Best couplet from NOFX's "Franco Un-American"

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fuck this band and fat mike in particular but I won't pretend this song wasn't totally speaking my language at 13 and that I didn't play it constantly for a year or more until it became part of me in a way that good music I discovered later in life can never hope to be. it's moderately interesting as a cultural artifact I think

polling the 2nd verse which is the obvious highlight:

I never looked around, never second-guessed
Then I read some Howard Zinn now I'm always depressed
And now I can't sleep from years of apathy
All because I read a little Noam Chomsky
I'm eating vegetation, cause of Fast Food Nation
I'm wearing uncomfortable shoes cause of globalization
I'm watching Michael Moore expose the awful truth
I'm listening to Public Enemy and Reagan Youth
I see no world peace cause of zealous armed forces
I eat no breath-mints cause they're from de-hoofed horses
Now I can't believe what an absolute failure
The president's laughing cause we voted for Nader

Poll Results

OptionVotes
I see no world peace cause of zealous armed forces / I eat no breath-mints cause they're from de-hoofed horses 2
I'm watching Michael Moore expose the awful truth / I'm listening to Public Enemy and Reagan Youth 1
I never looked around, never second-guessed / Then I read some Howard Zinn now I'm always depressed 0
And now I can't sleep from years of apathy / All because I read a little Noam Chomsky 0
I'm eating vegetation cause of Fast Food Nation / I'm wearing uncomfortable shoes cause of globalization 0
Now I can't believe what an absolute failure / The president's laughing cause we voted for Nader 0


your original display name is still visible (Left), Friday, 17 February 2023 19:18 (two years ago)

This is a very lol set of lines and I shd wait until I've mulled them over a bit

satori enabler (Noodle Vague), Friday, 17 February 2023 19:23 (two years ago)

Howard Zinn is my immediate urge

satori enabler (Noodle Vague), Friday, 17 February 2023 19:24 (two years ago)

Just looking at the lyrics and they're just like the third verse (2:55) of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ks69ogAp6Ms

Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 17 February 2023 19:32 (two years ago)

nofx is good tho

kurt schwitterz, Friday, 17 February 2023 19:47 (two years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Sunday, 19 February 2023 00:01 (two years ago)

i hate this band so much

Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 19 February 2023 00:04 (two years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Monday, 20 February 2023 00:01 (two years ago)

Now I can't believe what an absolute failure
The president's laughing cause we voted for Nader
Never rep for NOFX, but I gotta say that couplet showed more intelligent introspection than the Bernie-or-bust Jill Stein voters in 2016 had.

If NOFX is smarter than you are, maybe you're not very smart.

Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Monday, 20 February 2023 03:50 (two years ago)

yeah we really dodged a bullet there

Paul Ponzi, Monday, 20 February 2023 10:53 (two years ago)


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