Yes, together with New Dawn Fades from Joy DIvision, the best SONG EVER. I' m still saving a single from the first edition. I asked my family to play this song at my funeral. Jos Rutten
Hiowdy!!! "Film Noir" is the BEST song ever written, (IMHO)...!!! Lyricwise it cannot be beaten for truth/insight...guitarwise...Bruce Lichers monotone guitar (6 strings tuned the same) takes simplicity to heights of complexity...listen while the song "collapses" in the instrumental break, (before the lyrics "When danger calls" is sung for the second time)...this time answered with "there's a side of me I hope you never see"...this song is just pure brilliance... Cheers! Blind Brand X...
While this track may have been included on a CD issue of the 'Tragic Figures' LP (1982), I believe it comprised one side of a 7" single released in 1983.
This was available, iirc, as one side of a 45 w/ O Andonis on the other side. With the remarkable silkscreen Independent Project Records cover art, complete with serial number! I still have it someplace. Musically, these guys were kind of an LA legend at a time when LA had a lot of great local bands - X, Minutemen, Dream Syndicate, Rain Parade, Leaving Trains, and so on. What a great time.
I realize you included the qualifier "and so on" when mentioning LA bands of that era, but still, you could have included way more interesting groups than the ones you did list in your comment. For starters, there were The Fibonaccis, Kommunity F.K., Monitor, 17 Pygmies, Wall of Voodoo, Suburban Lawns, and Psychobud, all more musically eclectic and far superior to such '60s retreads as the Dream Syndicate and Rain Parade. I am actually working on a book about the LA post-punk/art bands that will offer a comprehensive overview of the groups I specified and many others, and will provide a much-needed corrective to the popular history of LA underground music that the mainstream accepts as the definitive story.
Well if lyrics were used as the primary criteria for judging a song, hoards of music would be dismissed as bad poetry. Not here at any rate. The song is about detectives, more broadly law enforcers, and the unromanticized isolation caused by beating the shit out people who have already been beaten down from birth. They become the very "cancer" they are policing. The hero's crusade comes full circle. Or are you not getting the whole tongue and cheek nature of the song?
I don't mind a little pain, if it's for a good cause. I can't seem to see the things you see When the system call for drastic measures, I'll do them with sadistic pleasure I'll pull the trigger. I have no second thoughts. ... no second thoughts. ... no second thoughts. When danger calls, I have to answer. I walk the streets like a human cancer. The price I pay is getting higher. What [was] once a flame is now a fire. If there is any hope, I pray it comes to me. ... comes to me. When danger calls, I have to answer. I walk the streets like a human cancer. There's a side of me I hope you'll never see. I hope you'll never see.
I don't mind a little pain, if it's for a good cause. I can't seem to see the things you see When the system call for drastic measures, I'll do them with sadistic pleasure. I'll pull the trigger. I have no second thoughts. ... no second thoughts. ... no second thoughts. When danger calls, I have to answer. I walk the streets like a human cancer. The price I pay is getting higher. What [was] once a flame is now a fire. If there is any hope, I pray it comes to me. ... comes to me. When danger calls, I have to answer. I walk the streets like a human cancer. There's a side of me I hope you'll never see. I hope you'll never see.
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Yes, together with New Dawn Fades from Joy DIvision, the best SONG EVER. I' m still saving a single from the first edition. I asked my family to play this song at my funeral. Jos Rutten
Hiowdy!!! "Film Noir" is the BEST song ever written, (IMHO)...!!! Lyricwise it cannot be beaten for truth/insight...guitarwise...Bruce Lichers monotone guitar (6 strings tuned the same) takes simplicity to heights of complexity...listen while the song "collapses" in the instrumental break, (before the lyrics "When danger calls" is sung for the second time)...this time answered with "there's a side of me I hope you never see"...this song is just pure brilliance...
Cheers! Blind Brand X...
Tragic Figures...best album by any band, anywhere, any time!!! Cheers!!! Tyrone Powerchord.
While this track may have been included on a CD issue of the 'Tragic Figures' LP (1982), I believe it comprised one side of a 7" single released in 1983.
This was available, iirc, as one side of a 45 w/ O Andonis on the other side. With the remarkable silkscreen Independent Project Records cover art, complete with serial number! I still have it someplace. Musically, these guys were kind of an LA legend at a time when LA had a lot of great local bands - X, Minutemen, Dream Syndicate, Rain Parade, Leaving Trains, and so on. What a great time.
I realize you included the qualifier "and so on" when mentioning LA bands of that era, but still, you could have included way more interesting groups than the ones you did list in your comment. For starters, there were The Fibonaccis, Kommunity F.K., Monitor, 17 Pygmies, Wall of Voodoo, Suburban Lawns, and Psychobud, all more musically eclectic and far superior to such '60s retreads as the Dream Syndicate and Rain Parade. I am actually working on a book about the LA post-punk/art bands that will offer a comprehensive overview of the groups I specified and many others, and will provide a much-needed corrective to the popular history of LA underground music that the mainstream accepts as the definitive story.
Classic but underappreciated goth song right here.
This stays in my cd player
I wish SR did more stuff like this. This song is fantastic!! 👍
Savage Republic always remind me of Al's Bar
Much surprised I can find even this on RUclips. My brother owned it.
A true classic. Cheers for the upload. :)
Deep in the desert with no food, water or shade.
Rip Kara..
I think I owned this many moons ago!
Well if lyrics were used as the primary criteria for judging a song, hoards of music would be dismissed as bad poetry. Not here at any rate. The song is about detectives, more broadly law enforcers, and the unromanticized isolation caused by beating the shit out people who have already been beaten down from birth. They become the very "cancer" they are policing. The hero's crusade comes full circle. Or are you not getting the whole tongue and cheek nature of the song?
Does anyone Know the lyrics of this song?
I don't mind a little pain,
if it's for a good cause.
I can't seem to see the things you see
When the system call for drastic measures,
I'll do them with sadistic pleasure
I'll pull the trigger. I have no second thoughts.
... no second thoughts.
... no second thoughts.
When danger calls, I have to answer.
I walk the streets like a human cancer.
The price I pay is getting higher.
What [was] once a flame is now a fire.
If there is any hope, I pray it comes to me.
... comes to me.
When danger calls, I have to answer.
I walk the streets like a human cancer.
There's a side of me I hope you'll never see.
I hope you'll never see.
@@cleverpittsburgh thank you so much!
I don't mind a little pain,
if it's for a good cause.
I can't seem to see the things you see
When the system call for drastic measures,
I'll do them with sadistic pleasure.
I'll pull the trigger. I have no second thoughts.
... no second thoughts.
... no second thoughts.
When danger calls, I have to answer.
I walk the streets like a human cancer.
The price I pay is getting higher.
What [was] once a flame is now a fire.
If there is any hope, I pray it comes to me.
... comes to me.
When danger calls, I have to answer.
I walk the streets like a human cancer.
There's a side of me I hope you'll never see.
I hope you'll never see.
Why don't you offer up your own superior lyrics?
Typical biscuit-ersed lyrics for a generic post-punk tune..."I walk the streets like a human cancer"...Oh dear.
jbrenard your channel is dead
There's certainly no splendid word play like "biscuit-ersed". For which we must be thankful I guess.