Skatepunk

• Title: A U.K.
• Artist: Faction
• Album: Collection 2- The Uncollectable
• Length: 2:36 minutes (2.98 MB)
• Format: Stereo 44kHz 160Kbps (CBR)

This is another song that was decided would not be included on the band's discography CD. It was released on the Thrasher Skate Rock Vol. 1 cassette in 1983 and not on anything else. It was a reaction to the factions within the Northern California punk scene that worshiped all the English bands and styles of the time. A.U.K. stood for Anti-U.K. and I think by 1994, when we did the CD, it just was not relevant anymore. I can't remember all the lyrics, but here are most of them:

AUK! AUK! AUK!
A little island way far away
That's loved and admired in the USA
England's scene it's cool for them
But here it just creates a bunch of problems
People here wear circle As
Right beside it the flag of the UK
Circle A--no government that's quite clear
So what's the Union Jack still doing here?

A-U.K. means anti-UK
United Kingdom go away
Remember you live in the USA
England's stale anyway

I don't care what Wattie says
Fuck the UK is what I say
They're just jealous they can't see
What in the world is the SPG?
Dump on the Irish for 800 years
Can't they see they're not wanted there?
Australian fields red with blood
Their English masters had to have guns

A-UK means anti-UK
United Kingdom go away
Remember you live in the USA
England's stale anyway

Their scene's divided by the punks and skins
We are united, always will
Phoney division made by our underground press
That we too are divided and we're in distress
Some English groups aren't even bands
They sound like a bunch of pots and pans
Cry about a war that doesn't exist
Americans are hated, we still persist.

A-U.K. means anti-UK
United Kingdom go away
Remember you live in the USA
England's stale anyway

A little island way far away
That's loved and admired in the USA
England's scene it's cool for them
But here it just creates a bunch of problems
People here wear the circle A
Right beside it the flag of the UK
Circle A--no government that's quite clear
So what's the Union Jack still doing here?

A-UK means anti-UK
United Kingdom go away
Remember you live in the USA
England's stale anyway