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Goods

by Citizen Fish

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1.
Shelf Life 02:50
SHELF LIFE there are no mirrors in supermarkets no not even in the toilets the eyes that fix on future eating packages avoid the greeting shift and stare in strangled fleeting glimpses of a life retreating onto shelves to be a part of human process . . . . CH- now im just a product on a shelf saves me having to try to be myself heres the art of mass consumption eat the heart of self-respect put your feet up on assumption and watch the adverts do the rest now goods are anything thats sold and sold dictates a sense of loss bottled up we sit reflecting life's expensive. . . . CH no price is right for what was free but now comes blaringly 'brand new' this bottled water taps the need to wash the processed poison through to what degree does quality now sink to pass its brief exam? whose sights were set to make us feel so happy for so short a span? the slaves who push the buttons greet the slaves who buy the stuff we're on the path to madness and cant get there fast enough
2.
Free Speech 04:10
FREE SPEECH in a culture where the natural was dressed to fit the part we've powdered milk and cartoon cows sky is on the box the parks are where we fit the cars and obesity is sold by clowns when every time religion comes we grab the shopping cart and curse the price of charity the only time we pray for help its for a credit card that stretches to eternity its what we think we ought to do it's not exactly ours to choose cos people do the things they do it's how it goes and who are you to moan i said i seems to me that most of this dependency on progress god and how it's been just causes stress and misery CH- let's have some mental liberation until we do then no-one's really free cos as the world goes up itself about celebrity and wealth there's war and raw hypocrisy and still no freedom for the free to get together all day long and tell the fuckers This Is Wrong! the nanny state does not forgive your sins- and they know where you live CH- -free speech is an illusion once you reach the conclusion those who set the limits on freedom won't let you say we don't need them for fear of losing freedom do we keep it all inside being quiet in the name of peace the courts are full of people with opinions to defend but it doesn't get the press release if every step is marching to the bus to take us back to hear that nothing changed again remember all the facts before the images attack the pictures in the heart and brain cos i was there and so were you and several thousand others too while opinions of millions were shaped by papers and the news but you were there and so were we - who has the authority to shape perception to the point of calling it reality?
3.
HUMAN CONDITIONER ah what fate and destiny can do to guide a soul about to choose is nowt compared to bigger screens louder ads and cheaper dreams fitted kitchens meals for two diet plans and processed food hair and teeth and families shining scientifically I turn it on and there it is I need my fixation I turn it on and there it is let the message filter through you're one of us not one of you happy home stability is shown to work with one of these coming soon on channel three what those symbols really mean we stare in fear and then relax with prerecorded laughter tracks I turn it on and there it is I need my fixation I turn it on and there it is it's the human conditioner what forces humankind controls! such power in words in tales untold no-one ever turned their backs on finding out the gruesome facts oh what threads of chance entwined that turned amoebas into minds that turned the telly on and then forgot to turn it off again
4.
Overseas 03:31
OVERSEAS overseas they say the latest enterprise is doing well we spread the opportunity to those who had no dreams to sell protected by our forces their resources almost cover costs our leading brand of helping hand will turn a profit from a loss heres the global gift we made from all you gave us yesterday in blood and sweat it's history's updated trade in misery heres our god our fizzy drink our popstars and our IMF here's the cash to pay for us to bleed you til there's nothing left overseas its where the money flows we watch the profits grow that's all we need to know overseas they say the water flows in every person's home and people eat so much they think of us as merely skin and bone mesmerized not by the sky but daily tales of war and crime they classify the poor as those who can't afford the latest clothes no pictures here to tap imagination's sympathetic side the skeletal remains of cultures branded and dehumanised so take this bleeding whine to drink your lack of health from plastic cups as thirst and hunger search for dreamless sleep before the sun comes up overseas its where the water flows in every person's home i guess we'll never know
5.
Better 03:38
BETTER they make the roads and telephones and shrink the planet down mass dispersal universal information NOW we're overdosed for all we know on all the facts we found addicted to the ever-new the old excitement drowned -now this one's better with fear and hate they generate divisions in the sand whose side you on whose right or wrong thats how it's all been planned it seems that lies get justified when it's all we ever hear the facts come out in a cloud of doubt and then they disappear -cos now its better divide and rule and watch us all divide ourselves again we replicate the fear and hate it keeps us entertained 'they' dont exist its just a twist- ed phrase im going through apparently it's you and me lets see if we can do better
6.
Click 03:23
CLICK on the screen tonight reflecting on the content of the words content to be suspended by the serious in the absurd and equally let's sweat to see the silly in the serious volunteered subconscious twists to front-seat the delirious and crave the victory of human sentience above the roar of compliance and a vague defiance bred to raise the final score life's a competition just a text away from joining it the subjugation game declares the honours of spectatorship some twist the dial to find a smile that doesn't boast of ownership as others file the unbeguiled as somehow missing out on it less inclined to see ourselves as part of what we come to see some limbo staring at the hells of fame or anonymity then click from senses overstretched to how the silence amplifies a better place whose quality is something never advertised
7.
HOW FAR DOES IT GO? packed with people in the name of punk the show goes down and the drink gets drunk in the name of unity songs get sung and happily feeling this is where it begun and a relative normality sets in this is how its always been yet once its over the facts come in people got stabbed as we lived the dream its a horror story of retaliation some dead romantic situation local friends called into a scene where its still ok to dress to look mean and fights break out and knives get used and 3 or 4 peoples lives get screwed and the cops do what theyre paid to do and the face of the enemy gets confused who are we as a collective noun if even once this shit goes down? is our unity a shadow of faith to be crushed when reality takes its place? can we stand and be counted as pacifists when arguments lead to knives not fists and fists instead of open debate or getting less pissed before we relate being individual, right or wrong is a prize to be won not by being strong but by allowing the freedom for others to say i disagree- this is my way as weak as it sounds its all down to words the reactions when thoughts get heard and really, fuck it if you hurt some feelings cos theres 3 or 4 punks in hospital bleeding ...possibly to death what have we gained? and what is left?
8.
Insane 03:33
INSANE I felt so happy that I had to complain Felt better for it so I did it again Can't eat the money and you can't drink the rain The whole planet is going insane They feed us beer and dope ,TV and cocaine They build us prisons with the taxes we pay Then take the profit as they lock us away the whole plan its for ill-gotten gains I feel so offside that im out of the game The new spectator sport, anonymous fame One more celebrity replacing the same The whole planet's forgotten your name So heres a list of things to bother your brain All labelled Normal and everyday Youre not the only one who thinks its deranged The whole planet is going insane
9.
Marker Pen 02:51
MARKER PEN the nicest bloke i ever known got locked up in a nursing home some disorder of the brain it had a scientific name they filled him full of pills and then left him with a marker pen with no paper to his name he started up a little game wrote upon the tv screen and the beverage machine 'out of order'- wrote on chairs that someone else was sitting there wrote on exit doors 'return' wrote on curtains 'will not burn' wrote on the telephone 'lines are dead' wrote 'on his head' on his head even though he was insane driven mad by the constant strain of repetition and empty scenes where everything is and nothing means subverting symbols back to front proved he was intelligunt so they let him out and left me behind now I got his pen and plenty of time all of this just goes to show what words can do with the status quo
10.
Fearless 03:47
FEARLESS it's a smiley face society where danger lurks round every word we treasure anonymity and up the sign do not disturb a fearless life is one that smiles much less than ours it has no need for what contentment puts its trust no further than the eye can see? until then it's smiles all round on cartoon cars and burger clowns while at the local stomping ground were overheard the words profound 'what d'you think you're smiling at?' we've reached the fear of happy face! now we're several times removed from any regard for the human race let's get angry let's get mad let's get back to what we had the power to scare will get respect when wrongly linked to intellect a fear delivered wrapped in suits will have us quaking in our boots its how the powergames trickle down when the smile provokes a frown when you're told there's no debate the things you do just don't relate let's get angry let's get mad let's get back to what we had i cannot be the only one who knows that fear is overcome by seeing it as it really is a means to keep us all transfixed silent wary hypnotized blocking out the screams inside our silence only hides the link between the minds that dare to think let's get angry let's get mad let's get back to what we had
11.
DISCOMFORT ZONE the trickle-down effect complete let's all repeat the news as seen on TV every day now we all got similar views that say it's all too serious go back to sport and clothes cos really it's not up to us lets leave it those who know CH- and I got to go to somewhere else now before I lose my mind how far to the nearest person who hasn't been compromised? ignore the facts try to relax you're a long time dead and gone you wanna feel some empathy? just smile and carry on I see the eyes looking so surprised when I say 'all this is wrong' maybe i should just hang out and shit then I'll feel like I belong CH- the middle ground of knowing how the system traps our minds makes enemies of everything that isn't recognised but also makes discoveries of better ways to be the questioning of everything will set the answers free CH-so I'm gonna go to somewhere else now and see what I can find how far to the nearest person who hasn't been compromised? maybe it's you!
12.
Spotless 02:28
SPOTLESS embrace life with neutrogena is it a medecine is it a cleaner? I gotta get some it'll make me meaner another implant from the humachina I split the atom into family units gathering dust in a darkened room, it's prime time night time staring at the moon, it's outside wondering where are all the loonies? sunlight arial fairy sqweezy hippies in my sink all bright an breezy wash your soul in morning fresh but dont let any of it near your flesh spotless clueless numb but clean let's plug in to the humachine and reinvent the communal vision of everyone making their own decisions 'I dont mind adverts' - 'I ignore them' but deep in the brain is a secret storeroom you're out there shopping on the internet steering towards what you try to forget i dont like adverts or TV but i try to know my enemy
13.
Wake Up 04:05
WAKE UP you subsidise the cops it's your protection from the mob described so well in the daily mail as nothing more than yobs it's always been the same until there came the day when a friend of yours was sent to court for just being in the way now you'd march against the uniforms your taxes pay to stop you except you need permission and they said they wouldn't let you..... it's protection for the masses it's a war on terror thing keep the people in their houses and they'll never feel a thing put your money where your guilt is, in the banks and in the church it's where the love of greed and souls that need exoneration merge no more cash when lives are trashed , just figures on the screen we're all in debt learn to accept the cure for the disease..... if we're 'all in this together' its the shit they've put us in repeat the lie until they either riot or give in as disbelief in systems tries to reason with insistence that the way you think is something to be classified as bad it will send you down the learning curve from I accept to I deserve the time it takes between them is the best youve ever had waaaaake up!

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Its scary how much a sound this rare and aged can suddenly be dragged kicking and screaming into modern relevance.
CITIZEN FISH are a wonder of nature, they should not be able to inspire these feelings, being as they are 'just a punk band...' [Subba-Cultcha.com]

There is nothing diluted about Citizen Fish’s musically delivery – As expected of a band with such an extensive history they have got better with age; the Fish now deliver some of the finest ska-punk around, each separate ingredient would in its own right be regarded as exemplary – the blending of full on hardcore with jaunty brass-fuelled ska is joyous; the brass is warm, subtle even, it doesn’t, like many other ska releases overpower the music – this at times is even soulful!
[louderthanwar.com]

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released March 1, 2011

Voice+words- Dick
Guitar- Phil
Bass + voice- Jasper
Drums- Silas
Trombone- Matt
Trumpet+piano-Alex

recorded + mixed by Tom Dalgety
at Riverside Studio Bath Nov 2010
released by Alternative Tentacles 2011

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