Pipedown
Pipedown was a hardcore punk band from Northern California with radical leftist lyrics. Starting in Grass Valley, California in 1997, their lyrics are often reminiscent of eco-anarchism, especially since they recommended readings such as the Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and its Future (Theodore Kaczynski) and Deep Ecology for the 21st Century (George Sessions) on their first album Enemies of Progress. In 2003, Pipedown released Mental Weaponry, again on A-F Records. Over the course of this group's lifetime, Pipedown took part in over five full U.S. tours and two European tours spanning 8 countries; sharing stages with the bands: Anti-Flag, thrice, The Bouncing Souls, Darkest Hour, The Lawrence Arms, Tsunami Bomb, etc. On July 13, 2005 A-F Records announced Pipedown's breakup. Currently some of the members can be found playing in various bands: Ean Elliot Clevenger - NMBRSTTN and James K. - ÆQUOREA.
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Pipedown (campaign)
The Pipedown Campaign for Freedom from Piped Music is a UK-based environmental campaign founded in 1992 by the author and environmentalist Nigel Rodgers. It has links with the sister group in Germany and other countries.
The campaign fights background music in public places such as hospitals, libraries, swimming pools, pubs, shops and restaurants. Its literature describes unwanted piped music, also often called elevator music, ‘muzak’ or canned music, as any music piped without pause through a room or building where people have gone for reasons other than to listen to it. It emphasizes that it does not distinguish between different types of music, saying that all music is debased by being used as a marketing tool or acoustic wallpaper.
Pipedown's literature accepts that music when freely chosen is one of life’s greatest pleasures. But it maintains that music when forced on people can too easily become the exact opposite. In support of this view, Pipedown makes the following additional points:
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ALBUMS
- Roag released: 2006
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ALBUMS
- Enemies of Progress released: 2013
- Mental Weaponry released: 2003
- The First Measure released: 2002
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Knowledge The Weapon
by: PipedownKnowledge is the weapon.
To save this world from.
The bright days are turning.
So we must be learning.
To save this world from.
From Pain, demonstrate, illuminate.
Darkest day, on our darkest day.
We save ourselves on our darkest day.
Turn away, standing unafraid.
We save ourselves on our darkest day.
Our mind holds the freedom.
To save this world from.
Hatred receding, the tears and the bleeding.
Save this world from.
From Pain, demonstrate, illuminate.
Darkest day, from our darkest day.
We save ourselves from the darkest day.
Turn away, standing unafraid.
We save ourselves from our darkest day.
We come unleashed, we come unleashed from ourselves.
To tear out the pain.
Unleash ourselves to free from the pain from ourselves.
We come unleashed from ourselves.
To Fight against the pain.
We return from the darkness return from the pain.
Claim back our minds and break free from the game.
Knowledge the weapon.