XHonusWagnerX
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singing and loving a song you cant actually relate to...
Do you ever feel weird if you singing along and getting really into a song that when you actually listen to the lyrics you realize that you cant
identify with them at all?
it doesnt happen to me with 'Beer' songs or any other non-straight edge topic, but I do find it happening alot with Blood for Blood lyrics.
I was just walking for exercise listening to Outlaw Anthems and I was singing along to 'White Trash Anthem' realizing that the song is actually
talking down to people like me. I DO have a decent job. I DO have a decent place to live. I DO have a nice car. I DID goto college. I almost feel
guilty loving the song knowing where Rob was mentally and psychically when it was written.
Anyone have thoughts on this? Seems like it could be a good discussion.
| Quote: | Originally posted by REV.PAULIE
HONUS-as much as i can't stand a great deal of what you really like (for my own reasons that i would never hold,nor impose,against you),YOU FUCKING
RULE!
YOU,HONUS,IS WHAT MAKES THE "EDGE" COOL.
YOUR FRIEND,
PAULIE |
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Discipline
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Some B4B stuff. Dead Kennedy's too. Some of DK's stuff is a little too far to the left for my liking, but I'll still sing along with every tune every
time.
‘Do you know what a love letter is? It’s a bullet from a fucking gun. Straight through your heart.’
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joemaconmovies
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i do it but i never really feel weird about it.
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I do this a lot when I listen to hip hop. Alot of what emcee's rap about I have no real relation too. Now granted, I dont listen to 'thug rap'. An
example would be when I listen and "sing" alog to lyrics by BDP (Boogie Down Productions), I'm not a fanatic on black culture but appreciate the
lyrics. Perhaps a bad example but its all I got.
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clevohardcore
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I grew up in some slummy shitty projects and can relate to some of what can be considered "hardcore" "thug" "ghetto rap" whatever. I don't ever want
to be back there ever. I have also lived comfortable and in nice neighborhoods. I like it that way.
I remeber getting into ICE T, and thinking this dudes bad ass. Then it was it was metal MOTLEY CRUE, METALLICA, MEGADETH. That was me. I was white and
poor. Then I was turned on to GBH and it was over. I was hooked. THAT WAS ME.
I could not relate to rap even though I was living it for some reason. I think it was race. Seriously, the blacks never kicked it witht he white in my
projects unless you were getting high or stealing shit.
Each aspect of the soul has it's own part to play, but the ideal is harmonious agreement with reason and control.
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| Quote: | I want it back again
The spirit that WE ONCE HAD
Showing all these new hards
They're not SO FUCKIN' BAD
You and your crew
Would have never MADE IT THROUGH
The days we hung out
In 1982
The New York Brotherhood
I can't let go
The New York Brotherhood
where did they go?
We called it the Wolfpack
We called it UNITED BLOOD
Wore chains around our waists
And CONSTRUCTION GLOVES
Thompkins Sq. on a saturday night
See my brother, he's in a fight
They got him down, it's 3 on 1
10 of us show, GUESS WHO WON?
We hung out on 7th and A
Friends worked the door
We didn't have to pay
Boston came around one night
Push came to shove and
WE WERE DOWN TO FIGHT
We have seen the backstab blood
Most came and fuckin' went
They played the part
And they wore the right clothes
But they didn't know
What the fuck it meant
And I see it today
My backstabbing brothers
Believeing the lies
That they're telling each other
And I know I'll be here
When they're gone
'Cuz the New York Brotherhood
Is where my heart belongs
In rememberance of old New York
And to my friends
And the ones I've fought
A special place left in my heart
Those days are gone, man
But they're not forgot |
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Six66Mike
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Blood For Blood for sure, I fucking loved Revenge on Society and sang that shit with conviction yet never experienced anything like it in my life.
A lot of people ask me what kind of music I like. I love "soul music". My "soul music" isn’t a style, genre or niche. It’s music that is genuine. It’s
a painful lyric, a dirty bassline, it’s a harrowing vocal, it’s feedback, it’s an anthem, it’s a love song, it’s anarchy. I’ve got my personal
favourites but in the end it doesn’t matter who or where it comes from... so long as it’s good and it's real.
- Paul Morris, music director at 97.7 HTZ-FM
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I didn't relate to Madball, Blood For Blood or anything like that really until I moved into the ghetto around the age of 21. Before that I was raised
in the farmlands of northern Indiana then I hung out in ultra liberal Portland for a year where the "ghettos" are nicer than some suburbs of Philly. I
moved to Philly and my world changed. I could relate to BFB and Madball and Oi now.
Prior to that I never really listend to any of that stuff. I had Demonstrate My Style when I first got into hardcore but sold it not long after. So I
guess it was never really an issue for me. I rocked alot of vegan straight edge music prior to that.
At least when it comes to hardcore. Now, hip hop. That's another story entirely. I sing along with Public Enemy and Dead Prez and BDP/KRS One.
Definitely can't relate on an experiencial level, but I suppose you could say I've got some empathy for it. Not nearly the same though.
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Ive never really lead the same life as sang of in Outlaw Anthems and such but at the time I was listening to it, I felt it did sing to me being I am
way closer to the bottom than the other end of the spectrum. Most of the people I grew up with fizzled away and died, fucked up, are incarcerated or
are just too fucked to be around. While I can't lay claim to living in projects or having parents who were addicts or what have you, I can relate to
most of the shit being said. Also the liner notes in the cd cover are excellent.
I really wish the band kept going, cause in my opinion they were getting better with each release. Yeah some of the "white rash fuck you" stuff was
becoming a parody of itself and all, but they were better tan 95% of the other stuff available. But all good things end. Ramallah turned out to be a
favorite, for many of the same reasons. What is Buddah doin these days anyway?
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XHonusWagnerX
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| Quote: | Originally posted by juandiablo
What is Buddah doin these days anyway? |
Buddha is married and has a son. I beieive that hes a mailman, but Im not 100% sure about that.
| Quote: | Originally posted by REV.PAULIE
HONUS-as much as i can't stand a great deal of what you really like (for my own reasons that i would never hold,nor impose,against you),YOU FUCKING
RULE!
YOU,HONUS,IS WHAT MAKES THE "EDGE" COOL.
YOUR FRIEND,
PAULIE |
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clevohardcore
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JOHN MELLANCAMP- scarecrow
BILLY JOEL- piano man,
Springsteen- nebraska
Each aspect of the soul has it's own part to play, but the ideal is harmonious agreement with reason and control.
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