Punk and skateboarding have been intertwined for decades and by having the same DIY, rebelious attitude, it always had this natural magnetism. Many great bands included skating as an important facet of their projects, but most of them are now well experienced vets of the scene, with the same energy running mostly through their veins, not necessarily heavy skateboarding bodies. With members aged between 14 and 17, Vermont based GONE WRONG look like they have both energized youth and raw skateboarding embedded in their DNA and are a great remembrance of what punk is.
The Element Skateboards sponsored quartet have been raising a lot of eyebrows lately (check out their Thrasher Magazine feature here and below) and this Spring they are putting out their ripping debut EP All Your Rage, on CD via State of Mind Recordings, tape from Get Stoked! Records (SOLD OUT) and 7โณ Vinyl from Blind Rage Records. To celebrate, we have teamed up for a new song premiere below, spiced up with the bandโs first-hand commentary.
They put the system into education and every one is put into that system. It doesnโt matter what you believe at first because the system tells you what to believe. Theyโll force you to learn with grades and then tell us to be curious. Theyโll do everything for us and scold us if weโre not self directed enough. Theyโll put us in a dull, boring environment, tell us exactly what to do and expect us to still be creative when they want. Weโre punished for being who we are, and rewarded for being the way they want us to be. Their careless of the way we want to be. They must think weโre all just children with the inability to have real opinions and intentions so they treat us all like idiots. School is where you can express your opinion, but itโs not valued and it wonโt change anything.
New Song Lyrics:
School so systematic they canโt let me be
They have to monitor everything
They say they want to educate but they just want control
Theyโll take my thoughts turn it into theirs
Took my curiosity told me to be curious
Took my self direction told be to self directed
Took creativity told me to be creative
Took my spirit and told it to die
Canโt walk in the halls without a special pass
Teachers yell at me when I run to fast
Time in detention and talks with teachers for discipline
But their not my so why should I listen
Why
Five days a week seven hours a day
Just enough to move my brain away
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Almost all of the lyrics in the record were written in school so a lot of the songs revolve around that. Other songs talk about racism and police. These are all the good songs weโve made presented so people can get lyrics for shows.
๐๐ โ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐ข๐๐โ ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ โ๐๐ค๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐คโ๐๐โ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ก ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ข๐ ๐ ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐ก๐๐๐๐๐ข๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐/๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ .
Donโt know if theyโll be rescheduled but they better be for the sake of our sanity.
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Thereโs the people who donโt understand, they tell us to go to the park when weโre in the streets, get mad at us cause weโre part of something they think is lower than them, theyโll criticize the graffiti on the wall cause itโs not official so they have no control over it. Of course they like the music, it no longer inspires action so its just kids โdoing something specialโ.
Thereโs the people who think they understand, one of them fought Axel then went to one of our shows to fight him again, some of them try to hang out with us cause they think theyโll get some sort of complement out of it. Theyโre no fun.
Without them the scene is sick with lots of college kids at shows ready to mosh (though they donโt really know how) the skate scene is very bright, lots of cool people.
๐๐โ๐๐ ๐๐๐ค๐๐ฆ๐ ๐๐ข๐ก ๐๐ ๐กโ๐ ๐ต๐ข๐๐๐๐๐๐ก๐๐ ๐ ๐ก๐๐๐๐ก๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐คโ๐๐ก๐๐ฃ๐๐ ๐ค๐ ๐ค๐๐๐ก ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ก๐ก๐๐๐ ๐ฆ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ก.
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Be sure to check out North Shore MA hardcore band Certain Shapes (also young), VT powerviolence Void Bringer, The Path, Old North End, two of is in another band calld Youth Dispute.
