I used to listen to this CD and Black Coffee Blues a lot when I was working a really shitty job. Black Coffee Blues is more "chilled" and easier to listen to. This one was used when I was feeling particularly pissed off with life. It is a masterpiece. "It's all par for the collision course"
This can got me through some of the worst years of my life working for some of most abusive bosses I had ever had in my life. I knew on the worst of the worst days I could listen to this on repeat and feel a strength that kept me from totally losing it. I disagree that this is cheap shock tactics. Some of this is so reverent to this present day it’s frightening. Yeah it’s a little off the rails at times,but the shit he talks about sadly is very real and if you haven’t experienced such despair and pain consider yourself very lucky. The parallels he draws around celebrity worship and his fiction fantasies are very accurate in a very real manner. And look at the 400,000 dead. Blood all over the streets People indirectly murdering people by refusing to listen to science. People can be absolute monsters.
It's not that simple. The vaccines are only marginally more effective than doing nothing for the vast majority of people. And deaths and adverse reactions make the cost/benefit analysis even less convincing. Check the statistics. If you can find the ones that are actually relevant and mean anything.
This is easily the most shocking and hard to listen to works of Henry Rollins, but that's the point of it. It's meant to be pure, unadulterated truth delivered with the sublety of a cinder block to the face. This is not for the casual Henry Rollins fan. He wrote a lot of this between 1986 and 1995 in Los Angeles and was witness to the racism and police brutality of the area at the time, as well as the murder of his friend Joe Cole in 1991. Yes, it's a bit "ranty" at times, but how else can you describe the brutality of America at that time?
It does! I love Bukowski’s work. Brilliant man wrapped in a coat of pain. His wife said that when Bukowski died he had the happiest look on his face she had ever seen. He was finally at peace and not hurting anymore…
@@johnmchugh8049 couldn't agree more. I'm not what anybody would consider a huge fan of podcasts but I have listened to all their episodes several times (I'm a truck driver so I have plenty of time on my hands). Even the topics I knew literally nothing about, they have this way of making their shows so fascinating.
@@johnmchugh8049 I also love in the podcast and even his live shows, he makes Heidi out to be this crazy monster and she seriously seems like the sweetest person on the planet. Lol
Like spending a night in a heroin den but nobody's partaking lol. So vivid, gut wrenching anf brutal with no crutch to fall back on. Militant sensitivity, the bridge needed to bring in aquarius. Turn me off dead man a play on John Lennon saying it?
Would have been so much more hard-hitting with just an ambient synrh or droning guitar sound to give the voice space and prominence, rather than distracting from the vocal content with somewhat paceless and unstructured "free jazz" or whatever it's called. IMHO
Confusion turning to anger and disillusionment though part of the theme I think and is fitting. Peaceful yet frantic like a guy watching the world from a bench or something
I get where you’re going…but, it is Rollins’ work, his Art, after all…if he wants Free Jazz, it’s his choice. I like Avant Garde music, so this is right up my alley: Albert Ayler, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman. Those guys were legends. Oh yeah, and the late great Eric Dolphy (I can’t leave him out!). You might enjoy Free Jazz, too, if you just do some research and check out some of it.
God I use to think this was edgy and thought provoking now it is just cheap shock tactics. Isnt it funny as we mature we see the nonsense that we didnt see then.
What’s he saying is true his solution is bs. But I agree you are right he never let go. He was repeated molested beaten and raped as a child so... I understand
Nan, maybe you just haven't emotionally grown that much... Think about the feeling behind all this... Don't get caught up in ideas of what form sincere expression should take. Just listen. Don't judge. I mean if this was Nikki Sixx I'd see your point.
I used to listen to this CD and Black Coffee Blues a lot when I was working a really shitty job. Black Coffee Blues is more "chilled" and easier to listen to. This one was used when I was feeling particularly pissed off with life. It is a masterpiece. "It's all par for the collision course"
fantastic that this is now available to hear again after all this time. thank you
This can got me through some of the worst years of my life working for some of most abusive bosses I had ever had in my life. I knew on the worst of the worst days I could listen to this on repeat and feel a strength that kept me from totally losing it.
I disagree that this is cheap shock tactics. Some of this is so reverent to this present day it’s frightening.
Yeah it’s a little off the rails at times,but the shit he talks about sadly is very real and if you haven’t experienced such despair and pain consider yourself very lucky.
The parallels he draws around celebrity worship and his fiction fantasies are very accurate in a very real manner.
And look at the 400,000 dead.
Blood all over the streets
People indirectly murdering people by refusing to listen to science.
People can be absolute monsters.
It's not that simple. The vaccines are only marginally more effective than doing nothing for the vast majority of people. And deaths and adverse reactions make the cost/benefit analysis even less convincing.
Check the statistics. If you can find the ones that are actually relevant and mean anything.
Bingo
This is easily the most shocking and hard to listen to works of Henry Rollins, but that's the point of it. It's meant to be pure, unadulterated truth delivered with the sublety of a cinder block to the face. This is not for the casual Henry Rollins fan.
He wrote a lot of this between 1986 and 1995 in Los Angeles and was witness to the racism and police brutality of the area at the time, as well as the murder of his friend Joe Cole in 1991. Yes, it's a bit "ranty" at times, but how else can you describe the brutality of America at that time?
It 's a masterpiece.
Beautiful.
Been looking for this a long time, thanks a lot!!!!!!
I own this cd..play it all the time..thank youi for posting
Me too. I have 2 copies. One in my car and one in my safe.
Love this
RIP Charles Gayle
Yeah, yeah. Sing "TV Party"!
pure genious
This is so good thank you for posting it.
Darwin wouldn't wanna miss this.......yup
In 2020 from my little room downtown Portland happy newyar beeetch!!🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤗🙄😏
Sounds like a Bukowski novel
It does! I love Bukowski’s work. Brilliant man wrapped in a coat of pain. His wife said that when Bukowski died he had the happiest look on his face she had ever seen. He was finally at peace and not hurting anymore…
This is like that Jim Morrison American prayer album
"You stoned fuck up" lol I love rollings
The Heidi pronunciation lol
@@johnmchugh8049 lol it cracks me up that her dad still thinks that's how you pronounce his name to this day. Their podcast was so great
@@Drummer_Jeff83 I really dig the chemistry Heidi and rollings have together
@@johnmchugh8049 couldn't agree more. I'm not what anybody would consider a huge fan of podcasts but I have listened to all their episodes several times (I'm a truck driver so I have plenty of time on my hands). Even the topics I knew literally nothing about, they have this way of making their shows so fascinating.
@@johnmchugh8049 I also love in the podcast and even his live shows, he makes Heidi out to be this crazy monster and she seriously seems like the sweetest person on the planet. Lol
Does anyone know where I can listen to the whole Black Coffee blues??
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Like spending a night in a heroin den but nobody's partaking lol. So vivid, gut wrenching anf brutal with no crutch to fall back on. Militant sensitivity, the bridge needed to bring in aquarius. Turn me off dead man a play on John Lennon saying it?
Please respond did Henry do a song about a man outside who wants to come in??? Please help!??
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Think I prefer your books about losing your friend to suicide. . Thanks for sharing.
what are these books?
@@andreskter1 "See A Grown Man Cry" and "Now Watch Him Die". Not sure if they're still in print or not.
Would have been so much more hard-hitting with just an ambient synrh or droning guitar sound to give the voice space and prominence, rather than distracting from the vocal content with somewhat paceless and unstructured "free jazz" or whatever it's called. IMHO
Confusion turning to anger and disillusionment though part of the theme I think and is fitting. Peaceful yet frantic like a guy watching the world from a bench or something
I get where you’re going…but, it is Rollins’ work, his Art, after all…if he wants Free Jazz, it’s his choice. I like Avant Garde music, so this is right up my alley: Albert Ayler, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman. Those guys were legends. Oh yeah, and the late great Eric Dolphy (I can’t leave him out!). You might enjoy Free Jazz, too, if you just do some research and check out some of it.
God I use to think this was edgy and thought provoking now it is just cheap shock tactics. Isnt it funny as we mature we see the nonsense that we didnt see then.
What’s he saying is true his solution is bs. But I agree you are right he never let go. He was repeated molested beaten and raped as a child so... I understand
Nan, maybe you just haven't emotionally grown that much...
Think about the feeling behind all this...
Don't get caught up in ideas of what form sincere expression should take.
Just listen. Don't judge.
I mean if this was Nikki Sixx I'd see your point.
@@somewhatsomething4882 this shit sounds cool to confused adolescence and those who keep their minds at that state
@@smokinnplatez1426 This is something. Cheap shock tactics ain't it though, can't agree with ya on that.
@@coliimusic yes it is.if it is poetic, What else do you consider true poetry?