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i had someone snatch this cd right out of my cd player when I was delivering pizzas one afternoon at the mall.
I swear some people
i had someone snatch this cd right out of my cd player when I was delivering pizzas one afternoon at the mall.
I swear some people
The International Noise Conspiracy - Capitalism Stole My Virginity
I saw them open for who I cant even recall. Dude wore tight red pants and was making fun of the punks for not being able to dance.
They were attempting to take the radical politics of punk and marry it with popular culture to convert people who would never listen to punk to their beliefs. Punk is about challenging conventions, they took that statement to the extreme, by challenging all the conventions of punk culture. They were just busting people's balls for not dancing, a lot of post-punk bands do that.
He was the same singer from Refused... that's why the broke up, Denis (the singer) wanted to go more mainstream, and Kristofer the guitar player wanted to go in the opposite direction. He started Text (listen to that song by them I just posted and it's clear it was written for Denis to sing, it's a dub, reggae, jazz, soul, type song. The rest of the Text album is totally weird and obscure. Kristofer wanted to challenge their new found fan-base with weirder music, and Denis wanted to go more mainstream to expose his politics to more people.
This was the last song that Refused released before breaking up, they were growing up and wanted to get away from punk and go in a new direction. (That's also why At the Drive-In broke up, Jim wanted to go more mainstream while Omar and Cedric wanted to take mescaline in the desert and write crazy punk-influenced progressive rock)
Refused - Poetry Written in Gasoline
More often than not I end up not liking the new sound so much when bands do that. I dont have any kind of issue with bands doing new things but I dont need to be challenged I know what I like and I dont. I have seen a lot of bands crash and burn when these creative differences emerge .
you got me stuck on the stoics I forgot all about them