Newtown Neurotics - "The Mess"(1983)
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- Опубліковано 7 жов 2010
- Yet another one of the most underrated UK punk bands of all time. Brilliant song writing and brilliant/intelligent lyrics miles above many more well known Punk bands. This classic is from their first album, "Beggars Can Be Choosers"(1983). "As The Newtown Neurotics, the band began their career playing punk heavily indebted stylistically to The Clash and The Ramones. Over the course of the 1980s, the band dropped the "Newtown" from its name and simply became The Neurotics; along with the name change came a stylistic broadening, including slower tempos and horn arrangements. They released several albums on noted UK postpunk label Jungle Records. Lead singer and guitarist Steve Drewett took openly socialist stances in his lyrics throughout the course of the band's career and currently displays an anarcho-syndicalist sticker on his guitar."
God.... I love this song .it just puts me in such a great mood and place.... And when you blast this song it just amazing!!
Finding anything by these guys was so damn hard before the internet, I remember just having a song here and a song there on different compilation cds. LOVE these guys
I found this after watching a Black Flag concert where Rollins dedicates a song to them and calls them a, "fucking great band." He wasn't lying. I can't believe I've never heard this before.
Nu Six I have that same Black Flag concert on VHS. It's the one where Rollins reads a bit from Henry Miller in the beginning. I saw Black Flag several times around that time. Amazing.
I love this record.
I WAS 1 YEAR OLD WHEN THIS ALBUM CAME OUT. HOW DID THEY KNOW HOW MY LIFE WOULD END UP?
Absolute brilliance . i love this song.
Nostalgia Nostalgia
My first band used to cover this song in the 80s. Even in the punk scene in the U.S., few people had heard of the Neurotics. I wrote to Steve Drewett back then proposing that they tour the U.S. with us (we were also a trio), but it never panned out.
How bout the cover of Solitary Confinement by the Members and changed it to Living on Unployment! Either way, both bands rocked that song!
Saw them with Attila the Stockbroker in Lübeck (85 or 86), brilliant.
I bought this in 83 and had to get it again in 86 because i wore it out.
Just bought this record today on a record fair. Never heard of them, but decided based on the year and the cover. I certainly was'nt disappointed! Great record.
The Mess.
Saturday night smashed out of my brains
laying on the floor looking really intelligent
oh what's news I hear you say
all of my dreams have gone down the drain
It just goes to show I wasn't paying attention
things just worsened day by day
in every way.
Chorus:
oh, oh look at me
I'm as hip as i can be
I'm wasted, just look at the mess I am in.
Spent half of the night walking the streets
looking for a party that never existed
every week is just the same
well we talked about s** but never of love
we bragged about girls with which we'd had fun
oh but the thing that's really sad
we never had.
Chorus:
I was brilliant at school but not in exams
my teachers they could not understand
how five years work went to the wall
and then I got into trouble 'cos I got in the way
when things went wrong, well I got the blame
I was Idle through no fault of my own
none of my own.
Chorus:
oh, look at me no-one 'round here wants me
I'm wasted just look at the mess I am in.
Down there, they are laughing at you
down there, it is you who's gonna get screwed
down there, they will walk all over you
down there, down there, down there.
Colin Dredd RIP.
Brilliant!
Sorry Mac, good to here there still going hard then.
Listen.
Do you always exist?
+The Fab No, I'd say I only exist about 50% of the time.
Great band, should of stayed playing Punk & not sold out.
ACK They never sold out, and they STILL play punk to this day.
ACK dumbass they didn't sell out, they altered the name of their band, colossal difference.
El desastre.
La noche de sábado aplasto mi cerebro
tirado en el piso, luciendo realmente inteligente
oh, cuales son las noticias te escucho decir
todos mis sueños se han ido por el caño
esto sólo demuestra que no prestaba atención
las cosas empeoraron cada día en cada sentido
oh, oh mírame soy tan bacán como puedo
estoy raja, sólo mira el desorden en que estoy
una noche perdida caminando por las calles
buscando una fiesta que ni siquiera existía
cada semana es lo mismo
bueno, hablamos acerca de sexo, pero nunca de amor
nos carrileamos sobre las minas con que pudimos divertimos
oh, pero lo realmente patético
es que no hubiéramos tenido la oportunidad
fui brillante en la escuela pero no en los exámenes
mis profes no podían entender
como esos cuatro a años se fueron al carajo
y entonces me metí en problemas
porque me atravesé en el camino
cuando las cosas se echaron a perder, a mi me culparon
me las tiraba pero no era mi culpa nunca
oh mírame nadie me quiere demasiado cerca
estoy raja sólo mira el desastre en que me encuentro
(¡vamos, vamos,
el ritmo bajo,
siéntanse como
The Ramones,
vamos hombre vamos!)
aquí abajo, se están riendo de ti a
aquí abajo eres tu al que se van a cagar
aquí abajo ellos caminaran sobre ti aquí abajo,
aquí abajo, aquí abajo.
(The mess, de “Beggars can be choosers”, Lp 1983)
grandes