Napalm Sticks to Kids
1983 · Heartwork HWLP 07 · Göteborg, Sweden
- Artist
- Cortex
- Title
- Napalm Sticks to Kids
- Release
- Spinal Injuries
- Year
- 1983
- Label
- Heartwork # HWLP 07
- Format
- Album
- Language
- English
- Country
- Göteborg, Sweden
- Genre
- Punk · Post-Punk
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation
Post-Punk group Cortex, formed in 1980 in Göteborg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden. The group disbanded in 1987. Formed by Freddie Wadling, with a rotating line-up. They released a version of the well-known song "Napalm Sticks to Kids", a brutal portrayal on the use of napalm in Vietnam: "dropping frags on refugees... All the children they have burned... If one's pregnant it's two for one" - 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 This song was thought to have been originally written and performed by US soldiers in Vietnam ("in-country"), such as by the First of the Ninth Chorus, a group formed by troopers of the 1st of the 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, recorded on tape in 1970 at Phuc Vinh, in South Vietnam.4 A more well-known version was recorded in the US by the Covered Wagon Musicians, active-duty US GIs, against the Vietnam War, featured on the album We Say No to Your War! (1972) - the booklet of this record credited the song to "Air Force and Army GIs attached to the 1st Air Cavalry in Vietnam. Recited by Sgt. John Boychuk....a group of GIs sat down one night in a hootch in Vietnam to write these words. Each person made a verse about an incident in which he had taken part and the poem expresses their collective bitterness toward the military that had turned them into murderers".5Sources1Napalm: An American Biography (Robert M. Neer, 2013)↩2Times Higher Education: Napalm an american biography by robert m neer↩3Napalm, An American Biography (book website)↩4Internet Archive: First of the ninth napalm sticks to kids↩5Covered Wagon Muscians - PAR01015↩
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — Punk Songs
Post-Punk group Cortex, formed in 1980 in Göteborg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden. The group disbanded in 1987. Formed by Freddie Wadling, with a rotating line-up. They released a version of the well-known song "Napalm Sticks to Kids", a brutal portrayal on the use of napalm in Vietnam: "dropping frags on refugees... All the children they have burned... If one's pregnant it's two for one" - 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 This song was thought to have been originally written and performed by US soldiers in Vietnam ("in-country"), such as by the First of the Ninth Chorus, a group formed by troopers of the 1st of the 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, recorded on tape in 1970 at Phuc Vinh, in South Vietnam.4 A more well-known version was recorded in the US by the Covered Wagon Musicians, active-duty US GIs, against the Vietnam War, featured on the album We Say No to Your War! (1972) - the booklet of this record credited the song to "Air Force and Army GIs attached to the 1st Air Cavalry in Vietnam. Recited by Sgt. John Boychuk....a group of GIs sat down one night in a hootch in Vietnam to write these words. Each person made a verse about an incident in which he had taken part and the poem expresses their collective bitterness toward the military that had turned them into murderers".5 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)↩4Internet Archive: First of the ninth napalm sticks to kids↩5Covered Wagon Muscians - PAR01015↩
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: See that bomber by the trees / Pilots doing what they please / Dropping frags on refugees / Napalm sticks to kids / It sticks to you, ohhh / All the mayhem they have learned / All the godsend they have earned / All the children they have burned / It sticks to me, it sticks to you / See the family on the run / Killing gooks is much-o fun / If one's pregnant it's two for one / Napalm sticks to kids / Napalm sticks to kids (burn, burn, baby!)
About the artist
Swedish band from Gothenburg. [Source: Discogs; RateYourMusic]