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Dirty Commie
7th April 2004, 23:08
What is everyones favorite punk rock song from between 1977-'82

I like the Clash's "White Riot"

there's a Dead K's song called Nazi Punks Fuck Off, but I thik it is a bit differant than '77 style.

Louis Pio
7th April 2004, 23:17
I would say pretty much all of Damned's first album "Damned, Damned Damned" or some of the classic Ramones

Urban Rubble
8th April 2004, 01:12
Anything from Sham 69 or the Stiff Little Fingers.

canikickit
8th April 2004, 01:21
Two Sevens Clash

peaccenicked
8th April 2004, 01:49
poison girls-persons unknown



October 28, 2003
persons unknown
Persons Unknown


This is a message to persons unknown
Persons in hiding. Persons unknown
Survival in silence
Isn't good enough no more
Keeping your mouth shut head in the sand
Terrorists and saboteurs
Each and every one of us
Hiding in shadows persons unknown

Hey there Mr. Average
You don't exist you never did
Hiding in shadows persons unknown
Habits of hiding
Soon will be the death of us
Dying in secret from poisons unknown
This is a message to persons unknown
Strangers and passers-by
Persons unknown
Turning a blind eye
Hope to go unrecognized
Keeping your secrets persons unknown

Housewives and prostitutes
Plumbers in boiler suits
Truants in coffee bars
Who think you're alone
Big men on building sites
Sick men in dressing gowns
Agents in motor cars
Who never go home
Women in factories
One parent families
Women in purdah
Persons unknown

Wild girls and criminals
Rotting in prison cells
Patients in corridors
Persons unknown
Statistics on balance sheets
Numbered and rubberstamped
Blind and invisible
You're lost in your homes
Liggers and layabouts
Lovers on roundabouts
Wake up in the morning
Persons unknown

Accountants in nylon shirts
Feminists in floral skirts
Nurses for when it hurts
Persons unknown
Astronauts and celibates
Deejays and hypocrites
Liars and lunatics
Persons unknown
Hopefuls on football pools
Teachers in empty schools
Kids into heroin not yet full grown
Typists and usherettes
Black men who can't forget
The lonely who long for
Persons unknown

Closet idealists
Baldheaded realists
Rastas and bikers
The voice on the phone
Pimps and economists
Royalty and communists
Rioters and pacifists
Persons unknown

Visionaries with coloured hair
Leather boys who just don't care
Garter girls with time to spare
Persons unknown
Judges with prejudice
Dissidents and anarchists
Policemen deal dirty tricks
To persons unknown
Strikers and pickets
Collectors of tickets
Radical architects
The queen on her throne
Soldiers in uniform
Sailors and stevedores
Beggars and bankers
Persons unknown

Football crowd hooligans
Bunking off school again
Workers down tools again
United's at home
Smokers with heart disease
Cleaners of lavatories
The old with their memories
Persons unknown

Flesh and blood is who we are
Flesh and blood are what we are
Flesh and blood is who we are
Our cover is blown...

The Rotten One
8th April 2004, 04:43
(white man) In Hammersmith Palaisis by the Clash is bloody amazing. I'm so bored with the USA by the Clash and Neat Neat Neat by the Damned are also some of the greastest. But nobody can discount God Save the Queen by the Sex Pistols. Man, I'm a bloody old school punk junkie.

Dirty Commie
8th April 2004, 18:41
White riot - I wanna riot
White riot - a riot of my own
White riot - I wanna riot
White riot - a riot of my own

Black people gotta lot a problems
But they don't mind throwing a brick
White people go to school
Where they teach you how to be thick

An' everybody's doing
Just what they're told to
An' nobody wants
To go to jail!

All the power's in the hands
Of people rich enough to buy it
While we walk the street
Too chicken to even try it

Everybody's doing
Just what they're told to
Nobody wants
To go to jail!

Are you taking over
or are you taking orders?
Are you going backwards
Or are you going forwards?

Dirty Commie
8th April 2004, 18:43
NAZI PUNKS FUCK OFF
Lyrics : Jello Biaffra / Music : Dead Kennedys

Punk ain't no religious cult,
punk means thinking for yourself.
You ain't hardcore 'cause you spike your hair,
when a jock still lives inside your head.

Nazi punks,
Nazi punks,
Nazi punks,
Fuck off !

If you've come to fight, get outta here.
You ain't no better than the bouncers.
We ain't trying to be the police.
When you ape the cops, it ain't anarchy.

Nazi punks,
Nazi punks,
Nazi punks,
Fuck off !

Ten guys jump one, what a man !
You fight each other, the police state wins.
Stab your backs when you trash our halls.
Trash a bank if you've got real balls.

You still think swastikas look cool.
The real nazis run your schools.
They're coaches, businessmen and cops.
In the real fourth reich, you'll be the first to go.

Nazi punks,
Nazi punks,
Nazi punks,
Fuck off !

You'll be the first to go.
You'll be the first to go.
You'll be the first to go.
Unless you think.

Hate Is Art
8th April 2004, 19:01
fav song probs clash city rockers or londons burning, both by the clash.

Dirty Commie
8th April 2004, 19:30
London's Burning is one of the easiest songs to play. the rythm doesn't chnage throughout the whole song, and if two people have guitars than one can do the chorus tune all the way through and it sounds killer.

Dr. Rosenpenis
8th April 2004, 20:07
Is the Sex Pistols's stuff '77?
Probably something by them is my favourite.

RAGING BULL
8th April 2004, 21:09
I'm So Bored with the U.S.A., Career Opportunities and Deny.

Rob
8th April 2004, 21:30
Sham 69's Hersham Boys and The Ramones' 53 and 3rd tie for fav 77 song in my book.

dark fairy
9th April 2004, 05:51
im pretty sure this was between that time line...but correct me if I am wrong...
i love steamroller{my baby got runned over}-the adicts
smart alex
viva la revolution...
All by the adicts...
i like some DK but mostlly the adicts they just speak to me... :unsure: :D :)

The Rotten One
9th April 2004, 06:31
All across the town, all across the night, everybodys runnin' with full headlights.
Black or White you turn it up yeah face the new religion.
Everybody's sitting round watching television!

Yeah, London's Burning rocks, so does I'm so bored with the USA.

God Save The Queen was in 1976. Now that's a fact you can use.

Politrickian
9th April 2004, 06:36
Angelic Upstarts - I'm An Upstart

but it's from 1979 :P

guerrillaradio
9th April 2004, 12:27
Fuck 77, it's all about 67.

KICK OUT THE JAMS MOTHERFUCKER!!!

Nah, my favourite 77 punk bands are Dead Kennedys and The Clash. Sex Pistols aren't punk, they're a boy band. Fuck this band and fuck Johnny fucking courting the establishment like the sellout **** he was back then and always fucking will be Rotten.

Hate Is Art
9th April 2004, 13:03
Sex Pistols are crap! JR couldn't sing for shit!

truthaddict11
9th April 2004, 14:08
Wasted Life by Stiff Little Fingers

WASTED LIFE
i could be a soldier go out there and fight to save this land be a people's soldier
paramilitary gun in hand i won't be a soldier i won't take no orders from no-one stuff
their fucking armies killing isn't my idea of fun (chorus) they wanna waste my life they
wanna waste my time they wanna waste my life and they've stolen it away i could be a hero
live and die for their 'important' cause a united nation or an independent state with laws
and rules and regulations that merely cause disturbances and wars that is what i've got now
all thanks to the freedom-seeking hordes (chorus) i'm not gonna be taken in they said if
i don't join i just can't win i've heard that story many times before and every time i
threw it out the door still they come up to me with a different name but same old face i
can see the connection with another time and a different place they ain't blonde-haired or
blueeyed but they think that they're the master race they're nothing but blind fascists
brought up to hate and given lives to waste (chorus; repeat)

guerrillaradio
9th April 2004, 16:11
Originally posted by Digital [email protected] 9 2004, 01:03 PM
JR couldn't sing for shit!
To be fair, if he could, I'd like Sex Pistols even less. Fuck singing in punk.

Rob
9th April 2004, 16:50
A lot of people here seem to have mentioned DK, but good or not, the Dead Kennedys aren't actually a 77 band.

dopediana
9th April 2004, 16:51
Originally posted by guerrillaradio+Apr 9 2004, 04:11 PM--> (guerrillaradio @ Apr 9 2004, 04:11 PM)
Digital [email protected] 9 2004, 01:03 PM
JR couldn't sing for shit!
To be fair, if he could, I'd like Sex Pistols even less. Fuck singing in punk. [/b]
get over yourself. you can sing in punk.

anyway, i like sex pistols' "submission", the clash's "washington bullets" (though it's more reggae-ish with that marimba beat), "clampdown", "police on my back" and loads of others. it's hard to pick a favorite song....

Rob
9th April 2004, 17:08
Originally posted by [email protected] 9 2004, 04:51 PM
get over yourself. you can sing in punk.

Right on. Fuck that punk/not punk hardercore than thou shit.

Dirty Commie
9th April 2004, 19:36
I think that the Pistols were a good band, despite being created by a producer. The fact is that they were doing punk rock before it was popular.


And Guerilla Radio, don't start talking about what is and isn't punk, the only people who do so are rich Hot Topic shoppers who want to show off how they are "real" punks.

If you can't sing in punk than what do you call Joe strummers voice?

dopediana
9th April 2004, 20:18
Originally posted by Dirty [email protected] 9 2004, 07:36 PM
I think that the Pistols were a good band, despite being created by a producer. The fact is that they were doing punk rock before it was popular.


they started and epitomized that nihilistic era. which perfectly coincides with the boy band bit. at least they weren't putting on airs and false pretenses. they just didn't care. and it shows. rotten's rotten personality and sid's dependence on nancy and heroin. and their music is awesome. not sophisticated. it wasn't supposed to be. it just was and you feel it.



And Guerilla Radio, don't start talking about what is and isn't punk, the only people who do so are rich Hot Topic shoppers who want to show off how they are "real" punks.
i used to do it too. but just out of frustration. and i'm as far from today's punk on the leftist spectrum as you can get. though i like to mosh. but that's not the point. anyway, when you've reached a certain level of maturity you don't really care about maintaining the purity of a certain genre of music and protecting it from shit because art can never run afoul forever. eventually it will return to where it used to be. there can be innovations and revolutions but don't stress it. your favorite stuff will still have its place somewhere.


If you can't sing in punk than what do you call Joe strummers voice?
hear, hear

guerrillaradio
9th April 2004, 20:49
Alright don't tell me the Pistols didn't care. They were a cynical marketing ploy. Malcom Maclaren saw a niche and went for it. Nothing too shocking, I mean it's pretty normal by the standards of mainstream music. What sucks is that they're bunched with "punk rock". It's like calling Busted a hardcore band cos they wear hardcore/punk merchandise. Don't be fooled.

The Pistols cared. They knew the Silver Jubilee was coming up, so they release "God Save the Queen" to coincide with it. Plenty of punk bands around, but the Pistols have the (financial) benefit of a "smart" manager in Maclaren. Hence they have the corner on the shock value market. Then they go on a TV show and swear. Sure breaking all the taboos is pretty fuck-you but surely if they didn't care they wouldn't have fucking wasted half a day on a TV show in the first place?? That's not to mention being signed to EMI (major labels show how little you care) and releasing a steady stream of videos and singles.

Moreover, since when was punk about "not caring"?? If MC5 didn't care, how come they instigated a riot outside the Democratic National Convention in 1968?? If the Dead Kennedys didn't care, why did they write tons of material about politics?? If The Clash didn't care, how come their songs are angst-ridden?? Face it man, punk is a lifestyle. It's a solution to many of life's problems. Its basis is in providing an honest alternative to a lying world that wants to fuck you in the arse. Hence it fucking cares. Despite what your Sex Pistols CD bought from the mall tells you, it's not about winding people up for the sake of it. If the Sex Pistols didn't care what people thought of them, they wouldn't have gone out of their way to antagonise them. They aren't fucking honest, they lied all the way to the bank. No different to fucking Abba.

Hardcore to me is life. I honestly don't know where I'd be without it. I feel like it's my raison d'etre. I take it extremely seriously. It owes its existence (and many would say its continued existence) to punk rock, hence I also take an interest in it, if only so I can bait the crusts in my town haha.

As for the singing thing, in context I was attacking someone for criticising the quality of Rotten's voice. Punk rock is not about having a fuckin opera in your vocal cords. It's pretty much the opposite so whinging about its musical quality is ridiculous. As is Blink 182.

El Brujo
10th April 2004, 01:19
The Clash - Guns of Brixton
Angelic Upstarts - Two Million Voices

If we aren't specifically talking about '77 bands:
Bad Brains - Banned in DC

celtopunk
10th April 2004, 02:24
It is impossible to pick a single song, there are so many great ones to choose from.
But I'd say something either by the Clash or Stiff Little Fingers.

The Rotten One
11th April 2004, 07:17
GuerillaRadio-

Wait, the Sex Pistols were the FIRST punk band. Pio-fucking-neers. Steve and Paul started it, not McLaren. Sure, he had the store, but the band orginzed most of their shows themselves. Every group has a manager, and yes, most of them are money grubbing bastards. Bernie Rhodes, who managed the Clash was one. So was Leee Childers (NY Dolls, Heartbreakers). The purpose of the manager is to MAKE MONEY!!!

All the members made perfectly clear that the point of the band was tp shake things up. Joe Strummer only joined the Clash after seeing the Sex Pistols. There would be no punk without them! Get you facts straight!

And of course they wrote God Save the Queen because of jubilee. It's a fucking statement to fit with the times! That's like saying Seattle was a Riot is a marketing ploy. Jesus!

Yeah, Rotten has been selling out the last few years. But hey, so is Bob Dylan. I guess that makes him another Justin Timberlake, right? Arggh! The Sex Pistols are all about doing what you fucking want. Punk is about being yourself and taking a stand, not about going "Oi Oi Oi!"

guerrillaradio
11th April 2004, 14:02
Sex Pistols being the first punk band?? Are you on crack??? You never fuckin heard MC5, The Stooges, New York Dolls, RAfuckingMONES??? They were a marketing ploy, a brainchild of Maclaren. Sure they may have existed before he came on the scene, but he manipulated them and molded them into a radio-unfriendly (therefore friendly, shock sells remember) creation. And since fucking when has punk rock been about "making money"?? Attitudes like that were precisely what most punks I know would despise. The shit you're coming out with, seriously...

Fuck the Sex Pistols and fuck John fucking Lydon. They're a stinking pile of shite who I'd sooner spit on than give my cash to. You need a fuckin education in punk rock kid.

guerrillaradio
11th April 2004, 14:03
Fuck it, I scrub my earlier answer. My favourite 77 band is Bad Brains. They were out then right?

celtopunk
11th April 2004, 17:04
Originally posted by [email protected] 11 2004, 02:02 PM
Sex Pistols being the first punk band?? Are you on crack??? You never fuckin heard MC5, The Stooges, New York Dolls, RAfuckingMONES??? They were a marketing ploy, a brainchild of Maclaren. Sure they may have existed before he came on the scene, but he manipulated them and molded them into a radio-unfriendly (therefore friendly, shock sells remember) creation. And since fucking when has punk rock been about "making money"?? Attitudes like that were precisely what most punks I know would despise. The shit you're coming out with, seriously...

Fuck the Sex Pistols and fuck John fucking Lydon. They're a stinking pile of shite who I'd sooner spit on than give my cash to. You need a fuckin education in punk rock kid.
McLaren did a good job of manipulating the New York Dolls too.

guerrillaradio
11th April 2004, 22:32
I don't doubt that. I was merely disputing a claim that the Pistols started punk.

MiniOswald
11th April 2004, 22:46
thank god other clash fans!
anyways I liked a lot of the stuff from combat rock
namely car jammin, red angel dragnet and straight to hell Oh and atom tan

celtopunk
12th April 2004, 00:23
Originally posted by [email protected] 11 2004, 10:32 PM
I don't doubt that. I was merely disputing a claim that the Pistols started punk.
No they didn't start punk but they still played an important part in its development. The Bad Brains were as a matter of fact were inspired in part by the Sex Pistols. I'm not arguing with you guerrilla. I like the Pistols a bit, they were far from the pinnacle of punk, but I see them for what they were and nothing more.

Minioswald:
As far as '77 songs go, I thought we were only talking songs from that year. Combat Rock came out in the 80's.

The Bad Brains started around 79/80

The Rotten One
12th April 2004, 06:48
Originally posted by [email protected] 11 2004, 02:02 PM
Sex Pistols being the first punk band?? Are you on crack??? You never fuckin heard MC5, The Stooges, New York Dolls, RAfuckingMONES??? They were a marketing ploy, a brainchild of Maclaren. Sure they may have existed before he came on the scene, but he manipulated them and molded them into a radio-unfriendly (therefore friendly, shock sells remember) creation. And since fucking when has punk rock been about "making money"?? Attitudes like that were precisely what most punks I know would despise. The shit you're coming out with, seriously...

Fuck the Sex Pistols and fuck John fucking Lydon. They're a stinking pile of shite who I'd sooner spit on than give my cash to. You need a fuckin education in punk rock kid.
Yeah, I'll give you the fact that all those bands rock. They really do. But MC5, Iggy, the Velvet Underground, they were all about the Warhol scene and Max's Kansas City. The New Yorks Dolls were about Glam Shock, like Ziggy Stardust. They were the roots of the movement, not the movement itself.

The Ramones are definately the first US punk band, but they originted in '76 started playing gigs in '77, while the Sex Pistols started in '75 and were playing live shows by '76.

And I didn't say punk was about making money. But that is the managers job, to get cash. All your Albums and show tickets and I'm-so-punk patches aren't free, are they? The band gets paid, it's how they live.

The band wrote all of their songs, not counting the covers like No Fun (look, the Stooges! Heh-heh). Maclaren told them to write a song about bondage, so they wrote Sub-Mission (goin down, down, under the water...) to piss him off. He created the look and the store to go with them, not the other way around. He had Westwood design the clothes for Sex to fit the Pistols. So when you put on your spikes and your bondage crap, it's The Sex Pistols you have to thank. So sod off you diseased dog minge.

Oh, and you need to improve your fuckity fuckin vocabulary, mister fuckity fuck.

Bazza
12th April 2004, 10:37
"Lev Bronstein" - Redskins
"Solidarity" - Angelic Upstarts
"White Man In Hammersmith Palais" - The Clash
"1977" - The Clash
"Tin Soldiers" - Stiff Little Fingers
"Staring At The Rude Boys" - The Ruts
"Jilted John" - Jilted John

guerrillaradio
12th April 2004, 15:53
Originally posted by The Rotten One+Apr 12 2004, 06:48 AM--> (The Rotten One @ Apr 12 2004, 06:48 AM)
[email protected] 11 2004, 02:02 PM
Sex Pistols being the first punk band?? Are you on crack??? You never fuckin heard MC5, The Stooges, New York Dolls, RAfuckingMONES??? They were a marketing ploy, a brainchild of Maclaren. Sure they may have existed before he came on the scene, but he manipulated them and molded them into a radio-unfriendly (therefore friendly, shock sells remember) creation. And since fucking when has punk rock been about "making money"?? Attitudes like that were precisely what most punks I know would despise. The shit you're coming out with, seriously...

Fuck the Sex Pistols and fuck John fucking Lydon. They're a stinking pile of shite who I'd sooner spit on than give my cash to. You need a fuckin education in punk rock kid.
Yeah, I'll give you the fact that all those bands rock. They really do. But MC5, Iggy, the Velvet Underground, they were all about the Warhol scene and Max's Kansas City. The New Yorks Dolls were about Glam Shock, like Ziggy Stardust. They were the roots of the movement, not the movement itself.

The Ramones are definately the first US punk band, but they originted in '76 started playing gigs in '77, while the Sex Pistols started in '75 and were playing live shows by '76.

And I didn't say punk was about making money. But that is the managers job, to get cash. All your Albums and show tickets and I'm-so-punk patches aren't free, are they? The band gets paid, it's how they live.

The band wrote all of their songs, not counting the covers like No Fun (look, the Stooges! Heh-heh). Maclaren told them to write a song about bondage, so they wrote Sub-Mission (goin down, down, under the water...) to piss him off. He created the look and the store to go with them, not the other way around. He had Westwood design the clothes for Sex to fit the Pistols. So when you put on your spikes and your bondage crap, it's The Sex Pistols you have to thank. So sod off you diseased dog minge.

Oh, and you need to improve your fuckity fuckin vocabulary, mister fuckity fuck. [/b]
#1 All that you say about McLaren (and indeed Westwood) proves my point.

#2 I'm not a punk and I have never worn spikes nor bondage in my life. Gimme jeans, a Terror shirt and windmills anyday.

#3 99% of the music I listen to is not made by fulltime musicians. The underlying belief is that you stay much truer to yourself when you aren't worrying about having to sell a certain amount to buy your next bag of heroin. Once again, you're proving that Sex Pistols did fuckin care about what people thought of them. Fakes.

#4 MC5 have got more punk rock in a single curl of their afros than Johnny Rotten could ever have.

#5 Bad Brains is better than all of this anyway.

Rob
13th April 2004, 19:11
Originally posted by [email protected] 11 2004, 02:03 PM
Fuck it, I scrub my earlier answer. My favourite 77 band is Bad Brains. They were out then right?
They were really just starting then. I'm pretty sure 77 was about the time they were stopping doing jazz fusion and starting to invent hardcore. Not sure though.

guerrillaradio
13th April 2004, 19:44
I think the guy said 77-82 bands. But it's confusing. I missed out Minor Threat and Black Flag cos I didn't think they really applied. Oh Christ fuck it.

Bad Grrrl Agro
13th April 2004, 21:33
-friggin in the riggin(Pistols)
-god save the queen(pistols)
-EMI(pistols)
-my way (sid)
-career oprotunities(clash)
-real womyn(poison girls)
-who killed bambi(Pistols)
-L'Anarche pour le Uk(Pistols)
-belsen was a gasser(pistols)
-holidays in the sun(pistols)
-judy was a punk(ramones)
-rudie cant fail(clash)
-the offending article(poison girls)
-vivisector(icons of filth)
-RATS (SUB HUM ANS)

Bazza
13th April 2004, 21:39
Wasn't "Who Killed Bambi" by Tenpole Tudor? And not the Sex Pistols.

Bad Grrrl Agro
13th April 2004, 21:43
maybe

celtopunk
13th April 2004, 22:28
Originally posted by [email protected] 13 2004, 07:44 PM
I think the guy said 77-82 bands. But it's confusing. I missed out Minor Threat and Black Flag cos I didn't think they really applied. Oh Christ fuck it.
So he did, well that changes things.

The Newtown Neurotics aka the Neurotics came about in 1979. If you don't know who they are you are really missing something. Here's a website for them : http://www.neurotics.org.uk/

They had some really great songs; "Kick Out the Tories", "Mindless Violence", "The Mess", "Does Anyone Know Where the March Is?", "Get Up and Fight". They were a great leftist punk band similar to the Clash but dare I say better.

And Dead Kennedys have been mentioned several times, "Fresh Fruit..." came out in 1980 so I guess they would qualify but to be honest their sound is very different from the 77 wave of uk punk same goes for Bad Brains. Not that I am denying the greatness of these bands.

Oh and back to the MC5. I believe they had little if anything to do with Andy Warhol so don't lump them in with him "Rotten One". Same goes for the Stooges. Unless you can show me some evidence of this.

Marxist in Nebraska
14th April 2004, 23:52
I love the Clash and the Sex Pistols, and Dead Kennedys as well.

The Clash actually have a song called "1977", which I think was actually written and recorded in the mid-1980s. Anyway, my favorite Clash songs from the 1970s would be "Career Opportunities", "I'm So Bored With the USA", "London Calling", "Death or Glory", "The Guns of Brixton", and "Lost in the Supermarket."

Louis Pio
14th April 2004, 23:56
Oh and back to the MC5. I believe they had little if anything to do with Andy Warhol

Both them and Stogges had nothing to do with Warhol. Iggy later did but the band didn't. Both bands emerged from underground rock and actually stayed like that. To call them a part of the Warhol scene is not right

The Rotten One
15th April 2004, 04:56
Actually, Iggy pop did numberous interviews with Andy and went to Andy's parties. I don't know much about MC5, which is most unfortunate. And GR, 'm not actively disagreeing with you, and in all honesty, I hate Black Flag as you hate the fuckin' Sex Pistols, but I'm absolutely sick of *****ing at each other. Besides, the Clash rules.

And 1977 was released in the UK in '77, the US in "79.

Louis Pio
15th April 2004, 11:54
Actually, Iggy pop did numberous interviews with Andy and went to Andy's parties.

But the leadsinger ain't the band. Only in pop. Stooges wouldn't have been the same without the Ashton brothers. So can we now conclude that Stooges wasn't invented by Warhol? Sex Pistols was far more "invented" still they made a great impact.

AC-Socialist
15th April 2004, 13:17
Its so blatently got to be the clash. Oh and about bands giving the 2 fingered salute to there managers, the best example is 'Complete Control' by the Clash, which is, incedentaly, my favorite punk song of all time. Just look at the lyrics, and the solo - classic punk.

RIP Joe Strummer

They said release 'Remote Control'
But we didn't want it on the label
They said, "Fly to Amsterdam"
The people laughed but the press went mad

Ooh ooh ooh someone's really smart
Ooh ooh ooh complete control, that's a laugh

On the last tour my mates couldn't get in
I'd open up the back door but they'd get run out again
At every hotel we was met by the Law
Come for the party - come to make sure!

Ooh ooh ooh have we done something wrong?
Ooh ooh ooh complete control, even over this song

They said we'd be artistically free
When we signed that bit of paper
They meant let's make a lotsa mon-ee
An' worry about it later

Ooh ooh ooh I'll never understand
Ooh ooh ooh complete control - lemme see your other hand!

All over the news spread fast
They're dirty, they're filthy
They ain't gonna last!

This is Joe Public speaking
I'm controlled in the body, controlled in the mind

Total
C-o-n control - that means you!

Danton
15th April 2004, 15:05
Clash - City - Rockers

Bad Grrrl Agro
15th April 2004, 16:13
Originally posted by [email protected] 13 2004, 09:39 PM
Wasn't "Who Killed Bambi" by Tenpole Tudor? And not the Sex Pistols.
but seriously dude, it was the sex pistols listen to the album the great rock'n roll swindle

Pingu
15th April 2004, 17:05
the songs of the clash

Bad Grrrl Agro
15th April 2004, 23:51
oh yeah!