Sonic Overload 7/4/11

It’s time for the annual SALUTE TO AMERICA, done Sonic Overload style and on the actual 4th of July, this year. Clocking in at nearly two hours and thirteen minutes! As always, you’ll find plenty of songs about this land of ours and some songs that might not even be about American affairs but the title fits the theme—the Count Five song, for instance. Not a whole lot of pontificating, except for some comments about undocumented immigrants during the third segment. That was spurred on by reading a story in the Boston Globe over the weekend about how the “Secure Communities” program, set up to capture the most “dangerous” undocumented immigrants, has snared some people caught for minor traffic infractions and they’ve been threatened with deportation. There are a lot of people who think that’s OK, that “illegal is illegal” and differentiate between immigrants who here “legally” or “illegally.” To me, this is a human rights issue. I believe strongly in creating a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, especially if they came to the country when they were young—sent here or accompanied by their parents.

Don’t like my viewpoints? Don’t like the playlist? Don’t listen... but Happy Independence Day, nonetheless.

Sonic Overload 7/4/11

TRACK 1

BROTHER INFERIOR-Land Of The Free (Sensual Underground)

WHITE CROSS-American Way Of Life (Grand Theft Audio)
I ATTACK-American Dream (Criminal IQ)
TIPPER’S GORE-My American Dream (Flat Black)
DEAD SERIOUS-My Favorite American (Thorp)
WE THE PEOPLE-I Don’t Bleed Red White and Blue (Stop Whining, Start Winning)

BAD CHOICE-Angry Americans (from “City Limits,” High Anxiety)
SOCIAL CIRCKLE-USSA (No Way)
PEDESTRIANS-American Town (Southkore)
THE SIOUX-American Dream (demo)
FRITES MODERN-USA (Friture)

BIG BLACK-The Ugly American (Homestead)
HAMMERHEAD-American Rampage (Amphetamine Reptile)
READ YELLOW-Model America (Fenway)

TRACK 2

CRUCIFUCKS-Democracy Spawns Bad Taste (Touch & Go)
PAGANS-Dead End America (Crypt)
GIZMOS-Amerika First (Gulcher)
ANTISEEN-Ugly American (TKO)
BRIEFS-We Americans (Dirtnap)
KOSHER-Bored In America (BYO)

POLITICIDE-51st State (from “Bullshit Detector #3,” Crass)
WHIPPING BOY-America Must Die (Grand Theft Audio)
SACCHARINE TRUST-We Don’t Need Freedom (SST)
CONSERVATIVES-Los Alamos Lab Technician (Sonic Swirl)
FOUR LETTER WORD-All-American War (BYO)

CASUALTIES-Great American Progress (Side One Dummy)
ECONOCHRIST-Fuck Your American Dream (Ebullition)
MELEE-Fuck You To The Red, White and Blue (demo)
SOCIAL UNREST-Red, White and Blue (New Red Archives)
POISON IDEA-Ugly American (Taang)

TRACK 3

KROMOSOM-Swine Control (Havoc)
FRUSTRATION-Generation Gap (Inimical)
IN DEFENCE-Democracy Hi-Five (Profane Existence)
THE SHINING-Exercise In Futility (Just 4 Fun)
NO PROBLEM-Enemies (Deranged)

ROGUE NATIONS-The Enemy’s Within (Suicide Watch)
COWS-Emigrant Song (Amphetamine Reptile)
FOREIGN OBJECTS-Look Around (Vinyl Rites)
GENERAL INTEREST-Capricious Youth (Ride The Snake)
BAD RELIGION-American Dream (Epitaph)

DARK AGES-Radioactive States Of America (Cowabunga)
GOATS-Typical American (Columbia)
COUNT FIVE-Declaration of Independence (Big Beat)
TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS-I Need To Know (MCA)

TRACK 4

THE EX-Stupid Americans (Touch & Go)
BUREAUCRATS-She’s An American (self-released)
THE PAST-United States of Coca-Cola (from “Varning For Punk,” Agg)
CAPITOL PUNISHMENT-American Way (demo)
REBELS &  INFIDELS-American Citizen (Fowl)
EDDIE AND THE SUBTITLES-American Society (Frontier)

THE FREEZE-American Town (Dr. Strange)
SCREAM-U-Suck-A/We’re Fed Up (Dischord)
HÜSKER DÜ-In A Free Land (Reflex)
TOXIC REASONS-God Bless America (T-Reason)
NAKED RAYGUN-Home Of The Brave (Homestead)
ARTICLES OF FAITH-American Dreams (Reflex)

DILLINGER FOUR-The Great American Going Out Of Business Sale (Hopeless)