Anarchist themed music compilations... ideas...
Aug 23 2004 20:01
One of the things that got discussed at the AYN gathering was making and selling some more music compilations similar to the existing AYN/enrager.net hip hop compilation "Louder Than A Bomb"...
I can think of a few dub/reggae tracks that would make at least the beginnings of a nice anarchist-themed compilation, and also quite a few insurrectionary hip hop tracks that were not already included on the first hip hop compilation... someone else (i think either october_lost or 3rdseason?) suggested they would be able to put together a Hardcore compilation (by which i *think* they meant hardcore as in punk, not hardcore as in cheesy speed rave)...
Other suggestions included drum'n'bass and folk (although i *think* the latter was intended, er, ironically...)
Just wondering who else thinks this would be a good idea and what suggestions people would have for compilation themes or particular tracks that any @-themed compilation from a particular genre would be essential to include...
(debate over which is the "most anarchist" type of music deserves another thread, which someone can start if there is demand for it... 
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Aug 24 2004 00:25
#2
Music! Lets see! Some neat bands and songs...well im mostly into the whole 70s/80s punk/Ska scene so id suggest Dead Kennedys - Police Truck & Forestfire! Their my fave! Police Trucks about police brutality and Forest Fires about eating berries and getting high, then setting Californias forests on fire and watching all the rich people burning to death in there big houses...and laughing at them! A cheery song 
. Ummm, The Stranglers - No Heros (I think thats what its called?), Deff some of The Clash! I Fought The Law, Know Your Rights and London Calling. Stiff Little Fingers - Alternative Ulster, Suspect Device, No more Flags. The Damned - Democracy and Neverland! The Specials - Message To You, Rudy. Ghost Town. The Piranhas - Tom Hark. DOA with Jello Biafra - I Wish I was in El Salvador & Power is Boring. Hmmm, theirs also some good other music! Like Rolling Stones and stuff! Their all good! Uuuuh, well, theirs some suggestions! You should check em out! Whats this all in aid of anyway?
Aug 24 2004 00:38
#3
there has got to be more than enought decent material out there for at least a double album of songs abotu the police
anything by MDC ("hey cop, if i had a face like yours" for starters
dead kennedys - poolice truck
smiley culture 0 police officer
krs-one - sound of da police
conflict - the arrest
the maggie thatchers dead compilation has kinda been done (there is a thread about it somewhere on urban75)
I reckon there has to be enough material out there for a compilation of songs abotu landlords, but i cant think of owt atm.
er, there could be a vegan themed one- no bryan adams!!!! but moby has to be on there (with one of his decent - ie early - tunes) and cows with guns as well.....
er, songs abotu george bush as well, i have a couple i will have to dig out, one is a folky number by david rovics, think its called "george bush is a moron" or maybe just "moron".....
er, anyway, i am waffling (just drunk two pints in VERY close succession) so am vaguely pissed / suitably refreshed / whatever...hmmmmm - right, i'll go away now.....
Aug 24 2004 02:13
#4
Police songs - Ice T - Cop Killer. Cypress Hill - Pigs, Pennywise - Fuck Authority, Jello Biafra & DOA - I wish i was in El Salvador (thats about killing poor and police killing everyone for no reason), Dead Kennedys - Drug Raid at 4am, The Clash - Know your Rights, i think thatll do for now.....
Landlord song - Dead Kennedys - Lets Lynch The Landlord (I LOVE Dead Kennedys 
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Vegan songs - Goldfinger - Free Me (VERY powerful, specially with the video!) or F.T.N. (Fuck Ted Nugent) basically slags off Ted Nugent and J-Lo!
G. Bush song - NOFX - Idiot Son of an Asshole or The Idiots Are Taking Over!
Im proud of my music head 
! I know loadsa rap stuff or whatever...just ask!
Aug 24 2004 02:27
#5
Toxictears wrote:
Landlord song - Dead Kennedys - Lets Lynch The Landlord (I LOVE Dead KennedysVegan songs - Goldfinger - Free Me (VERY powerful, specially with the video!) or F.T.N. (Fuck Ted Nugent) basically slags off Ted Nugent and J-Lo!
G. Bush song - NOFX - Idiot Son of an Asshole or The Idiots Are Taking Over!
another vegan one = mdc - corporate death burger, i think there may be other mdc ones too....
could be songs about being on the dole and / or work, clash - career opportunities springs to mind
Aug 24 2004 13:21
#6
I said I would do a hardcore compilation but the problem is not actually coming up with a good compilation Im thinking its possible to do several, maybe hardcore/old skool punk/ and possibly even a ska based album. But I thought it would just spoil the theme if we just put one with a mixture of everything.
Hardcore
Assert/Boysetsfire/Morning Again/Earth Crisis/Kafka/Strike Anywhere/Shai Hulud/Sick Of It All/Sin Dios/Downset/
- Possibly even Death Metal stuff like, Napalm Death/Brutal Truth/Malefaction
...if anyone else can help that would be great
Punkie
Crass/Conflict/Aus Rotten/Anti-Flag/Blaggers ITA/The Oppressed/The Clash/Dead Kennedys/NOFX/Stiff Little Fingers/Exploited/4skins/Black Flag/Angelic Upstarts
....Again HELP!
Ska-ish
Goldfinger/Leftover Crack/The Specials/Choking Victim/MU330
... I can talk to 'thismachinebleeds' he will know a few more on this score,
Aug 24 2004 14:07
#7
get some riot grrl in that punk section! bikini kill/babes in toyland.
Aug 24 2004 14:13
#8
What IS this actually for? What are you actuall after?
Aug 24 2004 14:19
#9
You sad bastards go and buy some Clash records immediately. I mean seriously, 'the idiot son of an asshole' by NOFX is hardly infused with a huge amount of political and social wit, now is it?
Aug 24 2004 14:31
#10
revol68 wrote:
---- that shit we should be making pirated copies of all the main chart acts and sell them for 3 quid like the paramilitaries do over here. get the money raking in expand the production (duplicators), move into drugs and racketeering and then start shooting each other over the profits.
Yes!!! 
Well maybe not the racketeering and shooting each other stuff but I do reckon it'd be awesome to just pirate CDs and build up a big fund for getting people to demos and making prop and stuff.
Its not gonna happen tho.
I'll do a drum and bass CD if people want..
Aug 30 2004 21:33
#11
i am shocked no-one has mentioned 'baby, i'm an anarchist' by against me! yet 
a punky/hardcore one would be pretty good, against me!, MDC, oi polloi, defiance ohio, refused, this bike is a pipebomb etc
oh, vegan songs: good clean fun - vegan revolution draft dodger, the propagumbis - meat free anthem are both pretty mint.
police songs: black flag - police story, leftover crack - so you wanna be a cop
i could knock up a cd, no problem 
Aug 31 2004 11:34
#12
Ive compiled some 20+ songs so someones input would be gratefully recieved, Ill post them tomorrow....
Aug 31 2004 11:37
#13
How many times have the AYN tried to make a punk comp. CD? We just need Jack to come along now and tell us none of us are punk at all, and then an arguement about wether international noise conspiracy are punk or not.
Aug 31 2004 16:48
#14
There are 2 Class War Fuck the Police Cds - with a mixture of mostly punk and hip-hop anti- police stuff.
Neither has sold more than 30 copies, so I can't see why the AYN woould want to do this, unless you have some new angle.........
Aug 31 2004 17:32
#15
Any more references to punk, punk tracks, punk artists or punk CDs will be removed from the thread.
Punk is dead, kids, it's just not pleasant trying to get its stinky corpse to dance around and come back to life. Kinda like that bit at the funeral in Scary Movie 3.
Aug 31 2004 17:41
#16
oh goody gum drops the punk is dead thread awaits!!
i personally hate the whole punk scene shit, i hate the poseurs, i hate the arse licks, i hate the retarded bands singing hackneyed slogans and most of all i hate the fact i still love propaghandhi.
Aug 31 2004 17:41
#17
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Aug 31 2004 23:18
#18
PaulMarsh wrote:
There are 2 Class War Fuck the Police Cds - with a mixture of mostly punk and hip-hop anti- police stuff.Neither has sold more than 30 copies, so I can't see why the AYN woould want to do this, unless you have some new angle.........
really?
how much are you flogging them for? I might buy one off you if they are cheap (and half decent)
Sep 1 2004 10:03
#19
against me! are the saviours of punk, they are fucking excellent. against all authority are pretty good too.
Sep 1 2004 12:23
#20
PaulMarsh wrote:
There are 2 Class War Fuck the Police Cds - with a mixture of mostly punk and hip-hop anti- police stuff.Neither has sold more than 30 copies, so I can't see why the AYN woould want to do this, unless you have some new angle.........
Erm does this mean we should call it quits, what do other people think? Possibly our youth and good lucks could mean we able to flog a few more than 30, how well did the hip-hop CD's go?
And yes International Noise Conspiracy are a punk band.....
Sep 9 2004 12:54
#21
Sorry, but their are no 'saviours' of punk. I do agree that punks dead! Sadly.
And you flogged 30 CDs in a time period of...?
Sep 9 2004 13:12
#22
LiveFastDiarrea wrote:
We just need Jack to come along now and tell us none of us are punk at all
Why on Earth would I say something so nice?
And don't fucking insult Against Me! by calling them punk.
Sep 9 2004 16:37
#23
3rdseason wrote:
revol68 wrote:
---- that shit we should be making pirated copies of all the main chart acts and sell them for 3 quid like the paramilitaries do over here. get the money raking in expand the production (duplicators), move into drugs and racketeering and then start shooting each other over the profits.Yes!!!
Its not gonna happen tho.
I'll do a drum and bass CD if people want..
Yeah, ill help! ive always wanted to rip off (carry on ripping off )record comps and stores, i used to work for em and i need some payback!!! harharhar (that was a pirate laugh btw)...but the music is a good way to get a message across especially to young'uns & yeh its a good way to start a conversation with someone about A & basically what 3rd season said.
F-minus & Agnostic Front should be on it
Sep 9 2004 18:29
#24
alright, here's the beginnings of a track listing for a reggae CD:
Steel Pulse - Handsworth Revolution
Lion Youth - Rat A Cut Bottle
Aswad - I A Rebel Soul
Horace Andy - Government Land
The Wailers - Revolution
Max Romeo - Freedom*
Half Pint - Freedom Fighters
Cornell Campbell - Press Along Natty
The Abyssinians - Declaration of Rights
Delroy Washington - Freedom Fighters
Israel Vibration - Crisis (unless people don't want a band with Israel in the name)
The Meditations - No Peace
*may not be correct title as downloaded without a title...
and if modern dancehall and digi-dub should be included as well as classic roots:
Anthony B - Police
Sizzla - Hard Ground and/or Babylon Cowboy
Spectacular - Corrupt System
Dub Syndicate - Fight The Power
Bush Chemists - Backs Against The Wall
maybe either the live version of "Get Up Stand Up" or Zion Train's remix of "Babylon's Burning" by The Ruts as a bonus track, or are they too obvious?
been wanting to put some of the really heavy, dread, apocalyptic tunes by Lee Scratch Perry or Yabby You, with all that chanting of judgement on Babylon, but they're all a bit religious or just plain obscure to fit in a compilation of purely revolutionary lyrics... however Horace Andy's "Government Land" HAS to be THE anarchist's/squatter's anthem...
any other ideas for inclusion?
Sep 10 2004 15:04
#25
I asked previously in the light of Pauls comments whether an album which might not sell in high number is worth making, I got no reply
I can carry on compiling music but theres no point if no ones going to buy it, what do other people think?
Sep 23 2004 15:15
#26
Quote:
and folk (although i *think* the latter was intended, er, ironically...)
Says you the 'seize the day' fan!!!
Sep 24 2004 00:45
#27
what would i put in a lefty cd...
ok its not all anarchist but a lot of anarchist music is a bit shit
Tom Robinson-Up against the wall
Sin dios-1936:un pueblo en armas
David rovics-Noone is illegal
T(i)NC-I wanna know about you
The weakerthans-My favourite chords
Chumbawamba- enough is enough
ATR's cover of- If the kids are united
Pretenders-Ohio
faithless-mass destruction
Grandmaster flash-the message
The clash-train in vain
utah phillips-solidarirty forever
Ani difranco-blood in the boardroom
Rifu-the oil the coal and the profit
The strike-shots heard round the world
The weakerthans-confessions of a futon revolutionist
Billy bragg-there is power in a union
and if you were getting hi tech and have silly amounts of money to blow
Bruce cockburn-call it democracy (video)
T(I)NC-Smash it up (video)
That'd be the sort of thing i'd give out at peace demos and the like anywaym, with some audio stuff on the end, maybe howard zinn because its the most accessable and most practical. Although really i'd try and find some spoken word stuff and criticism more relevant to the UK, although i can't think of anything available on audio mp3 off the top of my head.
john
fuck that shit we should be making pirated copies of all the main chart acts and sell them for 3 quid like the paramilitaries do over here. get the money raking in expand the production (duplicators), move into drugs and racketeering and then start shooting each other over the profits.
well thats what the INLA,LVF, UDA and UVF do.
the IRA do it but they make most of their money from rich conservative Irish americans, Noraid oh aye and Sinn Fein the good socialists they are took money from coca cola.
seriously this anarchists malarky is wasted on u commie lil fucks there's good money to be make out of the ole circled a and all ye's can come up with is a comp tape with shitty drum n bass and no doubt some shite punk like the blaggers, start with Britney and Christina move onto E's and Horse and then prostitution. (oh yeah just remembered the goog ole boys of the INLA are involved in the ole sex trade, perhaps thats why class war have a link to them? to be honest i couldn't see anyother reason why u'd want to have anything to do within!)