Rudimentary Peni - Cosmetic Plague
Vložit
- čas přidán 11. 11. 2008
- Being honest is no means of survival
Avoid your inner feelings like the plague
This is what it takes to comply with the images
This structure will accomodate
But things aren't what they seem when they're partially hidden
Behind walls of pretense built for peace of mind
The barriers between us are forever maintained
By our acceptance of the roles others choose to define
In a world of competition life's portrayed as a contest
Where we're forced to live by making gains at others expense
But no one's really gaining when perpetual conflict
Is the result of our relationships based on pretense
We don't need this cultural cosmetic division
It upholds the self-interest on which the system feeds
A deconditioned consciousness of mutual respect
Is the only way to cure this cosmetic disease - Zábava
![Rudimentary Peni | Farce EP [full]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/nq4lhXX6iTU/mqdefault.jpg)
![Rudimentary Peni | Farce EP [full]](/img/tr.png)
![Rudimentary Peni - Pope Adrian 37th Psychristiatric [1995]](/img/n.gif)
one of the best punk songs ever, musically and lyrically.
Agree
Being a trump supporter is more punk today then all these stinky hippie posers at shows. All these old punk bands views maybe meant something back then but now it’s just normie bs. Reminds me of rage against half the machine with Harvard grad Morello with a Che Guevara shirt 😂.
Whenever I start doubting myself I listen to this song and remember I'm not crazy
except for the fact that this guy was actually crazy... hahahahahaha .. but it's okay.. me too :)
Im crazy but it still gives me hope
6 years and this is still a shitty comment
@@bugsted yes
@@bugsted do something about it
One of the best songs ever written.
man, I was just about to write what youd written.. best song ever! and im nearly 50, still songs amasing!!
This song is fucking everything i love about this band..and i think its Grant singing .Igot this before i ever heard them much at all but it called me.Eps of R>P> and it was on the second side. One of my first few records in like 1996 as an interested in anarchy loner
I would give a limb to have been the one to write this. All well they made it. And its perfect
Nope, as badass as the music is, this song promotes egalitarianism. Pussy shit.
RP was one of the bands that carried me through my 14 year old angst back in the 80's. They were always so mysterious... Nobody really knew anything about them!
I never understood how strong these lyrics were until I got older. Now I know why I kept listening when I was younger.
I had impeccable taste as a kid apparently.
this is before crust.
this is the best version.
and as far as covers go i think Dystopia had a good one.
I have loved this song a few years now, I loved it for being the missing link between Anarcho and Grindcore in its raw brutality. I read the lyrics today for the first time and feel I have been whacked by an iron bar, they are pure factual honesty, tis is now to me one of the greatest songs ever written.
This song creeps up from the back of my mind from time to time... boy... how it still hits today...
Listen to this song on repeat sometimes, prolly ten to twenty times every time haha. Can’t get enough.
These lyrics are the best. My favorite song of theirs for sure.
Great lyrics for sure. How these guys escaped my youth I'll never know...
Grey Matter you were listening wrong tunes
Easy to say because we were lucky enough to be introduced to them in high school. I still have the Death Church album that has the cover that opens up into a giant Nick Blinko poster.
probably the strongest lyrics i've ever read
Persons unknown by poison girls are pretty heavy , I’m sure if you’re here , you’re familiar.if not , dig in .
Wow, I just read the lyrics to this for the first time even though I have loved this song for years for being the missing link between anarcho and grindcore in its raw brutality, these lyrics have whacked me like an iron bar in their factuality and honesty. I can honestly say this is one of the greatest songs ever written. Thanks Peni.
frickin powerful stuff - the angst and fury of my younger years comes flooding back. Recently saw aw an exhibition of Nick Blinko's artwork at pallant house gallery in very MOR Chichester! A-mazing.
The more I come back to this, I feel like they add more to the video images
Wow.... amazing lyrics. Just WOW
I really LOVE "Farce's" songs since the first time I heard them (1988). Fantastic band, the real essence of HC/Anarcho Punk. Long live the Penis.
I love Blinko's artwork, but Peni were truly something else. Great stuff.
One of the most original,ahead of their time bands ever!!! Completely awesome still to this day!!!
Best song. Ever.
Play this at least five times for satisfaction
It's too good and too short to play once
ahh my cousin nd his band did
a cover to this
i loved the song even though this isn't
much of my type of music but yeah i love it
ahhh I
think that this is
a cool story
bro
what are you talking about?!
He was a GENIOUS!!
in ways none of us can fathom he is beyond us.
The most intellectual and creative and imaginative are always the mentally ill
sick song, with the honest lyrics!
strong lyrics ,awsome song .
My first band ever that I was the vocalist for covered this song. Always left me out of breath. Only thing we changed was the drumbeat during the pause and outro. Aghhh, I wish we had recorded it with my crappy computer microphone back then...
Epic song, my favourite! Such a talented band with great artwork.
Peni must of put alot of heart and talent into this song, cos out of all of the Rudi Peni songs of heard this ones the hardest so far!
A well written cry out to humanity.
1:01 to 1:02 best guitar solo ever
This song goes hard
Rudimentary Peni is such an amazing band! I can’t wait until they release their new 7”!!
2021 still most relevant shir ever
these lyrics are fucking genious - every word. speaks straight to my soul and now i feel like a mosh pit
such a wonderful description of the internal contradictions of capitalism and the problem of social alienation
this is absolutely beautiful
i love their album covers
These are some of the best lyrics I have ever heard!!! They could not be more true than anything!
One of the best songs ever written or performed, in my humble opinion.
Wonderful. Thank you!
this is my fav one from RP
Wow. POWERFUL lyrics.
Thank you for uploading
Picking a Best RP song is like choosing which one of your kids you like better, its IMPOSSIBLE!! Tho i really do like this song i just cant but help to like almost every other song they have put out just as much. Like seriously the EPs of RP and Death church...I fucking LOVE every track on those albums. I honestly can not say that for ANY other band i have ever listened to. Maybe Goratory's Rice on Sued but thats a Maybe at best.
What an art! visual and musical !
fucking the replay button
SICK!!!!!!
Genius lyrics
Still have my old lp's with the cool poster art along with crass those were awesome deals hours listening and looking
One of the best vocals in Hardcore. Singer is insane!
GREAT EVERYTHING!
holy shit... greatest punk lyrics ever?? anyone?
The EPs of RP
I love the band art.
Real raw........
Good to hear this song!
Beautifully written lyrics.
Amazing!
Great band always a fan especially the art work
ill be honest, im here from dystopia
there art is awsome
What a voice!
You're undoubtedly a good man.
i grew up listening to these folks, the observations they make on the state of society are as pertinent today as when the songs were written. my two cents.
Those two cents are worth $7 now
Sick song never gets old
great song!
So good
Class song!
peni has been one of my favs for years
i so love this band.... i remember first i heard them was throwing in cacophony... and i thought dear lord it's just noise after noise after noise.... and yet every time my friend and i would play video games and pick stuff to listen to it would be thrown in and i found myself addicted to the thing... my favorite punk group ever, as much as i wanted it to be dead kennedy's...
Love it
I haven't listened to much of this stuff since i was in like Jr High. Blasting hella Dystopia and Anarcho bands all day haha. Been awhile love listening to the oldies every now and again.
great!!!!
Amazing Music
Disturbing ass Drawings
Chaotic lyrics
Im sorry but i have say this but...
THIS SONG KICKS STRAIGHT UP ASS!!! I LOVE IT
The system doesn't care because the system is you,
nothing ever changed because that's what you choose.
The best
Rudimentary Peni when they have to write a song longer than 2 minutes: 😱
one of a my favourite bands
Class...ic
Still sounds great!
I never realized how smart these lyrics were.
i listened to this song so many damn times so i could help out my buddies band cover this song at backyard shows. worked out cuz the yards would get destroyed when they played this one.
This is my absolute favorite love
amazing
the lyrics are arguably some of the best ive heard
they have real fucking meaning with explanations not like lil wayne shit where they talk about getting crunk
Dam this is still awesome.
Can someone explain to me the meaning of the lyrics? I think I kinda get it but not 100%
@anlgrev i was part of the anarcho punk movement back in 1982 played in a band called virus v1 - loved crass , conflict , and supported the subhumans couple of times and bad brains at their notorious stevenage gig
heard r.p. when they released the farce e.p. on crass records , at the time it pissed me off a bit, some of the riffs they were using were the same as ours - 'bloody jellies ' was pretty much the same as our track 'spoils of war'. but to be honest they were loads better than us.
this song is so cool....
this is some really trip stuff i like
Meaning makes music great
classic tune
Holy shit this music is amazing
awesome
this is the most BADASS song ever
This definitely must be among records the humanity sends off to outer space
great band
the entire FARCE lp is badass.
Dystopia did a real good cover of this
Being honest is no means of survival, avoid your inner-feelings like the plague
This is what it takes to comply with the images this structure will accommodate
But things aren't what they seem when they're partially hidden behind walls of pretense built for peace of mind
The barriers between us are forever maintained by our acceptance of the roles others choose to define
🏴🤘🏾🏴🤘🏾🏴
In a world of competition life's portrayed as a contest where we're forced to live by making gains at others expense
But no-one's really gaining when perpetual conflict's the result of our relationships based on pretense
We don't need this cultural cosmetic division it upholds the self-interest on which the system feeds
A deconditioned consciousness of mutual respect is the only way to cure this cosmetic disease
@InvasionNuclear you sir, are awesome
it's really sad, a great number of people in (American) society would not be able to begin to comprehend the lyrics in this song