What's Your Favorite Anti-Reagan Hardcore Song From The '80s?

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"Dropping bombs on the White House" by The Style Council.

Not very subtle, but then compared to The Crucifux..."dropping bombs" is in some circles also an expression for hip jazz drumming.

Not sure if I would like the track today, but anything against the star wars madman was good.

"Two tribes" by Frankie goes to Hollywood was not as good as "Relax", but then political hymns are seldom very good really, as songs.

One exception - at the time, it may sound very dated now - is "We don't need this fascist groove thang" by Heaven 17.

― Martin Theander, Monday, 7 June 2004 11:55 (nineteen years ago) link

I can't find an image of it online, but A.P.P.L.E.'s "A Sensitive Fascist Is Very Rare" EP features Reagan on the cover (as the not-so-sensitive fascist, I guess).

I wonder how Jello Biafra and Winston Smith are taking Reagan's death.

― mike a, Monday, 7 June 2004 13:12 (nineteen years ago) link

It's like, did '80s hardcore bands not think about how dated their anti-Reagan songs would be just a few years later? Maybe today's politically-minded punks have learned that lesson. You just don't see GWB turn up in as many songs or album covers.

― mike a, Monday, 7 June 2004 13:15 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh for god's sake - that's nowhere near the point. The *vast* majority of the 80s hardcore bands were putting out records for, effectively, the sake of putting it out, and for capturing a moment in time (as in, 20 hours or so in a studio). If they'd stopped to think about whether their lyrical stance would have been "dated" (which is hardly a bad thing anyway in this context) then half the point would have been completely lost.

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Monday, 7 June 2004 14:07 (nineteen years ago) link

As for why there's less anti-Bush punk rock at the moment, I guess it's partly because the genre is no longer political by design, but lyric writers strike me as more jaded now - perhaps explicitly anti-government songs are seen as redundant? As opposed to the actual performers being apolitical

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Monday, 7 June 2004 14:10 (nineteen years ago) link

Day Glo Abortions - "Ronald McRaygun"

I'm Ronald McRaygun
McDeath McNuclear McWar
McCommies McFear McMe
'cuz I'm McDangerously McCrazy

― Ben, Monday, 7 June 2004 16:34 (nineteen years ago) link

public enemy - rebel without a pause (1988)

"impeach the president/i'm pulling out the raygun"

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 7 June 2004 16:57 (nineteen years ago) link

There is probably a lot of political punk out there, judging from the zines I look at. But it seems people are too afraid to be tasteless now, and a lot of the anti-Reagan stuff was tasteless, insulting, and fun. I think nowadays people are expected to write dreary college term papers set to music.

― Kerry (dymaxia), Monday, 7 June 2004 17:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Ummm...."Bonzo goes to Bitburg"

― kwhitehead (stephen schmidt), Monday, 7 June 2004 19:31 (nineteen years ago) link

'Could that possibly have something to do with today's alledgedly "punk / hardcore" bands having about as much to say politically as our cat?'

http://img71.photobucket.com/albums/v216/sexymollusk/DSC00370.jpg

"You don't think I have something to say? Down with Bush!"

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 7 June 2004 20:11 (nineteen years ago) link

But that's not our cat!

Our cat voted for New Labour - stupid feline.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 07:20 (nineteen years ago) link

My boyfriend chose "Reagan" as his confirmation name. 1986. We have a video of the bishop chuckling as he heard Kevin's chosen saint name.
kevin is, of course, very upset at this time and would like to be alone to remember his "saint" in his own way.

― aimurchie, Tuesday, 8 June 2004 16:49 (nineteen years ago) link

You are the sons of Reagan ...Heil!
You're gonna kill some pagans ...Heil!
The right's your sacred mission
You'll start an inquisition
You're gonna purge the heathen kind?

You are Reagan Youth! ...Heil! Heil! Heil!
Reagan Youth ...Seig Heil!

You are the sons of Reagan ...Heil!
You are the godforsaken ...Heil!
The right is your religion
You watch television
It programs your programmed minds

You are the sons of Reagan ...Heil!
You are the unawakened ...Heil!
You wnat another war
Forward to El Salvador!
Die to kill a communist?

You are Reagan Youth! ...Heil! Heil! Heil!
Reagan Youth! ...Seig Heil!

Don't be fooled!

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 17:15 (nineteen years ago) link

Favorite pro-Regan metal song is obviously Possessed's "The Exorcist":

http://gornjastubica.com/zbrdazdola/film/slike/exorcist_linda_2.jpg

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 17:17 (nineteen years ago) link

Circle Jerks - "Stars and Stripes"

"Ha ha ha, you're all gonna die, and you voted for that guy"

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 17:58 (nineteen years ago) link

two years pass...

The NRO gets to grips with that Straight Edge the kids are into lately.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 2 October 2006 19:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Minor Threat managed to sound like the Sex Pistols and Nancy Reagan at the same time — a remarkable, if very strange, achievement.

gah. shows a great understanding of the DC hardcore scene!!

― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 2 October 2006 19:44 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm going to vote for The Zero Boy's "Civilization's Dying", although it just references Reagan getting shot.

"With the Pope
And the president
And the big rockstar who made alot of money
All got one thing in common
They know it ain't no fun to get shot with a gun"

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 03:15 (seventeen years ago) link

not hardcore or from the 80's, but there's the sonic youth song "youth against fascism" that was released when clinton was beginning his first term. the song applies to a lot of recent presidents and it's probably about bush sr., but i always think of reagan. yeah the president sucks, he's a war pig fuck, this shit is out of luck.

― Godfrzej Ljang (godfrzej), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 05:10 (seventeen years ago) link

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