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by Forced Anger

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t0rqreturn2019 Intense and tight HC, the remastering adds some power and grit. Recommended
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mohawk-mafia More old school! Punk never died, the people into it did.
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☆R●gR4f☆ Detroit HxCx rules ok!!! Favorite track: Old Fart Drivers.
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They'll fuck you they'll fool you They'll play games with your mind They'll taunt you They'll trick you They'll get you from behind They'll push you They'll pull you till you do just what you're told They'll twist you They'll turn you till you fit into their mold Don't do what they want No matter how bad it gets cuz that's exactly their plan The poor fighting for the rich It's all more of the same, we just pawns in their game It's so hard to resist when your poor -- to enlist Unless we stop and see we'll repeat history and do like we did before The poor will die in rich man's war
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White Flight 02:28
Take your money take your wealth take your Cadillac Run away you chickenshit don't ever look back We can do without you and your pearl-mink wife It won't be long till we come along You'll be running all your life. Bloomfield, Birmingham, Farmington, Grosse Pointe 8 Mile road won't hold us back, wont keep us in Detroit So if you think you're safe out in fortress affluence we'll be coming out in hordes as soon as we get the chance White Flight Get out of town leave the city to decay White Flight This world's too small to run far enough away
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Jeffery, let's play cops and robbers You be cops and I'll be me Something snapped in Jeffery's mind Slipped into insanity At eighteen he was taken away to the State Hospital by the bay "Don't worry, Mommy. I'm OK" No more cruising around in his squad car No more playing with his stolen .38 No more badge No more working late
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Doing 10 on a 45 street To you two blocks look like two feet You're ready to die your 95 I can't believe they let you drive down the center line straight to the bank using your Cadillac like a tank You could take corners if you could see The deaf and blind driving dangerously Old fart drivers no how to drive a roadblock barely alivers teach the school of hard knocks They say alcohol has killed more people than this and that combined but every time I see a wreck some granny ignored a sign They should be taken from behind the wheels and put where they belong Or else they will smash into you and you will sing this song
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All my life I towed the line got good grades and kissed behind I was raised to always win If I didn't I wasn't "in" All I want's a big success I don't care about the rest I wanna be famous I wanna be rich I don't care if others bitch I'm climbing to the level of my incompetence But I got fooled and I got cheated all my dreams have since receded I went to school, got a degree What's that really done for me? Now I'm stuck on the middle rung All my climbing is now done I hate my work and I'm not free I'm only here for the salary I'm falling I'm a greedy motherfucker I'm practically deranged I have assets in the millions but no spare change
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I see you standing there Posture stiff, arm outstretch like the rigor mortis in your head Shiny white on top shiny black below hard outside soft upstairs parasites with hate to spread Statuesque in all your glory Zombie soldier's perfected pose Staunch neurotic militant romance You've taken upon yourselves to be sheep in wolves' disguise and condemn the race you plagiarize What can we do about you Wish you away?
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Lady Lie 02:30
To hell with lady liberty and all that she stands for Take her torch and blow it out It means nothing anymore The lady got a facelift and when the cage was took away we saw the stains of the tears she cried for a nation in decay Forget the broken promises scrawled upon her base forget the lie she stands for just another pretty face A closer look will show the wrinkles, pock-marks and the sores and the tracks of tears cuz no one cares about Liberty anymore See her crying Tears on Ellis Island
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Dry Mother 01:23
Go forth and multiply bear the world another cancer Will you teach your foal to sow the fields they'll overgraze? The herd grows, poison flows mouths are too full to answer Send the young to war in the quest for more for Gluttons' will be praised Lets work together Suck the mother dry When everything is gone the cancer will die
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In shining armor a soldier's class born and bread to take it up the ass for chivalry and loyalty slaughtered each other for Royalty They conquered the heathen in a mighty crusade Spread disease word and way The conquers taught as tyrants should the heathen to speak their master's words Legions of loyal underlings They their empire's anthems sing and carry on the ways of old finding lessers to be controlled
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The Grind 03:01
Be on your own do your best to survive waiting for payday to arrive It's already spent before you get it You want a fun weekend you'd better forget it You can't make ends meet and your wanting more You're beginning to feel like a fucking whore You never get back as much as you give You spend a lot of time surviving but there's no time to live Curse repetition with every breath Discontent with life forget about death There's an alternative HA! Surrender your fate Increase your dependency on the State We say we look out for number one and live two-thirds of our lives under the gun It doesn't take long till you start to wonder who'll you fuck over before you go under who's camp you'll join to kill and plunder Killing others like you will be your biggest blunder Change will come but it won't come fast this economic incest just won't last Is the effort to survive worth the price of being alive?
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Vultures 01:19
"the decline" you whine malign one more time resurrect your once dead sensation Adopt co-opt it's about time your vultures stopped You're just cashing in on my frustration The pictures you paint for all to see pawning off my identity I'm sick of all the garbage you spew I'm tired of explaining myself to you So hard you tried but we haven't died Don't tell me you just want to understand Dilute our form twist our ends We'll smash your cameras break your pens We won't be quoted second hand
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Forced Anger 01:56
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Homage 01:48
We live in Detroit and we all think it's fun We go out and buy our dope it comes here by the ton When we're bored with nothing to do we go out and kill For rest and relaxation we burn a house or two Yeah we live in Detroit and we love this city Detroit town cannot be beat There's no place quite this shitty We live in Detroit and we all think it's great Every day a neighbor of mine goes out and gets raped The downtown is all slick and smooth but not here in the slums We live in boarded up houses. We're better off than the bums We drop bricks on passing cars and we slash school bus tires paint graffiti on everything set dumpsters and stuff on fire The cops chase us around, if they catch us man we're dead We'll get them back and burn their cars Make the pigs see red
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They're pieces of cloth with dye in them They're pieces of fabric millions die for them What colors do like and pledge allegiance to What cloth to you salute What colors own you Some have yellow, orange or green Shows what lines you live between Some have red, white or blue Shows what borders surround you The only border we really have is the atmosphere around us and now they're filling that with flags
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This is a collection of the strongest and most intact recordings made by enigmatic Detroit hardcore punk band Forced Anger during the years of 1984-1989. Some of the recordings are remixed and mastered from previous cassette tape releases while others have never really seen the light of day

Much has been said about the band who are known in their hometown more by their reputation than for their music. This document shows what all the fuss was really about.

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released April 22, 2009

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Forced Anger Detroit, Michigan

Detroit hardcore punk legends Forced Anger have gained a large audience even among their critics since their disbanding in 1991 even though they never released anything other than obscure cassettes.

This collection demonstrates the potent combination of fury and savvy that characterized this controversial band that until now has languished in obscurity.
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