Really is one of the best there ever was. I used to play this track for friends of mine who were not familiar with punk rock. Ones that were more into hippie type bands and culture some years back. They all loved it. Usually on road trips to this or that. When everyone was properly tuned up. And the whole packed full car or van would be silent with heads slowly nodding. Always will remember the power of it all.
ONLY IF YOU LET THEM DISCHARGE NAILED IT DECONTROL WE HAVE BEEN SHITE ON FAR TOO LONG NO MORE NO WAY WE ARE PUT ON THIS EARTH EQUAL WHAT WE HAVE WE WILL NOT TAKE IT WITH US SOME PEOPLE THINK DIFFERENT FACE REALITY ☠👍🏻☠🙃☠😜☠
This set the bar for all punk......and nobody ever ever hit it again. It really doesn't get any better than this. This right here is the high water mark.
I live my life by the punk ethics portrayed in this song...it helped shape my personality,attitude & outlook on life into what it has been for 40 years
Me too, unfortunately i took it a bit far and ended up being absolutely ridiculously lazy, a criminal, addict and really lost my way. However i've played some great shows on the drums in my late thirties and forties and i never lost my loyalties and have always stuck up for those who can't against bullying types. Nursing my mother who has dementia and try my hardest to stay decent. Absolute fantastic band.
yea i kinda thought it was funny that nofx only did the decline because subhumans did cradle to the grave because if the subhumans did a 17 min song its ok and could still be punk but thats the opposite of what punk is. it would've been more punk to be like we made a 20 min song because we wanted to and didnt care if some people didnt consider it punk. but hey 2 great songs that show punk could be prog inspired 20 minutes and show amazing musicianship
@@elizabethmccormack793 Exactly when 2m30s became a standard length for punk songs it sort of ceases to be punk because your just a slave to an idea then, conformity should be the enemy not brilliant tracks like this that opened up new possibilities.
The last show I saw them play in Phoenix at the rebel room aka Mason jar I requested this one. Fully knowing they wouldnt belt out a 17 minute song, shortly after another fan at the show said: cradle! At least I wasnt the only one dreaming.
from 12:19 this is pure punk eargasm! the album cover is hauntingly class! a masterpiece in my opinion. this is up there with the best of anarcho punk!
You never hear much about them but I read a recent interview by josh homme from queens of the stone age and he totally admitted being influenced by the subhumans. To me that basically means the screaming trees, nirvana and the foo fighters must have at some point heard this. That makes me feel a lot more connected than trying to understand x factor type musicians and music that nowadays just seems so hell bent on nostalgia. I love motown but everyone seems to be trying to replicate it. It can be good cos I love Adele but jesus come on.
I grew up in the same town,Warminster..Wiltshire where Subhumans come from and my older brother was in the same year at the school everyone who wasn't a toffee nosed twat went to in the town..Kingdown comprehensive....😄😄😄😄🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
Fucking hell this dunt half tek mi back! Glorious! Absolutely love the reggae influence and the reverb gives it an urgency that is 100% proof Punk! (Accept no substitutes!)
I remember when I was a kid I would overdose on k2 about every day, foaming at the mouth and spasming. I would crawl across the room and turn on this album, or maybe punk terrorist anthology vol 1. I made myself listen until it was I was there, tripping on into dark places, dieing time and time again in other people's lives in these super vivid and lucid hallucinations/ delusions because I thought it was more of an experience than butterflies and roses. Believe it or not that's how the subhumans and nausea made me who I am today.
Wow that's fucking hardcore. Please tell me you came out the other end of that dark tunnel and found ganja. That spice is beyond tricky. I did that sorta thing with Sub's and False prophets etc , but no way with Nausea... fuck that 😲😱😨😰 😂.
Not the only one who went on journeys with it, to it, amongst it... Great times. Really it was music like the subhumans and touring with bands I was friends with. Having the strength it all helped me find within myself saved my life. It's sad that such a wonderful experience was known intimently by so few. But such is such.
Anyone who really digs this should check out citizen fish as well. It's got a different vibe but same lyrics. Same soul ( same singer, Dick Lucas). And alot of citizen fish was music I could similarly space out to.
Citizen Fish are more upbeat though, similar themes but with a bit of optimism too. Lucas is a punk poet in my eyes. (Edit:typo, added a h to the word though)
I like this mode of communication; I like the Beatlesque musical shifts; maybe I have listened to too much loud music but I can not understand the lyrics. I want to know what they are saying. It's important to me. The bits I get seem to be clever and important. They seem to have social relevance. Great piece of music. Thanks to Oicroppa.
Huh? For serious? This is some of the most clear, pronounced vocals in punk rock history. Maybe it's your phones speakers or whatever you are listening with. Try headphones. This song becomes clear as a bell and is a whole nother level.
You are fortunate to be able to hear the vocals as well as you do. 2 years later I still have the same problem. The first cut is most difficult for me. The rest is fairly clear. It's a good band. I a m a musician I have sensitive ears. Olfatorily speaking. my ears are like a cat or dog.s nose--They hear so much at once that cacaphony can ensue. ....so yeah! for serious! I have different hearing ability than you. Thank you for your comment.
In the mid 1980s I was working with a guy who's job was security fences & he got a contract off Thatchers Tory government to have all TA bases capable of holding weapons & equipment for suppression of British people if they were to rise up, I found this by reading his contract( it was covered by official secrets act) that he left in the van, so I sprayed the words of this song from "why don't you join the army be a man & not a fool" till the end in yellow line paint & then walked off & never went back as those weapons would used on me & those like me
HA! I'm with ya brother. Crazy feeling right? It would be just like that too. Accept when ya look around. All ur mates disappeared... Shit. Guess it's time to crawl up front and grab the wheel... Go get some gas, Ale, and pull out the crumpled up Book yer own fuckin Life, from under the seat. Lol
Post metal is a genre of heavy metal that is heavily atmospheric, has long, complex song structures, unconventional lyrics and aesthetics -etc. Prob the most well known and best example would be the band Neurosis, who started in the early 90's and spawned a bunch of copy cat bands who went on to create that label "Post-metal".
their are way better punk bands and songs out there, but something about this song, its like a pink floyd song in the punk genre, if you dont get chills from this keep listening to it til you do :)
ArtOfRuin981 you're smokin somethin else if you think rancid is better than the subhumans (or misfits, bad brains, dead milkmen, or sex pistols, which i would classify as pop punk)
ArtOfRuin981 DK no more, jello goes alone, Misfits, first album good, the rest shit, as with the Pistols, bad brains turned into living color,milkmen????, Na, Subhumans still going strong, last album was brilliant. end of debate
