Monday, May 28, 2012

Soundtrack for a Revolution - #4 - Hiretsukan: Barrel Roll

I hope you're interested in being yelled at because this week's installment of Soundtrack features Hiretsukan.

Hiretsukan -- Japanese for 'a despicable person', so I hear -- is a melodic hardcore band that was formed in 1998 somewhere outside of Washington, DC. The music is fast and dissonant. The vocals are shouted and yelled, by vocalist Michelle Proffit and backing vocalist Dave Sanders. The lyrics are political, and any one of their tracks would have been suitable.

For this episode, however, I've chosen "Barrel Roll," which is from their 2002 EP "Invasive//Exotic" (G7 Welcoming Committee). This track paints a chaotic picture of protest and a subsequent crackdown, where the ruling power (from a safe distance) tries to coax the public into believing that everything is just fine.

Here is a video gleaned from YouTube that contains the track and lyrics, though the lyrics can also be found below the video because I don't think the ones in the video are quite right.



Lyrics:
Live on location! Frontlines beamed to a quiet room behind double-locked doors. This just in, through static and snow, through smoke bombs and teargas and five city blocks filled with smoke. Once we know the symptom from the source (under control!), it'll come down like you've never seen before! (Death from above!) As we confirm engines from agency (under control!), it's going to come down like you've never fucking seen. Never seen! Ear to the ground, hear the quiet hum of 2,000 feet moving as one. Hear the rousing anthem, the rising chorus, the late breaking wire that says everything's under control... Under control!

Live on location! Frontlines beamed to a quiet room behind double-locked doors. This just in, through static and snow, through smoke bombs and teargas...

Once we know the symptoms from the source (under control!), it'll come down like you've never seen before! (Death from above!) As we confirm engines from agency (under control!), it'll come down like you've never fucking seen. Never seen.

Under control! Under control! Control! (Under!) Control! (Under Control!) Control! (Under!) Control! (Under Cont...)


Regardless of what it all might mean, that was a lot of fun, wasn't it!? ...No? Very well. Stay tuned for the next time I decide to engage in what I'd like to call 'more of the same' (I'm sorry, but my tastes are poor and limited!) or make a request!

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