| The Weakerthans – Our Retired Explorer (Dines with Michel Foucault in Paris, 1961) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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"Michel Foucault was the father of deconstructionist philsophy." That's Derrida, not Foucault. Foucault is often labelled structuralist, but isn't, really. I read an interview with john k. somewhere in which he explained that the song was about his encountering Foucault and "postmodernism" generally. Specifically the difficulty he had with Foucault's work, which he saw as challenging the 'concept of grand narratives'. Shackelton is featured because, it was explained, his Anarctic expedition was the last real modernist frivolity and he was therefore the perfect canditate for a fantasy dinner date with Michel Foucault. One of their best songs. |
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| The Weakerthans – Illustrated Bible Stories For Children Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| This song is, I believe, comparative of Samson's situation and John's own. | |
| The Weakerthans – Illustrated Bible Stories For Children Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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"Eyeless in Gaza With the Slaves at the Mill" is from Samsons Agonistes by John Milton. http://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/samson/drama/index.shtml |
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| Paul Simon – Duncan Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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"Just thankin' the Lord for my fingers for my fingers" Bit of a double entendre? |
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| The (International) Noise Conspiracy – (I've Got) Survival Sickness Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Capitalism has demystified survival. It has made the poverty of daily life intolerable in view of the increasing wealth of technical possibilities. Survival has become an economizing on life. The civilization of collective survival increases the dead time in individual lives to the point where the death forces are liable to carry the day over collective survival itself. The only hope is that the passion for destruction may be reconverted into a passion for life. Up until now people have merely complied with a system of world transformation. Today the task is to make the system comply with the transformation of the world. http://library.nothingness.org/articles/SI/en/display/59 |
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| The (International) Noise Conspiracy – Black Mask Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Or, Black Mask/Up Against The Wall Motherfucker. | |
| The Tragically Hip – Thompson Girl Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I can't seem to remember the name of "Thompson Girl" at this moment, but the Thompson in this song is Thompson, Manitoba. Where I live! YAY! | |
| The (International) Noise Conspiracy – Capitalism Stole My Virginity Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I can't imagine how anyone figured t(i)nc is a "marxist band". They're borrow heavily from situationist ideas however. For example, Survival Sickness is the title of a chapter in the book "The Revolution of Everyday Life" by Raoul Vaneigem who is a former member the situationist international. Search for bigger cages, longer chains by larry law, abolish work by bob black, or Black Mask and Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers, etc. www.bopsecrets.org would be a decent place to check out if you want to get an understanding of what t(i)nc is talking about, beyond this stupid anybody but Bush acting as a panacea bullshit. Anyway I would like to say that I can't believe the fact that they play the warped tour or MTV. Talk about reccuperation. Eat up the shit, kiddies. |
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| Refused – Tannhäuser/Derivè Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Derivé is a situationist term. A lot of refused/t(i)nc lyrics borrow from situationist writings. Theory of the Dérive by Guy Debord: http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/2.derive.htm Introduction to the Situationists: the next badge of intellectual elitism: http://www.crimethinc.com/library/english/situa.html Spectacular Times: http://www.cat.org.au/spectacular/ Situationist International on-line: http://www.cddc.vt.edu/sionline/ |
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| The Clash – Spanish Bombs Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Tsk8rKFF said :"The black cars of the Guardia Civil"- black is an anarachist color. the guardia civil were troops protecting spain from the fascists, they were of anarchist/proletariat/communist affiliation. From "The Spanish Anarchists" by Murray Bookchin: "The Civil Guard was established in 1844 to deal with banditry in the south...to restore the security of the roads by using the local militia and police would have been useless. Like the bandits, they too had been largely taken over by the caciques [landowners, lawyers and priests who held control of the political life in spanish villages]...it's men were never recruited form the districts in which they served, and they were expressly forbidden to intermarry or establish familiar realtions with the local populations...whatever support revolutionary groups could not mobilize with their literature and oratory, the Guardia eventually gained for them with it's carbines." The Guardia were not in anyway friends of anarchists. The Guardia are a paramlitary force that aimed at destroying labour militancy, one only has to remember the uprisings in Casa Viejas, Asturia, Jerez, etc. They also helped invent Mano Negro so as to round up anarchists and labour militants, among many other things. I'd also like to point out that the Communists should not be considered anarchist allies, they were (are) backstabbing state-capitalists. |
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| Crass – The Greatest Working Class Rip Off Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I don't know how much of it is actually opposed to class conciousness. It seems to me to be more about recuperated "class conciousness" (If you follow the situationsit jargon). The kind of blind "class conciousness" that takes a quasi-nationalistic form. Class conciousness can be useful, in asmuch as it is recognized to be a means not an end (or for that matter, the best possible means). When it becomes warped it is dangerous. It becomes exclusionary and reactionary, and thus ineffectual as securing the ends it was meant to serve as means to . Everyone is opressed by modern capitalist society (you could even argue that the opressors are), to exclude others on somewhat irrelevant notions like "class" is harmful. Social Revolution must be made by everyone who is opressed and I think that is what crass is saying. On a bit of a side note, you've got to be sure not to let a revolutionary situation be hijacked by appeaser's (of any class). Not to say that a member of lower class can't compromise or hijack a situation, but middle class participants are more likely to follow the reformist path, simply because being (for the most part) determines conciousness. The idea that being determines conciousness is of course the only reason that class conciousness is in anyway useful, but me thinks it the inclusion of "for the most part" is more accurate. | |
| Against Me! – Baby, I'm an Anarchist! Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I'm not quite sure what it means by "and to you solidarity is a four-letter word", anyone? A "four-letter word" is one that is considered profanity (fuck, shit, bitch, ass, etc.). |
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| Propagandhi – I Want You To Want Me Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| masters of punk? you need to learn a bit of history. | |
| Millencolin – Afghan Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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There are very few people in the world who actually think war is good, but just because you don't like war is no reason to be against it. Sometimes it is necessary to stand up to those who threaten world stability with military action. It is that mentality that eventually ended the Nazi plague. Countries like America started realizing that it doesn't work to allow someone to openly violate post-war agreements. That's what Saddam has done, and the international community has allowed it to happen. Without the U.S.'s insistance there wouldn't even be any focus on this regime that has tortured and mass executed minority groups and those that oppose them exactly like the Nazis did. That's the scariest thing: No one even cared that any of this was happening until Bush brought it to the surface recently. If you have some real reasons for why this war is unnecesary I would except them as legitimate arguments, but to say that war is a bad thing and therefore we should not have it is just stupid. We all know it's a bad thing but sometimes you have to do what's right. But I guess Julie345's country doesn't really care to learn from their national history and prevent that same thing from occuring somewhere else. Idiot. would you alll just fuck right off, the US is the biggest threat to the world, the savage imperialist capitalism of the US is the cause of a lot of suffering in the world, its to late for my posts to make sense ill do it later. |
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| Millencolin – Afghan Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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"i didnt even say that canada interferes with the world..." http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=15&ItemID=3668 |
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| Millencolin – Afghan Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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On October 13 2002 I posted that I was against the war in Iraq. Since that time, my views have changed completely. I am not someone who likes wars (there are very few people on this planet who do), but I have tried over and over again to convince myself this war is unnecessary and I can not come up with a single reason why keeping Saddam Hussein in power is a good thing for humanity. Wuzelwazel seems to think that there is no correlation between Saddam and Hitler. I, personally beg to differ. The actions of Hussein directly mirror that of pre-world war II Hitler. From the mass murder of minority groups to the government run media to the open violations of post-war agreements to the expelling of weapons inspectors (yes they were in Germany after WWI as well) he has given many reasons why this war is necessary. History has a tendency to repeat itself. I would not be able to live with myself if we were to repeat the same mistakes as the Europeans who believed that appeasement would work to stop the most horrible human being on the planet. All those people died fighting WWII because of their mistakes. I would feel they died in vain if we were to learn nothing from it. Without the threat of force how can the U.N. possibly enforce anything they agree to. No wonder Saddam doesn't care what the rest of the world tells him to do. He thinks that we would never do anything to stop him. Sounds eerily similar to...uh...Hitler? sound similar to Bush? |
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| Millencolin – Afghan Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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Alright punkers? My input to probably the most interesting page of songmeanings.com is why has no one mentioned anything about RELIGON? Not that i'm a pantheist or anything but it's pretty important to remember that the fundamental Afghans who apparantley flew into the world trade centre did not particulary like christians. The hijackers were almost all Saudi's |
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| Propagandhi – Apparently I'm a PC Fascist Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| since when is propagandhi pop-punk? | |
| Millencolin – Afghan Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| the debates on this site are pathetic.neither side can seem to form a sound argument. | |
| Anti-Flag – Captain Anarchy Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| to cheisgod:what are you talking about? anarchy is against unity? and to sixstringfreak:"some fag" eh?perhaps it's just an old habit you're tryign to grow out of so i won't bitch at you. | |
| Anti-Flag – 911 For Peace Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| to lusyphur: i dont know if anyone adressed this yet but crass did not invent the circled a, they helped popularize it though.and on the subject of anarchy (again i dont know if anyone adressed this because i dint read all the posts) anarchy is the highest form of human morality and reasoning not the lowest.in a truely anarchist society there would be no one would kill or steal, and there would be no need for a government.In my mind the only viable way to large scale anarchy would be the way marx proposed (capitalism-socialism-communism [the state would not be needed in a truely comunist society]) but i think everyone accepts that neither anarchy nor communism can happen any time soon. | |
| Propagandhi – Back To The Motor League Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| jord isnt the singer dude he's the drummer.chris sings.anyway this song is kind of along the same lines as anti-manifesto except this song isnt about people who like them because its cool, without actually listening to what they're talking about.it's about kids who listen to "korn, eminems and bizkits" and think they're "rebels" when in all actuality theres nothing rebllious about said bands, they're "conforming to anti-conformity" in a way (see:Just ask the candy-coated Joy-Cam rock-bands selling shoes for venture-capitalists, silencing competing messages, rounding off the jagged edges).anyway this is a fucking great song and absolutely love the "But what have we here? 15 years later it still reeks of ‘Swill and Chickenshit Conformists with their fists in the air; like-father, like-son "rebels” bloated on korn, eminems and bizkits. Lord, hear our prayer: take back your Amy Grant mosh-crews and your fair-weather politics. Blow-dry my hair and stick me on a ten-speed. Back to the Motor League." part. | |
| Propagandhi – Nation States Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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CORRECTIONS: TITLE:And we thought nation-states were a bad idea.... bury our heads back in the BARCODES of these neo-colonials. WE'RE the bad job lands unrestricted labour LAWS |
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| Propagandhi – With Friends Like These, Who the Fuck Needs COINTELPRO Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| cointelpro is an acronym for the FBI's domestic "counterintelligence programs" to neutralize political dissidents. Although covert operations have been employed throughout FBI history, the formal COINTELPRO's of 1956-1971 were broadly targeted against radical political organizations. | |
| NOFX – Pimps And Hookers Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| this is not literally about pimps and hookers, its comparing bosses and workers to pimps and hookers. you might have understood that but im not sure. | |
| NOFX – The Quass Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| what's the quass? | |
| Propagandhi – Haillie Does Hebron Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| zionism, actually. | |
| Propagandhi – Haillie Does Hebron Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| zionism, actually | |
| Propagandhi – Mate Ka Moris Ukun Rasik An Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| this song is about the occupation of east timor by indonesian about and western forces.it's a woman propagandhi met at a benefit for east timor.i think her name was bella something, but im not sure. heres a quote form jord "Mate Ka..... means independance or death....slogan used by east timorese seeking independance from indonesia, who occupied east timor with primarily us help, but also with canadian assitance and complicity...." | |
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