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Anarchy is Neato

from Girl Crazy by The Chick Magnets

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Joey Shithead was doing a fundraising comp for the Green Party on Sudden Death Records. We decided we wanted to try to get a track on this album. So I took on the task of writing a "political" song. Not really my thing, so i tried to combine what I do with politics. So I ended up with a song about a guy using PC punk to pick up girls. "She's the most beautiful girl I've seen anywhere, Wearing a T-shirt with a picture of Che Guevara", classic rhyme. So we recorded this song, and mixed 2 versions with alternate intros, one that's here and the other that was tailored towards the Green Party album. Needless to say, the song didn't make it on that album. - Ken

lyrics

It's been so very long
Since I've written a political song
But I'll do it again just wait and see
This songs about a girl who's into anarchy

She's the most beautiful girl I've seen anywhere
Wearing a T-shirt with a picture of Che Guevara
I just had to stop and stare
I don't really even care

I saw her talking to this guy
Waving her arms with this look in her eye
About the plight of the workers in Afghanistan
I don't really understand
Still I want to be her man

She was handing out leaflets at the punk rock show
I told her I'm a vegetarian too you know
I play benefit gigs and I'm drug free
You don't get much more PC than me

That's when she looked my way
Here's what she had to say
She said what do you think about anarchy
That is what she said to me

I said Anarchy is Neato

She brought up animal rights and what's my stance
I thought maybe I had a chance
I told her I thought vivisection's cruel
But I thought she was really cool

After a discussion on church and state
I asked her to go on a date
With me to the protest on Friday night
She said that would out of site
Now everything will be all right

We were hanging up flyers on the telephone poles
About the evils of corporate control
Of the third world economy
Its so rad that she's with me

I worked up the nerve to give her a kiss
It doesn't get much better than this
Then I started to quote Chomsky
That is when she fell for me
That anarchist she fell for me

Anarchy is neato

She was handing out leaflets at the punk rock show
Now she is my girl you know
And what's become of all of this
Now i am an activist

And we're so happy all the time
Holding hands in the Food Not Bombs line
And the reason I am so happy
Well it all is thanks to anarchy

Anarchy is neato

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from Girl Crazy, released June 1, 2001

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The Chick Magnets Vancouver, British Columbia

The Chick Magnets played from 1997 until 2002 (dates approx). Ken Insipid played Bass, Lucas Spinoff on Guitar, and the famous Mr. Plow on drums. The music was pop punk, like Buddy Holly meets the Ramones. Fun stuff: the melodies will get stuck in your head and the beat will get your toe a tappin.

Contact: keninsipid@gmail.com ... more

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