Government Issue - "Strange Wine" Giant Records

[chazmclayton]

Brilliant.

[sallyforthbastards]

I made up a million songs to the time signature and beat of this one singular tune. this song is my sound track. i want it played over my ashes. these guys rip. thanks

[player13091980]

0:28

[kingnuke]

this video IS the proof that most of you "punk fans" dont have a clue what punk is.. they knew some of you would act like "oohh wtf THIS is NOT punk!! this is soo gay!..." and they probably had a laugh of that! :P

[goulashmo]

this is such a fucking awesome video.

[2000mlauri]

Government Issue one of the greatest, but this version is not so dynamic like the version from the finale LP.

[jonnymayofigaro]

GI !!! One of the greatest.  If you weren't punk b4 '91 you aint punk so shut the fk up

[deepjew]

haha this is halarious, good thing it was intentional!

[MrIggyIck]

How fucking dare anyone say a negative thing about this.

[DinoVice]

I WATCHED THIS VIDEO ON SHROOMS THE OTHER DAy.. WHOLY FUCK.. THOSE SPARKLES IN THE BACK CAUGHT MY EYE SO BAD... THEY LOOKED SO BRIGHT...

[DinoVice]

god damn ive been stuck in this GI song for a week.. Like bradley gnoll said... ITS SO NICE.. WHEN YOU WANA LISTEN TO THE SAME SONG TWICE... SO HIT ME WITH MUSIC....

[DinoVice]

haha funny storey sunset

[herndonhornet]

GOVERNMENT ISSUE REUNION SHOW

Now's you're chance...go see them on December 11, 2010 at the Black Cat in Washington, D.C.!

[Petawatt]

@herndonhornet

I've got my tickets! Now if I can get someone to rip my Finale live double EP (in blue vinyl), as I haven't heard it in years.

[RocKdrigOVII]

This is the first time I watch this video and I think the video is so funny and the song is very good.

[zacharge13]

when was this video made? awesome, by the way haha! looks like something the swankys would have made

[dstoneist]

rock n roll mutha fuckas1

[adamcharney]

Didn't these guys film this video at one of those low rent Kings Dominion video booths or something like that? That's fuckin brilliant! No reason to pay millions.

[frankiep1978xxxx]

Is this the era w J Robbins from Jawbox?

[crossmyass]

yes, that's J. playing bass. hilarious.

[dantcomedy]

I saw GI several times in my youth and they always rocked.

[viaalcaldedojer]

heyyy the bass is very good

[amital]

i think they did the same thing nofx did in "shut up already" and "mr. jones" check em out theyre funny too

[oiyabastard]

dummy , these guys are before nofx , and have wayyyyyy more ingetrity

[amital]

of course dude dont worry i know what im talking about it just that i saw the nofx one first..

[ex3vious]

yeah nofx are junk

[TEEN1DOL]

Amen.

[TechnicalEvaluation]

Tom Lyle never moved this much in his life :)

[Blackangel127]

0:30

lol hits him in the head

[DooMRunneR]

haha, i flew of my chair laughing

[mugametal]

is this a parody or what?

the bassist keeps banging his head on the vocalists ass. why?

[moesplant]

As if people are question whats punk and not.

GI was one of the first ever hardcore bands and influenced a genre of music, and many generations to come.

Who gives a fuck whats punk and not. Government Issue fucking rules

[TrigunCole]

Awesome band they remind me of the good old times when Black Flag, The Circle Jerks, and Bad Brains were the most awesome bands of that time. oh and Bad Religeon

[24may1988]

This song is AMAZING. Who else makes music like this? Because I want more stuff like this!

[naughtykoolaid55]

operation ivy

bad brains

rancid

circle jerks

black flag

[crustychi666]

any REAL punk bands

[upsalexx]

all are real punk

[crustychi666]

no, i was commenting 24may 1988. Any REAL punk bands make music like this. i love all of the bands above by the way but rancid is kinda sellout, and so is bad brains.

[nonamist]

such a punk vid god damn its good lol

[anthonypalladeno]

Dude where have I been, this is good shit! Thanks!

[damodamone]

great fuckin band from the "asshole" h/c years to the absolute classic crash and you albums ,brilliant band who truely didnt give a fuck about their image or profile just top class punk!!!!!

[BlankTV]

Christ. They did this video as a goof. They were on tour and saw a record shop that let you make a video on you singing to Madonna or some shit.

They asked if they coul play their own cassette and the guy said yes. $22 later, we have this video.

Lighten up, douchebags.

sunset

BlanKTV

[poolpig]

@BlankTV people forget how fun punk was but so serious

[foolplayer101]

wow how much was spent on the video? 50 bucks?

[LNMagic]

Yeah, but only because the singer dropped his mic at 0:13

[bulldogbat]

moron... this is not AFI or fallout boy - this is a REAL punk band from when you were probably pooping your pants - if you were even born yet. GI was a mighty band that played all through the 80s FOR THE SAKE OF PLAYING not for making videos... why don't you stick to mtv or what you see on tee shirts at hot topic?

[foolplayer101]

where the fuck did afi and fallout boy come from? and i dont watch or listen to mtv, i listen to heavy and death metal, i dont like punk rock so when i first listened to this, i thot it sucked so i said my opinion, so fuck off

[bulldogbat]

stop getting so defensive - I LIKE METAL. As in i saw metallica, megadeath, slayer,& maiden in the 80s. metal got LAME except 4 some scandanavian metal or stuff like isis. you're probably some young "metalhead" who was not even alive when GI was active & are just pissy at the world... so calm down, play some slipknot & keep all your angst pent up till some bigtime $35 a ticket show comes to town so you can get all buck wild in the mosh pit. lighten up. or watch the amzingly made "iron man" vid

[foolplayer101]

lol, well im not young, im 15, and i just get like that when im talking about music, so my bad. and i dont like slipknot, in my opinion their just a bunch of damn clowns playing random notes. well most of their songs, they might have 2 or 3 ok songs. and i like all those old metal/rock bands like the ones u pointed out there. im not one to start big fights on a video so im just gunna end this now, so yeah.. i just dont like punk rock/metal.. thats all

[SickIncKamikaze]

So does a band have to work on $22 dollars a vid for somebody to respect their work ethic and accomplishments? If you haven't watched, Slipknot has - or had - one of the most insane live shows, without the big budget.

[bulldogbat]

i guess when you live on a little island all you know is slipNOT. REALITY CHECK - some of us don't like 9 or 10 nitwits playing loud nonsense and wearing clown masks. some of us like punk bands like GI from the late 80s and are happy to see them goofing off in this video.*** why are you even commenting on this video? leave it alone there are plenty of videos for you to enjoy that have 376,000 hits. stay on your mental island and listen to your $122000 videos...

[SickIncKamikaze]

Well, to each his own I guess. That's really all music is.

I'm not dissing the band at all, man. I like this video, even though this is the first time I listened to this. I stumbled upon it by the poster BlankTV. I really enjoy finding new music to listen to, but Fuse sold us out in that respect. Havoc's a good channel, too bad I only get on Fios on Demand.

Nice to see you know your shit, though. More power to you.

[tr0b3]

bullgodbat: I'm gunna have to side with foolplayer101 - the video is so bad it's really hard to take the music seriously.. not that you could anyway. "Real" punk - lol.

[bulldogbat]

the video is "bad" because it was recorded almost 20 years ago... back when technology consisted of crappy VHS with a few goofy effects. not everybody grew up on NIRVANA METALLICA PANTERA (insert whatever band) who had some giant hulking record company film a video for them thousands and thousands of dollars. GI was a great band that was around from 80-89...

[bulldogbat]

if you actually WERE around back then and a punk kid chances were you knew of GI because they put out a ton of great RECORDS and toured all the damn time out of a van. nice guys as well!!! not all music is about tour buses and overproduced music/videos. not all music is played on a 10 foot stage in an arena where you get to buy a shirt for 30 bucks. The shit people listen today is so PREPACKAGED and if you didn't live through the glory of american punk/hardcore in the 80s and 90s that's fine...

[Rocknniko]

you're all acting like little whiney fucks. who cares what's real punk? if you like the music, that's your right, and if you don't, that's also your right. shit.

[stefansson11]

semi-bleah

[zenith911]

Interesting ...

[ToroQ3000]

Divine Failure.

[wisterV]

I had this on vinyl when I was little punker years ago, when did it become post-punk? silly label, is this a historical thing,

or the need to categorize everything and put it in little boxes? Does this make me a post punker, over the hill? I guess I need to take a quiz. (laughing on the inside).

[ShabadooWilkins]

I would love to see what Stabb has to say about this. One of the best post punk acts in history, taking one in the chops here.

[BlankTV]

Stabb sent us the video. They just did it as a goof.

GI rules.

sunset

BlankTV

[kissmeimaidiot]

This is the cheapest and greatest video i have seen since a long time.

[looshkin66]

hahahahahah he's singing into a pair of moroccas!

[raindogred]

pretty funny at 0:37

[ElectricfellNowAndy]

chingonsisimo, no?

[wwwALDIde]

die sind scheiße .

[keymaster2]

Great band, but they were better on Dischord records.

[muler321]

Reminds me of the NOFX videos for "Shut up Already" and "Mr. Jones"

[XbladeXofXblood]

alright....

[Hanfkartoffelman]

who in this video is not drunk or wtf is going on there

[screamjyser]

I hate how everyone says blink 182 and good charlotte are punk. they're not, they're pop-punk. notice the word pop in there. If you want punk, listen to government issue, the real stuff.

[vintageradio1]

Totally! most of those wankers don't even know who the Ramones are.

[ElectricfellNowAndy]

blink an charlotte isn´t nothing of punk, they r power pop, the real punk isn´t commercial. large life to goverment issue, yeaaah. Die to the Commercial Shit

[Arcticmonkey1124]

W00t to that.

[skingraftmachinery]

try spelling something for once

[Dylan122]

try not being a dick.

[TheMangoGuy]

Hey skingraftmachinery, if your correcting people on spelling, and not grammar, then your a fucking jackass. Learn how to write correctly if you want to correct people, and don't correct people if they don't seem to care. It seems like you care, so I am correcting you. (Try spelling something for once.)

[GuyInnagorillasuit]

You're, not your. :)

[fete32]

lol @ the bark in the beginning of the song.

[CarnifexAaron]

wtf lool

[grindcoremaniac]

government issue rocks. their really underrated and fell below the radar back in the 80's.

[spikedheart]

now thats punk rock

[dannyandhisbass]

cumon guys

they made his video for just about 22 dollars

i have the dvd talking about it

[fftl36cfafi]

it reminds me of nofx's videos shut up already and mr jones.

[Evilmindslo]

wtf

[josefmoore]

this is great because compared to ll the punk videos this ones by far the most punk rock, in no way are they tring to look bad ass their just doing their thing and having fun, i mean come on maracas and a tambourine, how serious do you think these guys are?

[7r188l35]

Lolz, Hilarious...

[666daedsidog]

I would listen to this again

Might flag the vid though

Sort it out boys Just a vid of yous jamming in a basement would have been fine

[madmaestro2021]

have you notice the how punk are you quiz has an emo kid on it

[Skaajj]

love the bass line...and funky video woo

[thefvck]

uhhhhhhhhhhhhh lol

[unoriginalsellout]

loves it!!

[angelicsnoww]

cool

[iMaxzz]

lmao

[angeldiploid]

coollll

[HarrySackthatsme]

YEEEAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!