Death From Above 1979 - Black History Month Lyrics

Saw them in 2005 or 6 at the Black Cat in DC. Great show. Keeler kept asking what the best band from DC was and people kept yelling Fugazi and Minor Threat. He said nope, Trans Am.

I love the beats from DFA. There's a strong signature in all this music that no one else can hope to replicate.

Nobody in the comments are arguing about the name. Who are you telling to calm down?!

Calm the fuck down!

It has been Black History Month for over than two weeks. I am listening to this song even more during it. I know it is not related to the event, yet I don't care. I am aware that the song was named Black History Month because it was February. This is one of my favorite songs of all time.

Happy Black History Month

one of the greatest albums ever IMO

you do all realise this songs is only called black history month because of when they wrote it!!!! lmao all the numpties trying to take somthing racist or political out of it is hysterical.... time to move out of your mommas basements kiddies haha

I feel like this is a band I would hear playing FIFA.

Crystal Ball was featured in '17 I think. They've also had songs in NBA 2K and NHL.

@Sage Derrig romantic rights was in 2k16 or 2k17 i think

@Sage Derrig , FIFA 15 you mean?

This song is literally only called Black History Month because it was written in February. No other reason. There's no racial or political message here.
So anyone trying to make this racial or political... Stop it.

I would expect people to not be mindless social justice warriors. The lyrics have nothing to do with politics or race.

@ltx thrityoneoneone lmao facts

Stop it. Get some help.

@sape jesus christ, knock it off with the race baiting al sharpton

@BossHossGT500 you do know that this discussion is 1 year old?

I saw them play this at a festival and I was hooked. Had to make a cover of it.

This song is called black history month because it was written in February. All of y'all fighting in this comment section are silly.

I think Frederick Douglass might still be alive. My source: The president of the United States. Yeah, what year is it?

*fingers crossed

Why can't we all just enjoy the music and get along. Let's set aside the hate and politics for a second and just vibe with the song. There's no reason to be spreading negativity.

cause omg its so bad?and why am i here? Believe me: i-dont-know

Because Trump is a stupid racist piece of shit.

I always thought he sang "Your best friends from Paris are leaving"

People need to stop being racist, it's music for crying out loud!

we live in a society

This song reminds me of All My Love by Led Zeppelin

what a great elevator song.

Happy Black History Month!

It's funny to watch the hipster liberals that listen to this get butthurt by the racist bait in the comments. (Not shitting on the band, they're amazing. But all fan bases have trash in them)

liberals are fucking retards

sorry ass liberals

The guitar sounds so much like a cello. Happy Black History Month!

+turkeysub3000 It's a Bass actually, unless you're reffering to "Bass guitar".

Bass is either a freshwater fish or the lowest part of the harmony, not an instrument.
Bass *guitar* is the instrument. Calling it guitar is correct.

upright bass isn't a guitar, and it's most certainly an instrument.

sounds like a st vincent song... anyone know what im talking about? i think its on strange mercy

+BachBeethovenBeatles yesss! thanks :) btw i have no idea what kind of poor trolling is going on here

+TomatoOtters whatever vegetabledolphins, I have no idea what you're saying, your dialect of martian, hipster, and valley girl all mixed together is indecipherable, just sounds like farts.

+Jesse Rondinelli xD upvoted :^)

Jo yeppp thats the one

sounds like Figure it out - Royal Blood anyone??      This came before it, but they're both rad songs.

@Adam Resh and all of them where influenced by Jeff Mangum in some capacity

+Elena Velinsky haha. awh sheit. I was just listening to that. but yeah it kinda does

+Elena Velinsky

Royal Blood are a shallow rip off and these guys were inspired by 'Lightning Bolt'

+shady4091 HAHAHAHHA. No.

Fuck royal blood like they are on their periods.

Alan Brake & Fred Falke remix sadly remains superior.

Quiet you inbred!

they called the band 'death from above 1979" because his older brother was born in 78 ;)

@TheBlindMariah Death From Above is a Smashing Pumpkins song. 1979 is also a Smashing Pumpkins song. Hence, the name Death From Above 1979. The two songs were simply combined into a band name.

Huh, I always thought it had to do with Skylab

"Death From Above" was painted on a helicopter in the movie "Apocalypse Now" which came out in 1979.
Coincidence??
Probably.
I thought there should be one comment every year since the original . . . well 2018 is covered.

fredo santana          t 

This was my shit when i was 16. Still a good song

+Jeeves Jibbers You have discovered gold.

+Jeeves Jibbers 14!

It’s still great...

Fuckin eh bud!

Same but I was 19 oh the wonder years..lol

I'm offensive and I find this black.

Why are all of the angry white people leaving the city mom? Why are they posting angry one liners on you tube 60 years later about understanding segregation and racism?

+Toad Stool Except that singling out a specific race to have a special month for them 60 years later when they are no longer oppressed is racist. (The song isn't though, it's about when BHM meant something)

@GuildBankLooter saaaavvaaage

+Totino's Other Boy

So the higher unemployment rate of black or darker-skinned people does not suggest any kind of lack of opportunity, in general? And I thought conservatives have suggested many times that simply being on government welfare, which those highly unemployed people probably are, is some kind of relative oppression? I mean, we could just give every unemployed person a universal basic income to try to get people off government programs, yet I'll not wait for that to happen. "What? You're giving black people money to do nothin'?? Ah hell no!". It's like conservatives NEED darker-skinned people to be at or near the bottom of the American hierarchy so that they can justify not paying more taxes and spending more on poverty more generally. America, in these times, is cheap, but you probably already knew that.

Can you go troll your sausage over on videos where people care to hear your opinion? Oh, silly me. We cannot stop.

No it doesn.t It just means blacks are being lazy.

Next.

@Brak Bunsen I'm sorry but no one says oh ur black u can't work here. They see the stereotype of gangs and stealing and think life is set in stone so they join a gang and complain about the stereotypes.

saw these guys @ ACL a couple years ago...high energy intense

LE REDDIT ARMY IS HERE XD

And the award for the coolest name for a band goes to.......

We butter bread with butter?

Snot. Remember Snot?

@Nicolas White too bad rancid sucks musically

@SamuelSays wht about analcunt?

@SamuelSays stoopid is a awesome song by snot. I use 2 listen to the first 40 secs or so for hrs on end

Black history month is racist 

Sargentfanboy we need a white history month

+Twisted monk we already have that, it's called everyday.

@Aesop Tales how is it everyday?

this song needs more cowbell!!!

These guys need to make a new album.

Did you get it lol

Death from above

Thank you

Fuck pandora

Umm... OK?