A.P.O.W.
1989 · Super Seven SS7 ep 226 · San Marcos, California
- Artist
- White Pigs
- Title
- A.P.O.W.
- Release
- Hit Bonanza
- Year
- 1989
- Label
- Super Seven # SS7 ep 226
- Format
- 7" · EP
- Language
- English
- Country
- San Marcos, California, USA
- Songwriter
- White Pigs
- Genre
- Punk · Hardcore Punk
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation
Hardcore Punk group White Pigs, which formed in Hartford, Connecticut, USA, in 1980. The song "A.P.O.W." (SS7 ep 226) - standing for American Prisoners of War, is a P.O.W. song. It started with a military cadence, "Johnny said he was your friend, now he's got your girlfriend in bed", and then it moved straight into a high speed guitar rhythm, only broken toward the end of the song, to play a distorted version of the American anthem. The lyrics told of "Johnny going to Vietnam", who is then captured by the Viet Cong. The final verse said that "another US soldier dead".& Vietnam War: Punk Songs
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — P.O.W. / M.I.A. Songs
Hardcore Punk group White Pigs, which formed in Hartford, Connecticut, USA, in 1980. The song "A.P.O.W." (SS7 ep 226) - standing for American Prisoners of War, is a P.O.W. song. It started with a military cadence, "Johnny said he was your friend, now he's got your girlfriend in bed", and then it moved straight into a high speed guitar rhythm, only broken toward the end of the song, to play a distorted version of the American anthem. The lyrics told of "Johnny going to Vietnam", who is then captured by the Viet Cong. The final verse said that "another US soldier dead".
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: Johnny said he was your friend / Now he's got your girlfriend in bed / Sound off, one, two / Sound off, three, four / They captured you / Johnny going to Vietnam.... / Vietcong is running through and captured you / American Prisoner of War... / Another US soldier dead, dead, buried to the ground / American Prisoner of War
Notes
Superseven SS7 ep 226, "Hit Bonanza", 33 speed, red vinyl, Doug Moody Productions, P.O. Box 1596, San Marcos, CA 92069; all songs White Pigs, c/o Doug Moody Music/BMI, ©DM℗ 1989. This side: "Boss", "Victims", "Kill a Cop", "A.P.O.W."; other side: "Ghosts", "R.I.P.", "White Pigs Theme", "Proving Ground". The front sleeve is a stippled ink drawing of a snarling pig-faced punk with an inverted-cross earring and studded collar, skulls in its eyes. The back sleeve gives the band's address as P.O. Box 18152, East Hartford, CT 06118, a group photograph, and credits: produced by Ted Rudzis & White Pigs; Brian Rip Throat (vocals), Rock God Earl E. Grave and Eddie Porter (bass), George Butterrick and Pete Clark (drums), Chuck Duncan and Steve Bertrand (guitars); layout by Phillip Raves; European contact Mystic/Semaphore, Schagen, the Netherlands. [From the record sleeve and labels]
About the artist
From East Hartford, Connecticut, USA