PARANOIA PUNK ROCK – No Doctor
No, that’s the way it was supposed to sound and look! Rock n’ roll, and, especially, its unhinged cousin punk-rock, was always supposed to be the kind of thing that scared your mother, made your teachers want to kick you out of school and forced society to look upon you like someone it had no use for. It was supposed to be ugly, loud and not make sense for anyone except for true devotees.
But where do you go from there? Living that kind of life certainly involves a lot of risk-taking, the ability to lose friends and smile about and a genuine lack of concern for how people see you. However, for those who take the risks, the benefits are clear – you get to maintain your freedom when most lose theirs. This is precisely what PARANOIA PUNK ROCK are doing all for.
The first thing you’ll notice about “No Doctor” is that it’s a fun, explosive, smash-and-grab affair not unlike a Ramones tune. The other important thing to note here is that this is a protest song about the world trying to grind you down to their level. Fools! Nothing can’t keep a good punk-rocker down, and these Chileans prove it.
Toifel – Kinderaugen
The propaganda machine is always working and, for the most part, has one consistent goal – to get you to comply with rules without starting any trouble. And, to be fair, for the most part, it doesn’t even have to try very hard when it comes to most people.
There are various methods this can be implemented, but inducing anxiety is, certainly, the most efficient. People complain nowadays that the news bulletin covers one crisis after another, but when hasn’t it been that way?
After being knocked around by all these attempts at division for so long, eventually, you start asking if you need to hear the news at all. Maybe there’s a better way? And, maybe it starts with tuning out the static as Toifel advertises here.
“Kinderaugen” sounds like an old-tattooed biker giving you a lecture about the importance of innocence. It’s startling and, most likely, the truth. Toifel delivers a nasty punk performance about the importance of looking up at the sky from time to time and about figuring out how to detach from all of the stresses of modern life, meant merely to make existence on this planet worse. Wise punk slogans!
