This song is great - it's addressing genre-snobbery. There's loads of people who would identify themselves as 'punks' yet scorn other types of music, even though many of them carry an identical message. As the lyrics say, change and progression exists outside of 'punk rock', so if we want change we have to work together as opposed to within our little cliques.
Great song to come from SB6 as they straddle so many different styles of music too.
This is why I absolutely love the radio clip at the start of "The Rape of Punk to Come;" "They are punks, those who threw out the commercial disco sound in the 70s for something else..." Punk was never about 4/4 time signatures and shouted vocals over three chord progressions. Punk was never about who owned the latest Fred Perry top, who wore braces and had massively crazy-coloured hair. Punk was simply a triumph of being different - and that's why "it's not about choosing guitar or the decks, it's doing it yourself that gets the respect." Ben is able...
This is why I absolutely love the radio clip at the start of "The Rape of Punk to Come;" "They are punks, those who threw out the commercial disco sound in the 70s for something else..." Punk was never about 4/4 time signatures and shouted vocals over three chord progressions. Punk was never about who owned the latest Fred Perry top, who wore braces and had massively crazy-coloured hair. Punk was simply a triumph of being different - and that's why "it's not about choosing guitar or the decks, it's doing it yourself that gets the respect." Ben is able to rattle off so many punk references, such as Minor Threat and Strike Anywhere, whilst still retaining the fact that he himself is more a folk singer, and the Boom are a reggae-punk-hip-hop-dancehall-hardcore soundclash of absolutely everything and anything. And it sounds amazing.
The song is a view on how "punk" can be "anti-punk" - "not America, we're in UK, gonna' sing it like we're from UK," they're not every single "punk" band that adorns the pages of Kerrang! and similar popular magazines. Punk isn't simply a fashion, where thousands of guyliner-wearing kids can conform to one idea, and sing the words to Green Day's "Minority" in unison and not see the irony.
If the Ruff Guide to Genre Terrorism was your first experience of Sonic Boom Six, yes, it is their first album, but not their first recording. This song harbours similar views to "Play Inna Day" on the Sounds to Consume EP - "all the stickers in the world on your guitar don't change the sound if it's a birthday toy, when you rock a reggae riddim like a middle class white boy!" Sonic Boom Six are quite possibly the most punk band I've ever seen, and that includes Rancid - they came into my life as Grimace, when I was a young teenager, bored of the staleness of the "third wave" ska punk scene arguably started by the Bosstones in the 1980s and kept the same for the last 20 years. I've always hoped that their label, Rebel Alliance Recordings, and the bands on it, being all so incredibly different to the norm as they are, might help to usher in a new, "fourth-wave" - where nothing is simply defined by a pre-existing idea, and nobody's afraid to mix it up a bit for fear of scorn from elitist wankers.
This song is great - it's addressing genre-snobbery. There's loads of people who would identify themselves as 'punks' yet scorn other types of music, even though many of them carry an identical message. As the lyrics say, change and progression exists outside of 'punk rock', so if we want change we have to work together as opposed to within our little cliques.
Great song to come from SB6 as they straddle so many different styles of music too.
"We're better together"!
This is why I absolutely love the radio clip at the start of "The Rape of Punk to Come;" "They are punks, those who threw out the commercial disco sound in the 70s for something else..." Punk was never about 4/4 time signatures and shouted vocals over three chord progressions. Punk was never about who owned the latest Fred Perry top, who wore braces and had massively crazy-coloured hair. Punk was simply a triumph of being different - and that's why "it's not about choosing guitar or the decks, it's doing it yourself that gets the respect." Ben is able...
This is why I absolutely love the radio clip at the start of "The Rape of Punk to Come;" "They are punks, those who threw out the commercial disco sound in the 70s for something else..." Punk was never about 4/4 time signatures and shouted vocals over three chord progressions. Punk was never about who owned the latest Fred Perry top, who wore braces and had massively crazy-coloured hair. Punk was simply a triumph of being different - and that's why "it's not about choosing guitar or the decks, it's doing it yourself that gets the respect." Ben is able to rattle off so many punk references, such as Minor Threat and Strike Anywhere, whilst still retaining the fact that he himself is more a folk singer, and the Boom are a reggae-punk-hip-hop-dancehall-hardcore soundclash of absolutely everything and anything. And it sounds amazing.
The song is a view on how "punk" can be "anti-punk" - "not America, we're in UK, gonna' sing it like we're from UK," they're not every single "punk" band that adorns the pages of Kerrang! and similar popular magazines. Punk isn't simply a fashion, where thousands of guyliner-wearing kids can conform to one idea, and sing the words to Green Day's "Minority" in unison and not see the irony.
If the Ruff Guide to Genre Terrorism was your first experience of Sonic Boom Six, yes, it is their first album, but not their first recording. This song harbours similar views to "Play Inna Day" on the Sounds to Consume EP - "all the stickers in the world on your guitar don't change the sound if it's a birthday toy, when you rock a reggae riddim like a middle class white boy!" Sonic Boom Six are quite possibly the most punk band I've ever seen, and that includes Rancid - they came into my life as Grimace, when I was a young teenager, bored of the staleness of the "third wave" ska punk scene arguably started by the Bosstones in the 1980s and kept the same for the last 20 years. I've always hoped that their label, Rebel Alliance Recordings, and the bands on it, being all so incredibly different to the norm as they are, might help to usher in a new, "fourth-wave" - where nothing is simply defined by a pre-existing idea, and nobody's afraid to mix it up a bit for fear of scorn from elitist wankers.
Revolution is more than sound. :)