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Greg wrote:Before you get *too* busy fellating them, remember that Social D is just as much a bunch of unthinking reflexive Lefties as, say Green Day.
I wouldn't call giving credit where it's due as "fellating" them. This was an entertaining few minutes that somebody took some effort to make sure it looked right. That should be acknowledged.

And if I worried too much about the political tendencies of the members of bands, actors/producers of movies, or even authors of fiction books, life would be much more dull and boring.
...even before I read MHI, my response to seeing a poster for the stars of the latest Twilight movies was "I see 2 targets and a collaborator".
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no need for any here to fellate them... that video (at least what I watched of it) was a scene of them doing it to themselves in public. What a bunch of wannabe fantasy boys. How do I get that 3 minutes of my life back?

Had to go watch this one again just to regain the 10 IQ points I lost in that 3 minutes. Thanks Grant.
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Greg wrote:Before you get *too* busy fellating them, remember that Social D is just as much a bunch of unthinking reflexive Lefties as, say Green Day.
blackeagle603 wrote:no need for any here to fellate them... that video (at least what I watched of it) was a scene of them doing it to themselves in public. What a bunch of wannabe fantasy boys. How do I get that 3 minutes of my life back?

Had to go watch this one again just to regain the 10 IQ points I lost in that 3 minutes. Thanks Grant.
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blackeagle603 wrote: Had to go watch this one again just to regain the 10 IQ points I lost in that 3 minutes. Thanks Grant.
Aaaargh, not jazz, please anything but that....
All my life I been in the dog house
I guess that just where I belong
That just the way the dice roll
Do my dog house song
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Social D is definitely one of my all time favorite bands, but then again, I just like punk music. I just have no desire to BE a punk rocker, I like the music they make. Hell, I grew up listening to Green Day(from their early stuff on, though it was certainly "light" punk if you can call it that), so maybe my perception is a little off.

Still, awesome music video. And hey, at least they didn't win in the end, you won't see many rappers pulling that off.

On another note, here's a pretty bad ass music video. And I don't even like "modern" country music!
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Mud_Dog wrote: On another note, here's a pretty bad ass music video. And I don't even like "modern" country music!
I love that, thanks.

I was a punk back in the day. It taught me a lot of things, like if you have your hair dyed pink and live in a working class mining town you had better learn how to fight :D back then it was like walking around with a fucking target pinned to your back. Everyone wanted to have a pop at you :D

I got into the skinhead scene shortly after. We weren't racist, we just hated everyone. I don't think I met a black person until I was in my 20's and he ended up being a really close friend, almost like a brother.

Don't let the modern generation of left wing punks ( pricks ) fool you into thinking it was originally a political movement. It wasn't, it was just a way of saying I'm young, bored, pissed off and angry and I don't want to listen to Emerson Lake and Palmer or Disco.
All my life I been in the dog house
I guess that just where I belong
That just the way the dice roll
Do my dog house song
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Highspeed wrote:
Mud_Dog wrote: On another note, here's a pretty bad ass music video. And I don't even like "modern" country music!
I love that, thanks.

I was a punk back in the day. It taught me a lot of things, like if you have your hair dyed pink and live in a working class mining town you had better learn how to fight :D back then it was like walking around with a fucking target pinned to your back. Everyone wanted to have a pop at you :D

I got into the skinhead scene shortly after. We weren't racist, we just hated everyone. I don't think I met a black person until I was in my 20's and he ended up being a really close friend, almost like a brother.

Don't let the modern generation of left wing punks ( pricks ) fool you into thinking it was originally a political movement. It wasn't, it was just a way of saying I'm young, bored, pissed off and angry and I don't want to listen to Emerson Lake and Palmer or Disco.
I grew up in as near as a backwoods place as you can find in the mid-atlantic region, northeastern North Carolina. There were no Rock & Roll stations there, just country, oldies, and R&B. It didn't listen to any music intentionally until my friend that lived in Virginia Beach, VA came to live across the street on every other weekend.

In my early teens, he introduced me to Green Day's "Dookie" on cassette tape, and I was hooked. Shortly thereafter, I had a cheap radio that was tuned with tin foil to try and pick up what I could of the Virginia stations playing mid-90's and earlier rock music(98.7FM, aka FM 99 with Tommy & Rumble!). It was that and the Foo Fighters that I grew attached too.

Finally gave up on Green Day when I picked up "American Idiot." It just wasn't the same band I was used to. Still listen to their old stuff for nostalgia. The Foo Fighters are still going pretty strong though. Mostly I'm listening to ska now(well I have since the Mighty Mighty Bosstones' "Let's Face It" anyway).

Ahh, childhood! :lol:
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Highspeed wrote:
Don't let the modern generation of left wing punks ( pricks ) fool you into thinking it was originally a political movement. It wasn't, it was just a way of saying I'm young, bored, pissed off and angry and I don't want to listen to Emerson Lake and Palmer or Disco.
The left wing rot set in pretty early. The Clash have a lot to answer for.
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+1 to what Chris said...
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I was reading an excerpt from the autobiography of one of the Duran Duran members today.
They were 'New Romantics' and together with their cohorts responsible for some of the worst music ever inflicted on the ears of mankind.

Anyway, backtracking a little, there were basically two kinds of punks. The working class sort who were angry and pissed off and the middle class arty kind who were just following fashion.

I'll never forget one of the art school 'punks' suddenly turning up ( dressed like a homosexual wedding cake ) saying that Duran Duran were the future of music and we would all be claiming to have been there at the Rum Runner club in Birmingham when the music of the next decade was born. It's a small regret of mine that I didn't punch him in the face for that.

I spent the early 80's with a shaved head, bleached jeans, Dr Marten boots and sniffing glue. Every night we'd be looking for another bunch of losers to have a fight with. They were good times.
All my life I been in the dog house
I guess that just where I belong
That just the way the dice roll
Do my dog house song
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