@@jcoverpass That's exactly what I think every time my dad goes on about how Punk changed everything. His generation really had all the conditions they needed to motivate them to stand up and make a difference. Instead, they bought into a fake revolution and chose to pose instead. I love my dad, but he was conned with the rest of them into selling their birthright for hedonism and the pretence of being edgy. Fun as it may have been in that bleak 70s landscape, they changed nothing, despite their belief that they did. Maybe the worst generation (well, that's a tough call given what we're seeing today). He posts pictures of his punk disco reunions on FB. It's embarassing. It looks like ballroom dancing night in the old people's home, except they're all wearing clash t-shirts, safety pins, DMs, and black fishnet stockings and shit; gurning, grimacing and head banging.
This is the song I want to play any time I walk into a meeting. I hate meetings. We gotta destroy who we gotta destroy, right? Ha. Exactly the opposite of everything this song is about.
It’s crazy how this is so unknown, even compared to other underground bands of the period like Gang of Four or Wire. Really one of the best rock anthems of all time
Yeah! It's a great song. I remember going up to Ann Arbor MI to see the Replacements in 1989 and they opened up their show with this number. Totally blew the place away. Solid rocker.
So true. R Hitchcock is equal to the Beatles and Bob Dylan, but there is still an obdurate denial of his rightful place of fame by the vampiric gatekeepers of the music industry.
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that you're not ignorant. I'm sure you understand the divide and conquer strategy, right?. Well.. right wing or left wing or even middle wing isn't all that important if the ultimate outcome is division. The simple fact IS, when one of them gets their way for a long enough period of time there WILL be division within that faction so that particular majority will begin to divide itself. It's simply sociological nature. Do you love socio-politics yet?.
The only problem with this is Nancy Pelosi, Obama, Biden and Bill Clinton aren't included. I'd like to re-edit it to include them, because they're at fault too, just not as much as Trump. I'd end the video with Hillary Clinton and Liz Cheney clapping.
Gee, they seem to be right about everything else in this video. Maybe they're right about that piece of garbage tRump too. Reagan certainly fit in well here.
Trump is an easy target because he's a self-confessed boor, and the educated wankerati of the Beltway think they're superior. Not withstanding he pisses off all the right people so he must be good and not Hitler 2.0?
That's because all the violence happened at home in the states while he was in office. But the people in charge can't take responsibility for that can they? It's not their fault for telling people what to believe and who to hate.
@MadMaxBS instigated by the media for mindless Sheeple but,it looks like they have coped onto the divide n conquer tactics at last Trump 2024 and an end to the Ukrainian war.
This song is lyrically flailing adolescent nihilism, with no God, no love, and no vision of transcending the ego or saving the world, or penetrating the secret societies behind the glib litany of horrors portrayed in the video.
Everybody's God thinks a lot like they do and it causes untold problems. Sounds to me like a good concept to lose. I vote for no more Gods. They're all frauds anyway.
He was too incompetent. If he could read over a 5th grade level and find any brown country on an unmarked map I'm sure he would have. BTW selling billions of dollars of weapons to Saudi Arabia to drop on Yemen counts as destruction.
Brandon's hands ain't clean. He's a war criminal all the same. However, just bc the Bidens, Clintons and Obamas are neoliberal disasters don't mean orange man ain't bad. He's a carpetbagger with gold toilets who's not only sexually attracted to his own daughter, he WANTS YOU TO KNOW he is. Close friends with the Clintons and Epstein. Great guy that orange man.
Since the early 80s, I have been a lifelong fan! Or was. I have purchased most all of your albums and tickets to see you perform live. Thanks for destroying your song by commercializing it in a Subway commercial that I just viewed on television. And special thanks for giving it the death quell by needlessly interjecting it with the poison of partisan politics in this, here, video. Never thought I would live to see the day. So disappointing. :-/
LOL @ everybody who went 40 years without realizing an anti-war song is a political comment and had to have a video spell out the message for them so they could get mad at it.
Stalin, Lenin, and.....Trump? Lol.😂 The only president that didn't start any new wars. A peacetime President. Comparing conservatives with nazis is cringe and dramatic.
You know what was cringe and dramatic? When I got on twitter and saw my country's President had posted a video of one of his followers shouting "White power! White power!" and talking about how much he liked that guy. And then a few years later a bunch of white people on the internet tried to pretend it was all totally fine. Maybe if you don't want to get called a Nazi, try not supporting white supremacy. Most people have no problem going their whole lives without ever saying or doing anything racist, or that racists even support, yet somehow your "non-Nazi" has just kept "accidentally" doing it, over and over and over again, for decades.
@@GuitaristInProgress that is false. Fact check false! Lol Trump never posted a video of that. That's a lie. And he was the first president to support gay marriage when he entered office. Yeah, real nazi! Lol
