Skatepunk

• Title: Cut With Diamonds�
• Artist: 100 Watt Halo�
• Album: The Steady Continental Seventy�
• Year: 1996�
• Length: 3:24 minutes (3.9 MB)
• Format: Stereo 44kHz 160Kbps (CBR)

From "The Steady Continental Seventy" on Goldenrod Records, recorded by Mark Trombino, produced by Mark Waters.

• Title: Grim and Sexy
• Artist: 100 Watt Halo
• Album: The Steady Continental Seventy
• Year: 1996
• Length: 3:38 minutes (4.17 MB)
• Format: Stereo 44kHz 160Kbps (CBR)

Grim and Sexy from 100 Watt Halo's "The Steady Continental Seventy" recorded by Mark Trombino, produced by Mark Waters.

• Title: New Youth Kool
• Artist: 100 Watt Halo
• Album: The Steady Continental Seventy
• Year: 1996
• Length: 3:42 minutes (4.24 MB)
• Format: Stereo 44kHz 160Kbps (CBR)

New Youth Kool is from the Goldenrod Records 4-song 7" EP from 1995, GR31, still available through Goldenrod Records. Produced by Mark Waters. 100 Watt Halo was Brock, Marshall, Ben and Gabe.

• Title: Baby, I'm An Archanist
• Artist: Against Me!
• Album: The Lime Album
• Length: 2:40 minutes (2.46 MB)
• Format: Stereo 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)

Hilarious lyrics to a great song. This was from the era where they were emerging as a great band and Tom was really developing as a song writer. The album this was off, "Reinventing Axl Rose" was underground album of the year in 2002 for tons of reviewers. This song was often played last at Against Me! shows -- it culminated the show as the ultimate sing along and was a perfect ender, but it also deteriorated so badly with kids storming the stage that Tom would take off his guitar and simply sing, if he could even do that. After that it was sorta difficult to put things back together.

Lyrics:
Through the best of times, through the worst of times,
Through Nixon and through Bush, do you remember '36?
We went our separate ways...
You fought for Stalin - I fought for freedom
You believe in authority - I believe in myself
I'm a molotov cocktail, you're Dom Perignon
Baby, what's that confused look in your eyes?
What I'm trying to say is that...
I burn down buildings while you sit on a shelf inside of them.
You call the cops on the looters and piethrowers
They call it class war, I call them co-conspirators
Chorus:
'Cause baby, I'm an anarchist and you're a spineless liberal
We marched together for the eight-hour day and held hands in the streets of Seattle
But when it came time to throw bricks through that Starbucks window
You left me all alone (all alone)

You watched in awe at the red white and blue on the fourth of July
While those fireworks were exploding I was burning that fucker
And stringing my black flag high...
Eating the peanuts that the parties have tossed you
In the back seat of your father's new Ford--
You believe in the ballot you believe in reform
You have faith in the elephant and the jackass
And to you solidarity's a four-letter word
We're all hypocrites, but you're a patriot
You thought I was only joking when I screamed "Kill Whitey!" at the top of my lungs
At the cops in their cars and the men in their suits
No, I won't take your hand and marry the state
Chorus

• Title: Joy - Demo
• Artist: Against Me!
• Album: The Lime Album
• Genre: Other
• Length: 1:43 minutes (2.37 MB)
• Format: Stereo 44kHz 192Kbps (CBR)

Demo version of another one of my favorite Against Me! songs. Great stuff. This version is pretty raw and Tom's voice isn't as dynamic but it still sounds amazing. I love listening to what songs start out as and what they become.

• Title: Reinventing Axl Rose
• Artist: Against Me!
• Album: Acoustic E.P.
• Year: 2001
• Length: 2:12 minutes (2.54 MB)
• Format: Stereo 44kHz 160Kbps (CBR)

This song was on Against Me!'s first full length, but this version is from their acoustic Ep, and is my favorite. What freaking awesome lyrics. If you don't get it, that's fine, unless you think you get underground music.

We want a band that plays loud and hard every night
That doesn't care how many people are counted at the door
That would travel one million miles and ask for nothing more than a plate of food and a place to rest
They'd strike chords that cut like a knife
It would mean so much more than t-shirts or a ticket stub and they'd stop at nothing short of a massacre
Everyone would leave with the memory that there was no place else in the world
And this was where they always belonged
We would dance like no one was watching with one fist in the air
Our arenas are just basements and bookstores across an underground America
With this fire we could light...
Just gimme a scene where the music is free and the beer is not the life of the party
and there's no need to shit talk or impress 'cause honesty and emotion are not looked down upon
And every promise that's made and bragged is meant if not kept
We'd do it all because we have to, not because we know why
Beyond a gender, race, and class, we could find what really holds us back
Let's make everybody sing -- that they are the beginning and ending of everything
That we all are stronger than everything they taught us that we should fear

• Title: T.S.R
• Artist: Against Me!
• Album: As The Eternal Cowboy
• Year: 2003
• Length: 1:36 minutes (1.84 MB)
• Format: Stereo 44kHz 160Kbps (CBR)

"...And I hope I haven't overdone it no. I hope my body can take it. I hope I make the occasion. It's only this fucked up I start realizing all this living is just dying, and if these are my friends, if this is my home, if this is how i spend my nights, how I communicate, and demonstrate a love of life... my eyes roll into the back of my head: if these are the last words that I've ever said -- No! I'm not ready to die just yet!"

One of my favorite songs from one of my favorite bands. I'm not afraid of dying, I've just got more livin' to do.

• Title: Bed Intruder
• Artist: Antoine Dodson Auto Tune Hero
• Album: 2008
• Year: 2010
• Length: 3:08 minutes (4.3 MB)
• Format: Stereo 44kHz 192Kbps (CBR)

This song is so genius and so funny and awesome. The story behind it is great. This guy was on the news because someone tried to rape his sister, in the projects in Mississippi, I think. He was on the news, his persona is a catalyst for controversy, and some folks took his words from the news and used Auto-Tune to "songify" them, added a background track, and voila, a catchy song! And now the guys rolling in the dough, which is awesome, too. Something good came out of it, he moved his family out of the ghetto into a nice home. Awesome.

• Title: Chris Miller's Frontside Airs�
• Artist: Are You a Cop�
• Album: Take Off Your Shoes�
• Year: 2011�
• Length: 1:13 minutes (1.5 MB)
• Format: Stereo 44kHz 160Kbps (CBR)

Love this band! You can get this whole album on iTunes along with their other records... check out the video Guest List on YouTube as well. Great stuff!

• Title: Fired Up
• Artist: Bad Shit
• Album: Drug Free
• Genre: hardcore skate rock
• Year: 2008
• Length: 1:42 minutes (2.34 MB)
• Format: Stereo 44kHz 192Kbps (CBR)

Great song from Bad Shit called Fired Up.
Tony Trujillo sings and plays bass. Trixie plays drums and screams a little, and Jake Phelps plays guitar.

4 am, burning bright
Me and Stranger, out all night
Bomb Delores in the rain
Sleeping on a beach in Spain
Want it taste what it's about
Hear it smell it something something
Fired Up
Pour it up, need more speed
Pointech wheels all i need
Ride with style to the store
It's OK I'll get more more
Want it taste what it's about
Hear it smell it the flame you cannot doubt
Fired Up