Really is one of the best there ever was. I used to play this track for friends of mine who were not familiar with punk rock. Ones that were more into hippie type bands and culture some years back. They all loved it. Usually on road trips to this or that. When everyone was properly tuned up. And the whole packed full car or van would be silent with heads slowly nodding. Always will remember the power of it all.
ONLY IF YOU LET THEM DISCHARGE NAILED IT DECONTROL WE HAVE BEEN SHITE ON FAR TOO LONG NO MORE NO WAY WE ARE PUT ON THIS EARTH EQUAL WHAT WE HAVE WE WILL NOT TAKE IT WITH US SOME PEOPLE THINK DIFFERENT FACE REALITY ☠👍🏻☠🙃☠😜☠
This set the bar for all punk......and nobody ever ever hit it again. It really doesn't get any better than this. This right here is the high water mark.
I live my life by the punk ethics portrayed in this song...it helped shape my personality,attitude & outlook on life into what it has been for 40 years
Me too, unfortunately i took it a bit far and ended up being absolutely ridiculously lazy, a criminal, addict and really lost my way. However i've played some great shows on the drums in my late thirties and forties and i never lost my loyalties and have always stuck up for those who can't against bullying types. Nursing my mother who has dementia and try my hardest to stay decent. Absolute fantastic band.
from 12:19 this is pure punk eargasm! the album cover is hauntingly class! a masterpiece in my opinion. this is up there with the best of anarcho punk!
The last show I saw them play in Phoenix at the rebel room aka Mason jar I requested this one. Fully knowing they wouldnt belt out a 17 minute song, shortly after another fan at the show said: cradle! At least I wasnt the only one dreaming.
yea i kinda thought it was funny that nofx only did the decline because subhumans did cradle to the grave because if the subhumans did a 17 min song its ok and could still be punk but thats the opposite of what punk is. it would've been more punk to be like we made a 20 min song because we wanted to and didnt care if some people didnt consider it punk. but hey 2 great songs that show punk could be prog inspired 20 minutes and show amazing musicianship
@@elizabethmccormack793 Exactly when 2m30s became a standard length for punk songs it sort of ceases to be punk because your just a slave to an idea then, conformity should be the enemy not brilliant tracks like this that opened up new possibilities.
You never hear much about them but I read a recent interview by josh homme from queens of the stone age and he totally admitted being influenced by the subhumans. To me that basically means the screaming trees, nirvana and the foo fighters must have at some point heard this. That makes me feel a lot more connected than trying to understand x factor type musicians and music that nowadays just seems so hell bent on nostalgia. I love motown but everyone seems to be trying to replicate it. It can be good cos I love Adele but jesus come on.
I like this mode of communication; I like the Beatlesque musical shifts; maybe I have listened to too much loud music but I can not understand the lyrics. I want to know what they are saying. It's important to me. The bits I get seem to be clever and important. They seem to have social relevance. Great piece of music. Thanks to Oicroppa.
Huh? For serious? This is some of the most clear, pronounced vocals in punk rock history. Maybe it's your phones speakers or whatever you are listening with. Try headphones. This song becomes clear as a bell and is a whole nother level.
You are fortunate to be able to hear the vocals as well as you do. 2 years later I still have the same problem. The first cut is most difficult for me. The rest is fairly clear. It's a good band. I a m a musician I have sensitive ears. Olfatorily speaking. my ears are like a cat or dog.s nose--They hear so much at once that cacaphony can ensue. ....so yeah! for serious! I have different hearing ability than you. Thank you for your comment.
I remember when I was a kid I would overdose on k2 about every day, foaming at the mouth and spasming. I would crawl across the room and turn on this album, or maybe punk terrorist anthology vol 1. I made myself listen until it was I was there, tripping on into dark places, dieing time and time again in other people's lives in these super vivid and lucid hallucinations/ delusions because I thought it was more of an experience than butterflies and roses. Believe it or not that's how the subhumans and nausea made me who I am today.
Wow that's fucking hardcore. Please tell me you came out the other end of that dark tunnel and found ganja. That spice is beyond tricky. I did that sorta thing with Sub's and False prophets etc , but no way with Nausea... fuck that 😲😱😨😰 😂.
Not the only one who went on journeys with it, to it, amongst it... Great times. Really it was music like the subhumans and touring with bands I was friends with. Having the strength it all helped me find within myself saved my life. It's sad that such a wonderful experience was known intimently by so few. But such is such.
Fucking hell this dunt half tek mi back! Glorious! Absolutely love the reggae influence and the reverb gives it an urgency that is 100% proof Punk! (Accept no substitutes!)
I grew up in the same town,Warminster..Wiltshire where Subhumans come from and my older brother was in the same year at the school everyone who wasn't a toffee nosed twat went to in the town..Kingdown comprehensive....😄😄😄😄🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
Anyone who really digs this should check out citizen fish as well. It's got a different vibe but same lyrics. Same soul ( same singer, Dick Lucas). And alot of citizen fish was music I could similarly space out to.
Citizen Fish are more upbeat though, similar themes but with a bit of optimism too. Lucas is a punk poet in my eyes. (Edit:typo, added a h to the word though)
In the mid 1980s I was working with a guy who's job was security fences & he got a contract off Thatchers Tory government to have all TA bases capable of holding weapons & equipment for suppression of British people if they were to rise up, I found this by reading his contract( it was covered by official secrets act) that he left in the van, so I sprayed the words of this song from "why don't you join the army be a man & not a fool" till the end in yellow line paint & then walked off & never went back as those weapons would used on me & those like me
HA! I'm with ya brother. Crazy feeling right? It would be just like that too. Accept when ya look around. All ur mates disappeared... Shit. Guess it's time to crawl up front and grab the wheel... Go get some gas, Ale, and pull out the crumpled up Book yer own fuckin Life, from under the seat. Lol
Post metal is a genre of heavy metal that is heavily atmospheric, has long, complex song structures, unconventional lyrics and aesthetics -etc. Prob the most well known and best example would be the band Neurosis, who started in the early 90's and spawned a bunch of copy cat bands who went on to create that label "Post-metal".
their are way better punk bands and songs out there, but something about this song, its like a pink floyd song in the punk genre, if you dont get chills from this keep listening to it til you do :)
ArtOfRuin981 you're smokin somethin else if you think rancid is better than the subhumans (or misfits, bad brains, dead milkmen, or sex pistols, which i would classify as pop punk)
ArtOfRuin981 DK no more, jello goes alone, Misfits, first album good, the rest shit, as with the Pistols, bad brains turned into living color,milkmen????, Na, Subhumans still going strong, last album was brilliant. end of debate
No punk song will ever beat this classic played it for years its a masterpiece
I learnt more from punk bands than i did school. And was very happy to find a copy of this lp in the record shop recently . So good to have it again.
@@tanilorn Amen
Really is one of the best there ever was. I used to play this track for friends of mine who were not familiar with punk rock. Ones that were more into hippie type bands and culture some years back. They all loved it. Usually on road trips to this or that. When everyone was properly tuned up. And the whole packed full car or van would be silent with heads slowly nodding. Always will remember the power of it all.
👏🏽
No song regardless of genre….ever! 😆
A song that's almost 17 minutes long and it's not boring for even a second.
just one 14:51 14:52
Truly fantastic message. “The government will rule your mind and your mind will rule your heart”……that sums it up right there.
Yeah, not bad for a bunch of middle class, West country white boys.
ONLY IF YOU LET THEM DISCHARGE NAILED IT DECONTROL WE HAVE BEEN SHITE ON FAR TOO LONG NO MORE NO WAY WE ARE PUT ON THIS EARTH EQUAL WHAT WE HAVE WE WILL NOT TAKE IT WITH US SOME PEOPLE THINK DIFFERENT FACE REALITY ☠👍🏻☠🙃☠😜☠
The greatest song ever written...
The total "free bird" of punk
YES
In the garden of eden of punk
Inapunkadefyya
This set the bar for all punk......and nobody ever ever hit it again.
It really doesn't get any better than this. This right here is the high water mark.
meet the decline
Lol decline is garbage
@@sandiahead
pretzel boy
@@the_craptaincan't really compare nofx to sub hum ans. This is a masterpiece, the decline is a mediocre 90s skate anthem.
@@secretsoftware
what you just said makes absolutely zero sense. the decline is very obviously out of your realm of understanding.
this is the stairway of anarcho punk
MY FAVORITE PUNK BAND SINCE 1991....MAJOR INFLUENCE.....SUBS KICK MAJOR ASS...LYRICS ARE GENIUS, THEY STILL HOLD UP TO THIS DAY 2019.....SUBS FOREVER
heard this around 85, absolute genius! still rings true now
i saw these guys live in '02... they played the title track from this album start to finish... and NAILED it... one of the best punk shows i ever saw
+Marcus P Saw them do it in 2012 in Blackpool, and felt truly privileged.
was only this track on on the album ceptside b I have this lol
I saw them in 99' in Denver, best show I've ever seen hands down.
I live my life by the punk ethics portrayed in this song...it helped shape my personality,attitude & outlook on life into what it has been for 40 years
Me too, unfortunately i took it a bit far and ended up being absolutely ridiculously lazy, a criminal, addict and really lost my way. However i've played some great shows on the drums in my late thirties and forties and i never lost my loyalties and have always stuck up for those who can't against bullying types. Nursing my mother who has dementia and try my hardest to stay decent. Absolute fantastic band.
Classic punk rock at its finest!
Best Punk band. PERIOD
Still have it on vinyl..... remember that ?
Still have mine 👍
Vinyls mate. ☺️
almost forgotten how damn good this song is
"You may think you don't need teaching but you'll need it when you're old"
Brilliant.
I remember jamming these guys on my Walkman and having all their stuff on cassette. Crazy good
Who's still listening to this in 2018? We need this song more than ever!
20 muthafuckin 20
2021
2022!
2022 been listening to this for 31 years, old git...
@@ungovernable1431 rock on
When they call musicians "artists" on corporate media it sounds clit-Che. But this song is a work of art, and very beautiful.
Cliche, not clit-che!
A true punk masterpiece lp. Love it!
Écouter ce chef-d’œuvre en pleine montée de champignons magique! Malade!!! Cheers from Arvida,Québec!
Arvida? Ahah j'aurais plus cru ça de Jonq 😝
In my top 3 of all time punk songs
from 12:19 this is pure punk eargasm! the album cover is hauntingly class! a masterpiece in my opinion. this is up there with the best of anarcho punk!
I'm 7 years too late, but you would love King Crimson's 'Red'.
The ability to connect with your audience in that level is chilling, and without a doubt changed the minds of those who first heard it.
saw these guys at the crocodile, if you think about it these guys released there first album in 1980 or 81, over 30 years ago, and still kick ass!!
Relivant today probably more so who's making a statement today? Not including ratm
Fuck yeah! Punks not dead!
"And why did you not warn us?" Said the people to the prophet...
But they did....
one of the best punk sides to an album ever heard , its about our life
Every fucking groove of vinyl on this record was better than the last.
My first punk record I bought from a hole in the wall store and I played it over and over again
Greatest Rock n Roll band of all time
The last show I saw them play in Phoenix at the rebel room aka Mason jar I requested this one. Fully knowing they wouldnt belt out a 17 minute song, shortly after another fan at the show said: cradle! At least I wasnt the only one dreaming.
we thrashed this album back in the day its fucken awesome
There is no more honest a genre of music than Punk. It really shouldn't ever die. But if it does, I think, that that would be a great loss.
And this will be the epitaph
This is like the Freebird of punk rock.
Haha Yeah it really is.
SuperPandora78 exactly..
RED DEATH no doubt
greatest anarcho punk band of all time
yup!
gotta get this album
First time I herd this it was my first acid trip in the early 90s.
Very memorable experience...till this day!
Fuck yeah!!!
What a headfuck that must have been
Hell yeah, Subhumans on acid.
My first trip on LSD was 1990 night before I took my driving test and I passed...Lol.
Fun fact:
If this wasn't made, The Decline probably wouldn't have even thought of by NOFX.
yea i kinda thought it was funny that nofx only did the decline because subhumans did cradle to the grave because if the subhumans did a 17 min song its ok and could still be punk but thats the opposite of what punk is. it would've been more punk to be like we made a 20 min song because we wanted to and didnt care if some people didnt consider it punk. but hey 2 great songs that show punk could be prog inspired 20 minutes and show amazing musicianship
@@elizabethmccormack793 Exactly when 2m30s became a standard length for punk songs it sort of ceases to be punk because your just a slave to an idea then, conformity should be the enemy not brilliant tracks like this that opened up new possibilities.
I met Dick Lucas b4 and he is super cool.
This man speaks the truth, dick Lucas is a wonderful person to meet!
Animals don't only kill for food. They also kill for power just like we do. Its part our nature. It will be very hard to change that.
Bit of a sweeping generalization. And it's not the same power. They ain't looking for world domination.
Relevant in 2021
Still awesomwe in 2015..... Ha !
9:30 Genius sequence
Saw them in 1985 and they sang this song and it was awesome
perfection ✊
Legends . because this and, all their ep's
One powerful track ✌️
best album i ever bought fucking loves it
Now more than ever!!!
Best punk song ever sums up everything that's wrong with society
You never hear much about them but I read a recent interview by josh homme from queens of the stone age and he totally admitted being influenced by the subhumans. To me that basically means the screaming trees, nirvana and the foo fighters must have at some point heard this. That makes me feel a lot more connected than trying to understand x factor type musicians and music that nowadays just seems so hell bent on nostalgia. I love motown but everyone seems to be trying to replicate it. It can be good cos I love Adele but jesus come on.
Craig Brown I think i´ve read somewhere Dave Grohl liked them...
funny you should say that about nirvana i watched a interview meany years and Dave from foo said he used to lisen to subhumans
terry Halligan WTF???
Are you sure he meant these Subhumans and not the Canadian band?
Cobain grew up on punk, he had Black Flag flyers on his attic wall.
I like this mode of communication; I like the Beatlesque musical shifts; maybe I have listened to too much loud music but I can not understand the lyrics. I want to know what they are saying. It's important to me. The bits I get seem to be clever and important. They seem to have social relevance. Great piece of music. Thanks to Oicroppa.
Huh? For serious? This is some of the most clear, pronounced vocals in punk rock history. Maybe it's your phones speakers or whatever you are listening with. Try headphones. This song becomes clear as a bell and is a whole nother level.
You are fortunate to be able to hear the vocals as well as you do. 2 years later I still have the same problem. The first cut is most difficult for me. The rest is fairly clear. It's a good band.
I a m a musician I have sensitive ears. Olfatorily speaking. my ears are like a cat or dog.s nose--They hear so much at once that cacaphony can ensue.
....so yeah! for serious! I have different hearing ability than you. Thank you for your comment.
Best song ever. Real life..... True
Still the best ,,totally shit hot…don’t ever stop writing and playing
An amazing record.
purely amazing
I remember when I was a kid I would overdose on k2 about every day, foaming at the mouth and spasming. I would crawl across the room and turn on this album, or maybe punk terrorist anthology vol 1. I made myself listen until it was I was there, tripping on into dark places, dieing time and time again in other people's lives in these super vivid and lucid hallucinations/ delusions because I thought it was more of an experience than butterflies and roses. Believe it or not that's how the subhumans and nausea made me who I am today.
Wow that's fucking hardcore. Please tell me you came out the other end of that dark tunnel and found ganja. That spice is beyond tricky. I did that sorta thing with Sub's and False prophets etc , but no way with Nausea... fuck that 😲😱😨😰 😂.
Not the only one who went on journeys with it, to it, amongst it... Great times. Really it was music like the subhumans and touring with bands I was friends with. Having the strength it all helped me find within myself saved my life. It's sad that such a wonderful experience was known intimently by so few. But such is such.
good ol days
2112 of Subhumans catalogue.
Still relevant Awsome
Fucking hell this dunt half tek mi back! Glorious! Absolutely love the reggae influence and the reverb gives it an urgency that is 100% proof Punk! (Accept no substitutes!)
Some honest punk here!
this is punk meets the concept album .. reminds me of Moody blues :-)
Merci a Annie Roy de m'avoir fait connaitre cet album a 15 ans.
Say what you will, best punk band ever.
Quite an exceptional piece.
Something about the structure... prog/punk/art....
I hear the strangs, the hogs, gang of four, yes ;-j
I grew up in the same town,Warminster..Wiltshire where Subhumans come from and my older brother was in the same year at the school everyone who wasn't a toffee nosed twat went to in the town..Kingdown comprehensive....😄😄😄😄🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
Yeah yeah, to the rest of Wiltshire, Kingdown were *all* toffee nosed twats. 😆
Not far from stonehenge..lot of anarcho punk bands are from the south west
Warminster,...interesting for UFOs too.
Amazing song but really depressing at the same time
Alessandra Bozzelli Welcome to reality.
Righty right!!!!
Anyone who really digs this should check out citizen fish as well. It's got a different vibe but same lyrics. Same soul ( same singer, Dick Lucas). And alot of citizen fish was music I could similarly space out to.
and Culture Shock.
Citizen Fish are more upbeat though, similar themes but with a bit of optimism too. Lucas is a punk poet in my eyes.
(Edit:typo, added a h to the word though)
Epic
It's basically an album in one song.
The world is going to shit and they knew it...
Much love to the prophets..
Who remembers punk... I know I do...
ok boomer
Minus the guitar lead solo
Awsome punk at its best
In the mid 1980s I was working with a guy who's job was security fences & he got a contract off Thatchers Tory government to have all TA bases capable of holding weapons & equipment for suppression of British people if they were to rise up, I found this by reading his contract( it was covered by official secrets act) that he left in the van, so I sprayed the words of this song from "why don't you join the army be a man & not a fool" till the end in yellow line paint & then walked off & never went back as those weapons would used on me & those like me
I agree
Jesus, I've not listened to this for over 35 years... what the hell happened? It's like I fell asleep in the back of a van and woke up in the future.
HA! I'm with ya brother. Crazy feeling right? It would be just like that too. Accept when ya look around. All ur mates disappeared...
Shit. Guess it's time to crawl up front and grab the wheel... Go get some gas, Ale, and pull out the crumpled up Book yer own fuckin Life, from under the seat. Lol
You fell asleep in the back of a van and woke up in the future. Probably in a layby near the Yarnbrook roundabout.
@@nodiggity9472 Ha! There or there about!
classic
your fucking god! what a beautiful song and what a beautiful lyric.(A)
Punk Rock Floyd
most people just say the government sucks and shit like that but subhumans just goes against the way humans are raised and function 😂🤘
Ey up ...Hey Tilz😉
one of my all time favs. 4 thumbs down WTF! really?
Good Charlotte mongs.
All the thumbs down are state loving bootlickers
Punk's not dead.
Then why did we bury it?
@@nodiggity9472 WHERE ?
@@iandarragh6437 Just outside Trowbridge Civic Hall.
bleibt. Unbelievable, it will burn. from the cradle. this cradle burns.
10:35
I think everyone needs to listen to this song in the U.S.A.
Punk rock...
Good lord, how did I miss this song until now? It's fucking proto-post metal.
+Dude OK This was early 1980's UK Anarcho Punk.
I know. What I'm saying is you can hear how it influences and predates the sound of post-metal.
+Dude OK What was Post Metal??
Post metal is a genre of heavy metal that is heavily atmospheric, has long, complex song structures, unconventional lyrics and aesthetics -etc. Prob the most well known and best example would be the band Neurosis, who started in the early 90's and spawned a bunch of copy cat bands who went on to create that label "Post-metal".
I should add that Neurosis was heavily influenced by the anarcho-punk scene in England.
is this not blur?
punk at its best
A 16 minute punk rock song :)
no way to die on the sly, best to ply till tearful decry, god not yet to die, humans still aim to via
2024🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
Longest punk song ever 🙂
It's up there for sure, but NOFX - 'The Decline' and Crass - 'Taking Sides' are longer.
their are way better punk bands and songs out there, but something about this song, its like a pink floyd song in the punk genre, if you dont get chills from this keep listening to it til you do :)
Way better ? Name them.
*****
dead kennedys, misfits, bad brains, dead milkmen, sex pistols, rancid...
*****
D.R.I. , Weasel,
ArtOfRuin981 you're smokin somethin else if you think rancid is better than the subhumans (or misfits, bad brains, dead milkmen, or sex pistols, which i would classify as pop punk)
ArtOfRuin981 DK no more, jello goes alone, Misfits, first album good, the rest shit, as with the Pistols, bad brains turned into living color,milkmen????, Na, Subhumans still going strong, last album was brilliant. end of debate
And Susan is even better
Nah.
Best punk song ever ever ever I wish I could have heard it live when seeing them love you dick Lucas!!!!
Fuck me, this is great