We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.
/

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Paying supporters also get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app.
    Purchasable with gift card

      name your price

     

  • Buy the Full Digital Album

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    2xCd + DVD

    Includes unlimited streaming of No Future in the Past, The Best and The Rest (free download) via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 7 days
    Purchasable with gift card

      $4 USD or more 

     

about

The second punk movement took the I don't care-attitude from the first punk movement and turned it into a fatalistic view in the shadow of the cold war. No wonder with Reagan as president of the USA, and Thatcher as prime minister in the UK. We weren't any different. The intro is us trying to play reggae like the first reggae-band from our home town, and also a favourite of ours, Grassroots. Later on our home town was going to get so many reggae bands that it soon would be called the capital of reggae in Sweden.

lyrics

1984 (Reality Today)
So the governments they come and go
So what the fuck, it's the same show
So many people blinded by their lies
They haven't seen the reality of today

So the future is an unwritten story
But it's got the power and it's got the glory
I ain't got no future and it's the same for you
So why don't you fuck off, fuck you

Before it was 83, now it's 84
What the fuck I'm living for?
I ain't got no future and it's the same for you
But what the fuck can we do?

Chorus:
1981 wasn't that fun
1982 not a shit for me and you
1983 what's it gonna be in 1984?
Is it worth living for?

The future is an unwritten story
But it's got the power and it's got the glory
It's our future which we ain't control
People in misery and people on the dole

Chorus:

The cold war is here to stay - reality today!
And it's always gonna be that way - reality today!
Until hell break loose - reality today!
It's up to us so you'd better choose - reality today!

So the governments they come and go
So what the fuck, it's the same show
So many people blinded by their lies
They haven't seen the reality of today

Chorus:

credits

from No Future in the Past, The Best and The Rest (free download), released November 2, 2008

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

The Bristles image

The Bristles Landskrona, Sweden

The Bristles is a raw punk band formed in 1982 from Landskrona, Sweden. The band broke up in 1985. In 2008 reunited. In 2010 the album Reflections Of The Bourgeois Society was out, In 2012 the band’s 2:nd album, Bigger than Punk, was released.
In 2014 the cassette EP "Val"" was out and now the the new album Last Days of Capitalism" is out Oct 23 2015.
Feb. 2018 the spilt 7" single with Rövsvett. ... more

contact / help

Contact The Bristles

Streaming and
Download help

Report this track or account

If you like The Bristles, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Beans joins the show to discuss his album release, "ZWAARD".

listen now