It's hard to convey how fucking popular Fight was at the time, but mainly with the kids that the song was satirizing. I don't know whether that makes the song a success or a failure. It's a prank the size that someone like Biafra never could have dreamed of pulling off.
I think the Beasties have been interviewed a bunch of times about how they ended up becoming the characters they originally set out to parody, sort of a life imitating art thing. That's a kind of success, I suppose.
Hey Flex if you are gonna put those brackets on the end then you better have them at the start.
Punk rockers do what they want maaaaan
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a bowl of soup
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
It's hard to convey how fucking popular Fight was at the time, but mainly with the kids that the song was satirizing. I don't know whether that makes the song a success or a failure. It's a prank the size that someone like Biafra never could have dreamed of pulling off.
I think the Beasties have been interviewed a bunch of times about how they ended up becoming the characters they originally set out to parody, sort of a life imitating art thing. That's a kind of success, I suppose.
It's hard to convey how fucking popular Fight was at the time, but mainly with the kids that the song was satirizing. I don't know whether that makes the song a success or a failure. It's a prank the size that someone like Biafra never could have dreamed of pulling off.
As much as I love them, I'm still not convinced it was satire. I think they *think* it was as they looked back on it years later, but I feel like they were 100% serious back then.
Got a Rake? Sure!
IMCT: Inane Middle-Class Twats - Dr. M
" *sigh* it's right when they throw the penis pump out the window." -Hoy
It's hard to convey how fucking popular Fight was at the time, but mainly with the kids that the song was satirizing. I don't know whether that makes the song a success or a failure. It's a prank the size that someone like Biafra never could have dreamed of pulling off.
As much as I love them, I'm still not convinced it was satire. I think they *think* it was as they looked back on it years later, but I feel like they were 100% serious back then.
Given that they started out as a snotty punk band, I can't believe that they went 180º and identified with the jocks and in-crowd. It may not have been hard-hitting Swiftian satire, but they were mocking the mentality of the meatheads in school.
"I used to bullseye womp rats in my T-16 back in Whittier, they're not much bigger than two meters.'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
It's hard to convey how fucking popular Fight was at the time, but mainly with the kids that the song was satirizing. I don't know whether that makes the song a success or a failure. It's a prank the size that someone like Biafra never could have dreamed of pulling off.
As much as I love them, I'm still not convinced it was satire. I think they *think* it was as they looked back on it years later, but I feel like they were 100% serious back then.
Given that they started out as a snotty punk band, I can't believe that they went 180º and identified with the jocks and in-crowd. It may not have been hard-hitting Swiftian satire, but they were mocking the mentality of the meatheads in school.
Yeah, I should have read the thread first. It's actually more like what the robot said above. They became those they were satirizing.
Got a Rake? Sure!
IMCT: Inane Middle-Class Twats - Dr. M
" *sigh* it's right when they throw the penis pump out the window." -Hoy
It's hard to convey how fucking popular Fight was at the time, but mainly with the kids that the song was satirizing. I don't know whether that makes the song a success or a failure. It's a prank the size that someone like Biafra never could have dreamed of pulling off.
As much as I love them, I'm still not convinced it was satire. I think they *think* it was as they looked back on it years later, but I feel like they were 100% serious back then.
Given that they started out as a snotty punk band, I can't believe that they went 180º and identified with the jocks and in-crowd. It may not have been hard-hitting Swiftian satire, but they were mocking the mentality of the meatheads in school.
Yeah, I should have read the thread first. It's actually more like what the robot said above. They became those they were satirizing.
With a few notable exceptions (MacKaye, Biafra come to mind), success ruined so many punks. It's a paradox that for punk to succeed, it has to fail (conventionally, that is).
"I used to bullseye womp rats in my T-16 back in Whittier, they're not much bigger than two meters.'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
I bought this album from my milkman for a pound in late 1986. I would have seen them supporting BAD that year if it wasn't for Chernobyl (or was it the Libyan crisis, I don't recall), but anyway they bailed out. Nice to revisit the album after a good few years, a surprisingly excellent listen.
Party
Brass Monkey
Brooklyn
She's Crafty
Time To Get Ill
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board
I bought this album from my milkman for a pound in late 1986. I would have seen them supporting BAD that year if it wasn't for Chernobyl (or was it the Libyan crisis, I don't recall), but anyway they bailed out. Nice to revisit the album after a good few years, a surprisingly excellent listen.
Party
Brass Monkey
Brooklyn
She's Crafty
Time To Get Ill
The milkman of human kindness.
Forces have been looting
My humanity
Curfews have been curbing
The end of liberty
We're the flowers in the dustbin...
No fuchsias for you.
I bought this album from my milkman for a pound in late 1986. I would have seen them supporting BAD that year if it wasn't for Chernobyl (or was it the Libyan crisis, I don't recall), but anyway they bailed out. Nice to revisit the album after a good few years, a surprisingly excellent listen.
Party
Brass Monkey
Brooklyn
She's Crafty
Time To Get Ill
I bought this album from my milkman for a pound in late 1986. I would have seen them supporting BAD that year if it wasn't for Chernobyl (or was it the Libyan crisis, I don't recall), but anyway they bailed out. Nice to revisit the album after a good few years, a surprisingly excellent listen.
Party
Brass Monkey
Brooklyn
She's Crafty
Time To Get Ill
The milkman of human kindness.
How many times does the milkman ring?
I lactose kind of answers in my life.
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a bowl of soup
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
"I used to bullseye womp rats in my T-16 back in Whittier, they're not much bigger than two meters.'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
