We don't want bull pigs
| Bull pigs | |
|---|---|
| Slime | |
| publication | 1980 |
| length | 3:12 |
| Genre (s) | punk |
| Author (s) | Michael "Elf" Mayer |
| Publisher (s) | Modern music sound carrier |
| Cover versions | |
| 1997 | Fish mob : Police - Easter egg |
| 2009 | Alec Empire |
We don't want bull pigs is a song by the Hamburg punk band Slime , which was released in 1980 on the Extended Play of the same name and on their debut album Slime I under the title Bull pigs .
Origin background
We don't want bull pigs was written by the then 16-year-old Michael "Elf" Mayer . He later stated that he was influenced by slogans of the Red Army faction and the demonstrations at that time . The song first appeared in 1980 on the Extended Play of the same name along with the songs Iran , Hey Punk and Ich hasse . Besides Hey Punk , it is the only piece that is also on the debut album Slime I can be found. The song can also be heard on the later re-releases of Slime I , but mostly in censored form. Aggressive rock productions used beeping noises and foghorns . A new version was recorded for the 2003 reissue of the debut album by Weird System Records , as the master tapes have been burned in the meantime. The piece was therefore completely re-recorded and the questionable passages shortened. Aggressive Rockproduktionen released another CD version in 2006, where the song was marked as * Schwein 2003 .
text
The text of We don't want bull pigs is directed as a song against the police and explicitly contains a “call to revolt , a call to violence”. In one line of text the song gives the mixing ratio for Molotov cocktails , the line of text "like '68 in West Berlin " refers to the political protests of the 68 movement . Dirk Jora said in 2011:
“Of course it was sedition . (...) You have to see the text in its temporal context: I was in the anti-nuclear movement and on Hamburg's Hafenstrasse . We fought with fascists , we were the only ones who ended up in jail. "
Michael "Elf" Mayer said about his text:
“Of course, the text isn't exactly a highlight from an artistic point of view. It's a hate song. As 15-year-old punks, we were arrested on the S-Bahn without doing anything. (...) "
According to Georg Lindt, the song is one of the first in practical history to “for the first time since the songwriters' songs not only fall back on individual demands, but again on a more radical refusal: in the spirit of punk, they do not turn against you Subarea of social grievances, but against society in general and generally grumble at everything that seems to occur to them quickly: Against fascism, social injustice, environmental destruction, military, police, loss of identity, alienation and automation. "
indexing
Against the background of the song, there were several legal proceedings against the label Aggressive Rockproduktionen and the company SPV , which sold the two records as well as the sampler Deutschpunk-Kampflieder , on which the piece is also included, in the 1980s. However, there was never a conviction. In 2003, a policeman in Hamburg reported a man for insulting him because he had played the song during a demonstration. In this case, too, there were house searches and the plate was pulled in.
In fact, both the EP, which was reissued in 2010 by an unknown label, and the band's debut album were only indexed and placed on List B on May 10, 2011 by the Federal Testing Office for Media Harmful to Young People. The reason was an application from the Brandenburg State Office of Criminal Investigation , which was examined by a committee of three, consisting of Elke Monssen-Engberding (head of the BPjM), a political advisor and an academic employee. In its justification, the BPjM described the art content as low and decided that in this case the protection of minors must have priority over the protection of art. The two recordings were placed on List B and handed over to the public prosecutor in Cottbus for review in accordance with Section 130 (1) StGB ( sedition ) .
reception
The song found widespread use in the punk scene and was partly played or chanted at left-wing demonstrations in the early 1980s. Sometimes Slime performed on loudspeaker vans themselves in order to heat the mood. With this song and others from the debut album, Slime became "the mouthpiece of resistance against the police in a time marked by terrorism hysteria" and "the hymn supplier for the squatter scene".
Cover versions
The Hamburg hip-hop formation Fischmob released a cover version with " Polizei - Osterei" on their EP The Doors of Passion with highly pitched voices in the then popular Schlumpf Techno garb. As a result, there were several reports and house searches, which were unsuccessful. Alec Empire interpreted the song for the soundtrack of the film Chaostage - We Are Punks! also new. The doctors used some of the lyrics as backing vocals for their number 1 hit Men Are Pigs . The absolute beginners also used part of the text for NONE . There were also references to the song from WIZO in their indexed song Kein Gerede (“Another call to revolt, another call to violence”) and Normahl , who used the slogan “Skin the cops as flat as sandwiches” in her song Helfer der Nation “Use.
literature
- Christoph Dorner and Joachim Hentschel: One, two, police! In: Rolling Stone . No. 201 , July 2011, p. 74-75 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Christoph Dorner and Joachim Hentschel: One, two, police! In: Rolling Stone . No. 201 , July 2011, p. 74-75 .
- ↑ We don't want bull pigs. Discogs , accessed July 1, 2010 .
- ↑ a b c Slime I. Discogs , accessed July 1, 2010 .
- ↑ Statement from Slime on the re-release of the first album 'Slime' and the title 'Bullenschweine'. Weird System, accessed April 19, 2012 .
- ↑ Bull pigs on Slime I , 1980
- ↑ George Lindt: Protest songs: From the idea to reality . In: Practice History . February 2005 ( Online [PDF]).
- ^ German punk fighting songs. Discogs , accessed July 1, 2010 .
- ↑ Roland Seim: The secrets of censorship. There is no censorship .... right? (No longer available online.) Zensur.org, 2007, archived from the original on March 16, 2007 ; Retrieved July 2, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ 1979 to 1982. Official history of the band, accessed on July 3, 2011 .
- ↑ George Lindt: On the history of the German-language protest song: An introduction . In: Federal Center for Political Education (Ed.): Protestsongs.de (2CD) . 2009, p. 157 .
- ↑ Roland Seim: "Yes, this is just - a song about censorship" (Die Ärzte). Music indexes and bans in Germany. (No longer available online.) In: Mediacultureonline.de. Archived from the original on September 10, 2014 ; Retrieved July 1, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Alec Empire in an interview about the film “CHAOSTAGE - WE ARE PUNKS!” In: Motor FM . April 27, 2009, accessed July 1, 2011 .
- ↑ Lyrics on fansite. Retrieved July 1, 2011 .
