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I was expecting a "resume" joke with CV.
There's a memo here from accounting telling me there's no such thing as the Human Fund
We should start an ice bucket challenge for Leo.
Politcised music is not dead in Australia - Melbourne's The Smith Street Band have just released a song called "Wipe That Shit-Eating Grin Off Your Punchable Face"
I've never actually listened to the band, I figured it would be a Frenzal Rhomb (lame repetitive "punk") but it's actually quite serious. I'm a wee bit torn. I think I actually like the song but I don't know if this band is considered any good or not, Ax will have to help me there.
Politcised music is not dead in Australia - Melbourne's The Smith Street Band have just released a song called "Wipe That Shit-Eating Grin Off Your Punchable Face"
I've never actually listened to the band, I figured it would be a Frenzal Rhomb (lame repetitive "punk") but it's actually quite serious. I'm a wee bit torn. I think I actually like the song but I don't know if this band is considered any good or not, Ax will have to help me there. And the lyrics get a bit lazy towards the end, the Abbott govt is hardly the first to have refugees drown at sea on their watch. There may even be less drowning now than with the previous, less conservative govt (although that doesn't mean they aren't dying, they're just dying out of our area so we don't have to feel guilty). But, I'm down for a decent tune ripping on someone I strongly dislike.
https://soundcloud.com/thesmithstreetband/wipe-that-shit-eating-grin-off-your-punchable-face
I’ll sink slowly into cement, running round the city square
I’ve always felt a little different, now I can breath in the anger on the dirty air
grubby beauty blocked out by streets and time
painted their slogans on the silhouette of my skyline
It is not enough to be quiet on the train back home
A change is gonna come, our country’s mind can’t stay this closed
Enter the decade fearing failing and our heart starts beating in time
with the white noise and the ranting and raving, their official party line
we must respond we need a fight, decide how the destitute will survive and then die
So wipe that shit-eating grin off your punchable face
these people are human beings that you’ll destroy and displace
when you sit in Kirribilli House and there’s no one else around do you know just to keep your job you’re putting bodies in the ground
drowning refugees at sea, kiss babies screaming vote for me
I’ll take you to the future via the 1950s
Were we supposed to feel hope when you said you’d stop the boats?
cause that’s some fucking evil shit, politicizing killing kids, drip feeding fear into our brains, new leader clearly insane
gonna change the culture in our cultured minds
start a war with an alibi we can justify
What about this song?
Frenzhel Rhomb sucked.
Didn't The Basics have something out a while back too? Maybe it's time someone did a whole album a la Midnight Oil's Redneck Wonderland (fat lot of good that did though, but it was a cracking good record).
I figure that whenever somebody misuses "lucky country", they're one of the second-rate people to whom Horne referred in the full quotation.
For the benefit of the non-Australians, this is what we're talking about: "Australia is a lucky country run mainly by second rate people who share its luck. It lives on other people's ideas, and, although its ordinary people are adaptable, most of its leaders (in all fields) so lack curiosity about the events that surround them that they are often taken by surprise."
Written in 1964 or 2014? Hard to tell really.
I was expecting a "resume" joke with CV.
And their lead guitarist is the most hated man in Australia.
Didn't The Basics have something out a while back too? Maybe it's time someone did a whole album a la Midnight Oil's Redneck Wonderland (fat lot of good that did though, but it was a cracking good record).