(We Need Another) Vietnam
2000 · Sympathy for the Record Industry SFTRI 604 · Austin, Texas
- Artist
- The Hard Feelings
- Title
- (We Need Another) Vietnam
- Release
- Fought Back and Lost
- Year
- 2000
- Label
- Sympathy for the Record Industry # SFTRI 604
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- English
- Country
- Austin, Texas, USA
- Genre
- Punk · Garage Punk
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation
The Hard Feelings, Garage Punk group formed in Austin, Texas, USA, led by John Schooley, released the song "(We Need Another) Vietnam" (Sympathy for the Record Industry # SFTRI 604), recorded at Sweatbox Studios, Austin TX 15-17 January 2000, criticised its current generation: "I think my generation stinks, all the kids without a clue". And thus they called for "another Vietnam...let's drop some napalm" - a reference to chemical weapon Napalm B - a jellied gasoline mixture, with polystyrene, benzene, and gasoline. Declared a war-crime since 1980, the US government extensively used this weapon during the Vietnam conflict, dropping 388,000 tons on Indochina between 1963 and 1973.123Sources1Napalm: An American Biography (Robert M. Neer, 2013)↩2Times Higher Education: Napalm an american biography by robert m neer↩3Napalm, An American Biography (book website)↩
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — Punk Songs
The Hard Feelings, Garage Punk group formed in Austin, Texas, USA, led by John Schooley, released the song "(We Need Another) Vietnam" (Sympathy for the Record Industry # SFTRI 604), recorded at Sweatbox Studios, Austin TX 15-17 January 2000, criticised its current generation: "I think my generation stinks, all the kids without a clue". And thus they called for "another Vietnam...let's drop some napalm" - a reference to chemical weapon Napalm B - a jellied gasoline mixture, with polystyrene, benzene, and gasoline. Declared a war-crime since 1980, the US government extensively used this weapon during the Vietnam conflict, dropping 388,000 tons on Indochina between 1963 and 1973.123 Sources1Napalm: An American Biography (Robert M. Neer, 2013)↩2Times Higher Education: Napalm an american biography by robert m neer↩3Napalm, An American Biography (book website)↩
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: I think my generation stinks... / All the kids without a clue / It's time we had something to do / Let's go / We need another Vietnam / Let's drop some napalm cluster bomb / All the kids without a clue / It's time to go...let's go / War was good, if I tell the truth / Ain't good for nothing and neither are you / In '69 you might have laughed / But this time no one beats my draft / Let's go
About the artist
The Hard Feelings were an Austin, Texas punk-blues band around John Schooley (guitar/vocals; born in Niangua, Missouri per a 2004 Austin Chronicle profile; previously of the Revelators), with Andy Martin (bass), Trey Roblez (drums) and Walter Daniels (harmonica). "(We Need Another) Viet Nam" is a side-B track on "Fought Back And Lost" (Sympathy For The Record Industry SFTRI 604, 2000), recorded at Sweatbox Studios, Austin, January 2000, produced by Mike Mariconda. Date fact: 2000. [Source: Discogs; Austin Chronicle]