{"id":2922,"date":"2013-12-18T13:16:49","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T11:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gehkacken.de\/?p=2922"},"modified":"2017-03-31T16:54:07","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T14:54:07","slug":"my-loveliest-vinyl-part-39","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gehkacken.de\/?p=2922","title":{"rendered":"my loveliest vinyl, part 39"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Stiff Little Fingers – Suspect Device 7″ (Rough Trade RT 006, 1981)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Oh yes, this is one of the best bands ever. For me anyway, since i saw them in Hamburg on my 16th birthday (boy, am i old). I guess everybody by now knows about their history and the struggles of punk in Northern Ireland. As such i waste no time and just make it firm that this is most likely one of the best and most influential punk seven inches.<\/p>\n

The verdict:<\/p>\n

1977 \u2013\u00a0actually\u00a01978 for the initial issue, indeed punk as punk could be<\/em>
\npublished by a cool lable \u2013 1978 by Rigit Digit DIY, re-issue 1981 by Rough Trade.\u00a0<\/i>
\nfound in a cool shop \u2013 Membran (the Rough Trade one for sure)<\/em>!<\/i>
\ncatching sound \u2013 any dispute? Go fuck yourself!<\/em>
\nthe lyrics \u2013 focusing on the B side this is the best ever reflection on the Northern Ireland situation back then, what a waste it was!<\/i><\/p>\n

And that takes us straight into “Wasted Life”:<\/p>\n

I could be a soldier\r\nGo out there and fight to save this land\r\nBe a people's soldier\r\nParamilitary gun in hand\r\nI won't be no soldier\r\nI won't take no orders from no-one\r\nStuff their fucking armies\r\nKilling isn't my idea of fun\r\n\r\n(Chorus)\r\nThey wanna waste my life\r\nThey wanna waste my time\r\nThey wanna waste my life\r\nAnd they've stolen it away\r\n\r\nI could be a hero\r\nLive and die for their 'important' cause\r\nA united nation\r\nOr an independant state with laws\r\nAnd rules and regulations\r\nThat merely cause disturbances and wars\r\nThat is what I've got now\r\nAll thanks to the freedom-seeking hordes\r\n\r\n(Chorus)\r\n\r\nI'm not gonna be taken in\r\nThey said if I don't join them I just can't win\r\nI've heard that story many times before\r\nAnd every time I threw it out the door\r\n\r\nStill they come up to me\r\nWith a different name but same old face\r\nI can see the connection\r\nWith another time and different place\r\nThey ain't blonde haired or blue eyed\r\nBut they think that they're the master race\r\nThey're nothing but blind facists\r\nBrought up to hate and given lives to waste\r\n\r\n(Chorus:repeat)\r\n\r\n(c) 1978 Fingers<\/pre>\n
And without further ado be blown away many times:<\/p>\n