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"We Are Hard Left" is the debut album from Hard Left. Brought together by the music, held together by the outrage -- Hard Left are a hard-mod/punk band borne out of a desire to explore leftist political ideas and marry them to rabble-rousing music worthy of the worldwide struggle against capital. Far from a dry exercise in doctrinaire thought, Hard Left's songs are great punk first and foremost, and ripping good fun.

The band members have been involved with punk and DIY music for nearly a century combined, including time in bands like Boyracer, Jüke, Whorl, Lunchbox and Black Tambourine, and operating the respected labels 555, Emotional Response and Slumberland Records. Initial Hard Left recording sessions in Spring 2014 led to the release of two limited edition lathe-cut singles, the Situationist-inspired "What's That Sound?" and the tough-as-nails "Safety." The band set to writing and in August 2014 gathered in the desert of Flagstaff, AZ to record. The results were two more singles ("Skinheads Home For Christmas" and a split 7" with Bad Daddies, both released in December 2014), and now this album.

"We Are Hard Left" is a concise and explosive punk record, packed with anthems of resistance and calls to action. These are crucial times that we live in, and Hard Left seek to inspire and invigorate. The opener "New Year" sets out the band's stall in fine fashion, urging listeners to "give up false needs" and embrace new beginnings. They follow with the blasting "Hard Left Rules OK," a call to arms if ever there was one. The album is tightly edited, each song on the heels of the previous one, exemplifying the group's eagerness to broadcast their message and energize their fans.

To that end, rousing chants and noisy interludes are interspersed throughout, cheeky but pointed references to their mod forebears and street-level terrace "politics." The message is always positive, the underlying mood is of hopefulness. "Hand In Hand" is an exhilarating call for solidarity and collective action, while "Future Perfect" imagines a world where the people were the true beneficiaries of the surplus created by progress, the perfect future we were all promised during the golden age of capitalism. Previous singles "Safety" and "Stay True" appear in re-recorded form, hard as nails and fitting in perfectly.

From the super-tough "Kicking If Off" to the Occupy-inspired "Red Flag" and the supremely uplifting (and also Situationist-inspired) closer "Imagination," this is a record that hits hard, crammed with guitars that soar and rage, group chants and raw-throated vocals. It's anthemic in the best way -- inspiring but never heavy-handed, a worthy successor to records by bands like The Clash, Stiff Little Fingers, Sex Pistols and The Dils.  Call it "utopian Oi" if you will, or "hard mod" or just plain punk, but don't miss out on this passionate, thrilling record.


Hard Left are:
Mike: exhortations
Donna: bass, vocals
Tim: guitar, vocals
Stewart: drums, vocals


Hard Left - New Year

Hard Left is a political punk band inspired by liberatory leftist movements of the past and present. Our music is a soundtrack for direct action, an invitation to critical thought and a challenge to complacency. We privilege the "we" over the "I" and argue for the centrality of class struggle in our collective battle against neoliberalism, authoritarianism and imperialism. Hard Left believes in the power of art to enlighten as well as entertain, and we strive to do both.

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Here are 84 carefully compiled HQ playlists and a few trx 4 u. 
In June 2016 I switched my first playlist from privat to public ... thereof …
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34 playlists
with with a total of 17,000 Punk Rock tracks that are unique among each other; titled ->
-> Punk Rock . . 15 playlists
-> Punk . . . . . . .13 playlists
-> Punkrock . . . . 6 playlists
Switch just by changing the final number of the url. from
https://soundcloud.com/its_all_seven/sets/punk-rock-1
up to
https://soundcloud.com/its_all_seven/sets/punk-rock-34
.

16 playlists
with special selected Punk songs; sharing unique criteria or a certain kind of sub style; independent, frei, unabhängig titled ->
-> Antifa
-> Oi Punk
. . .https://soundcloud.com/its_all_seven/sets/oi-punk
-> Art Punk
. . .https://soundcloud.com/its_all_seven/sets/punk-rock-experimental-art
-> Epic Punk
. . .https://soundcloud.com/its_all_seven/sets/punk-rock-epic
-> Garage Punk
. . .https://soundcloud.com/its_all_seven/sets/punk-rock-garage
-> Melodic Punk
. . .https://soundcloud.com/its_all_seven/sets/punk-rock-melodic
-> Tea time Punk
. . .https://soundcloud.com/its_all_seven/sets/punk-rock-teatime
-> Nowadays Punk
. . .https://soundcloud.com/its_all_seven/sets/punk-rock-nowadays
-> Old School Punk
. . .https://soundcloud.com/its_all_seven/sets/punk-rock-oldschool
-> All-Female Punk
. . .https://soundcloud.com/its_all_seven/sets/punk-rock-all-female
-> American Idiot [DT]
. . .https://soundcloud.com/its_all_seven/sets/donald-trump-wtf
-> Christmas Punk Rock
-> covered or remixed Punk
-> Hardcore Punk Rock
. . .https://soundcloud.com/its_all_seven/sets/punk-rock-speed
-> Deutsch Punk Rock Is Made In Germany
-> Punk Rock Party 'n' Pogo, Pub 'n' Beer, Drunk 'n' . . .Drugs - United Punx 'n' Last Call  - Oi!
. . .https://soundcloud.com/its_all_seven/sets/party-punk
.

20
 playlists
[NOT Punk Rock] compiled by a certain music genre or motto; titled ->
-> Ska
. . .https://soundcloud.com/its_all_seven/sets/ska
-> Blues
-> Piano
-> Trance
-> Best of ...
. . .https://soundcloud.com/its_all_seven/sets/best_of
-> Psytrance
-> Psychobilly
. . .https://soundcloud.com/its_all_seven/sets/psychobilly
-> Playlist no. 7
. . .https://soundcloud.com/its_all_seven/sets/no_7
-> Melodic Rock
. . .https://soundcloud.com/its_all_seven/sets/rock-melodic
-> Minimal Techno
. . .https://soundcloud.com/its_all_seven/sets/minimal-2
-> Alternative Rock
https://soundcloud.com/its_all_seven/sets/alternative_rock_1
-> Chillout [at sunrise]
. . .https://soundcloud.com/its_all_seven/sets/chillout-sunrise
-> Chill out [at sunset]
. . .https://soundcloud.com/its_all_seven/sets/chillout-sunset
-> 77 Alternative Rock Hits
. . .https://soundcloud.com/its_all_seven/sets/rock_hits
-> Holy Hardcore Black Death Metal Speed Punk Trash Rock
. . .https://soundcloud.com/its_all_seven/sets/hardcore-metal-punk-rock
-> German Top Pop - Deutsche Schlager - 1920er - 1960er Jahre
https://soundcloud.com/its_all_seven/sets/unvergessen
-> Mantra Music / Mantras
-> MINIMAL techno trance deep dark electronic psychedelic acid goa house edm tekk STUFF
. . .https://soundcloud.com/its_all_seven/sets/minimal-1
-> Wave & Relatives 
https://soundcloud.com/its_all_seven/sets/wave-stuff
-> minimal Algarve 2024 Techno Trance Electronic EDM House
... and last but not least ...
3 playlists
featuring artists or bands of divers genres and styles; titled ->
-> Featuring the latest 7 entries --->>> up to current year/month
-> Featured  . . . . . . . [All Time Any Genre / since 11/2016]
https://soundcloud.com/its_all_seven/sets/featured-all-time
-> + 100 Punk Rock Bands
. . .https://soundcloud.com/its_all_seven/sets/thx-for-plus-100
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If you are good with a playlist of mine and wanna help me fighting my depression & depressions then please do not hesitate to like and/or repost them with my deeply warm thankfulness for any kind of action!

THANK YOU SO MUCH AND PLEASE ENJOY LISTENING THE PLAYLISTS AND TRACKS!

Cheers!
Stevo
Ⓐ & Rainbow Warrier
... for a lucky life in Peace, Freedom & Anarchy in a world without money!
STAY FREE - STAY YOUNG - STAY PUNK! Oi, Oi, Oi!

L'actualité musicale playlistée au fil de mes humeurs, le tout agrémenté d'un Kaméhaméha d'Amour!

Hard Left - New Year

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