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  • Being from AL, we had very few local bands worth a damn. There was some good shit like the Knockabouts and Ether Dogs, look them up. We had to do serious ;eg work to go to shows or find music. It wasn't so much East,West, Boston,etc. However, after finding out about Portland and Poison Idea specifically,it was all over with. The misanthropic feeling of Poison Idea's music is the soundtrack for the dead city of Birmingham and the ongoing disparity of conscious southerners.Cheers!

  • I have to respect the Poison Idea fans that appreciate the job that Pantera did covering this. For some reason a lot of fans take great offense to other bands covering their favourite songs. Why? Not sure.. IMO a cover shows a lot of respect to the people who created the original.

  • Taxi Driver sample...love these guys already

  • Lol. Before I came on to this I knew people would be talking shite about Pantera or Poison Idea. My predictions were right!! Seriously though, why don't we all just shut up and listen? People arguing all the time here. We should be at peace!!

  • Don't care what metal band covered it - this is a great hardcore tune

  • I just now found out that Pantera's version was the cover, so I had to hear the original, and I've got to say that I like this one a lot in a different way. This sounds messy and old school hardcore punk, and I love music like that. I like both versions a lot in different ways.

  • the vocals in pantera's is better i personally think

  • Eh, I like the Pantera version more myself, but that doesn't mean its better. Its the same song, but different. I don't see the need in starting shit-fights over intangible things.

  • who cares if pantera did it better,or if poison idea did it better.isnt the fact of the matter that its just a great bloody song.

  • Ya know what?I wrote this fuckin song and I like Pantera,but I also like The Smiths, Dock Boggs,GISM,Syd Barrett and The Felice Brothers. Point being,Good music is good music.Thats all. Jerry A. 2011.

  • @detrimental56 Mate, if you are indeed Jerry A... well said. But you can't reason with boneheads. And I'd like to thank you and the band for being there. I've been a fan for more than 20 years despite you buggers never coming to Australia (although a bunch of us did see you sing with the Hard Ons at the Big Day Out in Adelaide in 1992). Poison Idea set a very high bar for punk rock attitude and musicianship. Onya.

  • @detrimental56 Jerry A. likes GISM. Jerry A. is right.

  • @detrimental56 fuckin love ya Jerry. come back to Boston someday.

  • nothing is better then Poison Idea.... fuck Pantera...Phil Anselmo is a junkie poser

  • Panteras version is heavier and better!

    METAL \m/

  • @Thrasher5251 heavier isn't better... poison idea original is still better. more attitude.

  • @Thrasher5251 SCREW YOU

  • i listened to these guys before i even listened to pantera. so.............. rockman56765 is wrong.......

  • Sworn to serve and protect forget the killing, badge wearing fascist villain!

  • Dedicated to all the freedom fighters of the world! "Do you think this corruption will ever stop, what makes a person want to be a cop...??"

  • fuck Pantera, glam rock queers that jumped the thrash bandwagon too late. their cover of this song was a travesty. no Poison Idea, no thrash. no thrash, no Glamtera. FUCK the weak redneck bullshit that was Pantera. Poison Idea OWNS them any day of the week.

  • @dethkult Idiot,PanterA cover is fuckin awesome,you're a fagbitch...Pantera is the best Heavy Band ,and your comment showthat you are a sucker!

  • @MrMartchellosouza You are a fucking dip shit. Go the fuck away you new metal fag.

  • @dethkult actually pantera switched when phillip anselmo joined. the other singer was the main carrier of that shit...

  • @dethkult you sir are a flaming faggot. i wouldnt expect you to like pantera! thats music for MEN@!

  • what the fuck ever happened to Tiny Tim and why didn't i know about it goddamit!?

  • hey, it mainlines the jams to my brain. that's really all that matters i guess. grew up with PI

  • You crazy sonofabitch!.....i'll kill you!, i'll kill you!! nice cut. Suck on this! Primus ripped it off.

  • @MrKatana1100sz Combined, Tom and Jerry A were about 850 pounds. I'm not sure most stages would hold much more than that. Adding Tad, may have been a tad too much.

  • @MrKatana1100sz I can assure you, you would have been more than welcome on the couch in the basement. Tom was generous with all his fans. I remember when Jerry went to Australia..  Tom actually hated touring because he would always get sick at every other town they would stop in. He never got to do any sightseeing because they were always on a tight schedule. Yeah, I loved Tom. He was a real gentleman. He rewponded to a lot of people in Australia. He knew you guys were there.

  • @MrKatana1100sz They were in fact genius. See above.

  • Tom Roberts aka Pig Champion was my roommate for the last ten years of his life. I discovered him dead the morning of January 331, 2006.

    The band practiced in our basement and produced their on label, management, production and marketing. They toured the world even when they had habits to contend with. Tom was a very generous, respectful guy. He was very moral but yet self-destructive. Jerry was the same way. I don't know if you know but Slayer is in the pen on an armed robbery attempt.

  • fuck the police

  • i had no idea the pantera one was a poison idea cover

  • Fuck Pantera

  • @onestep2farclown Fuck you : )

  • @onestep2farclown for what?

  • people say that the Pantera version is better but it is not. It sounds better becasue it is better produced and mixed PLUS Pantera is metal and Poison Idea is punk.

  • @TheDirks1 This has WAY better production. DImebag's guitar sounds like absolute shit on Pantera's cover and there's virtually no low end

  • can't hardly tell the difference. pantera pretty much did a note for note cover.

  • dumb band name!!!!

  • @likestojam i disagree.

  • @PlymouthCountyMusic well your allowed too ;-)

  • original always will rule over covers

  • @afroeroticus unless covered by megadeth or metallica haha

  • love that song and the album cover

  • what do you mean wasted oppertunity?

  • @dstone1st I mean on a song about crooked facsit cops... why are we not talking about that? Instead of PI vs Pantera. Where are the real hardcore punks these days?

  • Hmm... lots of people barking about the origninal vs Pantera. And yeah cool, lots of pro PI comments.

    But come on... this is a song about how facist pigs suck. Get with it. Lets do some cop and authority bashing that is what this song and HxC is all about. Talk about a wasted oppertunity.

  • y fukin kidding ! a hate the bizzies !,,,as for take that,there a bunch of tossers ! lol . . . . . . . . led zep,,bob dylan,,deep purple,,small faces,,the who,,the clash,,sum of the stuff a like . . .

  • I love PanterA...but this original version is better, so wild, aggressive and pure!

  • PanterA Owned this song !

  • pure shite !!

  • @tapsahtip This is a classic punk cut, from one of the best punk bands of all time.

  • @tapsahtip Are you member of the Police force or a 'Take That' fan?

  • FUCK UM ALL!!!

  • Hey, go back to your fuckin' tribe before you get hurt, huh man. Do me a favor, I don't want no trouble, huh. Okay?

    You got a gun?

    Get the fuck outta here, man. Get outta here!

    Suck on this.

  • Took me a while to remember it, but I love the Taxi Driver sample in this song :)

  • Pantera covered it?

    I thought they were some redneck ass band at first lol.

    Although, I didn't like slayer till I heard the album "Undisputed Attitude"

  • As many others on here did, I heard Pantera's version first. When I found it was a cover, I wanted to find the original on here and never found it until now. That said, I can't say either one is better. Pantera's is tuned lower and sounds a bit cooler with that crunch Dime had, but still sounds exactly like this one without deviation. Listen to them back-to-back and you'll hear that Pantera paid a lot of attention to what they were recording to ensure they paid proper respect to this band.

  • Pantera's version is in a lower key probably C# Fucking awesome song though, this and the pantera version.

  • hmm theirs a cop that lives next door to me ... he might just be getting this song =] illegaly downloaded and burned of course

  • what makes a person wanna be a cop????

  • @fletcher70 Doughnuts.

  • HARDCORE TRUTH IN THESE LYRICS. FUCKING BRUTAL.

  • @NOFCKINGSURRENDER some of the best punk lyrics I've heard so far

  • Badge Wearing Fascist Villains!!!!!!!

  • love panteras cover but this is amazing

  • Yeah I'm an idiot. just got into Poison idea. Never knew Pantera covered it. Thought it was an original from them. I'm an ass.

  • @notforyou760 Me too! i thought exactly the same so from now on you have an ass partner LOL!

  • This is awesome. . .

    Seriously, people, no need to mention Pantera. I dont think any of us would even know about this song if we didnt hear their version first.

  • first of all pantera and primus suck dont even compare to poisen idea

  • @badluckfarms fuck you idiot,Pantera Rocks!!

  • i guess you don't know what good hard core punk really is and go fuck your self dick licker

  • @rockman56765 actually, i heard this version way before i heard the pantera version. i didn't know pantera covered it until a week ago.

  • @rockman56765 um I think that is bullshit. Pretty much heard this song before I even knew Pantera covered it.

  • @rockman56765

    Are you serious? hahahaha

  • @rockman56765 Speak for yourself, poser. I knew about Poison Idea long before I found out Fagtera covered them.

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  • This song is great. I'd prefer Pantera's cover though. (I hardly ever prefer a cover of a song)

  • ACAB in TX.

  • fuck yeah!!!!!!! i love these guys!! PANTERA did a great cover!!!

  • i first heard panteras version and i instantly knew it was a punk cover but i didnt know from what band until now :)

  • Had no idea pantera's version was a cover until just now lol.

  • @adri2771 It really depends on what YOU classify as punk rock. For me the last of that was in the early nineties. Everything that comes out now that claims to be punk rock, well that's why have special genres like indie rock.

  • Poison Idea......respect. Fucking brilliant.

  • yeahhh!!!

  • simply amazing . .

  • this is the first time listening to this (which is actually really interesting) and i must say that i like panteras cover alot more! especially with the solo! dimebag really created something out of it by putting more energy into it. no disrespect to all the poison idea fans out there.

  • FUCKIN LOVE IT , PROPER FUCKIN HARDCORE HOW MUSIC SHOULD B

  • good fucking hardcore song

  • @Dangermanumber6

    Duuuuude......you have no fucking clue. Hair-metal... xD

  • @AnselmoFanZero Oh so Pantera was never a hair metal band??? I guess you've never heard of Diamond Darrell and Rex Rocker?? "Duuuuude" you big ole McRebel.

  • @Dangermanumber6

    4 words you stupid asshole:

    Check....out...my....channel

  • @AnselmoFanZero Nice Laser, but Pantera's still a bunch of prefab who cashed in. Poison Idea didn't. Most of the 80's one was hardcore, and one was hairspray and spandex. I'll take the 100% genuine article, and you can have the one selling key chains.

  • @Dangermanumber6

    Thanks, but I wasnt talking about the lasers...I meant the 80ies stuff. Of course I know they were "glam" back then, but Phil changed that. You cant call Pantera gay man. Actually Phil was pissed because they became bigger and "more popular"...

  • @Dangermanumber6 Amen! RIP Pig Champion!

  • Most intelligent punk rock anti-police song alongside police truck! Thus proving alcohol,drugs and self abuse have fuck all with fucking up the brain! You're either born thick or Not thick enough to buy into it. P.s its not the police that fuck me off! Its the bent,corrupt and self-serving excuse's for a human carcass that do the most damage. Power corrupts and absolute corrupts all.

  • pantera gave mass credit by covering this tune

  • fuck the police!

  • @MrJTMagnum23 try to kill one

  • ACAB!!!!

  • @Mahmood42978 Eh, I kinda liked it, then again, it was probably the lower tuning that did it for me, and Dime. But I feel like their cover of this was more of a tribute than anything, like Metallica covering the Misfits, same shit.

  • I FUCKIN HATE COPS and LOVE all songs against em!!!

  • P-Town Represent

  • Kick ass song, I like the cover too, sounds the same musically. just different vocals

  • fuck the police!

  • Fkn kick ass song!!!!!

    I like the Pantera cover too!!!!

  • RIOT!!

  • Poison idea the best fucking show ever ..... EVER

  • Travis Bickle Rulez

  • sorry as good as pantera are, this version is better, but then i prefer hardcore anyway.

  • you sucks...poser!

  • ...stupid kid

  • first of this is not metal is hardcore XD and 2nd nobody who likes real metal cares because its fucking hardcore

  • even though i like panteras cover better than the original, i respect these guys, a shit ton. they are original, genuine rebels.  this song has a lot of power.

  • to each their own but i thought this song was perfect the way poison idea did it.  plus i'm not really the biggest pantera fan.

  • @nihilism80 i can respect that.

  • Look everybody two people are having an intelligent respectable difference of opinion on youtube!

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  • @humanremains2 little late on that comment, bud?  lol...laugh if you must, but it's my opinion. i respect yours, and the one thing im asking you to do is respect mine =P.

  • the difference is PI were actual street punks who dealt with fascist portland cops on a daily basis whereas pantera are rock stars with lawyers.

  • laynecobain6794 you're an idiot...

  • I agree, as much as I like Poison Idea, I thought Pantera's cover was much better. Maybe its cause of the riffs.

  • Yeah it is definitely the riffs but it is also Phil's powerful voice that fucking makes this song sound better than the original. Pantera rocks!

  • the badge means you suck...a child lays there dead...as you look back...what goes through your head

  • pantera cover is great....but this cant be bettered

  • it's better the pantera's version.

  • Theyre the best, RIP pig x

  • i just find out that pantera had cover it its a good song

  • good shit always thought this was a pantera original

  • A band that Pantera and Machine head cover? How aren't these guys super massive? Their shit's excellent!

  • Because they're the real deal. They're not cute and they don't suck media cock

  • Guns n roses covered them as well. New Rose.

  • Sorry, man; New Rose was the Damned, and they've got about ten years on Poison Idea

  • @skinlikewinter10

    new rose is a Damned song PI covered

  • fuckin smart

  • its funny 2 years ago when you tried looking for this song.......you COULDN'T on youtube HAHAHAHAHAHAH

  • great song

  • i like hardcore punk, just like i like metal. i love this original and pantera's version, hell fucking yeah! cops, pigs, murderers.

  • I remember being in 6th grade back in '96 when I first heard this song played by Pantera off the Crow soundtrack and thirteen years later I find out it's a cover. Makes me wonder what the hell else I may be oblivious to.

  • Lmao I just found out it's a cover 2 minutes ago xD

  • no this is the original  pantera covered it

  • same hahaha

  • shits hard

  • This song is as beautiful as a white hot bullet in a cops face

  • thanks for putting this song on you tube

  • this is fucking awsome!!!

    FUCK ALL THE PIGS!!!!

  • fuckin classic. love the pantera's cover, really. two amazing versions of the same song. really fuckin great punk rock. and i hate almost 90% of punk pussy rock.

  • @adri2771 pussy? what the fuck are you talking about

  • @jakenfriedlove that in my modest opinion - its just mine, im not a dictator or some like that - i think that most punk rock sucks. pussy punk rock. as any genre you can cut 95% and save the rest, I THINK, but its mine way of thinkin. no problem if someone love everyfuckinsong in a music genre. i used to listen everything, and then i choose whats better and what not good for me. im so fuckin clear. cheers man, ciao

  • @adri2771 wow, you have no clue. if it wasnt for punk, metal wouldnt have even gotten extreme. a shit ton of metal bands are inspired by hardcore punk, especially discharge and shit. i wouldnt call punk pussy at all cuz their is some pretty fucking extreme punk out their

  • @adri2771 it's really a sign of patheticness when your only reference to this song is a Pantera cover, keep your mall-metal nonsense out of this. This is Hardcore music tried and tried and true; false metal can die.

  • patheticness? why? the fuck are you sayng? mall metal nonsense? this is real hard core, and i know it. in the past times i used to tell people like you: what a jerk are you? but now im not rude, and i dislike to insult people, really. so i tell simply: don't tell stupid things. i love real MUSIC, no matter if some people say mall metal or tried tried tried hard core. i simply love real badass music. from john zorn to diamanda galas and all in between. so long, bye, ciao

  • @adri2771 categorizing... root of all facism, isnt it?!

  • @GetgreeD maybe yes man, but i don't want to talk about labels and categories in particular. im talkin about "good and evil, right and wrong (music in this case)". ok, just jokin; im usin' some parts from a bush senior speech that i found on a ministry song. aniway Punk Rock is a great music genre, and if you find the very best of it it's even better.

  • @GetgreeD er...I think you'll find that the Roman Empire, if anything, is the root of fascism...all it is is the power of the state over the people, I don't see what categorization has to do with anything...

  • @adri2771 what do you mean by 'puck pussy rock'? My tastes have broadened so much with punk lately, that I think pretty much all of it's good apart from the commercial pop punk shite made by those winy girly men

  • @SROCeallaigh just that 90% of punk rock to me sucks hard. TO ME. it's just my opinion, i don't want to harass nobody. for me you all can listen to polka 24/7, and i'll never still give a fuck. peace man

  • Heard this is the crow soundtrack as a kid. Thought PanterA wrote it but Someone on youtube posted a comment claiming "Poison Idea" as the original writers.

    I am diggin' the band for sure. Poison Idea rocks the shit.  5/5 as usual for these guys

  • Check out "Alans On Fire" by them. An Awesome song which Machine Head covered

  • good upload man, poison idea fuckin rule

  • great unknown band heavy and to the point !how do you feel about cops

  • First time I heard this song was by Pantera, I like this version too, but it's a bit slow compared to what i'm used to...