Favourite 'Athiest' Songs

I'll start...


"So What"

The Crass


They ask me why I'm hateful, why I'm bad.
They tell me I got things they never had.
They tell me go to church and see the light.
Cos the good lord's always right.

So what, so what.
So what if Jesus died on the cross?
So what about the fucker, I don't give a toss.
So what if the master walked on the water?
I don't see him trying to stop the slaughter.
They say I wouldn't have to live from bins.
If I would go along, confess my sins.
They say I shouldn't commit no crime.
Cos Jesus Christ is watching all the time.

So what, so what.
So what if he's always over my shoulder?
I realise the truth as I get older.
I get to see what a con it is.
Because it's my life, mine not his.
Well, they say they're going to send me away.
Said they're going to make me pay.
We're sorry but you got to go.
But you were naughty, you said "No".

So what, so what.
So what if I see through the lies?
So what if the people I despise?
Twist my arm and make me work,
I'm no deaf, no fucking jerk.
I'm no spastic lying in the street.
I'm no superstar elite.
I'm just a person, a human being.
NO YOU'RE NOT, YOU'RE A PART OF THE MACHINE.
You're a part our machine because we want you to be.
We've got you now and you'll never be free.
We can even have your body after you're dead.
We can take the eyes out of your fucking head.
Yes we'll take them out, use them again.
We can do it you know cos we've got your brain.
We'll crucify you like we crucified him.
We'll make you obey our every whim.
We got the power, the power and the glory.
I've heard that before in a different story.
But the story I heard covered up the truth,
Didn't touch on the actual factual proof.
Didn't say about the bodies in the concentration camps,
Didn't say about the (surgeons) knives underneath the lamps,
Doesn't say that the ovens are still warm,
Doesn't say that this wretched little form
Is a human being who wants to live
But not in the snot and shit they give.

They say that I had better keep quiet
Or they're gonna douse my light.
Jesus Christ can save my life,
But I can always use my knife.
So what, so what, so what, so what, so what, so what, so what, SO WHAT.


"Religious Vomit"

The Dead Kennedys

All religions make me wanna throw up
All religions make me sick
All religions make me wanna throw up
All religions suck
They all claim that they have the truth
That'll set you free
Just give 'em all your money and they'll set you free
Free for a fee

They all claim that they have 'the Answer'
When they don't even know the Question
They're just a bunch of liars
They just want your money
They just want your consciousness

[Chorus]
All religions suck
All religions make me wanna throw up
All religions suck
All religions make me wanna BLEAH

They really make me sick
They really make me sick
They really make me sick
They really make me sick
They really make me sick
They really make me ILL

 

Panda

Occam played in several punk bands in the 80's.
One, supported the DK's in a gig at the cross.

Some of their songs were just brilliant.
'Holiday in cambodia' for one.

Yet jello biafra the person seemed to be a prick.
Arrogant in a tinpot way.
And his crew tried to screw us with bad sound. We had to
fight to get our guy on the mixing board.

Occam

 

wow...good for you.

Most there songs were just brilliant.

I agree though Biafra does seem to have a massive inflated ego yeah, his spoken word cds are irritating (even though I do agree with some of his views)...I'm not surprised the rest of the DK crew tried screwing you over. They really did 'sell-out' so badly, you and I may not like jello's personality but the rest of DK are far worse...but yeah, we all know the story.

Still I love the music, that's what it boils down too. The opening bassline to holiday in cambodia still gives me goosebumps everytime i hear it. Musically and lyrically I still rate them as one of the greatest bands of all time and I also enjoyed jello's work with DOA and the Melvins. I think DK's music is still very relevant today.

 

oh, and why do you refer to yourself in the third person occam? lol

 

Panda

Only have flash memories of that time, more than 20 years back.

remember biafra wowing the girls backstage.. looking for nookie after the show.
[real common event]
Much chuffing of spliffs and some mainlining.
Much beer.

But do agree totally

'Holiday in cambodia' they played well that night..
One of the all time greats
Pol Pot, Pol Pot, Pol Pot, Pol Pot
they did 'police truck' a well... cool.

even if the DK crew did try and fuck us over so they looked better
after the support. Thats life. evolution.
They tried only to power us down, cause we had marshal stcks equal to
what they had. [rich boys]
We did our originals and a few tightened up versions of 'Discharge'
covers.
[imagine discharge played by an very early metallica, thats what we sounded like. ''and metallica did covers of discharge songs..power''']

occam

 

Now.. if you want to talk about Crass

Thats a whole different world.
Had a girlfriend that was a crass freak
A year of crass nonstop can burnout the brain.

 

haha, yeah well possibly the only 'true' punk band if we want to get puritan and righteous about it lol

I must admit I do listen to them quite obssessively...Reading the stories behind the music is just as exciting. Remember 'Honey Bane', the 15 year old girl who went on the run from social services, the crass took her in to there commune to help her out for a while and whilst there she ended up recording with the poison girls (another anarcho-punk band but all female) and releasing the single under the name Honey Bane...Well cool little stories like that.
I just absolutely love what a lot of the crass represented; So punk that they were 'anti-punk' (e.g 'Punk is Dead; 'Banned from the Roxy')...The only problem I have with them is that after listening to Crass all the other punk bands seem a bit, hm, inferior and lacking something!
Conflict are great too of course (and Zounds, Flux of pink indians, subhumans and so forth).

"A year of crass nonstop can burnout the brain." Lies!!

 

LOL

Hey,, when you get woke up after 5 hours sleep cause crass shaking the windows..
day after day....
Did'nt disagree with what crass says. just dont want them for breakfast...lol

Ah subhumans.. Also voi vod, they were cool. killing joke

Damn, could listen to them all now if some arsehole hadnt pinched all my vinal
back in 86.

Occam [former guitarist of 'Ozymandias' Which worked really well being an ozy
band {australia} And the connections to shelly's poem worked well too]

Ozymandias

"I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said -- "two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert ... near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lips, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings,
Look on my Works ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away." --