearm within city limits is not.
And yeah, it's about people whose immature sense of machismo leads them to commit violence against anything that doesn't go their way. |
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| Dead Kennedys – I Am The Owl Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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It's not just Watergate. It's ultimately about people who do horrible, horrible things and claim that they're moral because the horrible acts are in the service of a higher cause.
See "the War on Terror" |
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| Anti-Flag – No Apology Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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Many people who are pro-choice seem to feel a need to be apologetic or ashamed of it. Anti-Flag is right on target here. |
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| Anti-Flag – This Is Not a Crass Song Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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The cut-out is likely a play on the fact that CRASS albums are hard as fuck to find in the states (and I'd imagine in the UK, really, too), and for a lot of people a poorly-recorded bootleg cassette recording was for a long time the only option. |
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| Anti-Flag – Mind The G.A.T.T. Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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This song makes explicit reference to two things. First, the General Agreement on Trade and Tarriffs (Google that for some info on how your government is selling you into wage slavery to the corporations) and the London Underground (the subway)- when the train stops, there's a space between the train and the platform, and if you're careless, you can get stuck or even fall through. To remind people to be, well, mindful, a recorded voice is played that says "Mind the gap."
Although seriously... when a polipunk band uses a proper noun you don't recognise, GOOGLE. |
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| Anti-Flag – Captain Anarchy Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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This song has NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with any anarchist philosophy or politics. It's about jackasses who use punk rock as an excuse to be drunken louts and whose antics fuck things up for everyone else. It ties in very well with the essay in the Die For the Government liner notes. |
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| Anti-Flag – Angry, Young, And Poor Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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This song, as the first song on the album after New Kind of Army, marks the beginning of the current period of Anti-Flag, in which all the new songs sound the same. Bring back Andy and stop letting Justin sing! |
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| Sex Pistols – Holidays In The Sun Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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The line "A cheap holiday in other people's misery" is a clear reference to the Situationist slogan "Club Med: A Cheap Holiday in Other People's Misery," which refers to a resort set in the Carribean at a time of widespread revolution, war, and misery in the Carribean and Central America. |
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