Against Me! - Reinventing Axl Rose Lyrics

Im 15 and i love this bad like kids these days dont know what they are missing

I'm still addicted to this after almost 15 years, give or take!!! THIS ENTIRE album from start to finish is excellent but if I had to pick just 3 favorites I'd have to start with "We Laugh at Danger..." just one of my all time favorite songs, Period. Then Walking is... Then Pints... But I mean these guys where just so different from ANYONE else at all. They where literally the Pink Floyd of THEIR ERA. Not saying they sound LIKE Pink Floyd, just saying that THEY had a UNIQUE sound that was theirs and theirs ALONE!!! And when you heard a song from one of their early albums you IMMEDIATELY that it was AGAINST ME!!! The same way you know a Pink Floyd song on the radio before the DJ tells you who it was. Don't you agree? Or am I off my AXL ROSE LIMITED EDITION ROCK-ER here? Lol.

This album is everything to me 10 years later it's so fucking epic

Damn, I haven't listen to this in years. Memories abound

fake punk garbage

this album is beautiful

Thank you Laura!!!!

There will never be any experience like those first sexual encounters with my first love listening to this album cranked to 11

This album. This fucking album... A straight up punk rock masterpiece.

Evelyn sits by the elevator doors <3

One of the greatest albums!

What a breath of fresh punk as fuck air this one was.

more cowbell!

I’m a Christian Republican/conservative and I love this band sooooo much.

This album was out for a full year before I ever heard it. I was sitting in my friends living room, and he just downloaded it from Limewire (yeah...fuckin limewire)... the first song he opened on his computer was "The Politics of Starving". I was blown away... it was just so fuckin' raw. It was unlike anything I was listenin' to at the time... which was basically the Lawrence Arms and the Honor System. I immediately went home and downloaded this shit, and it quickly became the soundtrack to my summer 2003.

This guy seems really good what's his name? Does anybody know? And one more question who is Laura question mark everybody keeps talking about someone named Laura

Laura's the singer. Laura Jane Grace.

here in brazil, i like it this album . this music '' baby , i´m anarquist . classic for brazil very reality of situation of my country with facist bolsonaro

Fuck Bolsonaro and Fuck Duque (Colombian president).

Axl rose SUCKS Today., #LJGKickAssToaxlrose

Can anyone tell me why the title of the album is what is is

I remember when this band was great. Here’s the proof.

Great album

Just a side note, I think a couple of these are actually later alternate releases of songs. I Still Love You Julie and Jordan's First Choice and Those Anarcho Punks... and Walking Is Still Honest are definitely not the versions from the original album (purchased in 2003, don't know if they pressed copies later).

And fun fact about Jordan's First Choice: I asked him at a show in Sacramento why this song is called that and he said because they asked him which song should be first on the EP the song was originally released on (Acoustic EP I think) and he picked this one, so they named it Jordan's First Choice. He was also wearing a tu-tu and had a wand I think.

One of my top 5 favorite albums of all time, and it's still holding strong. I hope to be kicking back on my porch with this lp cranked when I'm 80!

Boo yah!

The good shit right here, this and crime are the best AM

I mean, he's been pretty irrelevant for awhile. I'm usually pretty polite.

The lyrics in '8 Full Hours Of Sleep' gets to me. D'X

Fuck the blurred lines do you really

Me and my very best friend used to listen to this everyday and get drunk. A few years later he ended his own life but I have to thank Against Me! for the best memories I could ever ask for. This album brings me back to the old days, me and my best friend drinking and sharing the best of times together, this is the only thing that brings me back to those exact days. #RIPJJPearce

Funnest concert I ever went to. They opened with Pints of Guinness make you strong and it went nuts. Probably around 2011. First punk band my brother showed me and I got hooked.

I hate Laura

i love her enough for the both of us fam

This rocks!

Perfect album

come home from my shit job and listen to this and fucking DRINK

arrriba

I think I would
rather remember how it was and go our separate ways. I don't feel anything unless we are living and dying for each other every second of our lives.

Beautiful

The first and best album <3

No gods... fucking liberal bootlickers

I have to listen to a commercial

Their first & last good album. This album kicks so much ass.

great one.. more rock, less personal stuff..

What?! It's both

I mean still less focus on backstage personalities and more on rocking and music. When people were more interested in music than the sexuality of the lead singer and a much more interesting message was spread

when things don't make sense, i can always find meaning in these words

auuu ra magari albumiaa ra <3

And one year later I'm still drinking and listening to this album. Not much has really changed.

and 8 years later... i dont grow. nostalgia or weak

fuckin right

penny v

Jon Smith And 14 years later... same thing.

love this album after they join major records

my fav album ever. Saw them at a rock festival two weekends ago and they only played one song off the CD very disappointed. oh well Laura rocked out...but first time seeing them without warrant was a little disappointing ... saw them about 15 times between 2001 and 2005.. they will always hold a spot in my ❤

One of the best bands ever.  Loved every album they've made.  But it all started here.

This should replace GNR Lies acoustic side. If only it was still popular and people still listened to cassettes.....

Hi, I am man alcoholic and a drug addict, But i will never fucking forget the great awesome amazing nights i had with my friends screaming these lyrics. It's hard too listen to this sober Fuck getting old and addicted

You sound like a really strong person, Trent! Hope you can find love in sobriety.

2002. 19 years old. Moved from Pittsburgh to Chicago. Broke, living off of Jiffy Mix. I went to see them at Fireside Bowl and they let me carry their equipment in exchange for getting into the show because fine folks. Been a while but damn I am right back there now.

Arpad Lep I feel ya. huggg

Saw them in LA on the Fat Wreck Tour. It was sold out and they were just handing out pieces of equipment to kids so they could get in for free. Gave a kid one cymbal, that kind of thing lol. Did it till they ran out of gear.

Buy In Sold out who fuckin cares, people suck. They named the band Against Me for fucks sake doubt they give a shit what people think. For all the memories and all the feels I say thank you.

Why is this album so diferent from the rest?

I don't know. but I love every single Against Me! record that ever came out

Supposedly they had been playing these songs for 10 years before recording this, so it's been revised into perfection. Nothing else got the same treatment, and it must've been hard to think of where to take the sound. It's the only album of theirs I can listen to *Shrug* most bands like this would've broken up before changing their sound so radically.

So many large bottles of whiskey listening to this album with friends.

So many large bottles of whiskey listening to this album with friends.

Just realised i've got my own little high school story to relate to this Album. This one one of the albums me and my best mate Rev used to play when we'd meet up to drink cider and chat utter bollocks. We'd have little two man mosh pits in either mine or his bedroom lol

+joseph Salsky LOL

Sounds like you're projecting, Saltsky.

Two man mosh pit?? Isn't that just a fight?? :)

Jay Clouston I was making decorations for the school dance and this boy I liked took one of his earbuds out and gave it to me. It was Baby, I'm an anarchist. The rest is history.

same here.. we always carried out the table in the living room of a good friends 1st flat to start fridays with a good clean mosh pit before goin out

I don't know why I waited so long to listen to this album, it's perfect.

against me has not made an album as good as this one since then but as the eternal cowboy was great too

+Lain Iwakura Probably because Against Me! had been playing these songs for nearly 10 years before they made it on an album. Their other albums they all wrote in a year or so.

That's actually a really really good point, Vegan Keto. I love Against Me! as people and artists still, but their later music just doesn't have the same heft as this stuff did. And that's why, it was crafted in the pits for years. Thanks for making me feel a little better about preferring their old albums.

this is pc punk perfection.

Political correctness is the opposite of punk. I remember a time when people could say what they wanted without getting approval from the PC scene police.

+Reid Ellis I know it didn't come across in my comment but I was being facetious.

+Davea Smith I'm a bit slow. That's pretty funny. Thanks

Brings me back to sitting around a fire drinking old English 40's , those were the days

thumbs up if you where an against me forum poster before they shut that shit down

best album >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.....

One of my fav albums of all time, if not my absolute fav. I grew up through high school hearing several of the hits here but it was during my senior year and the plethora of all-nighters where I listened to this whole thing and absolutely fell in love. It's incredibly passionate vocals, rowdiness, fist-in-the-air, sing-along-ness, the military-esque drumming, the intentional lack of fancy guitar solos, and the mastery of tense, raw playing (these guys really played like a band ), it's poetically-written and anarchist-charged lyrics ranging from the world at large to very personal stories- It just captures something(s) no other punk rock nor folk album and no other album has for me.
This thing holds a very special place in my life along with The Money Store and Fever Ray.

Antwangi fantangy

love him too

axle for president

One of my favorite fucking albums of all time. I can't count how many times I've drank to it... Including right now.

In high school,


my boyfriend and I used to sing this entire album so drunk off of cheap vodka in water bottles. We would dance in dingy basements, basically just flailing our limbs and running into each other, jumping on couches and screaming our lungs out- just me and him while everyone would be upstairs hanging out. He died of an overdose the beginning of our freshman year of college, basically an abrupt end to all of my childhood, and this album still makes me feel the same things I did back then. I miss him/those feelings. Fuck. Thank you for the childhood memories Against Me.

Sounds like one of those grungy love stories I read sometimes that make me cry my eyes out~

I have similar memories with this: Neurotic Outsiders (full album)

This is without a doubt the saddest, and most heartfelt youtube comment I've ever read.

"I'm not coming home tonight"

Haleigh Collins since i have read this comment on here the other day i always have to think about this story while listening.

I can't express how much I love this album.

You want a trans debate? Go find an Against Me! video.

https://www.google.com/search?q=humanist&oq=humanist&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.2295j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#q=humanist+definition

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=egalitarian+definition

difference please? cause I see none I judge and respect equally based upon an individuals action, I prioritize no one over others. Especially in regards to feminism, cause last time I checked Women have an abundance of aid and support... Check out mens battered shelters they are virtually non existant compared to womens. Even though most domestic violence is reciprocal. Humans are shit it's not just one group of us. 

@Guy With Opinion if you need an example of female oppression on young males then research the white feathers of WW2 in england

@nubzar1 Ok, so, most feminists HATE that shit. Also, I mostly saw it listed on HIGHLY antifeminist websites. Anywhere else said that it was started by Admiral Charles Fitzgerald (not a feminist), and had some suffragettes joined later. Not a feminist campaign, but a campaign joined by a few feminists. That's like saying that the autism advocacy organization I wanna start (so Autism Speaks can just STOP EXISTING) will also be a feminist organization due to my involvement

its not if it was feminist or not its the fact that women carried out the deed in shaming men to their deaths.

still want that clarifacation between humanist and egalitarian

@nubzar1 Egalitarianism is the philosophy that everyone should be treated equally, whilst effectively being blind to factors that may cause discrimination (e.g., race, gender, sexuality, etc.). Humanism is the movement FOR said equal treatment. Being an egalitarian in this society we live in (i.e., one with inequality) is harmful and problematic because being blind to, say, race in certain situations can make you blind to the racial discrimination going on. 

TL;DR: Humanism is to egalitarianism what equity is to equality. A means to an end.

Wish that these were the original songs

yeah what JimmyBshaw said...fuck off and move aside Axl

This album leads me to punk music.

Has Axl Rose ever commented on this album?

Frank Glen I was more talking about his public image. but yes the Charlie Chaplin thing is true.

I sort of wish axl would have been flattered. Probably a total dildo.

@Harry Dykhoff "Axl is not punk haha" scene politics says he's not. But early GnR is musically closer to New York Dolls (one of the first punk bands, if not THE first, depending on where you draw the line) than this shitty pop punk band is.

@doom moon Slash should learn something from this album though :D

What a piece of shit he should feel honored to be mentioned at all

Grateful.
There's albums that you have to hear at times. GOD BLESS HWM- GOD BLESS AGAINST ME- GOD BLESS RADON - GOD BLESS ASSHOLEPARADE - GOD BLESS SECTION 8 AND HIGHWAY 66. godless us all Travis and Travis... and ROSS

But in all seriousness, FUCK AXL ROSE!

Oh, fuck you

@JimmyBshaw FUCK YOU JIMMY!

@Los Machines
Indeed.

Fuck that axlhole! Jaja

I don't know the words but I know every "sound syllable" and I can sing along like the best of em. RAAAHHHHHHHHHH

I love you!

Too hardcore for me. So much annoying yelling… Can't listen it and don't understand you. And don't understand why there are so much re-issues every fukken year. Are you guys just pay attention to the lyrics? Gotta read it then 'cause there is nothing common with music. "New Wave" is still the best record.

@Mikael Machado English is not my first language.

@Mikael Machado and of course, your taste is perfect. Keep listening to record, made in 2002, but with 80's demo sound.

Are you retarded? It's punk, if you something clean and pretty then turn on your radio.

Naw dude. These are all beautiful anthems of anarchy.

This is there best album, anything from new wave including new wave is garbage, this album is beautiful it's raw and passionate, it is and probably will be my favourite album of all time and I don't listen to this genre anymore

I love this album cover. I just recently found these guys and it makes me sad because they sound really awesome. I love the mix between Folk and Punk. Great combination.

Lol it's a pretty big genre friend. I suggest other folk bands like Ghost Mice, Johnny Hobo, and Wingnut Dishwashers Union.

@Sean Walsh the early meat puppets have a similar sound (folk/punk).

Take Cameron's suggestions, especially Johnny Hobo. Also check out Andrew Jackson Jihad and Mischief Brew.

+Jon Smith For sure, those bands are great!

Why liberals and conservatives only be talking about how dumb the other side is and never actually proposing solutions..... or acknowledging  any real problems in the first place,

btw both sides have proven to be horrible for the last 30 yrs lool ,

A candidate worth voting for doesn't need to bash the opponent, they should be too busy promoting there own ideas too even sign off on a 3rd party ad slandering the other

I don't have a full proof plan to combat climate change so I am wrong? LOL , How the fuck did we even get on climate change? 

@Cat God Grow up, idiot. Just another idealist who can't back up what he says. Climate change is a real world example of what I'm talking about. If you believe in climate change and that we should do something to abate it, you're on the left. If you don't believe in it, hence don't believe anything should be done about, you're on the right. So which side should just accept the others' position and just come up with a solution?

@danzoil i think you have a very basic knowledge of politics. most politics can be traced back to the money though. the right wing as well as some on the left have finacial interests in big business including energy companies who are likely to lose money if our government fully acknowledges climate change than they would be forced to do something about it which equals more regulation which equals less profit. simply its all about the almighty dollar

@danzoil Climate change is obviously real I mean we had a fucking ice age before... And no I don't have a solution too climate change I'm not a fucking scientist, If I was in a position of power I would hire scientist too find a solution, if they can't they will be replaced. Acknowledging problems doesen't make me an idealist lol, I can acknowledge a problem exist without having a solution too that problem..... Why would we just settle? Our country ranks at the bottom of developed countrys all over the board..... We are slowly turning into a 3rd world country because nobody wants to progress and idiots want to hold on to the good old days.... but the world isalways moving, we should be too

B/c both sides fucking suck and are pathetic in their political "agendas" overall. Really. What kinda fuck off lawyer goes to Washington b/c they wanna become president? Most well to do lawyers (John Edwards) made more $ than they would've if they had become prez anyhow. It's about prestige and being the prez really is the most important job in Ameruica right?!

This album and Anti-Flag's Underground Network were my introduction to musical enlightenment circa 2002. 

do you like any good bands now?

@Uranium Rock daammnnn

Walking is still honest is still golden.

And for never giving up on me

this band is dogshit

This album is great...  Sorry that you suck bro.

so much for agreeing to disagree, poseur.

Your taste is dogshit as are your opinions.

good.............

Not good fucking good

Who gives an "F" what your political affiliation is.
Who gives an "F" what your gender is.
Who gives an "F" what your sexual orientation is.
This is some of the best punk rock I have heard
in a very long time plus Laura is married to Heather
Heather is a babe and made one of the best band logos of all time

@bioshock255 fuck off with your gender politics.

@jsavo82 the titles are quiet well laid out if you lookat it right

+James bond it shouldn't matter, that is true, but the fact that it still matters for lots of people makes it necessary to fight for underprivileged groups. so that, in the future, it will hopefully really not matter anymore.

@*****
 I agree that classism is a big, big problem that has to be fought. but imo you cannot just ignore all other forms of discrimination, as they do exist just the same and the fact that lots of people have it worse does not mean that you cannot be angry about smthg and fight for your own causes. also, racism for example is tightly interwoven with classism, as non white people are usually the ones earning the least. also, trans people are more likely to be poor in a world that discourages them from living their life the way they want to, in a world where lots of places simply won't hire them. often those different forms of discrimination cannot be seperated from one another as they are interwoven, you see? at least that is my two cents.

The politics of starvings lyrics have never meant more. Stop the petty bickering and arguing about musical sub genres and political alignment. You're just perpetuating the problem, they're winning here folks. Get more intellectually responsible.

Take responsibility for what u believe

Dammit, Pints of Guinness is a fucking ear worm

thanks for the upload! cant wait to see them next month

You guys were planning on putting "punk" songs on your "punk" album right?

This is just generic rock with an identity crisis.

BlackFlagAntiFa It took me a while to find you, but I knew I would. Are you the arbitor of all musical genres or just what constitutes as punk? Look everyone, gather round! Here lies the lone authority of punk rock. You thought you liked punk, he's here to tell you your favourite bands are actually just from other subgenres of rock. Too bad.

Go to your safe space kid

Clearly projecting.

Your name is "Blackflagantifa", sounds like you're ba wannabe black blocker with an identity problem.

Man what  great MUSIC. The fact that we are all bickering and arguing over liberal and anarcho punk politics on a corporate owned website is hilarious...

it's become so hard for us to admit we're weak

PREACH that truth. But, I will take anarcho ethos over those fucking liberals any day......Just sayin'

I dont know nothing but I'm trying to figure out how I'm gonna make off with some parts n pieces to make an equipment to start a business so I can make enough money to start making my own coins. I mean, making patches and volunteering is cool but....

Sorry to but in but that was the smartest thing someone wrote on here right on \m/

the fact that you _politics_ is hilarious

Can we all just agree that Laura is great no matter what she identifies as or what gender she felt more comfortable with and just enjoy the damn album

@Guy With Opinion I appreciate your intelligent response, but for you to say that you never had any formative experiences that had to do with your biological gender and sex is flat out ridiculous.  You'd have to have been left in a windowless, doorless room for the first 25 years of your life for that to be true.  Get real.  Big, formalized institutions such as Bar Mitzvah's play a part, but so do the tiny, steady drip of daily experiences as a male or female.

Saying that you can be a man without being raised as a man is like saying that you can be a ninja without being trained in ninjitsu.  If you weren't steeped in the culture, there is simply no way you can be one.

We've also already covered the biases of mainstream organizations such as the APA or WHO towards all-inclusive, logically flawed philosophies based on what's politically trendy at the time, so let's not get back into that. 

Like I've said multiple times now, we're going around in circles, so why don't we just give it a rest.

@Luke Sadler Alright then. Sucks I couldn't convince you of my opinion. Anyway, it's been fun! Hope to see you again somewhere else. Hopefully in a more agreeable context.

@Guy With Opinion you too.  Take care big guy.

As a trans person listening to this old conversation, I have to point out to something this user - L. r.r.s - said regarding formative years, yes they are there, and it is subconscious, but this is exactly what trans people stay away from, and what makes them transition in the first place, because they KNOW this psychological subtle behaviour towards specific genders keeps them from being themselves. This is why many trans people do not have normal childhood and that's why it is imperative to transition as early as possible, becauseit is an abuse to thi on mind going through the opposit directon of formative upbringing, especially in Christan families stuck in this division of genders. Understadably it is not what detrmines their gender dysphoria, but it's just one puzzle to the greater piucture that makes them diagnosed, usualy it is diagnosed by studying their relationship to ther body. So onecoul say trans people have a childhood similar tocis girls andboys rowing up alonme in th wilderness perhaps, they definitely have a different upbringing than most, most of us. But that proves how we are not as much socialized, that there is more retained purity, and not so much being a product of the society.

Was great maybe really this is their only good album its just really fucking good other than this and the original eps everything else they dropped was varying degrees of shit

Note to self & warning to others:  Don't read the comments unless you came here to read a bunch of ninnies bitch at each other about politics rather than listen to and appreciate music. 

This song is just bad ass!

which one

Yes it takes me back to highschool

pretty much got me through high school

Completely agree! always such a good album to listen to

This is one of those albums. Fuck.

best album then eternal cowboy.

Sippin' on a little booze and hearing this record after a few years. Love the new one but the rawness in the vocals on this record makes me feel nice. Thanks Against Me!

I went to see these guys in Dublin, Ireland (im from that area) in 2004 when I was 18. Went drinking with the band after the gig, the next day flew to America for a months travel and in that month ended up in their hometown of Gainesville FL at the No Idea Records building. Its been 10 years since but I still have the tattoo of an incan priest on my right calf muscle after a bottle of Tequila and the unbelievably real memories punk rock has gives you. Awesome album

This album still puts tingles down my spine...

"A "liberal" is not a leftist. The leftist category starts at socialism, liberals are apologists for capitalism." - mrawesome15

Amm not necesserly. While Liberal is not a leftist there is no reason to put = symbol between anarchocapitalist and liberal. Probably the core difference is that in socialism collective responsability/solidarity is promoted. While in Liberal  though individuality. Liberals think that only independent and individual persons can add up to common good. While socialist point of view preeches that common good adds to invdividual.

Everything else is derivatives of this notion. Capitalism is not the problem.

I think that you oversimplify things making them to easier to understand... for you. But sorry I'm not into seriuos discussion now.

You're kinda pompous eh?  Pomposity doesn't lead to amicable resolutions.

Staying ingorant of complexity because of tendency to oversimplify things does not to lead to clear judgment at all.

"and anarchists both believe in survival of the fittest"

Sorry, but I can take people who make such claims seriuosly. I'm not summing up your entire character, don't get me wrong. It's only within the cotext of the subject.

@Gordon Friedman actually the majority of anarchists are socilaists in anycase, your thinking of anarchocapitalists. which are stupid

Members of Against ME! all have capitalism to thank for their success. I used to work at the CD Manufacturing plant that produces their albums. What a joke, their sentiment vs. my hourly wage. But, leftists/liberals both don't care about or stand up for the working man anymore. Thats' why everyone hates them. They lost their power base when they decided transbathrooms were more important than hourly wage.

Fuck yes

this album still makes me want to tear my house down.

It makes me wanna do a lot of bad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I used to dumpster dive a lot and did it mainly for food for myself and to help contribute to my local Food Not Bombs chapter. On my bad or good nights, I'd usually drive around screaming what lyrics I knew and the ones I made up! (haha!) It makes me wanna do Fight Club kinda shit!!

it makes me want to put some kwk cannons at normandia...

Wow this is great. I put off listening to this album for the longest time. I don't even know why. 

Same, friend. We're here now.