Zounds: Subvert

[djotter1991]

Levellers do a better version

[WorstRequiem]

SUBVERT!

[Klitja]

panic in London, panic in Bristol.

[BamusicTUBE]

one of my favourite punk tunes Thanks :-)

[ghouliegirl33]

awww, I'm sooo infatuated with this song...

[MrFaceman999]

This track & album are fantastic Crass OK but in mind a lower league. Add Zoundz to a bit of Culture Shock then you have my dream gig!

[ghouliegirl33]

Respond to this video...

 thanks for posting I love zounds!

[spazabarri]

Zounds are great, but Crass are the greatest anarcho-punk band ever!

[Klizzeth]

I love their songs, they are pretty good.

[misterrobert72]

well Roy!

[misterrobert72]

i love this song

[itsacorporatething]

@misterrobert72 as do i

[GillLuvsCrass]

Love this song!! ZOUNDS were so ahead of their times!!!!! BRILLIANT!!!!!!! =:0)

[anessenator]

Crass had the message but not the sound imo. Still love em!

Zounds fuckin nailed it. Trying to get to see em tomorrow.

[kriddz]

this band shit all over crass from a great height

[danpf65]

Amazing how fresh and relevant it still sounds all these years later.

[MiklePrickles]

i also liked the mob and blyth power, im sure there was a connection between those 2 and zoundz

[craigelemental]

you can get the vinyl from BLUURG records (SUBHUMANS label)

[bedtimefordemocracy]

absolutely amazing punk rock song. great lyrics, PHENOMINAL music. this is my favorite summer song out bike riding enjoying everything with this great tune

[externalmenace]

saw them last week in Bradford England with Cress...They were AWESOME!!!!

[xrosenbergx]

shut up!! all you who got to see them.. have some mercy on polish straight edge kids who would lvoe to see them too.. gotta wait till the fuckin september.. cant afford to see them before :((

fuckin great band!

[teenagetmiekiller]

Zounds are headlining the DIY Drop Dead Festival happening in Vilnius, Lithuania, 19-23 of August.

The Tickets are great value at €65 (early bird) €75 standard.

22 other bands have also been confirmed

For more info go on to drop dead festival (dot) com

[johnnyvicious2]

Love Zounds. Message more important than the music but the music was brilliant. They embraced a lot of different musical sounds and traditions. Wasn't that what punk was meant to be about: individualism and freedom? It was only later that it became predictable.

[annoiato888]

me gusta

[jonyfry]

Fucking awsome.

[grician7777]

the melody remind me stray cats

[spexray]

just fucking love this band

[dortyhoor]

I saw Zounds at the Notting hill carnival at Meanwhile Gdns when the Skate park was still quite new (and while carnival was still small enough for bands there), they were great, Snuff came on after, and the Mob played, all for free, and the sun was shining, how great is that.

[dasgemuse]

oh man. i havent listened to Snuff i what seems like ages. thanks for reminding me. lol

[lgacouldbedangerous]

Good melody Zounds is one of my punkrock bands

[66gadus]

bloody brilliant!!!

[nathanjamesfoster]

still got the original record great sound havnt heard it for years

[dasgemuse]

the picture reminds of fernheit 451

[itsacorporatething]

That's an interesting observation. because in 451, the fire was used as a tool of oppression to crush subversive literature, while zounds uses the fire as a way to subvert.

[dasgemuse]

just the whole "firemen" spraying gas on the fire like in the novel

[Cursed8Blessed]

@itsacorporatething yeah i was thinking along those kinda lines, wasnt there also some kinda controversy over the art work about wether the firemen in the photo were putting out the fire or fueling it. i know its not usually a good idea to fight fire with fire but isnt there also something in the art of war book about specific times to light fires.

[stellaviolens]

Can't beat a bit of Zounds.

[DJRazor90]

like a ue combo to the face

[chujwico]

they are better even than Crass!!!

[itsacorporatething]

zounds sound better anyway, half of crass tracks sound like knives being inserted into your brain.

[canti1234]

it hurts so good though... :]

[addictivephilosophy]

@itsacorporatething they'll give you a lobotomy for something you ain't done, make you an epitome of everythign that's wrong...

[stevobath]

@itsacorporatething I agree. Crass ok ,but This was more accessable without being Too stupid or naive. Underated band and 1 of my fave. albums. SUBVERT!

[sectsmonk]

@itsacorporatething

That's what I love about Crass, lol. They had the chutzpah to be anti-listenable.

[khoroshoorange]

@sectsmonk

anti listenable? i call it awesome distortion! agressive, loud and fast. awesome!

[buster24c]

@itsacorporatething crass has more meaning in there lyrics u tool

[itsacorporatething]

@buster24c

The point

Your head

[buster24c]

@itsacorporatething wtaf

[Lovegood44]

i agree

[RockstarRacc00n]

They are different than Crass and shouldn't be compared so closely. Crass mastered an unstructured, truly anarchic style. This is like Subhumans: more melody, more order.

[kdkdkdkdkdkdgggggfgf]

i was thinking the same exact thing.

[dortyhoor]

There's no point in comparing the early 'Anarcho/peace punk' bands, all had different styles. It was only when it got to D.I.R.T and that time that it became a repetitive sound.

Hagar the Womb were great and they were quite late on, a good exception to the rule because they used humour.

[LoudProudNPunk1]

@chujwico Everybody's better than Crass. Lets face it, Crass couldn't play listenable music to save their lives.... But for some reason I like Crass still...

[chujwico]

@LoudProudNPunk1

totally agree 10/10 !

[noobishdumbberry]

@LoudProudNPunk1 Yeah, Crass were good at their instruments, but when they got together as a band and played, they didn't sound great. But the messages in their songs are great, and some of their songs are listenable. My favorite few are big a little a, end result, and do they owe us a living.

[MrSiddeney]

@LoudProudNPunk1 too true... I don't think Crass ever set out to be be a band just take some of the lines from from 'do they owe us a living' and I think it says it all :-)

[TheYazoo321]

@chujwico tune wise i agree!

[buster24c]

@chujwico not quite better i went to crass last supper there final gig ever, and they were fuckin epic ;)

[toomanyangryidiots]

these guys are fucking good i just found out about them today on here, pretty sweeet, i need to get some more. its going on my bands and albums -to get list.

[Lovegood44]

WOW this is beautiful :D

[NexuizBOTMirio]

masterpiece.

[jangenk]

WOW, total nostalgia.... SUBVERT

[dougalk2]

im a young person and he's my uncle!!!!!!!

[jhonwanegasey]

great surf sound

[mystflame]

gorgeous song from a classic album! ah those were the times...

[clashboy1977]

proud owner of this album. my brother got me it in blackpool at the holidays int he sun festival. cant get it in Ireland anymore. i had been looking for ages!

[itsacorporatething]

I wont lie to you, i downloaded this song online. It would probably be even more impossible to get it in the states though.

[Apillis124]

Here in the states my brother and I picked up the album I want to say in the summer of '94 in local underground music store, whether or not it's any more difficult to get it now as it was then. No clue.

[Razorfever86]

you find this now in a second hand, run home as fast as possible to see where the astereoid will strike oil in your yard.

[guigne01]

@itsacorporatething Don't be silly. It's a snap to find here in the States! It's in print after being re-pressed by Broken Rekids. You can ask your local record store to order it for if they do that, or you can order it from Amazon, which is what I did. I recommend getting a copy of it as it's the definitive Zounds discography, thanks to the extra tracks.

[UncleCourtney]

Thank you muchos much for posting Sah. Most appreciated. Gooooood listening.

[neworldorder65]

one of the greatest punk lp's of all-time. thanks for the download!

[aflo08]

I've had (Target/Mr. Disney/War) in my memory since ~86 and found it by chance now. AND: I'm not disapointed! But my neigbours. It's Saterday, 8:31 and my stereo makes a good job.

[germsmalissa]

I have been looking for this song for almost 30 years. Thank You!

[replaceablehedz]

Yeah nice one, your a hero. with the economic decline and mass unemployment looming its ugly head again, I wonder if young people will be once again become slightly more politically aware , rather than being apathetically complaisant and content with the token dischord of modern bands.

[GunsOnRoof]

Thanks for the new Zounds videos. They really were needed. now all we need is more poisongirls.

[itsacorporatething]

Thanks for the comment! I just put up 2 poison girl songs that weren't up.

[ancoats66]

There is never any need for more poison girls....they were bobbins

[crustychi666]

what do you mean by the term bobbins?

-a confused but respectfull american

[ancoats66]

Bobbins...Northern English term for rubbish..etc

[RockstarRacc00n]

Poison Girls wasn't bad, just different. Persons Unknown is an ok song.