Punk is back.

Punk is back...not that it really went anywhere. Ever get sick of so-called "punk" bands singing about, oh, I don't know, prom and streets and every bit of random nonsense in-between? I am. Chock it up to being more about the image than the message or spirit of the music. Chock it up to the MTV phenomena. Chock it up to corporate greed. Chock it up to a lack of passion. Chock it up to whatever...

At any rate, here are some lyrics by a band called Juicehead (off of Misfits Records). This is the kind of railing against the status quo that got me into punk to begin with, a dissatisfaction with the way things are, a rebellion against the crap that most people just bend over and take, a realization that things can get better if you'll actually do something about it...

Open Sore by Juicehead

It seems to me there's new curriculum
Without a balanced equilibrium
What ever happened to the way things were
It's all a blur, no medium
Idiocy is the prerequisite
When MTV has got their hands in it
Abomination, a god awful shame
Mass media

Is that how it's gonna be
All I see is mental truancy
They're not as clever as they seem
It's all the same to me
No new philosophy is seen

You never question what they feed to you
Like asking blind people to see for you
You wear a barcode, but you wear it well
The likes they sell, you're buying them
The corporation's got it all worked out
Keep you sedated, keep you nailed down
Substance cannot defeat the dollar bill
A platform built on tedium

Is that how it's gonna be
All I see is mental truancy
They're not as clever as they seem
It's all the same to me
No new philosophy is seen

Salt on an open sore
It's hard to feel much more
What's easy
Standards receding
With sights set on the green
Can't call that music clean
It's sleazy
Heartless and greedy

You built it up to tear it down
You built it up to tear it down
You built it up to tear it down