This crowd makes my heart sing. I had no idea so many other people love this song as I do. I often felt like the only one singing along in my car - and in the world. Clearly I'm not and that makes me so happy.
I've always loved this song, but the lyrics have always confused me. This band is very far left, politically. Band photos from back in the day intentionally showed Michael Persh wearing a Che Guevara shirt and Richie Lovsin wearing a shirt that said "Mao rocks." Yeah, he "rocked" by intentionally murdering somewhere between 40-70 million innocent Chinese people (depending on which historical account you choose to believe) in the Great Chinese Famine of 1959-1962. As he put it, "Some must starve so that others may eat." He's literally the biggest mass murderer in human history. And Guevara was a dimwitted, sadistic communist piece of trash as well. Yet "Solidarity" appears to be a song supporting the ANTI-communist labor union Solidarnosc ("Solidarity") that rose to prominence in Poland in 1980. Its leader Lech Walesa was a hero to millions of Poles (and Reagan and Western Europe) and an enemy of the then-communist Polish government under the thumb of the USSR. If anyone from the band sees this, could you guys explain the apparent contradiction? I've always been curious about this. I'd also like to know what the killer song "Cold Wire" is about, lyrically, if you have time.
I was into this band when their first album came out. I also want to party with this crowd 👍
This crowd makes my heart sing. I had no idea so many other people love this song as I do. I often felt like the only one singing along in my car - and in the world. Clearly I'm not and that makes me so happy.
How did I not know about this 😢
Detroit's U2. Shoulda been waaaaay bigger!
Look at me! 🤣🤣🤣
I've always loved this song, but the lyrics have always confused me. This band is very far left, politically. Band photos from back in the day intentionally showed Michael Persh wearing a Che Guevara shirt and Richie Lovsin wearing a shirt that said "Mao rocks." Yeah, he "rocked" by intentionally murdering somewhere between 40-70 million innocent Chinese people (depending on which historical account you choose to believe) in the Great Chinese Famine of 1959-1962. As he put it, "Some must starve so that others may eat." He's literally the biggest mass murderer in human history. And Guevara was a dimwitted, sadistic communist piece of trash as well. Yet "Solidarity" appears to be a song supporting the ANTI-communist labor union Solidarnosc ("Solidarity") that rose to prominence in Poland in 1980. Its leader Lech Walesa was a hero to millions of Poles (and Reagan and Western Europe) and an enemy of the then-communist Polish government under the thumb of the USSR.
If anyone from the band sees this, could you guys explain the apparent contradiction? I've always been curious about this. I'd also like to know what the killer song "Cold Wire" is about, lyrically, if you have time.