Friday 20 March 2020

Neutrals - Hitler's In The Charts Again



  I've got to be honest, whilst previously featuring a couple of songs on here by Oakland band Neutrals (https://www.facebook.com/neutralsnotswiss/), I never expected in my wildest dreams that they'd be back with a cover of a track that featured on the same ep as Dead Cities, the song that had much of Britain spluttering out their evening hot chocolate as a bunch of colourfully coiffured angry looking rowdies called The Exploited made a highly memorable Top Of The Pops appearance. But they are and whilst it's on first glance a left field choice of a song to cover it's also an inspired one that makes total sense.

  As you may already know, Neutrals are 2 Americans called Phil (Benson & Lantz) and a Scot called Allan (McNaughton). They released a very good album last year titled Kebab Disco, it was a semi autobiographical indie post-punk delight that you should check out if it passed you by. Next month sees them releasing a new ep, it's called Rent/Your House and it contains 5 new tracks. The vinyl version is via Portland Oregon label Domestic Departure and all proceeds from the ep go towards 2 very deserving causes; RAICES (The Refugee and Immigrant Centre for Education and Legal Services) and Border Angels.  You can expect C-86 influenced spiky jangle punk on subjects such as struggling to keep the bailiffs at bay and musclebound oafs that talk with their knuckles so watch out for it : https://neutrals.bandcamp.com/album/rent-your-house-e-p
(If you get on that Bandcamp page quickly, they've made available for one day only an unreleased track titled Bus Stop Nights and all funds raised from it will go towards supporting Bay Area relief efforts serving the vulnerable during this current crisis).

    This track is in protest of the treatment by the current US administration towards immigrants and refugees and about the growing threat of fascism around the world. It's called Hitler's In The Charts Again...

Listen to the sound
Of the soldiers dancing
Armageddon time
On the firing line
Don't know what they're doing
Looks like trouble's brewing
Wunderbar
Auf Wiedersehen

Hitler's in the charts again
Hitler's in the charts again

You look like a tramp
Put you in a camp
Join the shower queue
In your dancing shoes
Be the dancing champ
Of your concentration camp
Keep on movin' fast
Remember Belsen was a gas

Hitler's in the charts again
Hitler's in the charts again


Moving in trance watch the soldiers dance
Bloodstains on their feet scared of everyone you meet
Armys on the street can you feel the heat
Watch the soldiers fall it couldn't happen here


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