vagrantx
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Day 17: A song that mentions an insect
Ramones two days in a row! Don't mind if I do...
I think this song perfectly encapsulates what punk is about.
It's short, simple, it has a heavy message, it speaks to the listener in a way that often only music can do. Oxymoronic in it's hilarity and depressiveness.
Joey struggled heavily with mental health issues throughout his life, most prominently his OCD which often left him completely debilitated. He was often late to shows, some times spending half an hour trying to make the little half-step onto the stage in the right way. It was so severe that he was hospitalized for it, which lead to his untimely death at only 49 years of age.
He'd been diagnosed with lymphoma. On his way home from one of the doctors appointments, his OCD flared up and he could not stop himself from turning around, walking back to the doc' just to check that he closed the door properly when leaving. A slick of ice, and Joey slipped. He fractured his hip, badly. This messed up his ongoing treatment of said cancer, as doctors had to take him off of his immune-suppresants to operate on his hip.
He was dead within the year.
But up to that final chapter of his life, he fought. To do what he loved. What we loved him for.
Singing his god damn motherfucking heart out.
Gonna crawl in a hole
nobody's my friend
i'm no good to anyone
i want some dirt...
I'm a wah-wah-wah-wah-wah-wah-wah-wah-wah-wah-wah-worm man
Ramones - Worm Man
Ramones two days in a row! Don't mind if I do...
I think this song perfectly encapsulates what punk is about.
It's short, simple, it has a heavy message, it speaks to the listener in a way that often only music can do. Oxymoronic in it's hilarity and depressiveness.
Joey struggled heavily with mental health issues throughout his life, most prominently his OCD which often left him completely debilitated. He was often late to shows, some times spending half an hour trying to make the little half-step onto the stage in the right way. It was so severe that he was hospitalized for it, which lead to his untimely death at only 49 years of age.
He'd been diagnosed with lymphoma. On his way home from one of the doctors appointments, his OCD flared up and he could not stop himself from turning around, walking back to the doc' just to check that he closed the door properly when leaving. A slick of ice, and Joey slipped. He fractured his hip, badly. This messed up his ongoing treatment of said cancer, as doctors had to take him off of his immune-suppresants to operate on his hip.
He was dead within the year.
But up to that final chapter of his life, he fought. To do what he loved. What we loved him for.
Singing his god damn motherfucking heart out.
Gonna crawl in a hole
nobody's my friend
i'm no good to anyone
i want some dirt...
I'm a wah-wah-wah-wah-wah-wah-wah-wah-wah-wah-wah-worm man
Ramones - Worm Man
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Fuck it, I really like this song and I've seen other arachnid songs posted so hopefully our lovely host isn't going to get too technical today. 
