brickboy

UB -- remind me, what was the Crisis song with the chorus "Riga ... Treblinka ... Dachau ..."?

Can't place it ...

bloke

UB was a revolutionary marxist

Oh yes happy days

Still listen to stuff like Ruts and Clash a lot...

GaryK

you name dropper you UB!

popeye

Best punk LPs of all time (ones I can think of, no particular order):

Land Speed Record - Husker Du
Still Screaming - Scream
Reach - Snuff
Millions of Dead Cops - MDC
Liveage - Descendents
Plastic Surgery Disasters - Dead Kennedys
Strive to Survive - Flux of Pink Indians
Twisted by Design - Strung Out
Rites of Spring - Rites of Spring
Rev - Ten Foot Pole


Singles:

Tube Disasters - Flux of Pink Indians
No Room for You - Demob
Holiday in Cambodia - Dead Kennedys

sillysi

Saw The Expolited & GBH live at a gig, what a riot. Them were the days. I think my favourtite were Crass. Anyone remember the words "big a, little a bouncing b, the systems goin get ya but it won't get me"?

STi-Frenchie

And let's hear it for the punk poet himself, John Cooper Clarke, remember him?

This still tackles my ribs...

I married a monster from outer space

The milky way she walks around
All feet firmly off the ground
Two worlds collide, two worlds collide
Here comes the future bride
Gimme a lift to the lunar base
I wanna marry a monster from outer space

I fell in love with an alien being
[She had a head as big as a TV screen]
Whose skin was jelly, whose teeth were green
[A glutinous complexion with a day-glow sheen]
She had the big bug eyes and the death-ray glare
Feet like water-wings, purple hair
I was over the moon, I asked her back to my place
And then I married the monster from outer space

The days were numbered, the nights were spent
In a rent-free furnished oxygen tent
Where a cyborg chef served up moonbeams
Done super-rapid on a laser beam
I needed nutrition to keep up the pace
When I married the monster from outer space

But when we went walking tentacle in hand
You could sense that the earthlings would not understand
They'd go nudge nudge when we got on the bus
Saying "It's extra-terrestial, not like us;
And it's bad enough with another race,
But f*ck me... a monster! from outer space?"

In this kind of atmosphere love went lame
She took a flare to from where she came
I read all the papers, looked up the stars
"Uranus is active and so is Mars"
My horoscope was horrible, told me to my face -
Avoid monsters from outer space

In a cybernetic fit of rage
She pissed off to another age
She lives in 1999
With her new boyfriend, a blob of slime
Each time I see a translucent face
I remember Errrrxxzztt from outer space.

STi-Frenchie

Sillysi, I don't remember that particular Crass lyric - the one that sticks in my head is "Securicor Cares"...

I walk around with a big alsation,
He'll re-arrange you with no provocation,
And I'm the bugger who has got the lead,
You'll have to be bright if you want to get at me.

Securicor cares. Securicor cares.
Securicor scares the **** out of you,
Do you want to come closer?

sillysi

STI-Frenchie, I can't remember the title it's been a long time since I listened to them. But all this talk has made me think it is time to dig out the old vinyl and crank the volume up one last time.

zoog

Crass were dreadful yet superb at the same time. ANOK4 U 2? Stations of the Crass, etc.

Didn't even they go all soft in the end and try to sell out commercially?

sillysi

Don't know, I moved on to bands such as Extreme Noise Terror. One class moment a recall was watching a video of The Expolited and Watty (SP?) saying "I don't need the band, I could go solo", who was he trying to kid he was a right plonker but good entertainment. I spent a lot of time listening to the Dead Kennedys and Jello when he did his own stuff.

Bubba po

Yes, I was one. Had a Mohican until two years ago.


Born in '62.


Stranglers ruled.

RichWalk

UB/ Tim; one of my mates was the bassist in Crass many moons ago/ I also drink with the manager of SLF from time to time- both of them are feckin loons!

popeye- nearly got sacked from HMV for playing Land Speed Record

STi-Frenchie

Good to see we're all still a bunch of hooligans eh?

paulr

So uncle buck and Gary Bushell seem to have followed the same career path.

Punks in their youth (gb used to write for the NME,big time exploited fan)
Progressed to paid up members of the "hang em and flog em" brigade
Ended up as TV critics.....

..or are they one in the same.....

unclebuck

LOL not really. The 'mouth pieces' were, but I was just in it for the chicks and the general crazyness of performing on stage. Great fun it was too.

We 'worked' with the Anti **** League and Rock Against Racism, that's why it always makes me laugh when I get accused of be a fat racist by the politically correct on here. They don't know the first thing about being in the front line *against* racists.


Buggered if I know now. Might have been Search and Destroy, but they all had lyrics like that LOL


Moi? I've got loads and loads of stories. Like the time when...bla...bla...bla...

UB

unclebuck

Paulr - Gary Bushell interviewed us for the NME, he was quite a fan. I've still got it somewhere.

You might be closer to the truth than you think.

UB

paulr

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