Walter Schreifels: Society Suckers

Walter Schreifels doing Agnostic Front's Society Suckers
Video by Ray Parada

A few words from Walter himself:

Agnostic Front vs. Mozart

Victim In Pain by Agnostic Front is one of my favorite records of all time, it's classical music. If you don't know this album I highly recommend that you get familiar with it. Don't be scared away by the misleading artwork, although that's part of the album's "Power" (title of a song on VIP) AF's music fights against fascism and the attitudes of fascists ("Fascist Attitudes")

I think cavemen would have liked Victim In Pain better than anything Mozart ever came up with, or the Beatles. If you had to get psyched up to kill a Wooly Mammoth, would you listen to The Beatles with Sgt. Pepper on french horn or Victim In Pain with Vinny Stigma on lead? I can almost hear the cave men screaming (if they had developed language) STIGMA!!!

It's timeless music, post apocalypse Mad Max people will be rocking to it in a thousand years. Do you think anyone is gonna give a shit about The Shins when you could be raped, lit on fire, dragged by a motorcycle and killed for a liter of gas (which kind of defeats the purpose)? Shit, Apes from Planet Of The Apes would love AF, though the Chimps and Orangutans maybe not as much.

Anyhoo, it's not a music competition, I like The Shins and there is a place for them too but I think that Victim In Pain is more important and unique in the evolution of music, art, mankind, that it goes beyond indie rock and steps into Smithsonian Institute territory.

For that reason I covered AF's Society Suckers from Victim In Pain. My version doesn't approach the aggressive power of the original but I had fun interpreting it, an homage. I think of it as classic folk song like "This Land Is Your Land", I wish Woody Guthrie would do a version in the time/space continuum.

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[blueballs9000]

oh Walter, never disappoints.

[ROAsXe]

Walter has done it again. With great pop sensibilities and a crate of tuneful references, he has plucked out this gem to cover? NICE! A fantastic idea that works for the whole minute and forty-seven seconds! Great song and video!

[nyhchardcoremusic]

much better than lavalettes cover of cro mags malfunction

[RANCIDROBO]

I love this video, I loved this the first time I heard it.

[SergiFuss]

I have listened to this tune about 20 times, and all this time I've been holding 2 words: Just Great. Hope you ever have a chance to come over to Barcelona Walter, thank you.

[aiden1717]

@baikinmon Yeah, all that being said is very true. Many Punk Rockers out there old and new either accept the fact that Punk Rock in itself is evolving and changing or they don't. It goes for every genre of music. Otherwise if music never evolved or changed from the original sound there wouldn't be all these sub-genres. Jello Biafra is a huge influence on my views of music and many, many, many others in the mainstream who grew up in the "Punk Rock" environment. Punk Rock will always be my passion

[baikinmon]

@aiden1717 You're probably on to this, but that's the exact mindset that Jello was singing about in Nazi Punks Fuck Off. The wiki said it was against the Neo Nazi punks at the time, but also, Jello in an interview said it was against the punk purists at the time that were unwilling to accept that punk was evolving.

[baikinmon]

@aiden1717 You're probably on to this, but that's the exact mindset that Jello was singing about in Nazi Punks Fuck Off. The wiki said its against the Neo Nazi punks at the time, but also, Jello in an interview said it was against the punk purists at the time that were unwilling to accept that punk was evolving.

[skullhacks78]

@aiden1717 Erm... just spend a day listening to maximumrocknroll [dot] com and your hardcore creativity will increase :P also doing ska might be wierd without someone with a trumpet or other typical ska instruments

[aiden1717]

@skullhacks78 That's very understandable.. and I feel you on that one about how people are so mindfucked that not most but many sound likethe watered down version of a harcore band. Depressing really :/ I actually just started playing in a band with some buddies of mine and we're all into hardcore, punk, pop-punk, ska, etc. all different kinds of music genres together to make our own sound I guess.