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Songs that affected your life
    #5680182 - 05/27/06 11:22 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)
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It was 1986. I was graduating from high school. I had discovered the punk rock scene 5 years earlier and spent my school years as a "punk". The first live band I ever saw was the Dead Kennedys and they remained (to this day) my favorite punk band.

Anyway, back to 1986...I was becoming dis-illusioned with the direction the punk rock scene was going. It was turning into a fashion and being marketed to kids of all ages. And the influx of new blood consisted mostly of kids looking to fight, do drugs, commit crimes, and just generally be assholes. The ideas and values of the early punk scene I had been a part of were being lost to commercialism. At least this was how I felt. I had doubts that maybe I was expecting too much from it all.

Then, just about this time, the Dead Kennedys released what would be their last album "Bedtime For Democracy". Musically it wasn't their best work but the political and social statements contained in the lyrics of this album are still to this day some of the most simple yet powerful I've ever come across. And in particular there was one song that jumped out at me. It was a scathing commentary on the declining state of the punk rock scene titled "Chickenshit Conformist". The lyrics reaffirmed my feelings toward the scene and I knew that it wasn't just me who was disgusted with it all. Almost immediately I turned away from the scene and went in a different direction with my social life.

I still love punk music but the glory days of punk rock are gone (for me at least). It was nice to be a part of it all when it was still new and fresh and full of ideas/people who were simply trying make their social statements in their own unique way. These attitudes and people still exist in many forms, they always will, but not in the post 1980's punk rock scene.

Heres the lyrics, and if you care you can download and listen to the song that changed my social life in a dramatic way in 1986.

"Chickenshit Conformist"

Punk's not dead
It just deserves to die
When it becomes another stale cartoon
A close-minded, self-centered social club
Ideas don't matter, it's who you know
If the music's gotten boring
It's because of the people
Who want everyone to sound the same
Who drive bright people out
Of our so-called scene
'Til all that's left Is just a meaningless fad
Hardcore formulas are dogshit
Change and caring are what's real
Is this a state of mind
Or just another label
The joy and hope of an alternative
Have become its own cliche
A hairstyle's not a lifestyle
Imagine Sid Vicious at 35
Who needs a scene
Scared to love and to feel
Judging everythng
By loud fast rules appeal
Who played last night?
"I don't know, I forgot.
But diving off the stage Was a lot of fun."

[Chorus:]
So eager to please
Peer pressure decrees
So eager to please
Peer pressure decrees
Make the same old mistakes
Again and again,
Chickenshit conformist
Like your parents

What's ripped us apart even more than drugs
Are the thieves and the goddamn liars
Ripping people off when they share their stuff
When someone falls are there any friends?
Harder core than thou for a year or two
Then it's time to get a real job
Others stay home, it's no fun to go out
When the gigs are wrecked by gangs and thugs
When the thugs form bands, look who gets record deals
From New York metal labels looking to scam
Who sign the most racist queerbashing bands they can find
To make a buck revving kids up for war
Walk tall, act small
Only as tough as gang approval
Unity is bullshit
When it's under someone's fat boot
Where's the common cause
Too many factions
Safely sulk in their shells
Agree with us on everything
Or we won't help with anything
That kind of attitude
Just makes a split grow wider
Guess who's laughing while the world explodes
When we're all crybabies
Who fight best among ourselves

[Chorus]

That farty old rock and roll attitude's back
"It's competition, man, we wanna break big."
Who needs friends when the money's good
That's right, the '70s are back.
Cock-rock metal's like a bad laxative
It just don't move me, ya know?
The music's OK when there's more ideas than solos
Do we rally need the attitude too?
Shedding thin skin too quickly
As a fan it disappoints me
Same old stupid sexist lyrics
Or is Satan all you can think of?
Crossover is just another word
For lack of ideas
Maybe what we need
Are more trolls under the bridge
Will the metalheads finally learn something-
Or will the punks throw away their education?
No one's ever the best
Once they believe their own press
"Maturing" don't mean rehashing
Mistakes of the past

[Chorus]

The more things change
The more they stay the same
We can't grow
When we won't criticize ourselves
The '60s weren't all failure
It's the '70s that stunk
As the clock ticks we dig the same hole
Music scenes ain't real life
They won't get rid of the bomb
Won't eliminate rape
Or bring down the banks
Any kind of real change
Takes more time and work
Than changing channels on a TV set

[Chorus]


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Re: Songs that affected your life [Re: ToTheSummit]
    #5680208 - 05/27/06 11:35 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

Alice In Chains - Dirt album  - first album that I ever heard that had emotion in it, to me anyway.

Banco de Gaia - Magical Sounds - first electronic album I ever was obsessed with.

Shpongle - Are You Shpongled?  - THE trip album for me, I play it every time I trip and it helps in created some of the most intense experiences of my life.

Opeth - My Arms Your Hearse - first metal album that I heard that shocked me.  It is absolutely a beautiful album.


I know you said "songs" but every song on those albums affected me.  :smile:


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Re: Songs that affected your life [Re: ToTheSummit]
    #5680283 - 05/27/06 12:11 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

Mine was Nirvana -- Nevermind. The album that started it all. Good times.


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Re: Songs that affected your life [Re: ToTheSummit]
    #5680287 - 05/27/06 12:12 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

anything Nine Inch Nails or Nirvana ever wrote.


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Re: Songs that affected your life [Re: ToTheSummit]
    #5680319 - 05/27/06 12:29 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

Sigur Ros - the soundtrack to a schitzophrenic breakdown, the mainlining of One beauty into my mind and emotion. Running around singing niggers, stealing Armani scarves from department stores, buying Emerald rings and heralding Her name to the stars.
Agaetis Bjurn album specifically. All their other stuff is similarly potent, i am now reclaiming the albums incredible beauty back from the further extremitites of the madness.

Stupid Girl - Garbage: First song to ever break through my consciousness, in the name of appreciating music.

Dark Side of the Moon: (Brain) "FUCK. This is AWESOME"

Red Hot Chili Peppers: Buddhism/Fire breakthrough, this album waited patiently for 3 years for me to realise how awesome it is.

Beatles, the early stoner years. General wonder at life in a foggy abstract haze. Soundtrack to love and laziness - partucularly Abbey Road and Sgt. Peppers.

Nothing perhaps that was a microcosmic crystallisation of my feelings at any one point, but i get that in a small way perhaps from the montage of music i experience as i go about my life.

Oh and another from the consciousness crises: Working Class Hero - John Lennon, *shudder*


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Re: Songs that affected your life [Re: Jackenobi]
    #5682802 - 05/28/06 08:32 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

Allman Brothers--"Live at the Fillmore"; Grateful Dead--2/13/1970; Tony Rice--"Manzanita"; Van Morrison--"Astral Weeks."


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Re: Songs that affected your life [Re: MLBjammer]
    #5683964 - 05/28/06 05:31 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

Manic Depression

I havn't been the same since.


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Re: Songs that affected your life [Re: ToTheSummit]
    #5684703 - 05/28/06 09:31 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

Led Zeppelin's 'Ramble On' has helped (and still does) me through some pretty rough waters; especially this verse:

"T'was in the darkest depths of Mordor, I met a girl so fair;
But Gollum, and the evil one, crept up and slipped away with her.
And there ain't nothing I can do, no.. I guess I'll keep on ramblin' "

I guess it reminds me that no matter how dark and shitty things are, even if I feel completely alone and helpless, I just have to *ahem* ramble on.


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Re: Songs that affected your life [Re: MagillaGorilla]
    #5684731 - 05/28/06 09:42 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

Pink Floyd definitely affected my life in a positive way.


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Re: Songs that affected your life [Re: ToTheSummit]
    #5684764 - 05/28/06 09:55 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

"Galapagos" by Smashing Pumpkins

In retrospect, it just sounds like a cheesy love song, but at the time I was so blown away with it that I was inspired to start writing my own songs. Unfortunately, the creative spark seems to have burned out in me by now.


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Re: Songs that affected your life [Re: ToTheSummit]
    #5684791 - 05/28/06 10:04 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

Octavarium - Dream Theater

All That I Bleed - Savatage

Signe - Eric Clapton

All three has some impact on me at one point in my life. There are more songs, but these are the three main ones.


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Re: Songs that affected your life [Re: AaronEvil]
    #5806017 - 06/30/06 05:08 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Love - Forever Changes.

Since I started loving the music so much I started reading about the band, and it was that way I found out about magic mushrooms :smile:


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This is the time and life that I am living
And I’ll face each day with a smile
For the time that I’ve been given such a little while
And the things that I must do consist of more than style
There are places that I am going


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Re: Songs that affected your life [Re: Arnstein]
    #5807557 - 06/30/06 06:55 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

Lateralus - Tool

Deep in a mushie trip, this song changed my entire psyche. I was a physically and mentally different person after that; definently changed me for the better too. I never really grasped how beautiful and unique existence was/is til' that moment. Sorta cheesy but true.


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Re: Songs that affected your life [Re: Syle]
    #5807600 - 06/30/06 07:16 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

Music in general has affected my life tremendously. I remember as a kid I wasn't really into it, but as I began experiencing more complex emotions growing up, I turned to music and found a lot of clarity. I can listen to anything from Tool, to Kottonmouth Kings, Sublime, Floyd, Zeppelin, Eminem...to name a few. I find comfort in the obscene depths of rap all the way into the mindbending notes of classic rock.


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Re: Songs that affected your life [Re: Newbie]
    #5808188 - 07/01/06 12:00 AM (17 years, 6 months ago)

"what Sarah said"- Death Cab for Cutie.

Great song. really listen to the lyrics if u have the chance


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"People living deeply have no fear of death."
"Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love."
"Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings."


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    #5809244 - 07/01/06 09:49 AM (17 years, 6 months ago)

David, those lyrics almost brought tears to my eyes.

Made me think about my girlfriend and if I were to marry her, who would die first and then who would be alone?  :frown:  Sad sad...


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Re: Songs that affected your life [Re: Syle]
    #5810171 - 07/01/06 03:51 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

Four tet - unspoken


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Re: Songs that affected your life [Re: yewhew]
    #5812239 - 07/02/06 11:53 AM (17 years, 6 months ago)

And Vincent Van Gogh, why do you weep?
You were on your way to heaven
But the road was steep
And who was there to break your fall?
We're guilty, one and all

And I don't know much,
But I do know this:
With a golden heart comes a rebel fist
And every single soldier wasn't fired,
Some have quit


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Re: Songs that affected your life [Re: ClammyJoe]
    #5812337 - 07/02/06 12:16 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)
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Once again I wake up alone on the wrong side of the bed
And once again you begin your dancing nakedly on the right side of my head

It's for a lack of better words that I can hardly speak my soul
And I'm feeling what I'm feeling when I'm feeling when it's time to lose control, my love

And once again we're off to war
But I can't agree with what we're fighting for
And that's not all, because every time she smiles
I see her soul, and I smile what a wonderful life

It's true I used to try, but then I gave up
I learned it doesn't really matter,
what I do ain't enough to appease or to please,
all my well meaning deeds seem to all go up in smoke
And every time I look into these smoke filled skies
I wonder what she's doing, why I volunteered to die
But tonight I will fight for my life so I might see my wife again

I explained to her that I'd be back
And I gave my word that the fighting wouldn't last
But despite my pact, I know that every breath I draw might be my last,
and I smile: It's been a wonderful life

God damn, another summer in the city
and I never seen a girl look so pretty as you
when you smile oh you're wild for a while,
I was hoping I might see you again
And I know that everyone is willing to go
and I find I'll turn it all and leave on a dime
If I leave tonight (screw what's right) I can make it home by dawn

And I was told "Boy, prepare for war"
But they failed to mention what I'd be fighting for
So I fight for this: the fact that as I pass away,
I'll feel her kiss, and I'll smile: what a wonderful life,
Me of my, what a wonderful life,
Oh to die for such a wonderful life


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    #5812515 - 07/02/06 01:40 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)
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yeah...


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