Icelandic anti-American anti-Nuclear song - "Hiroshima" by B

[Dhul Fiqar]

Some lyrics from an Icelandic punk song that's really anti-American and is about the use of nuclear weapons in Japan and elsewhere. I'll post a link to the mp3 tomorrow, I don't have server space at the moment. The lyrics were translated by me, so they're not 100% perfect, but you get the idea :)


Hail to you, father of the universe! Tell me, were we not born for your glory?

Or did my forefathers not repent?

NO ANSWER!!!!!! NO SOUND, JUST BLOOOOOD!!! AND THE AFTERMATH OF HIROSHIMA!!!!!!!

The danger increases every minute, death is making his rounds!! He's sitting on an ATOM BOMB, and it can never miss!!

Keflavik, Grindavik, Vogar, Reykjavik vanishes into the flames!!!!! Fathers and mothers, YOUR CHILDREN WILL FRYYYYYY!!!!!!!

It won't be long untill our lava is hot and flowing again, it won't be long 'till our glaciers turn into steam clouds!! A child that's born today, has less and less chances of survival!! He's on the train to the future, BUT THE TICKET IS A FORGERY!!!!

"YOU WILL ALL, YOU WILL ALL, YOU WILL ALL: DIIIIIIEEEEEEE! YOU WILL ALL, YOU WILL ALL, YOU WILL ALL BUUUUUURN!!!!! YOU WILL FRY, YOU WILL BURN, YOU WILL FRY YOU WILL BURN!!!!!!

Fathers and mothers: YOUR CHILDREN WILL FRY!!!!!

Death is sitting on a NUCLEAR BOMB, and it can never miss!!!

--- The Outsiders (Utangarðsmenn) with Bubbi

[Dhul Fiqar]

http://www.che-lives.net/users/dhul-fiqar/bubbi.mp3

EDIT: Fixed the link, ich bin ein idiot ;)

[Son of Scargill]

The link doesn't work for me Dhul.

[Dhul Fiqar]

Fixed the link! I fucked it up last night, but I won't bore you with my regular excuse, it's getting tired ;)

--- G.

[Dhul Fiqar]

Oh, I forgot the imporatnt part! They were communists when they wrote that, I think the song was on their first album which was called "Das Kapital" :)

However Bubbi became a junky and then sold out and started writing jingles for commercials, sad :(

--- G.

[Dhul Fiqar]

OK, some background on Bubbi to understand his weird life a bit better!

One of his most famous songs is "Steel and Knife" which is really code for "Hammer and Sickle", as the lyrics are very socialist, including: "The steel and the knife are my symbol, the symbol of the travelling working class!".

The reason is that he was basically as low as you can be in Iceland, uneducated, poor, couldn't get work at home and moved around from small fishing villages to live in cramped quarters of bunkbeds and work 14 hours a day hauling around 150 pound crates of fish!

I'm talking a serious hard core proletariate mofo here, and he became a communist when someone he worked with told him about the plight of the workers, he had already experienced it so he didn't take much convincing.

He started a punk band with some friends, called "The Outsiders" , or "Utangarðsmenn". They became the really outrageous face of the anti-authority punk movement in Iceland in the early eighties. They also advocated legalization of marijuana and spoke out against hard drugs. It wouldn't last :(

They all got addicted to speed and alcohol as well as cannabis, and moved on to cocaine and opiates like heroin when they could get a hold of them. The band basically fell *apart and Bubbi started a solo career, which made him the most successful artist in the history of Icelandic music, I doubt even Björk has sold half as many albums in Iceland as he has. He never made it outside the country because he mostly sings in Icelandic.

Anyway, he made several fantastic albums and was a real poet, especially when he worked with the much more intelligent but sadly much more drug addicted friend called "Megas". They made some beautiful music together...

Anyway, he then started to quit drugs about once every year and he'd always promise to be clean and start to campaign against drugs, then suddenly fall back into it. Eventually he stabilized his intake, and now is rumoured to keep himself on a rigid schedule of exercise and limited drug use, but there's no way he's clean in my oppinion and of those who know him.

A few years ago he started working as a sports caster, made a jingle for a famous supermarket chain in Iceland and basically sold out like mad. All traces of his former identity seem to be gone, as he's started to campaign vigorously against drugs yet again, even his beloved cannabis which he wrote songs about. Most famously his love song to the herb, "Black Afghani" :)


Anyway, I hope someone likes him, I might upload "Steel and Knife" if the thread doesn't die ;)

--- G.

[Son of Scargill]

thanks Dhul,works fine now.


Well what can I say?
It's good.Kind of reminds me of T.V.Smith,but in icelandic,it's a shame that he's sold out(for now),but then,folks need a job sometimes.I saw Henry Rollins presenting some kind of auto related game show the other week that seemed cheesy city to me.But,a jobs a job I guess.

If you're gonna upload any more Bubbi you'll have no complaints from me.

Iceland must be a strange place to work,very few jobs in the winter by all accounts,and working 2 or 3 jobs in your short summer.Still,better than Groenland eh?
I do like the frontier town feeling you get in Reykjavik though,and even though I know it's enviromentally unsound,the burble of V8's everywhere really does add something.Especially to an off-road junkie like me.

Btw Dhul,I'll probably lose my street cred(not that I had any in the 1st place)for asking this,but,the Sykurmolanir album titled"illur arfur"is sold here as "here today,tomorrow,next week".As far as I can make out,illur arfur means something like "evil inheritance".Am I way off the mark,or is it just another sad marketing ploy?
Also,by the couple of tracks I've managed to download kukl were much better than what came after.
*edit*
you might like to check out this site
http://www.doremi.co.uk/icu/deadfred.html


(Edited by Son of Scargill at 8:02 pm on June 2, 2003)

[Dhul Fiqar]

Thanks for your comments! :)

I actually watch that show with Henry Rollins, the first time I saw him on it I could hardly believe it. He was brought in after the first season I saw, I dunno how long the show has been running. It's called "Full Metal Challenge" and his role is terrible.

He just acts like the arrogant American fuckhead to the beautiful and nice British lass. He keeps shouting and saying he wants to burn cars and blah blah fucking blah. He's a fucking loser ;)

Still, he used to be hardcore, so respect for that. Kind of the same situation with Bubbi I guess, he contributed a lot but he also proved a lot of the right-wing establishment right by becoming a junky and giving up on politics! They always argued leftists were just fucked up young junkies, and the general idea in Iceland was that basically that was not too far from the truth.

As for Greenland, most things are better than that place, ffrom what I hear. Nobody does anything but drink and do other drugs, and they are all more expensive than anywhere you've likely been before.

As for the cars, yeah, there are many big SUVs, but that sucks because it causes shtiloads of pollution and it's a status symbol for bankers who never go outside the city center. They don't need 4x4, they just have a small dick ;)

There have been several scandals with ministers charging their jeeps to the government, so taxpayers have actually footed the bill for this Icelandic obsession for being able to drive to places no one ever wants to drive to ;)

Not that I don't like big cars, my favorite car ever is the Hummer, and I'd kill for one! ;)

And you are indeed a genius, "Illur Arfur" means... quite literally.... "Evil Inheritance"!!!! It's word for word correct. :)

--- G.

[Son of Scargill]

Thanks for the comfirmation to my translation.I knew the english version was wrong,but when I know very little of another language I always presume I've got it wrong.
Have you checked out the link I gave you.It's a guy who was in an acid punk band called Inner City Unit and has most of their songs.It's a bit dated(1980-90),but I think you'll like some of the songs,hate others maybe.Definately have a smoke before listening if you do.Anarcho-socialist at times,tripping hippy punks at others.I like 'em.

Finally,the Hummer.You will have to kill a few people to afford one of those;),and I have a friend who works on them for the military who reckons the old straight sixers are really unreliable.The newer versions he doesn't mind(less work).But fully tooled up and ready to go,yeah,gimme,gimme,gimme:)