After hearing "I can hear you laughing" , my six year old son started singing "I hate you dolphin, I hate you dolphin" :D (we live in a non-english speaking country, so that's just what he heard).
Fucking great music! I am an old fart now because I can remember the week this vinyl came out. Punk like punk should be, unadjusted, honest and free. The Mob had given me what I needed during that time.
I remember being at some demo in London '82 with all us people from the Centro Iberico etc and the word was out that The Mob were gonna be playing outside on the South Bank so we all hoofed it over there. It was a lovely sunny day but as soon as we all got there The Mob started playing this song and it instantly got all cloudy and started pissing down with rain and became sooo depressing. This song will always remind me of that day 😉
the Mob & Zounds were always my fave's This still sounds amazing after all these years i still have everything they did on vinyl = Only way to own / Hear them
i was 16 when this came out i am 53 now ,it sounds better now then it did when i was just a young lad ,i remember my parents telling me when i get older i will not like the music i love when i was 16 ,fucking idiots ,i love even more compared to the fucking utter shite that is available now
Penny Rimbaud is listed as a producer on this. Was reading that he apparently added his own synth bits to No Doves Fly Here that the band originally didn't agree with but they eventually accepted it. I think it's used to great effect, so it's good it was kept.
The sky is empty and it's turning different shades of colour, It never did before and we never asked for war. My mind is empty and my body different shapes of torture, It never was before and we never asked for war. No-one is moving and no doves fly here, No-one is thinking and no doves fly here, No-one remembers beyond all this fear, No doves fly here The buildings are empty and the countryside is wasteland, It never was before and we never asked for war. The playgrounds are empty and the children limbless corpses, They never were before and they never asked for war. No-one is moving and no doves fly here, No-one is thinking and no doves fly here, No-one remembers beyond all this fear. No doves fly here
@@geoff1706 I hear you praying With your hands clasped over your chest I hear men slaying While they say "keep doing your best" I hear the laughter of someone up above Who's playing games in the name of love I hear you laughing x4 I see people dying In the blood and the dust And the gunshots Of vicious murderous lust I feel the sunshine as it heats up my blood I feel it burning like my hate if I could I hear you laughing x4 I hear the silence of a kid's suicide Who couldn't find any place he could hide I hear you laughing x4 I hear thе chang ring As it hits your steel tills And all the loving You save for your dollar bills I hear my hеart beat as I talk to myself I'm just statistics to help you add to your wealth I hear you laughing x4 You hear me laughing!!
This is mostly the Mob but also kind of a Penny Rimbaud collaboration with them as Penny added some things to it after Mob recorded it, much to their surprise. It worked. Amazing record.
All three the adults lost their jobs in February 1983. Selling shit to second hand shops. Signing on. Penny-pinching shitedom. Fighting with your dad because you are both male and seeing eachother twenty fucking four fucking seven. But not really fighting. I loved that man. Yep it was fucking depressing. Fucking fuck off.
Bought loads of singles on CRASS records cos they were affordable.this is how i heard this brilliant single inc its B side.peace and love to all anti war people.WAR can never be won.xxxxc
Of course it can. USA & UK win it every day. The arms sales prove war can be "won". Wealth beyond belief. That would equal "winning" to the majority of people on this planet. War cannot be won? It was in WW1 & WW2 the reparations were wealth beyond belief. Vapid comment.
anyone out there who saw The Mob at the Centro Iberico in 1984, Flux were supposed to play but didn't show, my band Product of Reason played...I am just looking for anyone who was there can confirm it was The Mob? For some reason I have it in my head that Here and Now played that bill too but it was a long, long time ago.
I was a regular at the Centro. I loved Here & Now back then but don't remember ever seeing them at the Centro. But like you say mate.....a long time ago now ;) Be happy.
@@richardrandomk I think I'd stopped going to the Centro by '84 though now I think about it Richard mate. '82 was my sort of Centro Iberico era. I got fucked off with the "I'm more of an anarchist than you" attitude of a lot of people.
@@hopebgood Haha, that probably happened in lots of ways, all over the country, right? So, interestingly I now know it was '83 and the reason I know is because your reply spurred me on to go looking for other gigs we played that week we were in London. I searched for Meanwhile Gardens concerts 80's as I know we played there too. Lo and behold I found this link in which the poster mentions Protag looking after the PA for that day. Protag was Martin Neish who was in the Instant Automatons and one of my mentors, alnog with his bamnd mate Mark Automaton who I am makling an album with now! Nice resolution, eh? Thanks for your part in this matey! ua-cam.com/video/B6uXuTj0G1Y/v-deo.html
@@richardrandomk Now this might get even weirder! A few days ago I was talking to someone about seeing Here & Now at the Meanwhile Gardens in late summer of 83. I think it must have been this gig. ua-cam.com/video/NZVmUWRQIJA/v-deo.html but cos it was so long ago (and I've only just searched that vid link and not fully watched it yet) I don't actually remember any other bands that day. BUT....maybe I saw you play that day!
love your swastikas,so few people know that it was indian at first and that the nazi stole it but it seems you do. great to see I'm not the only one with culture...
Crass were fucking amazing live. The best time I ever saw 'em was at the 100 Club, London 1980 or 81. Poison Girls and Flux of Pink Indians supporting. I saw The Mob a few times and remember the guitarist having to re-tune the bassists guitar for him between songs. Awh! I dunno if I ever saw Rudimentary Peni (probably) but I had a mate who was mates with the vocalist who I seem to remember died of testicular cancer around that time. (btw my personal live faves of that time were Crass, Poison Girls, Rubella Ballet and Dirt.)
@@hopebgood I saw dirt a couple of Times an old mate did a European tour with them with the band hellkrusher I was ment to go with them as a roady but I got abit fucked up on shit so my brother went instead.still regret that alot . I think conflict where probably the best punk band I've seen live
I was pretty good mates with Colin, Big John and particularly Paco from Conflict. Mainly cos we all lived near each other in SE London and I stood at the front of the stage at one of their first gigs at The Red Lion in Gravesend about 1981 and sang along with Colin while a crowd of skinheads threatened ...trouble! Pete from Crass was there too and being a twatty 16 year old I gave him a copy of the fanzine I did at the time which just happened to have an interview I'd done with him a few months before. Nowadays I look back at that and just fucking cringe!
@@hopebgood probably done alot of cringey things when young I know I did but it was a great time really gigs every couple of weeks . I was a drummer in a band I did 1 gig supposed to be supporting disorder but thay never turned up so supported uproar instead then I got kicked out for being shit. just discovered an American punk band called conflict that brought out an album in 83.
Only ONE of 2 Tattoos on my Body, Fucking this and "Let the tribe increase" used to get me upset with the World, and Conflict brought out the Violence in me and remember Smashing the Biology Lab to pieces at Leeds University which led to Riots, But Still listen to this the old stuff by them ❤️
I forgot how great this song is.I remember when I first heard this there were parts that reminded me of the mellower parts from The Jams 'Butterfly Collector.It's also very similar in tone and pace to Bauhaus 'Hollow Hills'.
have you read ''the last hippy'' by Crass?you would understand that their point of view was far from peace and love,it was more like:they're deaf to love then let's use evrything we can to make sure they get our point.I think you forget what activist really mean...and it led to conflict and more aggressive bands.To destroy the system you don't have to be pacifist but there's no point in blindly destroying other people.
@@hopebgood most of the leb I've had was a yellow sandy colour it was normally wrapped in a red plastic when it came over . I can't ever remember seeing red leb maybe someone might know different
@@davidmc3262 Funny I'm reading the comments on my own song (as you do) and have some info on this question :-)... Red leb was very rare but i had some once. It was soft like black hash and very strong - but dark red in colour. Everything else i ever saw referred to as red leb, was a sandy light yellowy green in colour and wrapped in white cloth. I actually got a chance to try some Leb again about 10 years ago whilst in Egypt... I dont know why you never see it in England anymore.
I hear you praying With your hands clasped over your chest I hear men slaying While they say "keep doing your best" I hear the laughter of someone up above Who's playing games in the name of love I hear you laughing x4 I see people dying In the blood and the dust And the gunshots Of vicious murderous lust I feel the sunshine as it heats up my blood I feel it burning like my hate if I could I hear you laughing x4 I hear the silence of a kid's suicide Who couldn't find any place he could hide I hear you laughing x4 I hear thе chang ring As it hits your steel tills And all the loving You save for your dollar bills I hear my hеart beat as I talk to myself I'm just statistics to help you add to your wealth I hear you laughing x4 You hear me laughing!!
Unfinished joke: Something like, "The opposite of 'the bom.'" It's actually a pretty good EP. But damn, the Mob from NY were a whole lot more hardcore.
while i cant help liking this one of my favourite bands i could never buy into the hippy bullshit that surrounded most of the anarcho bands punk was not about peace loving more about glamorous fun genx clash chelsea models boys etc were better
From French atmosphère, from New Latin atmosphaera, from Ancient Greek ἀτμός (atmós, “steam”) + Ancient Greek σφαῖρα (sphaîra, “sphere”); corresponding to atmo- + -sphere
Any bands coming through dallas tx, i throw DIY shows in abandoned places. Lets make a scene like this happen again. IG@TheGlueYouCantSniff Also..if anybody would like to make music like this over the internet, shoot me a message.
After hearing "I can hear you laughing" , my six year old son started singing "I hate you dolphin, I hate you dolphin" :D (we live in a non-english speaking country, so that's just what he heard).
Lol that's funny XD "I hate you dolphin"
Only singing alone this way now on, yer kid is hilarious.
Fucking great music! I am an old fart now because I can remember the week this vinyl came out. Punk like punk should be, unadjusted, honest and free. The Mob had given me what I needed during that time.
Me too. I still have this.
Much love x
I remember hearing this on some evening radio station when it came out, a very moving song. I still have the 7” vinyl.
This song still gives me chills.
me too
In the world we live in currently, these lyrics are still as appropriate sadly.
This EP always make me cry.
same
I remember being at some demo in London '82 with all us people from the Centro Iberico etc and the word was out that The Mob were gonna be playing outside on the South Bank so we all hoofed it over there. It was a lovely sunny day but as soon as we all got there The Mob started playing this song and it instantly got all cloudy and started pissing down with rain and became sooo depressing. This song will always remind me of that day 😉
the Mob & Zounds were always my fave's This still sounds amazing after all these years i still have everything they did on vinyl = Only way to own / Hear them
My two favourite bands too The politics influenced me to get involved with the anarchist movement Love em both HEAPS
daaaaaaaaaaamn right !
True
i was 16 when this came out i am 53 now ,it sounds better now then it did when i was just a young lad ,i remember my parents telling me when i get older i will not like the music i love when i was 16 ,fucking idiots ,i love even more compared to the fucking utter shite that is available now
1000% cool, 51 yr old oldschool 80's punker and i love this raw stuff , never gets old , talk soon > tom !
I'm 74 and I still love this! It's definitely relevant today!
i love crass bands
gosh, how I love this kind of basslines from late 1970's
I've never heard this before today ! Thank you for this today!
Chilling how well this song resonates with the current global situation..
Penny Rimbaud is listed as a producer on this. Was reading that he apparently added his own synth bits to No Doves Fly Here that the band originally didn't agree with but they eventually accepted it. I think it's used to great effect, so it's good it was kept.
All I can say to that is nice one Penny
The sky is empty and it's turning different shades of colour,
It never did before and we never asked for war.
My mind is empty and my body different shapes of torture,
It never was before and we never asked for war.
No-one is moving and no doves fly here,
No-one is thinking and no doves fly here,
No-one remembers beyond all this fear,
No doves fly here
The buildings are empty and the countryside is wasteland,
It never was before and we never asked for war.
The playgrounds are empty and the children limbless corpses,
They never were before and they never asked for war.
No-one is moving and no doves fly here,
No-one is thinking and no doves fly here,
No-one remembers beyond all this fear.
No doves fly here
thank you man
@@geoff1706 I hear you praying
With your hands clasped over your chest
I hear men slaying
While they say "keep doing your best"
I hear the laughter of someone up above
Who's playing games in the name of love
I hear you laughing x4
I see people dying
In the blood and the dust
And the gunshots
Of vicious murderous lust
I feel the sunshine as it heats up my blood
I feel it burning like my hate if I could
I hear you laughing x4
I hear the silence of a kid's suicide
Who couldn't find any place he could hide
I hear you laughing x4
I hear thе chang ring
As it hits your steel tills
And all the loving
You save for your dollar bills
I hear my hеart beat as I talk to myself
I'm just statistics to help you add to your wealth
I hear you laughing x4
You hear me laughing!!
i just love anything anarcho. it speaks to me
U know nothing
@@chrishibbs8349 why? Because she doesn't look like you?..
@@chrishibbs8349 gatekeep much?
And you have demonstrated your ignorance by thinking you do.
This is mostly the Mob but also kind of a Penny Rimbaud collaboration with them as Penny added some things to it after Mob recorded it, much to their surprise. It worked. Amazing record.
thanks for the upload, i smoke to this song everyday, it really provokes the thoughts
Weren't we a optimistic bunch in the early 80's..?
And 90% of anarcho punk lyrics were prophecy,
weren't we tho' and acid house gave us more but look at us fucked up now. Everything gets commercialised, even hope.
Mate, that cuts to the bone it's so true.
All three the adults lost their jobs in February 1983. Selling shit to second hand shops. Signing on. Penny-pinching shitedom. Fighting with your dad because you are both male and seeing eachother twenty fucking four fucking seven.
But not really fighting. I loved that man. Yep it was fucking depressing.
Fucking fuck off.
No one remembers beyond all this fear//no doves fly here
I hear you laaaauugghhingg..👊
long live all punk!!
Awesome sound
aye, different bands for different music. i like em both personally but the uk mob always got me more.
Love.
Bought loads of singles on CRASS records cos they were affordable.this is how i heard this brilliant single inc its B side.peace and love to all anti war people.WAR can never be won.xxxxc
Of course it can. USA & UK win it every day. The arms sales prove war can be "won".
Wealth beyond belief. That would equal "winning" to the majority of people on this planet.
War cannot be won?
It was in WW1 & WW2 the reparations were wealth beyond belief. Vapid comment.
Siberia loves you
just petfect whole album just petfect.
grate band good to see them giging again, wot a infulance thay were , exerlent band
Great band, good to see them gigging again. What an influence they were. Excellent band.
anyone out there who saw The Mob at the Centro Iberico in 1984, Flux were supposed to play but didn't show, my band Product of Reason played...I am just looking for anyone who was there can confirm it was The Mob? For some reason I have it in my head that Here and Now played that bill too but it was a long, long time ago.
I was a regular at the Centro. I loved Here & Now back then but don't remember ever seeing them at the Centro. But like you say mate.....a long time ago now ;) Be happy.
Si Hopebgood cheers mate, appreciate the response. Stay well
@@richardrandomk I think I'd stopped going to the Centro by '84 though now I think about it Richard mate. '82 was my sort of Centro Iberico era. I got fucked off with the "I'm more of an anarchist than you" attitude of a lot of people.
@@hopebgood Haha, that probably happened in lots of ways, all over the country, right? So, interestingly I now know it was '83 and the reason I know is because your reply spurred me on to go looking for other gigs we played that week we were in London. I searched for Meanwhile Gardens concerts 80's as I know we played there too. Lo and behold I found this link in which the poster mentions Protag looking after the PA for that day. Protag was Martin Neish who was in the Instant Automatons and one of my mentors, alnog with his bamnd mate Mark Automaton who I am makling an album with now! Nice resolution, eh? Thanks for your part in this matey! ua-cam.com/video/B6uXuTj0G1Y/v-deo.html
@@richardrandomk Now this might get even weirder! A few days ago I was talking to someone about seeing Here & Now at the Meanwhile Gardens in late summer of 83. I think it must have been this gig. ua-cam.com/video/NZVmUWRQIJA/v-deo.html but cos it was so long ago (and I've only just searched that vid link and not fully watched it yet) I don't actually remember any other bands that day. BUT....maybe I saw you play that day!
now....i cry.
love your swastikas,so few people know that it was indian at first and that the nazi stole it but it seems you do. great to see I'm not the only one with culture...
joel25761 idiot
+joel25761 it was a Buddhist symbol and that's his profile pic
that is what I was talking bout tou paranoid people
joel is right the nazism logo has 12.000 years and it was used before Hitler
I saw a lot of punk bands live but my 3 favourites the mob, crass and rudimentary peni I never got to see . It really pissed me off
Crass were fucking amazing live. The best time I ever saw 'em was at the 100 Club, London 1980 or 81. Poison Girls and Flux of Pink Indians supporting.
I saw The Mob a few times and remember the guitarist having to re-tune the bassists guitar for him between songs. Awh! I dunno if I ever saw Rudimentary Peni (probably) but I had a mate who was mates with the vocalist who I seem to remember died of testicular cancer around that time.
(btw my personal live faves of that time were Crass, Poison Girls, Rubella Ballet and Dirt.)
@@hopebgood I saw dirt a couple of Times an old mate did a European tour with them with the band hellkrusher I was ment to go with them as a roady but I got abit fucked up on shit so my brother went instead.still regret that alot . I think conflict where probably the best punk band I've seen live
I was pretty good mates with Colin, Big John and particularly Paco from Conflict. Mainly cos we all lived near each other in SE London and I stood at the front of the stage at one of their first gigs at The Red Lion in Gravesend about 1981 and sang along with Colin while a crowd of skinheads threatened ...trouble! Pete from Crass was there too and being a twatty 16 year old I gave him a copy of the fanzine I did at the time which just happened to have an interview I'd done with him a few months before. Nowadays I look back at that and just fucking cringe!
@@hopebgood probably done alot of cringey things when young I know I did but it was a great time really gigs every couple of weeks . I was a drummer in a band I did 1 gig supposed to be supporting disorder but thay never turned up so supported uproar instead then I got kicked out for being shit. just discovered an American punk band called conflict that brought out an album in 83.
@@davidmc3262 Rubella Ballet were fun! ua-cam.com/video/bSW7Htd0GIg/v-deo.html
first listen n i like
Only ONE of 2 Tattoos on my Body, Fucking this and "Let the tribe increase" used to get me upset with the World, and Conflict brought out the Violence in me and remember Smashing the Biology Lab to pieces at Leeds University which led to Riots, But Still listen to this the old stuff by them ❤️
The one who doesn't like this masterpiece, I'm sorry, doesn't understand anything about XIX century music! ☠️☠️☠️
I forgot how great this song is.I remember when I first heard this there were parts that reminded me of the mellower parts from The Jams 'Butterfly Collector.It's also very similar in tone and pace to Bauhaus 'Hollow Hills'.
Well said mr mananan ...very true !
great memories tho
rrrrrrraaaddiiiiooooooooo ssscchhhhiiiiizzzoooooooo !!!!!
john rimbaud rudimentary peni is amazing
Duck and cover ,duck and cover ...they scared us in to submission.
Fucking AWSOME😎👍💯🔥
en FRANCE aussi on est anarcho punk..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
super !
Doom with post punk,excellent band
mischief brew brought me here!
"Let them eat Valium."
The u.s. band by the same name was not from new york. They made a name there but they were from Chicago originally.
decapitate state your not talking about. The 80nyhc hardcore band , pretty sure they were from queens
fun fact if you play this song in reverse it sounds exactly the fucking same
have you read ''the last hippy'' by Crass?you would understand that their point of view was far from peace and love,it was more like:they're deaf to love then let's use evrything we can to make sure they get our point.I think you forget what activist really mean...and it led to conflict and more aggressive bands.To destroy the system you don't have to be pacifist but there's no point in blindly destroying other people.
I know there is love?
shutcho ass up lil nigguh
the music is top notch from them anarcho bands n always will be dammit!
✊
kinda reminds me of the theme from Bully
Heard hype on this since the early 80's when it was impossible to find, doesn't quite live up to it.
The Witch Hunt EP blows this out of the water.
I'll stand forward throw darts ill bring rewards ❤
me and my best mate got drunk , i had some black leb and we smoked it, i put this track on and he puked every where. my mum went mental.,.,.,..,.....
Black leb! heh heh
Don't think you can get black leb Moroccan black or Lebanese fluffy stuff .black knocks you out leb is mellow
@@davidmc3262 Ohhh yeah! You're totally right mate....it's RED leb isn't it?
@@hopebgood most of the leb I've had was a yellow sandy colour it was normally wrapped in a red plastic when it came over . I can't ever remember seeing red leb maybe someone might know different
@@davidmc3262 Funny I'm reading the comments on my own song (as you do) and have some info on this question :-)... Red leb was very rare but i had some once. It was soft like black hash and very strong - but dark red in colour. Everything else i ever saw referred to as red leb, was a sandy light yellowy green in colour and wrapped in white cloth. I actually got a chance to try some Leb again about 10 years ago whilst in Egypt... I dont know why you never see it in England anymore.
I hear you praying
With your hands clasped over your chest
I hear men slaying
While they say "keep doing your best"
I hear the laughter of someone up above
Who's playing games in the name of love
I hear you laughing x4
I see people dying
In the blood and the dust
And the gunshots
Of vicious murderous lust
I feel the sunshine as it heats up my blood
I feel it burning like my hate if I could
I hear you laughing x4
I hear the silence of a kid's suicide
Who couldn't find any place he could hide
I hear you laughing x4
I hear thе chang ring
As it hits your steel tills
And all the loving
You save for your dollar bills
I hear my hеart beat as I talk to myself
I'm just statistics to help you add to your wealth
I hear you laughing x4
You hear me laughing!!
Me and my partner been trying to trace the album art back to the origins anyone know anything about it?
According to discogs the artist is Steve Batty
encore le 45
i can die now :(
in whose opinion?
in whose opinion
I hear the Tardis (de)materializing at 1:12 and 1:22
Now I can't unhear it.
@ZLUGGO i prefer contemplative to boring, Anarchists are no more or less poxy and tedious than any one else
i've come across. Peace!
brillyant
Brilliant
What the heehee hell is happening here?? Set a spell...take your shoes off 🃏👻
I PRAY no idiots try some 'Dubstep' shite. This isn't the best musicianship etc, but the words mean something.....
+Largactyl Kid Agreed.
@ZLUGGO Dont listen then! Suppose wars a good thing for you? Go join the army then!:)
I wish this song were mixed better.
Oh, im cool, im gonna listen music and call it anti music, im so cool
For Ukraine!
Please Listen also to: " Beton Kyiv calling". Glory To The Heroes. Slava Ukraine.
@stevobath
I' m a pacifist.
Unfinished joke: Something like, "The opposite of 'the bom.'"
It's actually a pretty good EP. But damn, the Mob from NY were a whole lot more hardcore.
while i cant help liking this one of my favourite bands i could never buy into the hippy bullshit that surrounded most of the anarcho bands punk was not about peace loving more about glamorous fun genx clash chelsea models boys etc were better
John Waddell the clash really political not a great example
punk is not in dubstep, fool you making shit up. PUNK IS NOT IN DUBSTEP!
Why do all Anarcho punk songs always have long stupid intros?
They used to drag 'em out in an attempt to repel stupid fuckers like you from listening all the way through.
Yeah, whatever. Poser.
Justin Espinoza one who calls others "posers" is generally one themselves. Just saying.
From French atmosphère, from New Latin atmosphaera, from Ancient Greek ἀτμός (atmós, “steam”) + Ancient Greek σφαῖρα (sphaîra, “sphere”); corresponding to atmo- + -sphere
Don't ruin it x
Any bands coming through dallas tx, i throw DIY shows in abandoned places. Lets make a scene like this happen again.
IG@TheGlueYouCantSniff
Also..if anybody would like to make music like this over the internet, shoot me a message.