{"id":3379,"date":"2012-05-16T21:38:37","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T21:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/?p=3379"},"modified":"2021-02-18T19:05:39","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T19:05:39","slug":"review-onsind-dissatisfacton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/16\/review-onsind-dissatisfacton\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Onsind \u2013 Dissatisfacton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/onsind.bandcamp.com\/\">Album available at <q>name your price<\/q> with a minimum of \u00a30<\/a><\/p>\n<p><acronym title=\"One Night Stand in North Dakota\">ONSIND<\/acronym> are an acoustic pop punk band from Durham. Their name is in reference to the lack of abortion facilities in some areas of America.<\/p>\n<p>I recently attended a gig put on by the <a href=\"https:\/\/makethatatakerecords.bandcamp.com\/\">Make That a Take<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/DIY_ethic\">DIY<\/a> (<q>anti-sexist, anti-racist, anti-fascist and anti-homophobic<\/q>) collective in Dundee featuring <acronym title=\"One Night Stand in North Dakota\">ONSIND<\/acronym> and was blown away at how incredibly good their set was. Their gig had more people at it and more politics in it than most public meetings by parties.<\/p>\n<p>The album is a really nice package which contains liner notes including full lyrics and each song accompanied by a quotation. <q>Philosophers have only interpreted the world\u2026the point is to change it<\/q> \u2013 Karl Marx should give another taster at their lyrical content which also mentions weighty lefty tomes. The majority of the song are two male vocalists, one lead; one backing with acoustic guitars. Occasionally other instruments and backing singers pop up. But it should certainly be a more accessible punk album to those who don\u2019t normally listen to the genre or it\u2019s millions of sub-genres.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uEevisAbQN0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The album opens with the lines <q>Homophobes are terrified to admit that during their lives there have been moments where they\u2019ve wavered in their minds<\/q> on the track <cite>heterosexuality is a construct<\/cite>. It fills you with incredible hope to be a straight male in a crowd of 90% straight males singing along to <q>I\u2019m not a heterosexual man, I\u2019m not ticking your boxes, that\u2019s not who I am<\/q> and <q>love is not a crime<\/q>. To quote a recent comment on Twitter <q>Yes, I support gay rights. No, I\u2019m not gay. I\u2019m against deforestation and that doesn\u2019t make me a tree.<\/q>. These kinds of attitudes and behaviour are surely a massive step forward and something possible in the kind of space provided by Make that a take that you may not get in less socially conscious live music spaces. Normally punk\/metal\/alternative shows are filled with macho posturing men faux fighting with their male friends. Most times it\u2019s fine but sometimes it can spill over into the rest of the crowd and drives everyone else to the back of the venue or out of the music scene altogether.<\/p>\n<p><cite>Either he\u2019s dead or my watch has stopped<\/cite> should be listened to by anyone on the left.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QV2B_ra4FKA\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We have nothing to lose but our chains\u2026I\u2019m just another na\u00efve prole, with revolution on the mind, but I\u2019d fight a line of riot police if it\u2019d help to clear the sky\u2026Melancholia and Marxism, this must be where I belong\u2026I\u2019d bomb the Royal Bank if it\u2019d blow the clouds away<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A song openly calling for revolution shouldn\u2019t need much more comment.<\/p>\n<p>The other essential track to hear is <cite>That Takes Ovaries<\/cite>. A call at arms for men to help smash patriarchy from our position of <q>burden and privilege<\/q> as something <q>more productive [to do with] all that spare testosterone you have to throw around<\/q>. A welcome addition to the discussions around feminism and patriarchy I\u2019m sure you\u2019ll agree.<\/p>\n<p>The closing song <cite>I could carve a better man out of a banana<\/cite> tells the story of a female victim of domestic violence resorting to killing her abuser. <q>she took a knife and drove it through his back with all the strength she had left<\/q> \u2013 the first song the band ever recorded showing from the start they intended to set powerful political lyrics to tunes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3381\" title=\"onsind dissatisfaction album\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/onsind-dissatisfaction-1024x988.jpg\" width=\"512\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/onsind-dissatisfaction-1024x988.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/onsind-dissatisfaction-300x289.jpg 300w, http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/onsind-dissatisfaction.jpg 1460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Album available at name your price with a minimum of \u00a30 ONSIND are an acoustic pop punk band from Durham. Their name is in reference to the lack of abortion facilities in some areas of America. I recently attended a gig put on by the Make That a Take DIY (anti-sexist, anti-racist, anti-fascist and anti-homophobic)&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1861,1865,1863],"tags":[228],"class_list":["post-3379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alienation-self-determination","category-reviews","category-cultural-celebration","tag-author-alan-graham"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"views":4154,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3379"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17558,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3379\/revisions\/17558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}