Raum Der Zeit - Wizo

Raum Der Zeit - Wizo

1:38

Uuaarrgh!, 1994

Written by Wizo?

Another blistering-fast punk song from everyone's favorite progressive German anti-fascist band.  The song starts off in whipcrack speed and never lets up: "Ich bin schwul, ich bin jüdisch / Und ein Kommunist dazu / Ich bin schwarz und behindert / Doch genauso Mensch, wie du."  Black, gay, disabled, communist, we are all humans and worthy of love.  Or are we?  In Wizo's vision, we're all equal, but we're all equally assholes, full of faults, amid the billions of other chattering nobodies.  It's the same message of 1960s hippie sensibility, just crammed through the warped view of the punk's nihilism.

Ganz klar gegen Nazis - Wizo

Ganz klar gegen Nazis - Wizo

3:30

Punk gibt's nicht umsonst (Teil III), 2014

Written by Wizo? 

I'm passingly familiar with this German punk band, and I'd say this is their best song by miles.  With a churning, aggressive drumbeat and blunt-force guitars, and lyrics decrying all manner of fascism and oppression, to me it's the epitome of what Teutonic punk should be.  It's the kind of song I would like to go on for another ten minutes.