Punk Is Dead

from Refeeding Syndrome: Ear Candle Productions Remixes Crass by The Crass Remix Project

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Yes that’s right, punk is dead
It’s just another cheap product for the consumer’s head.
Bubblegum rock on plastic transistors
Schoolboy sedition backed by big time promoters.
CBS promoted the Clash
But it ain’t for revolution, it’s just for cash.
Punk became a fashion just like hippy used to be
And it ain’t got a thing to do with you or me.

Movements are systems and systems kill
Movements are expressions of the public will
Punk became a movement cos we all felt lost
But the leaders sold out and now we all pay the cost.
Punk narcissism was a social napalm
Steve Jones started doing real harm
Preaching revolution, anarchy and change
As he sucked from the system that had given him his name.

Well I’m tired of looking through shit stained glass
Tired of staring up a superstar’s arse
I’ve got an arse and crap and a name
I’m just waiting for my fifteen minutes fame.
Steve Jones you’re napalm
If you’re so pretty why do you smarm?
Patti Smith, you’re napalm
You write with your hand but it’s Rimbaud’s arm.

And me, yes, I, do I want to burn?
Is there something I can learn?
Do I need a business man to promote my angle?
Can I resist the carrots that fame and fortune dangle?
I see the velvet zippies in their bondage gear
The social elite with safetypins in their ear
I watch and understand that it don’t mean a thing
The scorpions might attack, but the system’s stole the sting.

PUNK IS DEAD. PUNK IS DEAD. PUNK IS DEAD.

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from Refeeding Syndrome: Ear Candle Productions Remixes Crass, released May 24, 2020

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The Crass Remix Project San Francisco, California

Crass were a punk band that existed from 1977 to 1984, taking the Sex Pistols' flippant ideas about anarchy and transforming it into an ethos that changed the conversation forever. We still have a lot to learn from them. The Crass Remix Project takes the first angry stirrings of Crass and views them through a fresh new lens. Ear Candle Productions now offers it to you for free. ... more

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