From: robert@askinc.ask.COM (Robert McMullen)
Subject: TSOL (WAS: "I Wanna F**k The Dead")
Organization: ASK Computer Systems, Inc.
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 20:48:07 GMT

In article <1992Nov18.025818.3188@njitgw.njit.edu>, rhr9081@hertz.njit.edu 
(Ray Rich) writes:
>        Ok, I don't really.  I just want to know who sings a song by this
>name and any albums it appears on.  It is supposedly a thrash group, but I
>don't know much more than that.
>                                        Thanx,
>                                                Raythrax

I think you're talking about the song "Code Blue" by TSOL, a band from LA.
The song is on the LP/CD "Dance with Me" from, I believe, 1983 or 84 but 
possibly earlier.  (BTW, "TSOL" is supposed to stand for "True Sounds of 
Liberty").

The lyrics are close to but not exactly (hey, this is off the top of
my head from a few years ago)--I'm also not sure of the order.:

   Never got along with the girls at my school
   Filling me up with all their morals and their rules
   Putting all their problems on my head--
    I'd rather go out and FUCK THE DEAD

   <chorus>
   'Cause I can do what I want and she won't complain
   I wanna fuck, I wanna fuck the dead...

   Middle of the night, so silently, I creep on over to the mortuary
   Lift up the casket and fiddle with her head;
   That cold blue flesh makes me turn red

   <chorus>

   blah,blah
   Won't even cry if I shoot it in her hair;
   She just lays there, she smiles and she stares...

As far as TSOL being a "thrash group", well they used to be.  Their first EP, 
which includes "Abolish Government" and "Silent Majority", is a punk classic, 
as is the LP Dance with Me.  This phase of the band featured demonic singer Alex
Morgon (Jack something).  They also appear in Penelope Spheeris' brilliant look 
at suburban LA punk life "Suburbia"--rent it if you can!  They're the band on 
stage when someone in the crowd gets knifed.

Eventually, TSOL started getting mellower (not quite as drastically as, say
7 Seconds [who went from speed-of-light-fast to REM-ish]).  Then, the punk incarnation of this group ended...

Around the mid-80s, they got the brilliant idea to grow long hair, get
tons of tattoos, wear earrings and makeup, and generally be posers, ala
LA Guns and Guns'n'Roses, since that was what was popular on the LA scene.
At this point, they added a new singer and drummer, as well.  Oh yeah, and
changed their sound *drastically*.

I guess the best way to put it is this.  If you like(d) Bad Brains, old Social 
Distortion, Black Flag, Dr. Know, et al, you'll love *old* TSOL.  If you liked 
*old* TSOL (or don't like G'nR, LA Guns, etc), STAY AWAY from anything circa 
1985 or on.  We used to joke at the old college radio station I worked at that
they changed what TSOL stood for at that point from True Sounds of Liberty to 
True Sold Out Losers.

============================>Robert McMullen<============================

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