Bollocks is one of my favorite albums, but no way is it lefty. I don't think these teenage kids and their Svengali manager were thinking on that level. And it would take some convincing to me that Bodies is not quite a bit negative on the subject of abortion.
That said, Mr. Computer Games guy -- is it possible at
all to play with the Eldar effectively in the computer
game version of Warhammer 40,000? I mean, they suck.
:)
--- dredmond at efn.org wrote:
> On Sun, August 5, 2007 4:57 pm, Chris Doss wrote:
>
> > BTW when did punk become left-wing? The Sex
> Pistols
> > certainly weren't
>
> Sure they were. "Never Mind the Bollocks" is sheer
> musical genius. The
> lyrics aren't perfect - as workingclass kids from
> London, they had lots of
> internalized sexism and homophobia, but surprisingly
> little racism.
> Documentaries of the band noted the only music they
> could stand to listen
> to on their tour bus was reggae - they were big Bob
> Marley fans.
>
> "Bodies" isn't about abortion, it's a somewhat
> sexist rant about how punk
> is the illegitimate child of flower-power. And
> "Holidays in the Sun" is
> just brilliant, a savage burn on the tourist
> industry and much else
> besides:
>
> "Sensurround sound in a two-inch wall / well I was
> waiting for the
> communist call / I didn't ask for sunshine, and I
> got World War Three /
> I'm looking over the wall..." [Lydon's voice erupts
> into primal scream]
> "AND THEY'RE LOOKING AT MEEEEE"...
>
> Pure 1970s Hamletmachine-style subversion: East and
> West have converged
> into twin jailhouses of the total system, the
> monstrous backlash of
> Thatcherism is on its way... but there's hope in the
> global proletariat:
> "I'm going to go... under the Berlin Wall"... Deep
> underground, where we
> communist moles are wont to burrow.
>
> -- DRR
>
>
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