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The First Thing I Ever Did EP

by Stands For Nothing

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beneriksencarey Well I love all these songs. Truly a best moment in my life. Wish I could watch it happen all over again. Favorite track: Metamorphosis.
transitiondesert
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transitiondesert This band's entire tape is a treat to listen to--up on YouTube if you're curious. If one of you guys reads this, reissue the whole damn thing already!
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1.
Man’s not happy with the planet Earth He wants to go destroy some other worlds Maybe Mars or maybe space, just to please the human race Manifest Destiny Join the world for the quest Fighting to see who gets the best You know it’s happened once before, Indians died to feed the capitalist whore Manifest Destiny This is not a fantasy, 30 years to reality Man makes a killing off the unknow Gentrify Mars for a TV Show Sagan’s Catastrophy tonight on TV NBC Be There, Fool!
2.
He wakes up one morning feeling rather slow He was up late last night because of Krietzer’s show He had it made, not better place to be But he turned into a punk And now he’ll be sorry One can’t fight all their life trying to be a man Punk becomes a last resort, not a promised land He’d rather be where his life could be carefree Now he wants to save the world, too bad that has to be This is life, at 18 This is why we’re dying Modern world is crying Why be you?
3.
Sometimes life really sucks and I wish I was dead Problems seem to just add up, there changing everyday I don’t know, I think it’s funny is it me or the world that’s not ready for this century I'm not ready for this century, wish it was 1000 BC I’m not ready for, for this century What went wrong, when did it happen I wasn’t born and that makes me angry I'm not ready for this century, wish it was 1000 BC I’m not ready for, for this century
4.
Tell me why I’m screaming if it’s just another day I can’t explain the reason for the things I can’t explain So much junk inside my head, so many things to do Life has given me everything that I need but the truth Life makes sense it leads me to death Is there an answer or at least a punchline
5.
friend in pain far away frustration builds with every day fear of hatred in their eyes fear of torture by their lies the air between is an extension of my flesh hearts stretched thin around the nerves of time friend in pain so far away psychologists with long white coats psychiatrists with long white smiles trust in eyes like long white knives lunatics tried to put her away this scream is not from toughness this scream is not from coolness this is a scream of sadness this is a scream of pain insane insane insane insane there was nothing I could do friend in pain so far away I wanted to kill them
6.
life out of balance this is my world my mind is a factory your mind is a factory my mind's a big computer and it's just for keeping track of all the bodies that go by me just like twinkies on a rack ideas and faces speed right by without a momentary thought because I'm just another product and I'm trying to be bought life out of balance this is my world my mind is a factory your mind is a factory life out of balance this is my world my mind is a factory earth is just a factory I take a look around me and I don't like what I see It's your fault and it's my fault that our nation isn't free I take a look around me and it makes me wanna cry corporate money-demons steal a world they couldn't buy I take a look around me and it makes me wanna scream what you think is freedom's just a technocratic dream life out of balance this is your life

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Tim Eriksen- guitar, voice
Chris Crowley- bass, voice
Ben Eriksen- drums, voice

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released March 10, 2023

Recorded stereo live in Crowley's bedroom with four microphones in early 1985. Originally released on the cassette label Unsound. Re-Mixed and mastered by Mark Alan Miller at Sonelab, February 2021

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Stands For Nothing New York

Hardcore punk
recorded live in Crowley's bedroom 1985

"S.F.N. 'Stands For Nothing,' but their music is definitely a cut above. Very tight playing and excellent production bring out some of the subtleties in their complex power-thrash approach. Bits of jazz thrown in here and there break the uniformity, as do the intelligent lyrics. Lotsa songs."

-Tim Yohannon
Maximum Rocknroll August 1985
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