MELODY
where's the melody?
DOBERMAN
alienation is a response
YES UNCLE SIR
baa baa green sheep
how many lies do you endure?
STRAIGHT NOISE
derogatory & ignorance don't hurt us
if you don't comprehend don't tell us to conform
"Although we've always played our sound very extreme, we still try to think of other ways to do more nausea, to upset people who want HC/punk to sound all the same."
NO FUSE
low psychopathic threshold has been eroded away
national front has such youth as its strong arm
SHADE OF NEGATION
deepest black for the crippled spirit
strength of outrage for the tax of oppression
BANK SCARECROW
capitalist crows scavenge on
the payment default harvest
of farm repossession
BUREAUCHEVIKS
stalinists are fuckheads
"Nausea is a 'sickness' of living, the situation of life. We extend this to what happens in the world, and this is mostly what our lyrics are about. Also Scut tried reading Jean Paul Sartre in the dark once...."
CADENA CANTO
from life, from allende's blood
about suffering, about victory
simplest expression of freedom
fly away like a bird
D-DAY
I looked at my knuckles
when all she wanted was to be left alone
DIARY
found it blank, so I burnt it all
THIRD ATHEIST GENERATION
religion is a graveyard I shall not visit
YELLOW STAR OF AUSCHWITZ
line the christian militia against the wailing wall
can't hijack palestine to extinguish
the yellow star of auschwitz
DOG CATCHER
not guilty of any crime of mind
still the dog catcher will just as soon take you
ANGEL FACTORY
get killed with abortion
'cos the catholics have illegaled it
"When we plan to record new trax we need about 500 or so to make it worthwhile. So if we use the studio we can usually record 500 trax in 1½ - 2 hours with a couple of rests....!!"
INTENTIONAL TREND
confidence destroyed
reduced to the lowest common unit
take a number and wait and wait and wait
POWERS THAT BE STUPID
what now that my number's been wiped out by static
CASUALTY BEIRUT
invalids' home is streaked with blood
bombs have done their job on the gaza hospital
orphans are roaming the streets of beirut
RSL
rsl, rsl
shave that mohawk on anzac day boy
ALL OMINOUS
do you watch helicopters flying in death
what is there to celebrate at the bicentennary
remember bhopal, do you realise the right wing
you would also die if you rubbed
radioactive powder onto your skin
what did you think to all this?
"Autonomy is better than anarchy. It's better to live your own life rather than trying to organise the mass fuckheads of society into a different life."
LIVING IN A BOX
this is the lucky country
we've got corrugated cardboard
PLUTONIUM SHUTTLE
seven volunteers balanced against
forty-six pounds of death
HOUSEWIFE POEM
feed the mail, tear open the dog
- despair
DUSTBIN HEADED
reagan likes to quote fake lenin by goebbels
PUNK INC.
profit from your own death - go for it
CARBIDE ACCOUNT SHEET
company turnover larger than
some countries' economies
FILTH
assault not consult conservative senses
"Noise upsets people who hate their narrow view of life being disturbed."
FIRST/LAST
this is the first and last annihilation
this is not a drill
COLORS
hey - wanna belong to a gang war
you look disadvantaged enough
MASS CULTURE
get brainwashed from worldwide uniform crap
NO NAME
all outside this room is bullshit
RIOT
the displaced, the cops, the 20 second media
aboriginal culture killed
BLANK SATAN
fill in your own rebellion
but black pentagrams got nothing to believe in
HOLY ADDICTION
revelation control on your life
fuck amen
DOWN CURVE
it'll get better just after this downturn
and the next one
MTV SOCIAL AWARENESS
get drunk and vomit over your 'international
mind your own business year' t-shirt
no-one will miss you
OK!!! OK???
it's okay to think; try it
All lyrics taken from "Locked
Down" cassette (material from 1988 onwards).
All quotes by Mick Hollows, taken from
Slimy Scum fanzine (Sweden) issue 4 (1991).