Tom Gabel is a loser.

Bahh Stop pretty much sucks!

I have come to enjoy Borne On The FM Waves quite a lot, but I just wish it would have been acoustic.


Edit: It is a tatto of the New Wave cover art that Tom has gotten on his elbow?

[QUOTE=Henrik;15223131]Bahh Stop pretty much sucks!

I have come to enjoy Borne On The FM Waves quite a lot, but I just wish it would have been acoustic.


Edit: It is a tatto of the New Wave cover art that Tom has gotten on his elbow?[/QUOTE]

Yeah, but he's had that for awhile now. I know he had it when I saw them in March.

Allright. I just took a look at your favorites on youtube. Damn that Erik Petersen performance looks awesome!

yea, if you look in the insert he is credited with the cover art so its probably something he made a while ago.

[QUOTE=Henrik;15223206]Allright. I just took a look at your favorites on youtube. Damn that Erik Petersen performance looks awesome![/QUOTE]

If you don't mind a really long video, the end of this has two (all the battery left on my friend's camera) Erik Petersen songs on it. This was the "Skunkape Circus Tour" that came to my friend's house and a bunch of really cool folk musicians played in his basement. Johnny Hobo, his little brother, Erik, and more.

[url]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6773228571081908778&q=skunkape+pottstown&total=1&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0[/url]



Yeah, I noticed that tattoo looked a lot like the cover art. It's a cool cover, not so cool album, and a kind of lame tattoo.

[QUOTE=Henrik;15223206]Allright. I just took a look at your favorites on youtube. Damn that Erik Petersen performance looks awesome![/QUOTE]


Yeah, I've definitely watched that video more than a healthy amount.

The "talk to the hand" movement Gable does at the start of Stop always makes me smile. Cool tattoo too, I think the New Wave art is probably my favourite AM! art.

My favorite is by far the cover for Reinventing Axl Rose!
That cover just simply rules!

And I hate that "talk to the hand" movement. I don't know if it means anything really but it just looks stupid.

My favorite cover is ATEC hands down.

what is there to like about the New Wave cover.

It's a f[COLOR="Black"]u[/COLOR]cking stencil of a cat.

the sink, florida, sink "7 had the best cover tbh.

[QUOTE=squirreltree;15220597]they're just a band, i don't know why people take everything they do so personally. besides, between tom and warren they have probably done more activism than most people ever will - warren was involved in the opening of 2 infoshops before he was even 19! not to mention all the florida radical activist network work and food not bombs and immokalle farm worker support and youth liberation camps and diy camps and theatre of the oppressed and blah blah blah... and zines and multiple bands and of course, "why freegan". and they're nice as hell and sincere people and you seriously have to have a sense of humor about what they do - i mean warren went train hopping and came back with a homemade 'youth gone wild' tattoo. they're silly! and they don't come from privileged backgrounds, they have worked incredibly hard and played and toured like crazy and it's pretty crappy to get pissed at them for accepting more money for what they're doing. it's ****ing great to see such nice people doing so well...
the first time i heard them play it was in the ocala forest for a may day gathering and it was just tom and kevin, playing on buckets and it was amazing... their shows are still as good as they were then, they're just different. if you don't like change then you're not really punks anyway.[/QUOTE]

But you're missing the point. The new album blows. Hard.

[QUOTE=Flagjacket;15223634]what is there to like about the New Wave cover.

It's a f[COLOR="Black"]u[/COLOR]cking stencil of a cat.[/QUOTE]
Agreed. Ratatat - Classics is a better cover.

My friend got this tatooed on him.

[url]http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m161/fivemagics77/againstme-1.jpg[/url]

[url]http://www.againstme.net/img/fans/aero_macin.jpg[/url]

That's one of the best tattoos on that section, the one that is similar to that is so poor, i'd hate to have it on my body forever.

thats a solid tatoo.

I once considered an Against Me! tattoo. I've considered a lot of tattoos. And yet I end up getting ones that are spur-of-the-moment and stupid.

I liked that video of AM! on Letterman. I like "Stop". I like the new album.

I think Stop is kind of awesome for the kitsch factor. I go back and forth on this one though.

I thought for a while about getting AM! tattooed really small on the inside of my wrist. I might still do that. I'm not into hugely visible tattoos.

getting any band tattooed on you is pretty dumb IMO.

I could see maybe a lyric or something that means alot to you, but not a band name or logo.

But if you grow out of a band enough to hate having their name tattooed on you, couldn't you grow out of a band's lyrics enough to hate having it tattooed on you? Or is it dumb for some other reason?

[QUOTE=Twin Human Highway Flares;15226252]I think Stop is kind of awesome for the kitsch factor. I go back and forth on this one though.

I thought for a while about getting AM! tattooed really small on the inside of my wrist. I might still do that. I'm not into hugely visible tattoos.[/QUOTE]

Dude, totally go for a Mountain Goats tattoo also if you haven't already. I loved a lot of Against Me!'s lyrics, but John Darnielle totally destroys them.

[quote=thepo;15226910]Dude, totally go for a Mountain Goats tattoo also if you haven't already. I loved a lot of Against Me!'s lyrics, but John Darnielle totally destroys them.[/quote]

Agreed. I was thinking maybe AM! on one wrist, tMG on the other. That'd be fecking swe't.

[QUOTE=Twin Human Highway Flares;15226388]But if you grow out of a band enough to hate having their name tattooed on you, couldn't you grow out of a band's lyrics enough to hate having it tattooed on you? Or is it dumb for some other reason?[/QUOTE]

at least if you grew out of the lyrics you wouldnt be permanently advertising a band on you skin.

Lyric tattoos I've considered:
"There's a joy in all I can see" (AM!, of course)

"Both feet on the floor, two hands on the wheel, may the wind take your troubles away" (Son Volt)

"I see a darkness" (Bonnie 'Prince' Billy)

I'd still get any of those.

That Son Volt Tatoo would be pretty huge.

I'd probably get it as a border or a frame to another piece.

I saw AM! yesterday, and there was a full on stage invasion during "Walking is Still Honest" I found myself next to Tom at his mic during a chorus. It was awesome.

Yeah, their shows still rule most of the time.

They're touring the UK in October, the date near me is at a pretty small venue, but i expect it to be packed. I've missed the last couple of gigs i've wanted to see (Set Your Goals, Converge among others) because of stupid reasons, if i miss this one i'll be pissed.

I'm going to see them at an awesome venue!

If it sucks it can only be the band's fault :)

Last time I saw them was in a tiny cramped club with only 1 window and it was ****ing amazing.

if i got an against me tattoo (or any tat for that matter) i would just do initials or something. so A[lightning bolt]M!

yea, i've seen some pretty badas's band tatoos but i still don't think i would get one. generally the coolest are tiger army and dropkick murphy's that i have seen. AM! could be solid though too, but i would more likely get a lyric

I don't have any immediate interest in a tattoo, but if I were to get one, and I decided on Against Me! lyrics for it, I'd have a hell of a time trying to choose what I wanted. That and it'd have to be relatively short. I don't know how many lines of theirs I can boil down to one small phrase that I like enough to have drawn on me forever.

[url]http://www.againstme.net/am.php/fans/imagefullw/fan_image_we_laugh_at_danger/[/url] as long as i never get something like that i'll be happy.

im thinking of getting the two people from crime to remember or to forget tattoo so that it symbols my love for the album and that era not the band as a whole im not sure

I just thought of the absolutely perfect Against Me! tattoo.


"If It doesn't matter now, than it never really did."

From The Politics of Starving.

Not only because it's an awesome Against Me! song/lyric, but because even if you don't like Against Me! when your older, it still has lots of relevance.

You mean like so you can look at that tattoo when you're old and go "oh that's true because I hate that band"