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Rock Stars Kill, 1994
Written by Tim Armstrong
This relatively lower-energy Rancid single imagines Oakland in a series of disasters — riots, police brutality, bombs, and tidal waves. And out of the chaos and carnage, perhaps a reimagined society. "Two-fifty dead the Tribune read / Oakland's going off like a bomb / I saw a new generation coming / Under the smoke over Oakland." What does this have to do with Brixton, other than Tom Armstrong's Clash fixation? He takes inspirations from British hooliganism. "Thirty cops beaten, another one dead / The fight lasted on through the Brixton night / A thousand angry looters who knew they were right."
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