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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > D&D Music Thread: Post Your Favorite Political and D&D-Related Music Here!
 
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Venomous
Nov 7, 2011





 Forgot this thread existed or I would've posted this here at the time. Either way, UB40's first album, Signing Off. was legitimately a great reggae album. It came out in August 1980, over a year into Thatcher's government, and the album's lyrics were quite socially and politically scathing in that context. Take their song 'Little By Little':

quote:

Poor man's anger rising
The ostrich hides his head
Soon the red blood will be boiling
And blue blood will be dead

While we say
Little by little by little
And stone by stone
Rich man's mountain
Comes crumbling down

Poor boy sleeps on straw
The rich boy sleeps in bed
That fat boy fills his belly
My poor boy's a dead

While we say
Little by little by little
And stone by stone
Rich man's mountain
Comes crumbling down

The rich man drives his car past
The poor man on bare feet
Oh, that rich man do get what he wants
The poor must know defeat

Little by little by little
And stone by stone
Rich man's mountain
Comes crumbling down

Also of note is 'Madam Medusa':

quote:

From the land of shadows
Comes a dreadful sight
Lady with the marble smile
Spirit of the night

See the scourge of innocence
Swinging in her hand
Hear the silent suffering
Echoes through the land

From the tombs of ignorance
Hates and greed and lies
Through the smoke of sacrifice
Watch her figure rise

Twinging in her shadow
The sick, the poor, the old
Basking in her radiance
Men of blood and gold

In her bloody footsteps
Speculators prance
Men of dreams are praying
For that second chance

Round her vacant features
Gilded serpents dance
Tree of evil knowledge
Sprouts a special branch

It's a very good album. I'd strongly advise you to give it a listen when you can.

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Venomous
Nov 7, 2011





 Christ, I wish their lyrics weren't so loving horrible, because their music is actually quite good. They remind me a bit of Big Star.

e: because I realised I'm posting without a song, have a very appropriate song by the Dead Kennedys, Nazi Punks gently caress Off.

quote:

Punk ain't no religious cult
Punk means thinking for yourself
You ain't hardcore cos you spike your hair
When a jock still lives inside your head

Nazi punks
Nazi punks
Nazi punks
gently caress off!

Nazi punks
Nazi punks
Nazi punks
gently caress off!

If you've come to fight, get outta here
You ain't no better than the bouncers
We ain't trying to be police
When you ape the cops it ain't anarchy

Nazi punks
Nazi punks
Nazi punks
gently caress off!

Nazi punks
Nazi punks
Nazi punks
gently caress off!

Ten guys jump one, what a man
You fight each other, the police state wins
Stab your backs when you trash our halls
Trash a bank if you've got real balls

You still think swastikas look cool
The real Nazis run your schools
They're coaches, businessmen and cops
In a real Fourth Reich you'll be the first to go

Nazi punks
Nazi punks
Nazi punks
gently caress off!

Nazi punks
Nazi punks
Nazi punks
gently caress off!

You'll be the first to go
You'll be the first to go
You'll be the first to go
Unless you think

Venomous fucked around with this message at 13:19 on Dec 24, 2015

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