They're ba-a-ack!
Finally, all you hardcore Thugfanz out there have something to celebrate. Nothing's been heard from Union Thug since their debut EP and a brief but legendary tour in 2009, but the faithful need weep no longer; after a long, unexplained hiatus, the boys have a new album coming out next month.
Their eponymous new release is, if anything, even more electrifying than 2009's seminal So You Want Your Country Back? From the face melting intro to "By Any Means Necessary" to the frenetic bluegrass-thrash of "Blair Mountain Redux", Union Thug takes no prisoners on this virtuosic tour de force.
Stand-out tracks include a cover of Lennon's "Working Class Hero" in which audio samples of John Boehner weeping thread sardonically in and out of a sonic tapestry reminiscent of The Velvet Underground. And in "Beat A Birther For Barack" lead vocalist Lars Finkelstein exhorts us to:
Beat a Birther for Barack, baby
Beat 'em 'til they bleed
Beat a Birther for Barack
A good beatin's all they need
Barry ain't the one, baby
He ain't got the balls
But beat a Birther anyway
Beat it 'til it crawls
Sounds like a plan to me, and it's also the most danceable track on the album. After the pensive acoustic number "Woody Guthrie Blues" and the ironic(?) power-pop ballad "FEMA Camp" we're treated to the hard-edged yet soulful "Oinking Past The Abattoir."
They ain't like me, I got mine
They ain't like us, we're doin' fine
God don't LOVE 'EM or they'd have more MONEY
Let 'em crawl away and DIE
It's really kinda FUNNY
Oink oink oinkety-oink
Oink oink oinkety-oink (got any bacon?)
Oinkety-oink indeed. There are no throwaway tracks on this album, but if there's a song here that's destined to be a chart-topper it's surely "Die Cryptofascist Motherfucker." In this blistering, anthemic call to arms, Union Thug riffs off everything from "The Internationale" to Sarah Palin's poor marksmanship to the Wu-Tang Clan:
Tea Party Excess
Causin' much distress
Want our nation to regress
Makin' nothin' but a mess
Punk-ass bitches always brayin'
Got trash-talkin' banners sayin'
"We came unarmed - this time"
Guess what?
We didn't.
Die, cryptofascist motherfucker
Motherfucker, die
Die die die die die die die
Die die die die die die die
Union Thug the album is due out the first week in October, and Union Thug the band begins a nation-wide tour immediately after. So all you Thugfanz out there can buck up, for, coming soon to a town near you...
A Thuggalo representin' for Wisconsin
UNION THUG Track List:
By Any Means Necessary
Die Cryptofascist Motherfucker
Working Class Her0
Whatever Happened To Glenn Beck?
T.E.A. (All Koched Up At The Rally)
Beat A Birther For Barack
Woody Guthrie Blues
FEMA Camp
Oinking Past The Abattoir
Scab Nation
Ann Coulter's Adam's Apple
Live Free And Die
Blair Mountain Redux
All lyrics ©2011 by Union Thug and Union Label Records
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Republican Tea Party Album is out --- including such great hits as:
SOCIAL SECURITY: COULD BE A SOCIAL DISEASE OR A PONZI SCHEME, LETS CALL THE WHOLE THING OFF!
HEY, HEY, OBAMACARE HAS GOT TO GO
and my favorite,
OUTTA WORK? YOU SHOULD KILL YOURSELF, AND MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
~TEARS~
I love the part that says, "So you're outta work, got no job, and you're still a number in the system, you know what? You should do? KILL YOURSELF AND DROP THE POINTS!!!"
That gets me right here, in my gut, or my anus, not sure which, but...
Yeah, unions are bad, they make Jesus cry and kill babies with their bare teeth. Bad unions!!
~wanders away into the thorn bushes~
I liked that part too, Drew, and the oinkey-oink bit is also pretty catchy. That track ends with a great Hammond organ solo and some audio samples from a pork processing plant in Iowa.
MAWB; Washington is fully on board, just not with working Americans.
Joe, I'm glad the union is working out for you. It's unfortunate that so many working-class people don't see the value of one of the last organized sources of opposition to plutocracy.
Tink, I find it puzzling and sad that there are so few songs these days about parasitic, urethra-loving catfish. :(
'OOOOH MY CANDIRU, YOU MADE ME BLUE,
AND YOU WON'T LET GO,
OOOOH MY CANDIRU,
YOU MADE A HOME IN MY PEEPEE HOLE...'
They just don't write songs like that anymore.
~teary eyed~
I PEED INNOCENTLY IN THE STREAM
NOW I CAN'T REMOVE YOU
YOUR SPINES ARE MAKIN' ME SCREAM
sniffle~~hONk
"OOOOOO, YOUSE BROUGHT ME CANDY,
THEN YOU GAVE ME, AN STD...
GUNA REHA, YOU MAKE ME CRY,
GUNA REHA, YOU MAKE ME WEEP,
AND WHEN I GET HOME, THERE YOU ARE,
IN THE SHEETS, GUNA REHA, PLEASE...
RETURN MY DOG!!!"
~more tears~
Tink... Guna Reha???
Gotta see if any of this is on you-tube.
She nice.
Her sister Ralf Reha is a total bitch! No songs about her!! PFFFFFT!
Tink, that's not Guna Reha, it's Rena Gunnarsdottir, an Icelandic immigrant who now heads up the Milwaukee Thuggalo Auxiliary. Kpffft!
I remember her last words to me, before she left me....
"Stop following me you perv or I'll call the cops!!"
~weeping~ We were lovers for one split second. ~even more weeping~ Then I wrote some erotica stories about her and the rest is history.
God damn restraining orders!! ~pfffft~ :D
Don't shoot 'em in the head
Remember what I said
You won't hit a vital organ
And they won't be dead.
I think you should send a complimentary copy to Tommy T. Hell, send one to each member of the Tard family.
on all the pressure points,
...and soon.
Keep up the litany of hate and violence, you motivate me with every bile filled paragraph you post from the moldy, rat infested holes you call Party Headquarters.
The only things union have ever accomplished is the mass exodus of jobs overseas and the resultant massive unemployment and misery, which is afterall, the ultimate goal of the left. The creation of more duped and desperate souls to carry the red banner.
I'll be with my side waiting for you in the streets.
It's nice to see one of the family members show up well ahead of receiving their complementary copy of Union Thug's latest release.
While you wait in the streets, remember there's no use in you wearing a helmet.
And tell us how we can now get those jobs back, since the people doing them in other countries are getting paid something less than $1 per day. It is unregulated capitalism (actually aided by our bought and paid-for government) that has wrought this particular dilemma.
One wonders how the "Tea Party" can even function, if all of its members have the kind of intellectual skills exhibited by the likes of Stephen Guy Hardin.
my fave is that oinkety song. that is one catchy tune.
I'm weeping with you Tink, but if Guna didn't see your inner beauty she wasn't good enough for you anyway.
True, Patricia, yet most Republicans consistently vote fior anti-union, anti-working class candidates. I can see voting against your own interests by accident, but to do it over and over again because of faith in some half-baked ideology that serves the interests of the wealthy at the expense of workers is either insane or very stupid or both.
Froggy, as Martin Luther King once said: "History is a great teacher. Now everyone knows that the labor movement did not diminish the strength of the nation but enlarged it. By raising the living standards of millions, labor miraculously created a market for industry and lifted the whole nation to undreamed of levels of production. Those who attack labor forget these simple truths, but history remembers them."
Jeanette, why you gotta be promotin' class warfare against the job creators?
Paul, you'd think Tommy would have already been by here frothing at the mouth and slinging exclamation points all over the place. I guess he doesn't have the cojones to back up his "Live Free or Die" rhetoric.
That's the spirit Stephen! Yes indeed, I'm an anarchosociacommunazi! See ya in the streets big fella.
Jonathan: word.
Tom, did you say you want to hit Koch-heads? Me too, and also Ditto-heads and Faux Newsers and assorted other flavors of dipshit that constitute the slobbering, gibbering, terminally deluded Rightist lemming-herd.
Jeanette, I think the sole reason the Tea Party is able to function is the dearth of intellectual skills of its members. Corporatist propaganda doesn't work very well on people with functioning minds, and corporatist propganda is what it's all about, so a prerequisite for membership is to check one's critical thinking skills at the door. Of course, many of those folk never had much going on upstairs to begin with - your average conservative is, sadly, just kinda dimwitted.
Candace, people like Stephen get confused because they think the "socialist" part of National Socialist Party actually means something. The fact that they're so easily misled by empty words says quite a bit about Mr. Hardin and his fellow travelers.
FREE NEW JERSEY!!!
~wanders off towards the thorn bushes to watch the final results for America's got Talent~ AGT!! AGT!! AGT!!
(P.S. I'm not really bisexual, but I say that to make my wife happy!!!)
As far as unions go however, membership is declining steadily. In 2010, 11.9% of wage and salary workers belonged to unions; in 1983, the figure was 20.1%. From 2009 to 2010, the number of members declined by 612,000. Considering what unions have done for the workforce you'd think the reverse would be true, so labor haters should be pleased.
And one group whose union they'll never have to worry about busting is America's CEOs; in 2010 their pay increased by 27% while the average worker's increase was a tepid 2.1%. The median CEO salary is $9 million. Unions? Who needs 'em?
I wonder why this doesn't inflame people the way unions do, especially since a lot of the companies that pay these CEOs such gargantuan sums to run them into the ground are also laying off people left and right and are the very companies sending American jobs overseas. I just don't get it.
That may be so, Margaret, but if they're laying people off right and left and shipping American jobs overseas it's because unions are forcing them to do so. Ah-HA! Bet you didn't expect that answer did you? I learned it from listening to people like Stephen Guy Hardin - see above in this thread. What I don't understand is why you hate America so much that you're willing to doubt the motives of CEOs, who after all are good patriots by virtue of how much money they make. THE WEALTHY ARE THE JOB CREATORS AND WORKERS ARE JUST PARASITICAL MOOCHES WHO'VE HAD A FREE RIDE FOR FAR TOO LONG!
http://www.asanet.org/images/journals/docs
/pdf/spq/Mar10SPQFeature.pdf
"Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV
And you think you're so clever and classless and free
But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see"
but that's alright the truth and JL are welcome there anytime. Clever post Nana. Too bad Rolling Stone wasn't hiring.
I've been living a lie for years, living in denial of my true identity all this time but now my world has come crashing down around me and I'm going to have find some 12-step program and a sponsor.
"Hi, my name is Margaret and I'm a...I'm a.....co...connnn....I'm a ccoonnnnnssssee...I'M A CONSERVATIVE!!!!!!!!! A really dumb one too!"
OOOOOHHHHHHH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
But it explains so much. My weird fixation on Ann Coulter's Adam's apple. The way I can't stand to see kids on a playground because if those little hands can climb monkey bars, they might as well be put to use on an assembly line. The overpowering urge to yell 'shoo' and 'scat' when I pass homeless people on the street. How when I'm in a crowded public place, I have to pinch myself to keep from screaming, "Hey heathens, forget the rest! MY Jesus is the best!"
When I think about it, I've known this about myself from the moment of conception, which means, oh God, I'm anti-abortion too and suddenly that's the only thing that matters in a president. I love Rick Perry! I love Michelle Bachmann! I love Sarah Palin! I want them all to get married and be president at the same time. A Holy Trinity Presidency.
I think I'm going to drown myself in my bathtub now.
Send me the music and maybe I can choreograph a new line dance with some tae bo style moves, we haven't had a fun new dance craze in ages. These are some cheery tunes, though I'm a little sad I can't stomp a cryptofascist motherfucker today. Huge sigh... oh well, there's always tomorrow.
Thanks for the great news, it will be a great motivational stocking stuffer this year.
Otherwise, it's your fault. Ya gotta work it. Otherwise you're just a slacker. There's no circle-joiking on this here blog.
Know what he says?
It's not easy.
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um, my misconstrue wasn't referring to you
this post did poorly?
according to who
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24 is the new 48 around here
Die, cryptofascist motherfucker
Motherfucker, die
Die die die die die die die
Die die die die die die die
Ooops, sorry about the caps. Honey actually tastes better too, which is weird considering that it's better for you.
Rated for the catchy tune.
Nana, my friend, a brother from another mother and father, I've finally discovered the secrets of getting an EP on here. The formula, it's so easy, even my half-dead dog Mr. McCain, got an EP using it.
(Of course, if your name happens to be Tinkerertink69, forget about EVERY getting an EP!!!)
THE FORMULA =
A TRANSGENDER PICKING SUNFLOWERS WHILE TALKING TO HER SISTER, WHO HAPPENS TO HAVE AN EATING DISORDER AND IS EXTREMELY UNHAPPY WITH THE REPUBLICANS FOR THEIR CHOICES IN LEADERSHIP.
....WHO BOTH CUT THEMSELVES TO MAKE SURE THEY STILL BLEED!!!!!
Maybe adding a tree fort to that would sell it to Lifetime, I haven't tried that yet, but the rest seems to work!!
:D
(Okay, and if your name happens to be nanatehay, then you can forget the EP as well!! But it's all good, your brother, my other brother from a different mother and father, gave me the clue on the sunflowers!! :D)
Marjie, please let me know if you find some Union Thug tickets on eBay. I'd look myself but I've been banned from the site ever since the stuffed iguana incident. How was I supposed to know that guy was from the Sinaloa Cartel?
Tink, as always you have your finger on the pulse of the home page. Maybe if I make up some stuff my parents didn't tell me about but which was really embarassing and disgusting they'll put me on the cover. Or maybe not - the critical thing to remember here is that it's not who you know, it's who you blow.
:D
:D
Thanks for the link, Jester. I was greatly saddened to hear how peaceful those longshoremen were.
Ahhh, AdSense, I got like 30 bucks in that thing!! Woooo!!!
After like over 30k hits!!!
What the fuck? :D
Then, when I become rich and powerful, I can hire, or become a "job creator", folks to lay in the streets, pissing themselves, for $3.10 an hour!! WITH BENEFITS!! :D
Icarus, the EP kicks ass completely. I saw them do a version of "Local United #666" in '09 at the Whiskey-A-Go-Go, followed by a cover of "Nazi Punks Fuck Off" during which the bass player eviscerated a hamster wearing a little tricorn hat.