[Verse]
The world is full of Leeches every avenue you see
But I'll be dancing in the rain cause that's the way to be
I won't conform to their rules won't let them take my fire
I'm blazing trails while they're stuck in the quagmire

[Pre Chorus]
(Believe)
Don't conform

[Chorus]
So be something different let your colors show
In this sea of shadows let your true self glow
Don't follow the blind stay true to your heart
Be something different that's where it starts

[Verse 2]
They're throwing shades of gray and counting money stacks
But I'll be painting with the stars while writing my own tracks
Their voices fade to nothing just echoes in the wind
I'll sing my truth out loud where real dreams never bend

[Pre Chorus]
(Believe)
Be true to yourself

[Chorus]
So be something different let your colors show
In this sea of shadows let your true self glow
Don't follow the blind stay true to your heart
Be something different that's where it starts

[Bridge]
They'll try to break you down with empty shallow charms
But you'll stand taller when you rise beyond their arms
Keep pushing forward don't settle for their mold
Your spirit's shining brighter than any lies they've told

[Chorus 2]
Yeah be something different walk that crazy line
In a world of copies your soul will always shine
Don't let them dull your sparkle or steal your inner light
Keep spreading your own magic turning wrong to right

[Pre Chorus]
(Believe)
Don't let the fire go out

[Chorus]
So be something different let your colors show
In this sea of shadows let your true self glow
Don't follow the blind stay true to your heart
Be something different that's where it starts

[Outro]
(Believe)
Don't conform
(Believe)
Be true to yourself
(Believe)
Don't let the fire go out
(Believe)
(Believe)
(Believe)
Don't conform
(Believe)
Be true to yourself
(Believe)
Don't let the fire go out
(Believe)
(Believe)

Be Something Different

Álbum compilado producido y difundido por La Punkytud Diystro & Mucha Bulla Records, disco que reúne a todas las bandas locales e internacionales, que fueron participes del festival más grande y representativo del HxC y el Punk en Bolivia: 
HARDCORE PUNK FESTIVAL, organizado por el kolectivo Anarkopunks Unidxs!.

Santa Cruz, Bolivia
2016

HxC Punk Festival

Sector 7G - Punk Rock

(no one really knows) 

lyrics:
Saturday night she’s dancing on the ceiling
Saturday night she’s fallen in a feeling
Friday night she was 
Dancing with the others
Saturday morning drowning under covers

Alice found a new fight
Alice count your cards right
what you take before you fall
did the bottle made you small

good girls don’t look like that
good girls don’t run
but the smile that remains
is steady as a gun

and they tried convincing her
what happened in her mind
she is down the rabbit hole
and left a card behind

stand here the world is still spinning
do you think the cat has stopped grinning
when the hatter handed you a beverage
play nice you got no leverage

tweedled dee and tweedled dum
are young drunk and full of fun
can you smile like a cat
do you wonder where you’re at

red queen is giving you the reason
red queen is charging you with treason
she screamed but no one could hear her
good girl just fell through the mirror

will you won’t you join the dance
give the walrus one more chance
does it matter what you see
if it breaks so easily

alice I will stand by you
doesn’t matter what they do
if they never understand
you are safe in wonderland

and if they call you crazy
for the vision that you had
I will join the dance with you
and let us both be mad

good girls don’t look like that
bad girls are fun
keep the smile that remains
it’s steady as a gun

how they tried convincing her
what happened in her mind
she is through the looking glass
Alice will be fine

NOTES:
I took this picture when I had a background role as a cheerleader on a tv show. We didn't do any tricks, just yells and kicks. It was weirdly fun to cheer for nothing. The outfits were actually really comfortable.

Not in Wonderland

"Munegetock" (mongetók) is my old Fruity Loops (FL Studio) project from 2005 era, when I was 11 years old.

Second track from my own "Shed the Vivifying Dye" EP, 2017.
Pun(kish) vibe hehe

Munegetock - Petrichor Song (2017)

KOBRA - Confusione MLP (LUNGS-171)
https://ironlungpv.bandcamp.com/album/confusione-mlp-lungs-171-2
You may remember Kobra from a 5-song tape released on Milan's excellent Occult Punk Gang label back in 2018. Not to be confused with the other Italian band from the early 80's or the current rapper who also goes by Kobra. A pit of snakes to step carefully through indeed. "Confusione" comes after a couple of line up changes and sounds way different than the first tape. They channel the spirit of early anarcho-punk and Italian hardcore while still injecting it with their own unique personality. The album tells the story of young broke punks in Milan, always looking for a grift in the system, angry but also full of self-doubt, torn between activism and nihilism.

'Confusione' is 10 songs plus one interlude, 22+ minutes long. It features added saxophone by Luigi Monteanni from ArteTetra records. 150 on translucent red and 350 on black 150gr vinyl housed in a 24pt reverse board jacket with lyric insert and download card. Art by Francesco Goats. Mastered by Will Killingsworth at Dead Air studios.

Confusione

Combatti

(not my frog, not my swamp)

lyrics
You're a sad little man with a mean little face
You got a real quiet girl 
Cause she’s put in her place
If look at her now she’s got real sad eyes
Maybe cause she knows who you got on the side

The sum of your will is an ego fracture
Hide behind the smile you manufacture
you write the words to create the news
one by one they lick your shoes

You’re an unkind man The never mind man
Kick off your morals, unwind man
Tell me what you find man

you're from LA but here you stay
you're closing your eyes but you don't pray
it's all to ignore what you won't say

Obrien you cryan 
don't rule the world but you tryan
are they for sale cause you're buying
but you wrote the book on defying

you faker /shot taker
they think you're a mover a shaker
you follow the girl just to break her
/ a shadow that falls on the maker

Got a hand in the pocket you pay to play
you making the rules on who gets to stay
but you're standing right there at each meeting
with a pasted on smile so fleeting

you're always right there on location
like a vulture of new innovation
and they look at you with admiration
you don't think they belong in your nation

you take credit/like you said it
you're laying them down and they spread it
revolution is dead cause you led it

You're a small man/with a fall man
think you're above the law man
secretly making the call man

AIEIAIO/tell me what the robots know
tell me are you all this slow
tell me now who runs this show
AIEIAIO

you're a stain on a block chain
Bet you   like you explain, badly
They admire you madly 
For no reason, got a new face every season

Pied piper cheap cipher 
with a clear refrain to incite her
what do we say to the swiper?
pied piper you viper

but you like to watch them bleed
sit right back get off on greed
patent it all and charge for need
and you laugh at them now and eat the seed

AIEIAIO/Tell me what the robots know
Are you ready time to go
did you think it wouldn't show/ 


your a sad little man with a red little/right hand
you worked so hard know the lay of the land
and all of the world will turn green for you
don't look at the help when they clean for you

you floating up high on your bed of hot air
you failed the part where they taught to share
digging a hole for your next trap
strangle them all with your boot strap

California transplant 
You’re here cause you can’t
handle your original city
you bought a new house it's so pretty

document share it
buy it and wear it
because you think they all care it
gives you delusions of merit

you faker /rule maker
they think you're a mover a shaker
weak little leech you're a taker

Obrien, you cryan 
don't rule the world but you tryan
are they for sale cause you buying
maybe we're sick of your lyan
.
.
.
(dedicate this song to everyone that won't stop talking about bitcoin & venture capitalism as a moral system)
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.
.

NOTE: Wrote this song for funski's after attending one too many tech networking events. It's rough but I like it for the AIEIO line because it expresses my annoyance at AI in a creative context. 

Once upon a time some scientists recorded the call of an endling, the last bird of his species. They played the recording and the bird sang along, mistaking the song for the call of another.  It was a cruel trick to play on a bird, who must be long dead by now. 

It summarizes my thoughts on AI art. It adds noise that drowns out the art of humanity. And if it's good it's still bad. Imagine a song, something that speaks to you. For one moment, you feel less alone, touched by the knowledge that somewhere, someone, must have felt the same. 

But it's a lie. A machine's Frankensteinian output, stitched from the work of others. Algorithmically regurgitated into existence. 

Now you're just like that poor bird, fooled by a song, more alone than before.

Obrien is the dude from 1984 and I just thought it was funny to rhyme Obrien with crying (pronounced weirdly). 1984's versificator was a great prediction.

Pied Piper

"Land Based Antics" by Struggles With Syntax.

From the EP, "UK Garage Floor Fillers Vol. 4", out October 2nd 2020 digitally through MUZAI Records.

Recorded by Ben Freeze.
Mastered by Jon at Moosetronix Mastering.
Original artwork by Lurkmoophy. Repurposed by Urethra Franklin for Soundcloud.

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(c) and (p) 2020 Struggles With Syntax, under exclusive license to MUZAI Records.

Struggles With Syntax - Land Based Antics

Two hours of new cutting-edge post-punk/ punk/ alternative/ experimental/ no wave/ darkwave/ shoegaze/ psychedelia/ dreampop/ quirky pop and other assorted slices of musical excellence, with two opening oldies - presented by Simon Edwards.
The featured album was Die Letzten Ecken's self-titled LP.

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PJ Harvey – The Last Living Rose
Dark Furs – Concrete Corners
Die Letzten Ecken – ICH
Factor Pressure – A Hopeless State
Fixed Stairs – In The Palace Of Idiot
The Silverbeets – We Mattered (Once Upon A Time)
CUCO – Paredes
Die Letzten Ecken – Schlafende Wunden
Purslane – Mask
The Ugliez – Sick Of You
PTVP – 1000000
OVOD – Imperiya (part)
Die Letzten Ecken – Zauberworte
Tapeworms – Palm Reading
The Shifters – Left Bereft
Otih – Nakon svih vas
Anagrama – Unagi Zen
DZTN 1980 – Don't Give Up
Die Letzten Ecken – Zwischenspiel
Encabronado – Post-Punk Ruso
Cat Destroyer – Path Of Blood
No Flashes Confianza – NFC Style
Los Crustaceos – El Globo
Die Letzten Ecken – Vakuum
Nenagenix – Asking 4 It
HMS Morris – Myfyrwyr Rhyngwladol
Elvis Preslip – La laverie
Snooker Season – The American Office
Deseos Primitivos – Nube
Die Letzten Ecken – Die Zahlen
T U R B A – Historia
Ex D Ex – Violencia
Teachece – La barreta
ARGH – No Mas Yo/No Mas Tu
Die Letzten Ecken – Ausklang
Mouthbreathe(r) – Plato o Plomo
Petit Bureau – Cruise
TFS – Legal Ghost
J Zunz – Ouve-Me

Monday 9pm UK – 6 Towns Radio – www.6towns.co.uk/
Tuesday 5:30pm EDT (10:30pm UK) - Fasching Web Radio, Quebec - www.faschingwebradio.com/
Wednesday 7pm HKT (11am UK) – Radio Lantau – www.radiolantau.com/
Saturday 9pm UK – Radio Wigwam, UK - www.radiowigwam.co.uk/

Loose Canon – Monday 14th September 2020 (#368)

LYRICS: 

Your eyes light up in the rain 
They are so full of pain 
You are my night and day 
Why wish yourself away? 

What am I fighting for? 
Can’t do this anymore 
Not what I bargained for 
You’re bleeding on the floor 

I can’t forget 
The day everything fell apart 
I would do anything for a new start 
Where can we go 
That the past will not follow 
Maybe it’s time 
That I move on and let go 

So bittersweet 
in this delicate happiness 
That I can’t tell apart from the suffering 
It’s a blur 
But it tells me that I’m still here 
I’m in tune 
Run the melody through me

Wish Yourself Away [prod. tothegood]

Two hours of new cutting-edge post-punk/ punk/ alternative/ experimental/ no wave/ darkwave/ shoegaze/ psychedelia/ dreampop/ quirky pop and other assorted slices of musical excellence, with two opening oldies - presented by Simon Edwards.
The featured album was Fante's Dust's 'Enigma'.

Sonic Youth – Bull In The Heather
The Fall – Psycho Mafia
Fante's Dust – All Around
Nude Model – Lamb Skin
Alpha Hopper – The Goods
Itchy Kitty – Fish Money
Fante's Dust – Birdie
Toothkicker – Violence
Dirty Junk – Phobic
Total Revenge – The Fair
Fante's Dust – Your Fight My Fight
TV Priest – Decoration
Kool-Aid Cult – F Gump
Dummy – Pool Dizzy
Fante's Dust – Enigma
Bruch – Bruch
Sperling – Baumhaus
Palacio Malsonar – Plegaria
Fante's Dust – Up To You
Negrevernis – Ai! (Les Coses Que Jo Tinc)
The Guilty Pleasures – Alice
Kissing Party – I Just Want To Get Out Of This Body
Fante's Dust – Boing Boing Trumpoline
Mosquito CNTRL – Even
Kvalia – Neprotivleniye
Cama Rosa e Gruta – Melancia vapor cigarro
Fante's Dust – Crash
Dead Sister – Skin
Alien Nosejob – Airborne Toxic Event
Flower City – Destroy Power
Kirje Kelalta – En Kuole koskaan
Fante's Dust – Doomed

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Monday 9pm UK – 6 Towns Radio – www.6towns.co.uk/
Tuesday 5:30pm EDT (10:30pm UK) - Fasching Web Radio, Quebec - www.faschingwebradio.com/
Wednesday 7pm HKT (11am UK) – Radio Lantau – www.radiolantau.com/
Saturday 9pm UK – Radio Wigwam, UK - www.radiowigwam.co.uk/

Loose Canon – Monday 2nd November 2020 (#373)

Two hours of new cutting-edge post-punk/ punk/ alternative/ experimental/ no wave/ darkwave/ shoegaze/ psychedelia/ dreampop/ quirky pop and other assorted slices of musical excellence, with two opening oldies - presented by Simon Edwards.
The featured album was Smarts' 'Who Needs Smarts, Anyway?'.

PJ Harvey – The Whores Hustle And The Hustlers Whore
The Adverts – We Who Wait
Smarts – Attention Span
Seasurfer – SOS
Charlie Nieland – Divisions
TV Face – New Anatomies
Smarts – Cling Wrap
Half Japanese – Undisputed Champions
Aggressive Soccer Moms – Iconoclast
Black Snow In Summer – Lost Feelings
Smarts – Golden Arches
Wolf City – The Inquisitor's Lament
She-Beast – Born To Fight
Caput Medusae – Kiss Me Deadly
Smarts – Smart Phone
Retro Morcego – Pedrada
The Edwoods – Go Away!
Bizibeize – 100% Nem Ai
Smarts – Cause For Alarm
Los Irakies – El Bar del Camello
The Lamies – Day Drinker
I Am A Rocketship – Orange
Smarts – Don't Slap The Hand That Feeds You
Plan Pony – Darkness Gives Way To Light II
Tronor – Charcos de Luna
Melody Fields – Langsam Dod
Smarts – Smart World
Cower – Proto-Lion Tamer
Scrawlers – Dead Romeo
Carne de Perro – Te falte arte
Daydream – Dissolve Into Their Likeness
Smarts – Individuality
StarQueen – Amusia
Nero Kane – Magdalene
Evan Gildersleeve - Mortal

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Monday 9pm UK – 6 Towns Radio – www.6towns.co.uk/
Tuesday 5:30pm EDT (10:30pm UK) - Fasching Web Radio, Quebec - www.faschingwebradio.com/
Wednesday 7pm HKT (11am UK) – Radio Lantau – www.radiolantau.com/
Saturday 9pm UK – Radio Wigwam, UK - www.radiowigwam.co.uk/

Loose Canon – Monday 30th November 2020 (#376)

Micro-label based in the United Kingdom. Home to bands you don't know about but will eventually cite you knew from the get go.