Got a letter from the government

[ghostsofgiants]

The other day
I opened and read it
It said the were suckers
They wanted me for their army or whatever
Picture me givin' a damn, I said never

[Starbucks Anarchist]

1. Hell yeah!

[ghostsofgiants]

2. Haha...

The second I saw khashka's "Got a letter from..." I knew I had to make the PE reference.

[jpgray]

3. What's that album? "It Takes a Nation of Brazilians to Hold Us Back?"

:shrug:

[ghostsofgiants]

4. Was that before or after "Fear of a Kudzu Planet"?

/Got nothin'

[LoZoccolo]

5. Have you ever heard the Tricky version?

It's just called "Black Steel". There's a woman singing it rather than rapping, and the lyrics only go up to the part where she's thinking about how she has to get out of jail ("I got a raw deal, and I'm looking for the steel") before it repeats the lyrics like two or three more times. I actually like it better than the original because the way it's structured is like, someone's in jail ruminating on what just happened to them to bring them there over and over and how they have to get out. Plus it's this echoey punk-rock treatment of it.

[ghostsofgiants]

6. I did not know such a version existed. I'll have to check it out.

Score one for Oasis!

[LoZoccolo]

7. I found the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTlN4A5fmZw

It's been shortened by like two minutes for video though. Which sucks because like I said the repetition is kind of an interesting rendition of it.

[ghostsofgiants]

8. Cool, thanks!