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Rating: All too often you see my punk-ish reviews posted, I want to clarify that I am not a punk, I don't have a mohawk, I don't have a shaved head, I don't sleep on the streets with a dog, and I don't have my dad's credit card. Often the term hardcore punk (old school) seems to describe music for a few, for a tight circle of people, many will wonder why listen to so much noise, many (especially today's "metalheads") are afraid to approach the genre for fear of divine punishment.
Despite listening to everything, I appreciate Hardcore punk for three simple reasons: simplicity, relevance, and anger; the perfect description for Abrasive Wheels.
I don't want to exaggerate, but I don't think that more than four chords were touched for each song on this album, yet when the record starts, and Shonna begins to shout, I am comforted by the fact that I'm not the only one who's pissed off. Despite the line of nitpickers ready to note the first mistake (they've always existed), Abrasive Wheels continue to smash, actually, destroy their instruments, shouting their heads off and not caring if they were too similar to the Varukers or if their themes had been said over and over by other bands. When I hear "Voice of Youth" I laugh out loud, I'm happy to hear the fury of four unruly Brits who scream into the microphones unaware of the big sound chaos they were recording. That's the beauty of this music, being able to experience simple emotions with the listening of a blunder, an off-beat, and a bad yet honest recording.
It would be out of place to dwell on the musical part since the guitar does nothing extraordinary, as well as the drummer and bassist. Everything revolves around the vocal part, but be careful, I don't want to be misunderstood, it's also of an unprecedented simplicity, but with its hoarse, breathless, and gritty tone it manages to set up that little (Misunderstood? Underrated?) phenomenon that Abrasive Wheels were.
And so, with little gems like "Vicious Circe", "1982", and "Burn'em Down", the album concludes in the best of ways. Just another punk band, as they themselves say, OK, just another punk band that I can recommend to all lovers of the genre.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Vicious Circle (02:32)
Forgotten youth just waste away
Sniffing glue to face the day
Walking streets signing on
Government schemes go on and on
[Chorus]
It's no use!
It's no use!
It's no use!
Round and round I'm upside down
I try to get up, you kick me down
Vicious circle there's no hope
Around my neck your like a rope
[Chorus]
It's no use!
It's no use!
It's no use!!!
Staticians, politicians you feed us crap
We're all caught up in a rat trap
Rigmarole on the dole
Am I alive? I don't know
[Chorus]
It's no use!
It's no use!
It's no use!!!
09 Burn 'em Down (02:38)
sitting in a classroom looking into the sky
what am I doing here I dont know why
filling my head with history
when none of it makes any sense to me
kids dont care about books or rules
all they wanna do is burn the schools
kids dont care about books or rules
all they wanna do is burn the schools
burn burn burn em down
burn burn burn em down
burn burn burn em down
burn burn
what do you learn when youre at school
only to be everybodys fool
teaching us the way to sign
a wasted generation oh what a crime
kids dont care about books or rules
all they wanna do is burn the schools
kids dont care about books or rules
all they wanna do is burn the schools
burn burn burn em down
burn burn burn em down
burn burn burn em down
burn burn
and now from the classroom they've taken our hope
eleven years of learning and I cant cope
useless facts and figures in my mind
but they never taught me of what id find
kids dont care about books or rules
all they wanna do is burn the schools
kids dont care about books or rules
all they wanna do is burn the schools
burn burn burn em down
burn burn burn em down
gonna burn burn burn em down
gonna burn burn
13 Attack (02:16)
The Russians are coming back
The world is black
You better get ready
For a nuclear attack
Atom bombs falling
From the sky
Does it have to be this way
That I die
[Chorus]
Attack, Attack, the world is black
Attack, Attack, a nuclear attack
Attack, Attack,nuclear warfare on you!
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