"Punk Rock:" lyrics - MOGWAI
[Iggy Pop]
Well, I'll tell you about punk rock: "punk rock" is a word used by dilettantes and, uh, and, uh heartless manipulators about music, that takes up the energies and the bodies and the hearts and the souls and the time and the minds of young men who give what they have to it and give everything they have to it. And it's a term that's based on contempt, it's a term that's based on fashion, style, elitism, satanism, and everything that's rotten about rock'n'roll
I don't know Johnny Rotten but I'm sure, I'm sure he puts as much blood and sweat into what he does as Sigmund Freud did
You see, what sounds to you like a big load of trashy old noise is in fact the brilliant music of a genius, myself. [Laughter and applause]
And that music is so powerful that it's quite beyond my control, and uh when I'm in the grips of it I don't feel pleasure and I don't feel pain, either physically or emotionally
Do you understand what I'm talking about?
Have you ever felt like that?
When you just, when you just couldn't feel anything and you didn't want to either
You know? Like that? Do you understand what I'm saying, sir?
Come On Die Young (1999)
- Punk Rock:
- Cody
- Helps Both Ways
- Year 2000 Non-Compliant Cardia
- Kappa
- Waltz For Aidan
- May Nothing But Happiness Come Through Your Door
- Oh! How The Dogs Stack Up
- Ex-Cowboy
- Chocky
- Christmas Steps
- Punk Rock / Puff Daddy / Antichrist
- Nick Drake
- Waltz For Aidan (Chem 19 Demo)
- Cody (Cava Sessions)
- Ex-Cowboy (Cava Sessions)
- Spoon Test (Cava Sessions)
- Satchel Panzer (Cava Church Live)
- Untitled
- Arundel (Travels In Constants Ep)
- Hugh Dallas