Johann
03-26-2007, 09:02 AM
American Hardcore
Lyrics to Black Flag's "POLICE STORY":
Understand it: we're fighting a war that we cannot win......they hate us....WE HATE THEM!
This film blew my mind with great insight into the hardcore punk scenes that spread all over Reagan's USA from 1980-86.
The opening credits montage was astounding- lightning fast edits over a Bad Brains song.
I was clenching my fists during that.
The Bad Brains were an unstoppable force in their prime. HR and crew were a tornado of energy. HR would do back flips, jump into the crowd, annihilate audiences with sonic carnage. They were the main inspiration for people like Ian Mackaye and Henry Rollins.
HR says they were like his students.
I gotta buy some Bad Brains records now..
Keith Morris is an awesome talking head in the film. He says the movement was basically " I hate my parents, I hate my job, I hate my stupid boss, I hate people in general, I hate the police, I hate people always needling me, and this music is our chance to be with our own kind of people and just go off..."
BA-WOOM! Like a mushroom cloud.
Indeed, these people were angry.
Angry at society, angry at the staus quo, angry at rules, angry at stifling bullshit.
Just pissed off.
Mr. Ronald Reagan is one of the catalysts for this rage.
His new government was supposed to be this
"cleaning up of America", Jimmy Carter was a
wimp, and this fucking ACTOR was gonna make the country a way better place.
Feathered hair, disco and a new sort of 50's wholesomeness retro vibe was coming back, and the people with a brain were saying
FUCK THAT. That ain't real. That's Leave it to Beaver shit. That's a sell-out of the worst kind. Plastic people with their three-car garage, 2 dogs, white-picket fence with dinner on the table SHARP.
Trapped in a hell of domesticity and illusion.
These punks were saying "That ain't me, ain't never gonna be me, and I could napalm every asshole in these fifty states who tells me I should tow the line"
I got my own worldview, and it don't include you.
To quote Black Flag: I got NO VALUES, NOTHING TO SAY.
I got no talent, I'm just gonna bang away and vent my rage into this mic and BE PROUD that it ain't gonna be on the radio.
The whole ethos was: "I LIKE not being you. Fuck off and die. Eat the rich, cuz their mantra is KILL THE POOR. Listen to that track by the dead kennedys- it'll blow your head off boy.
It is Nine-teen Eighty-FOUR. We are marching to the Third. World. War
Here come the uber-secret police. They are coming for your uncool niece.
Or how about "Family Man" by Mr. Henry Rollins:
[
Family man with your life all planned, with your strange glances my way, takin' no chances on the new day. Family man with your Christmas lights already up- you're SUCH a MAN when you're putting up your christmas lights! I wanna crucify you to your front door, with nails from your well-stocked garage, FAMILY MAN
This documentary is not a complete profile of the movement- the dead kennedys are not even in it- they are mentioned a few times, and lots of other bands were omitted.
But it has my current fave band Black Flag, and I loved it. I wanna marry Kira Roessler.
Henry, how did you let her get away?
I know, it wasn't you. She says she fucked the relationship up by being too clingy.
She was babe then and even though she's a lot older now, I'd date her in an L.A. minute.
Sorry you didn't like the Slip It In album cover Kira. It's classic, but it's also insensitive to women.
That's punk. Hardcore punks were not P.C.
And they liked it that way.
Lyrics to Black Flag's "POLICE STORY":
Understand it: we're fighting a war that we cannot win......they hate us....WE HATE THEM!
This film blew my mind with great insight into the hardcore punk scenes that spread all over Reagan's USA from 1980-86.
The opening credits montage was astounding- lightning fast edits over a Bad Brains song.
I was clenching my fists during that.
The Bad Brains were an unstoppable force in their prime. HR and crew were a tornado of energy. HR would do back flips, jump into the crowd, annihilate audiences with sonic carnage. They were the main inspiration for people like Ian Mackaye and Henry Rollins.
HR says they were like his students.
I gotta buy some Bad Brains records now..
Keith Morris is an awesome talking head in the film. He says the movement was basically " I hate my parents, I hate my job, I hate my stupid boss, I hate people in general, I hate the police, I hate people always needling me, and this music is our chance to be with our own kind of people and just go off..."
BA-WOOM! Like a mushroom cloud.
Indeed, these people were angry.
Angry at society, angry at the staus quo, angry at rules, angry at stifling bullshit.
Just pissed off.
Mr. Ronald Reagan is one of the catalysts for this rage.
His new government was supposed to be this
"cleaning up of America", Jimmy Carter was a
wimp, and this fucking ACTOR was gonna make the country a way better place.
Feathered hair, disco and a new sort of 50's wholesomeness retro vibe was coming back, and the people with a brain were saying
FUCK THAT. That ain't real. That's Leave it to Beaver shit. That's a sell-out of the worst kind. Plastic people with their three-car garage, 2 dogs, white-picket fence with dinner on the table SHARP.
Trapped in a hell of domesticity and illusion.
These punks were saying "That ain't me, ain't never gonna be me, and I could napalm every asshole in these fifty states who tells me I should tow the line"
I got my own worldview, and it don't include you.
To quote Black Flag: I got NO VALUES, NOTHING TO SAY.
I got no talent, I'm just gonna bang away and vent my rage into this mic and BE PROUD that it ain't gonna be on the radio.
The whole ethos was: "I LIKE not being you. Fuck off and die. Eat the rich, cuz their mantra is KILL THE POOR. Listen to that track by the dead kennedys- it'll blow your head off boy.
It is Nine-teen Eighty-FOUR. We are marching to the Third. World. War
Here come the uber-secret police. They are coming for your uncool niece.
Or how about "Family Man" by Mr. Henry Rollins:
[
Family man with your life all planned, with your strange glances my way, takin' no chances on the new day. Family man with your Christmas lights already up- you're SUCH a MAN when you're putting up your christmas lights! I wanna crucify you to your front door, with nails from your well-stocked garage, FAMILY MAN
This documentary is not a complete profile of the movement- the dead kennedys are not even in it- they are mentioned a few times, and lots of other bands were omitted.
But it has my current fave band Black Flag, and I loved it. I wanna marry Kira Roessler.
Henry, how did you let her get away?
I know, it wasn't you. She says she fucked the relationship up by being too clingy.
She was babe then and even though she's a lot older now, I'd date her in an L.A. minute.
Sorry you didn't like the Slip It In album cover Kira. It's classic, but it's also insensitive to women.
That's punk. Hardcore punks were not P.C.
And they liked it that way.