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Danger. Ruckus. Riot.

by Moon Bandits

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dangerchris85 Got the vinyl version with Tommy's zine, very happy with it. Thanks for hooking it up with some stickers I can slap on instruments y'all.

I have been rocking this album for awhile and needed it in my physical collection, and highly recommend snatching it up before they are gone.

Quickly became one of my favorite albums.
This band shows us why punk and social commentary goes hand in hand, and we're all better for it. Favorite track: Flowers.
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Academic Cannibal this is the kind of folk punk you listen to before going to an anti-ice protest. It’s like the calm before the storm, with enough storm inside of it to get you fired up.
I’ve been listening to this album for hours at a time.
I love it. Favorite track: Wilkes County.
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scythe Never stop loving and learning y’all! Favorite track: Emergency Hearts.
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1.
Absolutes 02:08
I'm not as angry as I was before 15 years old, ya say but I'm running on desperate fumes from a slowin' train I'm still looking for changes that come rushin' forward But I didn't bring my white flag with me off to war Cause there's a world comin' down and around yeah there's a change comin' anyhow, anyhow I'm not always right like I used to think when I was growin' up And I don't think it's up to me to change everything that's wrong with the world but But I'll keep on standing up for the things that I think are right And try to remind myself that there are absolutes in a colorful world Cause there's a world comin' down and around yeah there's a change comin' anyhow, anyhow (x2)
2.
We were in wilkes county georgia, on our way to california, we were stopped by a man in blue, he asked us where we were off to, when we told him where we were from, he told us what he knew of the land of the sun, told us it was filled with those types, mostly the type that he didn't like WOAH! WOAH! WOAH! Then he used some words that I will not say when talking about folx from other races told us that the only good thing that ever happened in california was when a young black man got his ass beat down by his fellows in blue on the payment ground it was the los angeles police department taking down rodney king WOAH! WOAH! WOAH! now i know it pained him to bring white men in but causalities of war are bound to happen besides we were from the west coast and we had a quarter pound of swag when they shut us in that cell and we looked around that hell we couldn't help but notice everyone was black you could tell there was something shady going on in wilkes county georgia WOAH! WOAH! WOAH! now we made some friends that say we'd be fine said that white boys round here don't do no time yeah you just got to wait you'll see sure enough, couple weeks later we were walking outta jail just as free as can be no charges, no charges for me WOAH! WOAH! WOAH! this shit happens everyday white folx get off black and brown folx pay while i realize the drug war has victims of every race you gotta look deeper at the prison system so you could see the new jim crow vision as they say stop looking at the wires start looking at the cage WOAH! WOAH! WOAH! PRISONS ARE OBSOLETE
3.
All We Want 02:34
we're not that lost and hope lives on yeah there's a way outta this one i know there's been some damage we've all picked it up some more than others lets not help it along lets reach out and help out lets stop this puttin' each other down we've gotta live a different way than what we've been shown today change takes some work finger pointing leaves us feeling empty and deserted and when we learn to treat each other right hell maybe we'll sleep like humans tonight lets reach out lets help out lets stop this puttin' each other down we've gotta live a different way than what we've been shown today i know you're great your intentions are great the same all we want is everything in this world to change please remember you weren't always the same please remember those times when ya changed please remember and compassion will reign freedom comes from when we stop perpetuating pain woah, woah, woah woah
4.
Flowers 02:38
we've been looking for an easier and softer way for change to come in a political age but you know what they say you know what they say you know what they say you know what they say they say the revolution doesn't come with flowers it comes with heartache and rage and pain and loss in the wake we've been following that cult of personality again and looking for change to come from leaders today but you know what they say you know what they say you know what they say you know what they say they say the revolution doesn't come with flowers it comes with heartache and rage and pain and loss in the wake but it also comes with love and hope commitment courage and strength so here's to change in our minds in our worlds (x3) here's to change
5.
we've been diggin' through granite we've been wading through laws we've been searchin' through seasons for the rise and the fall we've been beggin' for answers we've been lyin' for hope we've been actin' as if yeah for the rise and the fall but in the end we've taken all the love we had in the end we've built one giant wall in the end we've taken all the rage we had built an empire to conquer them all we've been stealin' our freedom we've been playin' with lives explotin' the people its the rise and the fall we've been votin' for changes drone strikes full of hope now we're feelin' the bern yeah it's the rise and the fall but in the end we've taken all the love we had in the end we've build one giant wall in the end we've taken all the rage we had built an empire to conquer them all
6.
500 Years 03:37
Oh its the time of year again when people sit down and have dinner with friends talk about what they're grateful for who they love and how they feel about them and I'm just here to remind you that this land was colonized and stolen by you and while you sit down for dinner water cannons are being blasted at native protesters and there's a war it's been going on 500 years before you were born Oh its thanksgiving again and kelsea warrens gonna have dinner with friends they're gonna have some turkey and drink expensive wine while tryin' to make money off that fuckin' pipeline and i'm just here to remind you that this land was colonized and stolen by you and while you sit down for dinner water cannons are being blasted at native protesters and there's a war it's been going on 500 years before you were born so it's that time of year again when you tell yourself that your nothing like kelsea warren when you get mad at your rageful friends for reminding you we profit off native lands and i'm just here to remind you that this land was colonized and stolen by you and while you sit down for dinner water cannons are being blasted at native protesters and there's a war its been goin' on 500 years before you were born
7.
your world will fall oh its a guarantee cause the way we live lacks sustainability and i know what that word means cant sell it to me but you've been doin' wrong and this you'll come to see the way that you treat life well it aint right treatin' animals, mountains and the sea as it they aren't finite they world deserves to live without the fear you give you've been colonizing far too long its time you don't win fuck you for taking my life fuck you for teaching me not to live right fuck your house by the sea fuck you profitability fuck your racist cops and your prisons that never stop fuck your border walls and your corporate protection laws but your world will fall oh it's a guarantee cause nothin' last forever can't you see
8.
I was born in the suburbs of los angeles on the south side where the cloud factories blow up where the 110 goes to die i remember the mercados now they're 99 cent stores when i drive by and by harbor greens they're flyin' luxury condo signs and you call it progress when you run folx from their homes will you call it progress when we've taken everything that you own now i'm 35 years old the rents have gone up every year we moved from the south side by the 210 way up here but we've running outta place to hide there's no where left to go my comrades holdin' down their blocks tryin' to keep them out ya know and you call it progress when you run folx from their homes will you call it progress when we've taken everything that you own shit i've got 2 kids one is 10 and we gotta new born and i just wanna raise them in the place that i called home but it's gettin' harder to do in what you call an economic boom and as each year passes by i'm gettin' tired of the new move
9.
I see you in the streets with my daughter next to me she's afraid of the noise but she loves your words and your voice and you're beautiful shining bright like a cop car burning in the night with our baby in our arms we will scream no more presidents till a day when we put an end to this white supremacist nation and you're beautiful shining bright like a cop car burning in the night
10.
There's a part of me that says things will never change the idealist in me kills those thoughts everyday there's a part of me that says run away bit the love in me stays here to rage and that love runs through every anarchist blood its a love so strong they can't give it up There's a sadness in me, it takes over for days why must so many spend their lives locked away they give up their lives and those that they love in hopes their sacrifice will better our cause And that love runs through every anarchist blood its a love so strong they can't give it up Till a day when property and prisons are no more when we tell our brothers and sisters to just take what they need and while new oppression continue to arise the revolution will never subside and that love runs through every anarchist blood it's a love so strong they can't give it up Yeah that love runs through every anarchist blood it's a love so strong please don't give it up
11.
Angry Boy 02:57
and we told the sky to rain told the people to get a long today neither listened to a word we said so we packed up and we jumped into our beds woke up, had a cup or two oh whats an angry boy like me to do oh we told the bugs to quit eating our food told the police to put down their guns and join the people too neither listened to a word we said so we packed up and we jumped into our beds woke up, had a cup or two whats an angry boy like me to do we asked our landlord to quit raising our rent told the mra's to go get bent neither listened to a word we said so we packed up and we jumped into our beds woke up, had a cup or two oh what's an angry boy like me to do
12.
everything that i know is rooted in oppression and i don't know i could kill it with the revolutionary man what i'm looking for what i need is any help that i can get so i'm asking no i'm begging oh i think i'm feeling sick so that way that we change is hard you see but a way to change is what we need everything that i know has been corrupted all the pages that i read have words i want to see what i'm looking for what i need will turn theory into practice so i'm asking no i'm begging oh i think i'm feeling sick so the way that i change is hard you see but a way to change is what i need
13.
can you give me some answers can you tell me some lies i'll take anything this time sometimes i give everything i got just to stay alive had a daughter when i was young gettin' older she's still growing up and i still don't have the answers to life but i swear that by this time tomorrow i'll have it all figured out yeah i swear without a shadow of a doubt my kk got older she passed away not long ago and my grandmas gettin' older too oh i love my mom it's her birthday today, whatcha think about that oh sometimes i wish i did a better job of being her son but i swear that by this time tomorrow i'll have it all figured out yeah i swear without a shadow of a doubt oh i've gotta great partner and we've gotta great life together ya know and though i don't know how to do it we've been trying the best we know when things around us are tough we look at each other and we shut the fuck up yeah sometimes silent moments are all we can conjure up but i swear that by this time tomorrow i'll have it all figured out yeah i swear without a shadow of a doubt
14.
Empires 03:24
and as much as you try there's always a wall staying optimistic until the fall cheatin' and lyin' denying hoping that one day we all just get along but sometimes we all realize that some people sleep fine at night while they're killing and stealing from us all so what's the solution? is it armed revolution? or a simple change in wealth distribution? well, i don't know i'm dumb as they go but the world has gotten so cold killing the people who want to live simple and they say they're protecting us ya know the koch brothers ways are corrupting today and they're paying for a war on us all here come the waltons to cute down the unions with john mackey's book on conscious capitalism so dollars it seems are good for few things like oppressing the people and building the bombs they say killing some is necessary to keep peace in the world and while i agree all the terrorists that i see are wearing suits protecting empires with laws well, i don't know i'm dumb as they go but the world has gotten so cold

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released March 20, 2020

Tommy danger
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Paul Roessler

Record at kitten robot studios in los angeles, CA

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