{"id":9319,"date":"2016-06-06T08:30:16","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T15:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=9319"},"modified":"2016-07-11T19:05:11","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T02:05:11","slug":"some-days-you-just-gotta-write-soviet-disco-apparently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/06\/some-days-you-just-gotta-write-soviet-disco-apparently\/","title":{"rendered":"some days you just gotta write soviet disco, apparently"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>kawaiilluminatii on Tumblr demanded, and I quote, &#8220;YMCA but instead of young man they say comrade and YMCA is USSR,&#8221; and liquidcoma threw in a first line. And, of course, I followed up&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/solarbird.net\/Livejournal\/2016-06\/ymca-ussr.gif\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and then I couldn&#8217;t stop myself. I tried, I swear, but I kept adding more chunks in a series of reblogs.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Biggest, Hottest Communist Disco Club of 1978<br \/>\n2016 Crime and the Forces of Evil, I guess?<\/p>\n<p>Comrade! Steel production is down,<br \/>\nI said comrade! Pick yourself off the ground<br \/>\nI said comrade! Seize the factory in town<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s no need to be a wage slave<\/p>\n<p>Comrade! Marx&#8217;s principles show<br \/>\nclearly (Comrade!) There&#8217;s no meaning to dough &#8211;<br \/>\nit&#8217;s all shackles! You must cast them aside<br \/>\nif you want to gain class freedom<\/p>\n<p>(in the video in my head, the five horn hits going into the chorus are red flags popping up &#8211;<br \/>\nFLAG FLAG FLAG FLAG FLAG)<\/p>\n<p>The workers rule in the U S S R<br \/>\nThe workers rule in the U S S R<br \/>\nWe have thrown down our chains, we have taken the reigns,<br \/>\nIn the name of the working class!<\/p>\n<p>The workers rule in the U S S R<br \/>\nThe workers rule in the U S S R<br \/>\nWe have seized control from the capitalists<br \/>\nPrivate property won&#8217;t exist<\/p>\n<p>Comrade! Have the peasants been armed? I ask<br \/>\nComrade! Have collectives been formed? I ask<br \/>\nComrade! Are the bourgeois informed?<br \/>\nThat their ruling days are over<\/p>\n<p>No one, does it all by themselves<br \/>\nI said no one! or you&#8217;ll end up in cells<br \/>\nSo come join us! In the U S S R<br \/>\nBe the in-ter-na-tion-al-ist!<\/p>\n<p>(FLAG) (FLAG) (FLAG) (FLAG) (FLAG)<\/p>\n<p>The workers rule in the U S S R<br \/>\nThe workers rule in the U S S R<br \/>\nWe have thrown down our chains, we have taken the reigns,<br \/>\nIn the name of the working class!<\/p>\n<p>The workers rule in the U S S R<br \/>\nThe workers rule in the U S S R<br \/>\nWe have seized control from the capitalists<br \/>\nPrivate property won&#8217;t exist<\/p>\n<p>Comrade! I was once in your shoes<br \/>\nI said Comrade! Down and out with the blues<br \/>\nI felt no one! cared if I would survive<br \/>\nThe whole system was just jive and<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s when someone, came right up to me<br \/>\nAnd said comrade, there&#8217;s solutions you see<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s a system, in the U S S R<br \/>\nThat can start you back on your way<\/p>\n<p>(FLAG) (FLAG) (FLAG) (FLAG) (FLAG)<\/p>\n<p>The workers rule in the U S S R<br \/>\nThe workers rule in the U S S R<br \/>\nWe have seized control from the capitalists<br \/>\nPrivate property won&#8217;t exist<\/p>\n<p>U S S R! The workers rule in the U S S R<br \/>\nComrade, Comrade, there&#8217;s no need to feel down<br \/>\nComrade, Comrade, pick yourself off the ground<\/p>\n<p>U S S R! The workers rule in the U S S R!<br \/>\nComrade, Comrade, I was once in your shoes<br \/>\nComrade, Comrade, down and out with the blues<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strike>&#8230;aaaaand so on.<\/strike> NOPE AS I WAS WRITING THIS POST I DECIDED I HAD TO GO ADD TWO MORE VERSES AND ARRANGE IT SO IT MAPPED TO <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CS9OO0S5w2k\">THE ORIGINAL SINGLE RELEASED IN 1978<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m actually kind of pleased with myself both over making &#8220;internationalist&#8221; scan, and for extensively paraphrasing Lenin&#8217;s letter to the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic in a disco song.<\/p>\n<p>But come <Em>on<\/em>, brain, what? XD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>kawaiilluminatii on Tumblr demanded, and I quote, &#8220;YMCA but instead of young man they say comrade and YMCA is USSR,&#8221; and liquidcoma threw in a first line. And, of course, I followed up&#8230; &#8230;and then I couldn&#8217;t stop myself. I tried, I swear, but I kept adding more chunks in a series of reblogs. The [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-songs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9319"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9479,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9319\/revisions\/9479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}