Something I genuinely love about Short Songs is that it has those failures, it has those mistakes. They're minority voices in the album, but so to are the black voices. I think there's maybe three Asian vocalists too, and this is in the era where Mike Park was getting christian ska bands to perform alongside Mustard Plug.
Basically, it IS a perfect time capsule and it shows we can do even better.
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Oh yeah, 100%. Who was included and how are both deeply revealing and very, very of the era. Wizo and Terrorgruppe both recorded mainly in German at the time, and yet sent in English language songs as their contributions. DHC are on there along with Lunachicks, but where are The Donnas? L7? Maybe they were asked for tracks and told Fat Mike to kick rocks, it would be understandable! But yeah, it is definitely very white, very boy's-club, and you know, as you say that is part of it being a time capsule. I don't really fault it exactly but Fat Mike himself has talked about making those mistakes in the past. This was punk in 1999. Yeah, we can do better.
Posted by Decay on Tuesday, February 25th 2025 at 10:25 pm PST
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