And just to stoke the fires of discontent....here's what I said about the Casualties back in `03...
This thread reminds me a local band here in NYC named the Casualties. They date back to around 1990, or so, but they're the sort of retro-Punks who refuse to let go of the golden age when GBH/the
Exploited/Blitz/Discharge/Crass/Varukers etc. still roamed the musical terrain, dying their `hawks bright purple and gobbing at people up and down the King's Road (the Casualties' first record was fitting
titled Die Hards). In any event, they dress like bizarro-world rodeo clowns, complete with the requisite foot long neon spikes sprouting off their heads, tartan bondage trousers and spike-speckled leather
jackets, all slathered with punky slogans-a-go-go. That's all fine and good and makes me smile nostalgically and all, but some of their song titles include "City Council," "Political Sin," "Politicians,"
and "American Justice" (alongside the entirely predictable "Kill the Hippies," "Bored and Glued" and, of course, "Kill Everyone"). What bugs me about this is that these guys *COULDN'T
POSSIBLY BE LESS INFORMED* about the state of the world! Making a political statement when you invariably *HAVE NO FREAKIN' IDEA* who the hell is actually in office renders
you a complete and utter moron bereft of any possible credibility whatsoever. They probably don't even pay any goddamn taxes, yet they continue to lope about yackin' about the oppression of
government and society while what fuck do they know actually about it (or anything outside of getting trashed on malt liquor and panhandling on St.Mark's Place)? I don't mind them singing "Police
Brutality" or "Unemployed," because these are things they probably DO know about (although both dilemnas are wilfully brought upon themselves by themselves).
-- Alex in NYC (vassife...), December 10th, 2003..
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 12 April 2004 13:47 (twenty-two years ago)