jord isnt the singer dude he's the drummer.chris sings.anyway this song is kind of along the same lines as anti-manifesto except this song isnt about people who like them because its cool, without actually listening to what they're talking about.it's about kids who listen to "korn, eminems and bizkits" and think they're "rebels" when in all actuality theres nothing rebllious about said bands, they're "conforming to anti-conformity" in a way (see:Just ask the candy-coated Joy-Cam rock-bands selling shoes for venture-capitalists, silencing competing messages, rounding off the jagged edges).anyway this is a fucking great song and absolutely love the "But what have we here? 15 years later it still reeks of ‘Swill and Chickenshit Conformists with their fists in the air; like-father, like-son "rebels” bloated on korn, eminems and bizkits. Lord, hear our prayer: take back your Amy Grant mosh-crews and your fair-weather politics. Blow-dry my hair and stick me on a ten-speed. Back to the Motor League." part.
@skunkbythebrook Selling shoes for venture capitalists....Fat Mike with his takeover of the Vans tour and how shittier it has gotten since it was just about good melodic hardcore punk and punk rock bands and pro skaters. The skaters are long gone, the venture capitalist is George Soros who gave Fat Mike loads of money to make the Rock Against Bush comps..which led to Rock For Sustainable Capitalism after another silent lyric was added to their contribution to Vol.1, "Bullshit Politicians" saying "Not brought to you by George Soros" which Fat Mike had to take out the comp, although not happily,...
@skunkbythebrook Selling shoes for venture capitalists....Fat Mike with his takeover of the Vans tour and how shittier it has gotten since it was just about good melodic hardcore punk and punk rock bands and pro skaters. The skaters are long gone, the venture capitalist is George Soros who gave Fat Mike loads of money to make the Rock Against Bush comps..which led to Rock For Sustainable Capitalism after another silent lyric was added to their contribution to Vol.1, "Bullshit Politicians" saying "Not brought to you by George Soros" which Fat Mike had to take out the comp, although not happily, he had to bend over and work with the system he supposedly wants to smash. NOFX themselves are great and it's great how they helped Propagandhi and a few other of the original Fat bands, Lagwagon, No Use For A Name (although after Making Friends, they got boring, way too much change in the rosters, which started after original bassist (and probably the guy that made the band awesome the most) Steve Papoutsis went to work for Sega and then Electronic Arts after Leche Con Carne's final tour. After that it was rotating musicians around Tony Sly who should maybe even have changed the name of the band after Making Friends...not that he was selling out, just not being NUFAN anymore...Lagwagon stayed true, because Joey does his solo guitar artist thing as a separate project. Strung Out got much better with time apparently, which I'd be interested in hearing, I got all their albums, but the one I possess "for real" was a waste except for Bring Out Your Dead, that song's amazing. Just all to say, Fat like Epitaph were started as small anti-MTV labels and pretty much stayed that way, although Epitaph let bands more control over how they could make videos and such. But if one looks at the list of Epitaph releases, much more impressive than Fat...since it exists since '82. I rather dislike most Fat Wreck bands of the 90's other than these 4 bands I mentioned, the first 4 bands they released, I think.
jord isnt the singer dude he's the drummer.chris sings.anyway this song is kind of along the same lines as anti-manifesto except this song isnt about people who like them because its cool, without actually listening to what they're talking about.it's about kids who listen to "korn, eminems and bizkits" and think they're "rebels" when in all actuality theres nothing rebllious about said bands, they're "conforming to anti-conformity" in a way (see:Just ask the candy-coated Joy-Cam rock-bands selling shoes for venture-capitalists, silencing competing messages, rounding off the jagged edges).anyway this is a fucking great song and absolutely love the "But what have we here? 15 years later it still reeks of ‘Swill and Chickenshit Conformists with their fists in the air; like-father, like-son "rebels” bloated on korn, eminems and bizkits. Lord, hear our prayer: take back your Amy Grant mosh-crews and your fair-weather politics. Blow-dry my hair and stick me on a ten-speed. Back to the Motor League." part.
@skunkbythebrook Selling shoes for venture capitalists....Fat Mike with his takeover of the Vans tour and how shittier it has gotten since it was just about good melodic hardcore punk and punk rock bands and pro skaters. The skaters are long gone, the venture capitalist is George Soros who gave Fat Mike loads of money to make the Rock Against Bush comps..which led to Rock For Sustainable Capitalism after another silent lyric was added to their contribution to Vol.1, "Bullshit Politicians" saying "Not brought to you by George Soros" which Fat Mike had to take out the comp, although not happily,...
@skunkbythebrook Selling shoes for venture capitalists....Fat Mike with his takeover of the Vans tour and how shittier it has gotten since it was just about good melodic hardcore punk and punk rock bands and pro skaters. The skaters are long gone, the venture capitalist is George Soros who gave Fat Mike loads of money to make the Rock Against Bush comps..which led to Rock For Sustainable Capitalism after another silent lyric was added to their contribution to Vol.1, "Bullshit Politicians" saying "Not brought to you by George Soros" which Fat Mike had to take out the comp, although not happily, he had to bend over and work with the system he supposedly wants to smash. NOFX themselves are great and it's great how they helped Propagandhi and a few other of the original Fat bands, Lagwagon, No Use For A Name (although after Making Friends, they got boring, way too much change in the rosters, which started after original bassist (and probably the guy that made the band awesome the most) Steve Papoutsis went to work for Sega and then Electronic Arts after Leche Con Carne's final tour. After that it was rotating musicians around Tony Sly who should maybe even have changed the name of the band after Making Friends...not that he was selling out, just not being NUFAN anymore...Lagwagon stayed true, because Joey does his solo guitar artist thing as a separate project. Strung Out got much better with time apparently, which I'd be interested in hearing, I got all their albums, but the one I possess "for real" was a waste except for Bring Out Your Dead, that song's amazing. Just all to say, Fat like Epitaph were started as small anti-MTV labels and pretty much stayed that way, although Epitaph let bands more control over how they could make videos and such. But if one looks at the list of Epitaph releases, much more impressive than Fat...since it exists since '82. I rather dislike most Fat Wreck bands of the 90's other than these 4 bands I mentioned, the first 4 bands they released, I think.