(back catalog) SUCH STUPID PEOPLE
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This is a back catalog release.
A bit of social commentary, a rant if you will, about the idiocy, the hypocrisy, and mindless indulgence that surrounds and consumes us all. I'm no innocent either. Perhaps awareness and disgust are the first agents of change we seek in the world.
WATCH the original 2015 live take of guitar 'n voice that became the foundation of this release:
youtu.be/bGkSIbovgM0?si=Fsu2ihvkBP6WJ7vZ
I simply overdubbed a bass guitar and called it a holiday.
(originally released March 2020)
A bit of social commentary, a rant if you will, about the idiocy, the hypocrisy, and mindless indulgence that surrounds and consumes us all. I'm no innocent either. Perhaps awareness and disgust are the first agents of change we seek in the world.
WATCH the original 2015 live take of guitar 'n voice that became the foundation of this release:
youtu.be/bGkSIbovgM0?si=Fsu2ihvkBP6WJ7vZ
I simply overdubbed a bass guitar and called it a holiday.
(originally released March 2020)
lyrics
I can’t say that I don’t like to feel the pleasure of eating up a pile of junk food and a measure of time in a line of people zooming down the turnpike, cruising with the tailpipes burning up the ozone, careless that it’s all gone away.
But today, I’m just driving with so many people, unconscious of what together all the damage we’ve caused, and we’re such stupid people t-teaching our children the way that they should follow along, like they’re such stupid people, too young to know better at all.
Like they’re such stupid people, too young to know better at all.
Useless in so many ways that I can’t just say how many times I’ve tried for purpose to justify my place in this race of people eating up the planet, discarding all the plastic, wasting every day on tireless indulgence and games.
What a shame that we’re such stupid people, thinking ‘bout nothing but what we’re gonna buy from the store. Not thinking where this shit comes from, and where it ends up at, just how we’re gonna get us some more.
Yeah we’re such stupid people, too dumb to know nothing at all.
Yes we’re such stupid people, too dumb to know nothing at all.
But I’ll just keep on driving like I’m in some kind of movie where all the people are zombies, and I’m the last of the Humans.
And all the big corporations, they measure our lives in dollars, while we sit home and get wasted, which is right where they want us, like we’re meaningless people, too blind to see we are controlled.
Yes we’re disposable people, divided we’ve lost the control.
Overpopulation, underestimation of food supply for nations, pretty soon there won’t be none left, then what’s next for the people living in the mainstream, hanging onto our dreams while GMO’s and think tanks, governments and the banks and greed still succeed in keeping so many people unconscious and unaware of all the damage THEY’VE caused, like they’re ignorant people content to do nothing about our right to not tag along?
Yet we’re such stupid people, too dumb to say something at all.
Yes, we’re such stupid people, too dumb to say something at all.
But today, I’m just driving with so many people, unconscious of what together all the damage we’ve caused, and we’re such stupid people t-teaching our children the way that they should follow along, like they’re such stupid people, too young to know better at all.
Like they’re such stupid people, too young to know better at all.
Useless in so many ways that I can’t just say how many times I’ve tried for purpose to justify my place in this race of people eating up the planet, discarding all the plastic, wasting every day on tireless indulgence and games.
What a shame that we’re such stupid people, thinking ‘bout nothing but what we’re gonna buy from the store. Not thinking where this shit comes from, and where it ends up at, just how we’re gonna get us some more.
Yeah we’re such stupid people, too dumb to know nothing at all.
Yes we’re such stupid people, too dumb to know nothing at all.
But I’ll just keep on driving like I’m in some kind of movie where all the people are zombies, and I’m the last of the Humans.
And all the big corporations, they measure our lives in dollars, while we sit home and get wasted, which is right where they want us, like we’re meaningless people, too blind to see we are controlled.
Yes we’re disposable people, divided we’ve lost the control.
Overpopulation, underestimation of food supply for nations, pretty soon there won’t be none left, then what’s next for the people living in the mainstream, hanging onto our dreams while GMO’s and think tanks, governments and the banks and greed still succeed in keeping so many people unconscious and unaware of all the damage THEY’VE caused, like they’re ignorant people content to do nothing about our right to not tag along?
Yet we’re such stupid people, too dumb to say something at all.
Yes, we’re such stupid people, too dumb to say something at all.
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released March 8, 2024
Written and performed by Joe Normal
Vocals, Guitar, and Bass by Joe Normal
Written and performed by Joe Normal
Vocals, Guitar, and Bass by Joe Normal
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Joe Normal Los Angeles, California
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Joe Normal® is a founding member of 80's Sunset Strip glam-
pop legends The Zeros. He's a co-writer on Sammy Hagar’s “Not 4 Sale” LP, and even recorded with punk icon Stiv Bators.
Compared to Cleaners From Venus, Paul Westerberg, and Jesse Malin, Joe Normal is an "Authentic underground storyteller with a Glam Rock heart." -Aquarian (NJ)
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