Skatepunk

• Title: Larry Calls Target
• Artist: Larry Perkins
• Album: Larry Perkins
• Length: 7:21 minutes (8.41 MB)
• Format: Stereo 44kHz 160Kbps (CBR)

Larry calls Target and inquires about a spot on their skate team.

• Title: Larry Theotis
• Length: 3:16 minutes (3.74 MB)
• Format: Stereo 44kHz 160Kbps (CBR)

Larry trying to come up on Theotis, and it's almost criminal how nice Theotis is, talking to a guy he obviously doesn't know...

• Title: larry kfc
• Length: 2:05 minutes (2.39 MB)
• Format: Stereo 44kHz 160Kbps (CBR)

Tough times, tougher measures -- Larry resorts to having to work, or at least try to work, at the KFC on Elvis Presley Blvd. Nice to hear that Larry's back!

• 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

• Title: You Are Here
• Artist: Faction
• Album: Collection 2- The Uncollectable
• Length: 3:38 minutes (4.17 MB)
• Format: Stereo 44kHz 160Kbps (CBR)

This song was definitely not one of Gavin's favorites -- he really did not want it on the Collection CD I put out. I sorta understand, lyrically it's not his strongest, but the bass is rad and the guitar parts work cool. Anyway, it's only available on a limited basis, so I thought I'd share...

• Title: Ian MacKaye
• Artist: MaximumFun.org
• Album: PRI: The Sound of Young America
• Genre: Other
• Year: 2009
• Length: 31:13 minutes (21.45 MB)
• Format: Mono 44kHz 96Kbps (CBR)

This interview from The Sound of Young America with Ian is an in-depth look at one of the men who helped shape the music and attitudes of this young skatepunk. Enjoy.

• Title: Seven Miles of Copper
• Artist: Black Them Boots
• Album: Fancy
• Length: 4:21 minutes (4.98 MB)
• Format: Stereo 44kHz 160Kbps (CBR)

From the forthcoming CD/LP "Fancy" from Black Them Boots.

• Title: 225
• Artist: New Model Army
• Album: Thunder and Consolation
• Year: 1989
• Length: 4:47 minutes (5.49 MB)
• Format: Stereo 44kHz 160Kbps (CBR)

Another New Model Army song. I don't know where the title comes form, but the lyrics were among the first that spoke to me about global politics, rather than personal politics, like Minor Threat or Fugazi, or social issues, like the Clash. Great stuff.

225:
She stares at the screen, at the little words of green
Tries to do remember what to do next
There's a trace of frustration that crosses her face
Searching for the key she should press
And I would help her if I only know how
But these things are a mystery to me too
And it seems that the Corporate eyes they are watching
She fears for her job and the moments are passing
I stare at her nametag and I think to myself
Both you and I, we never asked for any of this
So let's take a walk up past the chemical works
Where the sky turns green at night
And we'll talk about getting away from here
Some different kind of life
But even in the freshest mountain air
The jet fighters practise overhead
And they're drilling these hills for uranium deposits
And they'll bury the waste for our children to inherit
And though this is all done for our own benefit,
I swear we never asked for any of this
This golden age of communication
Means everyone talks at the same time
And liberty just means the freedom to exploit
Any weakness that you can find
Turn off the TV just for a while
Let us whisper to each other instead
And we'll hope that the Corporate ears do not listen
Lest we find ourselves committing some kind of treason
And filed in the tapes without rhyme, without reason
While they tell us that it's all for our own protection,
I swear we never asked for any of this

• Title: 125 Mph
• Artist: New Model Army
• Album: Thunder and Consolation
• Year: 1989
• Length: 3:58 minutes (4.54 MB)
• Format: Stereo 44kHz 160Kbps (CBR)

Song from "Thunder and Consolation" by NMA, one of my favorites.

• Title: Here We Are Nowhere
• Artist: Sten Guns
• Album: S/T
• Length: 1:03 minutes (1.21 MB)
• Format: Stereo 44kHz 160Kbps (CBR)

"Here We Are Nowhere" from the Sessions Noisses comp from 2003. It's a Stiff Little Fingers song, fun, easy, short. Perfect.