White Noise
1982 · Risky · Dayton, Ohio
- Artist
- Toxic Reasons
- Title
- White Noise
- Release
- Independence
- Year
- 1982
- Label
- Risky
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- English
- Country
- Dayton, Ohio, USA
- Genre
- Rock · Punk Rock
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation
Punk Rock group from formed in 1979 in Dayton, Ohio, USA. Disbanded in 1995. Membership included Bruce Stuckey (guitar, vocals), Ed Pittman (lead vocals, 1979-83), Joel Agne (guitar, vocals, 1979-81), Mark Patterson (drums, 1979-81), J.J. Pearson [aka Jimmy Joe] (drums, vocals, 1980-95), and Rob Lucjak [aka Snott] (bass, guitar, vocals, 1980-85). The band also released the anti-Vietnam War song "War Hero", in 1980, discussed above: War Hero / Somebody Help Me. On this record was the song "White Noise" (Risky Records # RI 10004) which took an anti-war position, criticising western interverntion. The narrator said that the "Viet Nam era and Krushchev have died" (a reference to the USSR leader Nikita Khrushchev, 1953-64), yet the Cold War continued, "standing here at the Berlin Wall, the scent of war", and well as "El Salvador", a reference to the US involvement in the Salvadoran Civil War by US President Carter & President Reagan.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: Standin' in the streets of El Salvador / The last son of freedom won't fight no more / The Viet Nam era and Khrushchev have died / But the war goes on and I'm left asking why / I'm standing here at the Berlin Wall / The scent of war, thanks and bombs / White Noise - White Noise / White Noise - White Noise / Move me here, move me there / 'Cause I'm a pawn and I don't care / Use me, kill me
About the artist
American punk rock band formed in 1979 in Dayton, Ohio; recorded anti-war material incl. 'Agent Orange'. [Source: Wikipedia]