Yuppicide
| Yuppicide | |
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 Yuppicide live 2010 |
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| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Hardcore punk , hatecore |
| founding | 1988, 2010 |
| resolution | 1999 |
| Website | www.yuppicide.net |
| Current occupation | |
| Jesse "KFW" Jones | |
| Joe Keefe | |
| Pete Guinan | |
guitar |
Steve Karp |
Yuppicide is a hardcore band from Brooklyn , New York City , United States .
About the name of the band
The name of the band is made up of the English words " Yuppie " and "(Homi) cide" ( killing offense , from Latin "caedere" = "to kill") and means the act of killing a young, successful businessman from the (American) Upper class. According to Yuppicide, the word "yuppie" stands for the philosophy of a system.
On the cover of the first album “Fear Love” the silhouette of the geographic ground plan of the USA can be seen, grinning wickedly and illustrated with comic-like predator teeth. On the cover of the album “Shinebox” you can see the blood-covered doll of an old man wearing a suit and holding a pistol. This is an installation by artist Michael Lawrence .
Texts
The band's lyrics often deal with the powerlessness of the individual in the face of a capitalist social system and contain harsh social and media criticism (“Socialization”, “Nice Guys finish last”, “Envy”, “Follow the Leader”, “Yellow Journalism” etc.) ), Criticism of the American censorship practice ("Jesse Helms"), but also problems and egoism within interpersonal relationships ("True Love", "Big Head", "Fear Love"). In the song "Fist full of credit cards" the band complains about the "philosophy" of the yuppie system.
The lyrics are mostly characterized by controversial satirical irony. In the song “The Six Bullet Plan”, the group draws up a hypothetical master plan to “counteract stress and control the population” : every citizen should receive a six-bullet pistol every four years, which he “owns” without penalty Ideas ” .
In "New Jesus", Yuppicide compares the television with a new messiah who makes people "laugh, cry and sleep" and let them feel "love and benevolence" so that "painful, real life" is forgotten. The refrain uses a children's prayer which was rewritten on the television as "New Jesus":
I pray the Lord my TV to keep
and if it breaks before I wake,
(from "New Jesus", included on "Shinebox")
music
Yuppicide is stylistically assigned to " New York Hardcore ". Yuppicide's music has its roots audibly in punk, but comes up with more sophisticated musical arrangements. The songs contain frequent tempos changes and are not only carried by instruments, vocals and chorus, but also by background noises (pistol clicks, artificial feedback, etc.) and embedded snippets of speech or film quotations (e.g. one can hear “True Love "Dennis Hopper's voice from the film" Blue Velvet ")
The singer's British accent comes from the fact that Jesse Jones is a native of London.
The band's live shows were given a sensational character in the hardcore scene due to the eccentric stage performance of singer Jesse and his tendency to disguise and mask. For example, some songs were sung through a gas mask and the singer smeared himself with fake blood so that he played the concert covered in fake blood.
Discography
Albums & singles
- 1990: Yuppicide 7 ″ EP (Evacuate Records)
- 1990: Fear Love LP / CD (Wreck-Age)
- 1992: Shinebox LP / CD (Wreck-Age)
- 1992: You´ve Been Warned 7 ″ EP (Wreck-Age)
- 1994: Dead Man Walking LP / CD (Wreck-Age)
- 1996: Live LP / CD (Navigator Productions)
- 2010: Anthology: '88 –'98 2CD (Dead City Records / Core Tex Records)
- 2012: American Oblivion EP (Dead City Records)
- 2015: Revenge Regret Repeat (Dead City Records / Core Tex Records)
Sampler contributions
- 1990: Squat Or Rot Vol. 2 7 ″ EP (Squat Or Rot)
- 1990: Look At All The Children Now LP (Evacuate Records)
- 1992: Sick But Slick 7 ″ EP (Nawpost)
- 1996: Yanks, Krauts & Canucks 2 × 7 ″ EP (Navigator Productions)