Wingnut Dishwashers Union and other Folk Punk bands

[Emile Armand]

WDU is one of my favourite bands, it doesn't seem to be letting post links or anything so here are some lyrics for now:
Jesus Does The Dishes

We're kids building models of a world that we might wanna live in.
And sorting feelings in our stomach--is this liberation or starvation?
But have we made it anywhere at all if the dishes are never done?
If we can't live without dishwashers, how could we live without cops?
And so you're asking me, who does the dishes after the revolution?
Well, we do our own dishes now, we'll do our own dishes then.
And it's always the ones who don't who ask that fucking question.

Well I don't believe in God, but I'm also not an Atheist.
Because the universe is chaos, but chaos picks favorites.
And lately I've been thinking about how I love Jesus because Jesus was a dirty homeless hippie peace activist.
And he said, "Drop out and find God" to anybody who would listen.
While turning water into space bags with lowlifes and anarchists.

[Emile Armand]

I swear i'll run away from every home I ever have
So i'll build a new house in every town i pass.
Maybe then I won't always feel lost and trapped.
When I was growing up, i was the smartest kid i knew.
Maybe that was just because I didnt know that many kids.
All I know is now I feel the opposite.
Like if you dont want to work, then that becomes your job.
Theres a lot of overtime, theres not many days off.
I hope you know that I'm not trying to complain.
It just gets hard to explain to people that I know, or kids who come to shows
that I just dont want to talk about the office today.

'Cause i've watched friends go from being pessimists to work at home archeologists
they dig skin deep, they work every day
i'm burying their arms for a vein or two that maybe they forgot.


And the cops say its a crime for people like me and those friends of mine to want to die
like my neighbor in St. Pete
she's been on house arrest down here
if she tries to leave her yard they'll lock her in a cage for years.
cause sometimes she wants to die.
and she shoots dope when she thinks she could die
and the law they caught her one too many times
shootin dope when she felt like she could die.

We're building a new world, all of my friends and me
its not an exact science yet, but we have the technology.
now all we need is an economy where everybody finally will get enough to eat, even the suburbs
no powers getting too crooked to stand on its own feet for much longer than it has.

So i dont want to kill a cop, what i want is neighborhoods where they don't have to get called
when the shit goes down
cause our friends, they are enough, and our neighbors have enough.
finally we're enough.

cause our friends, they are enough.
and our neighbors are enough.
and finally we're enough
please help me be enough.


fuck the law cause we're enough
fuck the boss cause we're enough
fuck microsoft cause we're enough
fuck owning stocks cause we're enough
fuck you cause we're enough
fuck moving to brooklyn cause we're enough
fuck the clash cause we're enough
fuck martial stacks cause we're enough
quit what you don't love cause we're enough
live as you make it up cause we're enough
you'll never go without cause we're enough
we'll buy a house cause we're enough
we'll grow some food cause we're enough
we'll slam some dunks cause we're enough
don't be afraid cause we're enough
you'll always be ok because we'll always be enough.

[Chimurenga.]

Most (probably all of it actually) of this stuff is complete garbage, imo.

[The Ben G]

Im a huge fan of New Model Army, myself.

[Foldered]

I think Andrew Jackson Jihad is the only thing I listen to that falls into this category.

[Qayin]

Mischief Brew

wingnut just sucks hard

[Bilan]

Pat The Bunny is actually a really intelligent, interesting guy. He stayed at my house when he came to Australia.
It was funny. I went to bed, and he was sitting at my kitchen table eating noodles and reading Marx's the Poverty of Philosophy. :lol:

In any case, I don't like "folk punk" as much as I used to. I still listen to Defiance, Ohio here and there, as well as Johnny Hobo and Fear Like Us.
But...yeah.

[gorillafuck]

I like Mischief Brew, Andrew Jackson Jihad, Defiance Ohio, Johnny Hobo/Wingnut Dishwashers Union, This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb, and a few more.

Folk punk can be pretty good in my opinion. Though I have always said that it shouldn't be called "folk punk". It isn't punk.

[Revolte_Wolf]

I like Mischief Brew, Andrew Jackson Jihad, Defiance Ohio, Johnny Hobo/Wingnut Dishwashers Union, This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb, and a few more.

Folk punk can be pretty good in my opinion. Though I have always said that it shouldn't be called "folk punk". It isn't punk.


Sort of an old thread but all the same.

I recently started playing folk punk myself with my acoustic and what not. I came to the same conclusion that the link between punk and folk seemed a bit off in it, but upon playing it some more I came to believe the reason for it being considered folk punk has to do with similier chord usage ( at least from punk bands before 80's hardcore ), and of course the speed. There seems to be a fine line between certain folk punk groups like Ghost Mice and riot folk like Ryan Harvey. I think the better way to understand it is Anarcho-Folk. It's far too poetic, far too accepting of stuff like love and romance, and far too, I don't know, accurate, to really be punk. Alot of punk bands that talk about anarchism tend to be a little off, when folk seems to be a bit more understanding of it's concept.

But if you think of bands like chumbawamba with songs that don't really sound punk, but are still thought of as anarcho-punk bands, who really knows.

It's all good music anyway, well, sort of. But there is a beauty to it that most performers dont have. Being able to play a show out in some street, or someones living room? I love that, makes me think of it as "the peoples music" which is why I play it, I've played on stage in punk bands in the past, but it's so much more meaningful to be in a room filled with smart people, and playing music that has a deeper meaning that what alot of punk rock has.

for example. (can't post links yet)

Crass

Eric Peterson (from mischief brew)

one seems like a performance, one seems like an outreach. There is just a greater connection in playing acoustic music in a small (semi-small) room.

[Ele'ill]

Black Bird Raum

Dandelion Junk Queens


Do these count?



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[Across The Street]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeUvE4dpZ6E&feature=related

I dig how all these videos have the crowd singing

*aww fuck

[ContrarianLemming]

Wingnut Diswashers union have good lyrics, I wish they had a different singer however.