Man, I saw this somewhere Saturday the 26th and didn't think of Sifting... but I did want to reinstall Assassin's Creed Black Flag and continue playing that and gathering sea shanties.

Black Flag "Police Story":

This fucking city
Is run by pigs
They take the rights
Away from all the kids
Understand
We're fighting a war
We can't win
They hate us
We hate them
We can't win, no way!
Walk down the street
I flip them off
They hit me across the head
With a billy club
Understand
We're fighting a war
We can't win
They hate us
We hate them
We can't win, no way!
Nothing I do,
Nothing I say
I tell them to go get fucked
They put me away
Understand
We're fighting a war
We can't win
They hate us
We hate them
We can't win, no way!
I go to court,
For my crime,
Stand in line pay bail,
I waste my time
Understand
We're fighting a war
We can't win
They hate us
We hate them
We can't win, no way!

This looks amazing. Almost as cool as his role as the Red Lotus master of the void, Zaheer.

Henry Rollins gets better with age, but I will still rock Black Flag's Damaged every. fucking. day. KEEP ME ALIVE --

Only you can do it
If not you'll die too
And I'll see to it

It's hard to survive
Don't know if I can do it

Keep me alive
I can't accept my fate
I need help
Before it's too late

It's hard to survive, don't know if I can do it
I need to belong, I need to hang on
I need, NEED

Keep me alive feelings I must obey
Can't turn my eyes from the past
This crisis is the last

Keep me alive
I rely on your judgement
I've got none left of my own
Don't know what I'm doing

It's hard to survive, don't know if I can do it
I need to belong, I need to hang on
I need, NEED

Keep me alive
Only you can do it
Keep me alive
Only you can do it

It's hard to survive, don't know if I can do it

Keep me alive
Keep me alive
Keep me alive
Keep me alive

It's hard to survive, don't know if I can do it
I need to belong, I need to hang on
I need, need

Black Flag was really the best game in the series, and practically the only one deserving attention.

Never really got into the Assassins Creed games, but I have to say that everytime I see the pirate ship in Black Flag, it makes me want to play it.

I am not alone in this

To the best of my knowledge Rollins has never taken drugs or alcohol. So yeah, he was just hyped up on stage.

As to that incident, in Rollins defence, the guy in the crowd started it. According to wikipedia it was pretty common at the time.

"Black Flag's change in musical style and appearance alienated many of their original fans, who focused their displeasure on Rollins by punching him in the mouth, stabbing him with pens, or scratching him with their nails, among other methods. He often fought back, dragging audience members on stage and assaulting them. "

Just to be clear, I'm not condoning his actions, but saying he was "beating up fans in a drunken stupor" is just not accurate.

Overrated performance from an overrated band. Lee Ving is a poseur who stole his entire persona/sound from Black Flag.

If you liked this video you will probably enjoy this one as well.

*related=http://videosift.com/video/The-Art-of-Punk-Black-Flag

The Art of Punk - Black Flag has been added as a related post - related requested by Grimm.

I like listening to Henry Rollins almost as much as I like listening to Kevin Smith, and for many of the same reasons. These two men are witty, articulate, and they just "get it". Every single talk I've heard from either of them has always contained some little nugget I hadn't previously considered.

But damned if I can see how Rollins or Black Flag ever got a following...it doesn't seem to be for any musical ability, it must have been more for lyrics than anything else.

As long as Anonymous remains a black flag to random tyrannical/bigoted/corrupt/and diseased humans, be they groups or as an individual, I'll take them--as I'm free to use the banner as much as anyone else here can.

It's about as close as we can get to an "elegant" vigilante working as a third party, without a superhero showing up.

Lyrics:


Yeah, uh huh, you know what it is
Black and yellow [x4]
Yeah, uh huh, you know what it is
Black and yellow [x4]

[Chorus:]
Yeah, uh huh, you know what it is
Everything we do, we do it big
Beat up on Paul Krugman, that's nothin




Transcend Mises at twenty, that's stunin
Repping my school when you see me you know everything
Black and yellow [x4]
I put it down for my man Murray, I'm in
Black and yellow [x4]

[Verse 1:]
Black flag, yellow star, them commies scared of it, got my war paint
Soon as I hit the forum, crack keynes, instant faint
Hit the podium once make them liberals shake
State inflates, now the prices soaring
A failed policy, you know the people payed for it
And you know we dig them precious metals
We callin on your horseshit game we balling out on every level
Hear them statists talk but there's nothing you can tell 'em
Fed prints a trillion, got another trillion on their schedule
No love for central planners breaking hearts
No state, free market art

[Chorus:]
Yeah, uh huh, you know what it is
Everything we do, we do it big
Beat up on Paul Krugman, that's nothin




Transcend Mises at twenty, that's stunin
Repping my school when you see me you know everything
Black and yellow [x4]
I put it down for my man Murray , I'm in
Black and yellow [x4]

[Verse 2:]
Got a call from Tom Woods, this just in
Bitches love me for my non-aggressive means and ends
Neo-Lockean? Maybe. The market's free, yo.
This ain't the new deal, it's the real deal no joe blow
I'm sipping Four Loko and puffin on the ganja
You social engineers will never stop the marijuana
Statists act like bitches, Tyler Perry
I ball out while Ron Paul does some commentary

[Chorus:]
Yeah, uh huh, you know what it is
Everything we do, we do it big
Beat up on Paul Krugman, that's nothin




Transcend Mises at twenty, that's stunin
Repping my school when you see me you know everything
Black and yellow [x4]
I put it down for my man Murray , I'm in
Black and yellow [x4]


[Verse 3:]
Stay praxeological like I'm supposed to do
Broken window fallacy, them Keynesians cant get over you
And our crew look unapproachable
We're with Rothbard, Bitch, we go hard

They wanna fuck with the market, monopolize, constrict, get high, talk shit and that's that Real crap, depression but, they said we wouldn't feel that, they took the blue pill, or must just be on crack

[Chorus:]
Yeah, uh huh, you know what it is
Yeah, uh huh, you know what it is
(emotional appeals ain't shit, it all comes back to economics, bitch)
Repping my school when you see me you know everything
Black and yellow [x4]
I put it down for my man Murray, I'm in
Black and yellow [x4]
Yeah, uh huh, you know what it is
Everything we do, we do it big
Beat up on Paul Krugman, that's nothin




Transcend Mises at twenty, that's stunin
Repping my school when you see me you know everything
Black and yellow [x4]
I put it down for my man Murray, I'm in
Black and yellow [x4]

The thing I don't get about the hating of Henry Rollins, is the idea that he should be frozen in time in Black Flag. The fact that he's critical and analytical really appears to rub people up the wrong way. I don't agree with everything he says, but I love the way he thinks.

Rollins was cool when he was in Black Flag, now he's sort of like a rebelling neo-facist adult. I mean why can't he be like all the other adults and get a real job, a family, go to church, be humble, shut his loud mouth and just be fat and jolly like all the other old men at The Sizzler?