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Intro
01:03
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Grow - Anywhere We Want
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Undressed
03:13
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I know the drugs you do
the bands you like
shared a room like a thousand times
still doesn‘t feel that personal
why don‘t i know about your ’secret‘ desires
and guess you know even less about mine
I don‘t know why this is so hard to talk about
but everytime we don‘t e keep embracing the norm
the norm not to share and to assume
that we all act ‚normal‘ normal in the bedroom
that there is no need to talk about
hat we like and hat turns us on
if we even enjoy to have sex at all
what to be sexual even means for us
or if our assigned gender is even our thing
doesn‘t that sound important?
- Linernotes -
I often wish, sexuality and desire in all their different forms would be more of a topic in the punk scene. I feel the lack of talking about how we experiecnce sexuality both limits us in our possibilities to develop a fun sexual identity and subliminally always reinstitutes the normalcy of heterosexuality. That’s a pity, because I feel this is a big and important topic and also see the strong part that community (in a very wide sense community which for example can include yoiur friends, family, role modells, any kind of subculture, and also abstracter forms like an identity you take) plays in forming your own identity. When we exclude sexuality from our topics to speak about( I feel in my part it’s often shyness, and some awkwardness that comes with it, which is something I would really like to change) we also give shitty macho bands the edge of being able to pretend they‘re more open minded concerning this topics because they thematize sexuality in their shitty heteronormative, patriarchic way. This strongly needs to be changed.
The title is inspired is referring to the same named Pansy Division Album, which, also i don‘t identify as gay I find very inspiring in it’s open and explicit way to thematize sexuality.
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3. |
No Defense
02:39
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no defence
different attackers
always the same victims
different ideals
lowest always kill each other
citizens to arms
fight for our way of life
pay the price of yours
the ones who start a war
are never the ones to suffer the most
the victims are not nations or ideas
it’s the people who can‘t afford defence
buy your self defence
- Linernotes -
This is one of our first songs where I was still learning to write songs and looking back it also seems a bit like I use a lot of phrases there. I still feel it’s important to state that in wars mostly poor people are the ones who have to take all the consequences, while others, including us, as our wealth is also bought with weapons, profit from them.
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Dub Europe
02:54
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- Linernotes -
In very wide speaking terms a dub version (I feel it’s more of a rewriting of the song, as we don‘t just remix the orginal recordings) of our songs Pah Europe (Original Song can be found on the EP II and some Compilations). Sadly this topic is more actual than ever. Europe may be a good thing for people who have a citizenship here, but the freedom and wealth ends abruptly at it’s borders and the „protection“ of these borders is payed with literally thousands of lives.
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Oury Yalloh Ermordet Von Deutschen Polizisten
Sie Schaffen eine Taskforce
Das Ziel klar definiert
Die Anwohner haben Angst
Die Deutschen haben Angst
Wir Deutschen haben Angst
Mal wieder völlig ohne Grund
Menschenjagd auf offener Straße
Dadurch soll ich mich sicherer fühlen
ihr tauscht Dealer gegen Schläger
Opfer gegen Täter
Und wenn sie dann ihre Ruhe hätten
Wäre das denn wirklich genug?
Wäre uns das Wirklich genug?
- Linernotes -
This song deals with the simply unbearable situation that is going on in Hamburg for years know: The Harassment of POC mainly around Hafenstraße and Schanzenviertel for the sake of ending the drug dealing around there. This is executed by declaring whole areas of St Pauli as a variation of ‚Gefahrengebiet‘, which allows cops there to raid any persons (what they actually do is only target POCs) in this area and which leads to POC being harassed by police there on a daily basis.
We don‘t see this actions as a working tool against drug dealing there, we don‘t see drug dealing as a main problem in this area ( for example I dont change side when I see drug selling people standing there, but I do with nearly every fucking group of drunk party tourists), we strongly see that these actions are driven by racial hatred and the demands of a small minority moving there who demands the place to be more safe for them. As we all are white we also can‘t escape from being part of the problem, as we can safely move these areas without being harrassed by the police and non white people can‘t. I literally have been running around the area for years with amounts of weed in my pocket for which POC without a legal status here have been arrested for over half a year, while I could be sure, that even if I get caught with it (which is not going to happen, because they only raid non white persons) I don‘t have to bear more consequences than my weed being taken away from me. How can this not be called a racist priviledge I have?
The title is chosen because it is in two ways related to the situation there. First Oury Jalloh is another victim of racist police violence just like the people there. Second the quoted phrase (Oury Jalloh murdered by german cops) is the topic of a feud between left wing/antiracist activists and the hamburg police who steals banners quoting that phrase and even seems to be running around Sternschanze and rip of stickers with that phrase. We stand by these words.and demand murderous police to leave our quarters and leave everyone there alone, and not just make it safer for the needs of middlecalass white people (like us) moving there.
We also don‘t think it would be in anyway enough to just leave the people alone there. Not harrassing them anymore would be only a first step, people need perspectives and the right to work and live here. This demand is nothing we will discuss about!
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6. |
2 + 2 = 161
02:33
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- Linernotes -
At several times I heard faschists use the equation 2 + 2 = 4 as an example for how their view of the world is driven by "gesundem Menschenverstand" which is hard to translate something like a healthy state of mind, but alco includes, that things are obviously true. So from that simple equation they straight change to their conservative views concerning gender, races and so on. This is such a cheap move. Of course 2 + 2 equals 4, but only because humans agreed on the point to use 2 as a special count if things, 4 as another and no one sees a need to change that because it works. This does not apply to more complicated topics like gender, where there is a lot do discuss, and where there are no obvious answers. So when nazis scream 2 + 2 = 4 the only decent answer for us can be 2 + 2 = 161
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7. |
Praktikum Bei Eventim
01:13
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frankenstein your product create a buzz paint a picture
Die große chance endlich unabhängig zu sein
Sell the product on every market
ich liebe meine fans sie zahlen all das
sell the adds fuck your messages
ich arbeite hart ich habe das verdient
do your job you’re just one investment
scheiss auf Straßenmusik elbphilharmonie
scheiss auf den Anspruch
wir fördern den Standort
15 Fuss zwischen dir und mir
Du bedeutest mir sehr viel
Armee bespaßen, Bier verkaufen
Praktikum bei Eventim
- Linernotes -
Don’t believe people who act radical on stage and deal with major companies. They’re just selling an image, because it sells.
If they’re so devoted to anticapitalist ideas, why do they beg big companies to sell their music? if they’re so devoted to diy, why do they work together with the Gema which leads to money being moved from the diy scene to big musicbusiness everytime they play at an autonomous space? if they make music just for the fun of it, why do they pay money to a producer to do all the really interesting stuff for them? if they love their fans so much, why don’t they have a massive problem with securities blocking them? If they’re against gentrification, why do they take funding and let themselves and their art be used to promote a city? If they’re so anti Germany why let they print it’s flag(!) on their “art” because that’s the condition to receive funding.
Yeah, DIY is hard work, but to us it’s worth it. We can let you download our songs for free, we can play at nice places with nice people without having the Gema mooching from us. We write our own songs and let them be recorded by friends.
They can’t. They need to be sponsored by companies they sing against, work for people that don’t care about their ideas of music and can’t even walk around the place peacefully after a gig, because all the rock star shit they need to sell their records makes people go crazy. All that crap just so they can be “professional” artists who get payed for making their art (in our eyes more for advertising beer and gentrification). This is not jealousy, this is pure arrogance
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8. |
Manifest
00:55
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pervers,
auf drogen
linkskriminell
- Linernotes -
in englisch: „perverted, on drugs, left wing criminal“ (sounds fancier in german) That’s how we are. We see perversion as anything that offends right wing religious family people. We are not that and we don‘t want to be like that! But we love and demand consent! We see some drugs being legal, others not as not reasonable in any ways, we belief in emancipatory politics and hate the law. You don‘t like that: Fuck of
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Plant Hamburg, Germany
lowpunk.blogsport.de
plantpunk@gmx.de
we are
anti
- fascism
- racism
- sexism
- homophobia
- transphobia
- patriarchy
- religion,
- gema (german collecting society)
- rockstars
- cops
pro
- anarchism
- diy
- feminism
- free culture
- kink
- weed
- animal rights
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