Propagandhi - Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes [2001]


Propagandhi is a Canadian punk band formed in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba in 1986 by Chris Hannah and Jord Samolesky. The band is currently located in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
While their earlier work draws from the punk rock and skate punk tradition, recent Propagandhi records have moved towards a heavier and more technical heavy metal-influenced sound. Both in their lyrics and hands-on activism, the band's members champion various anarchist causes and veganism, and have taken an active stance againsthuman rights violations, sexism, racism, homophobia, imperialism, capitalism and organized religion.


Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes is the third album by Canadian punk rock bandPropagandhi, released February 6, 2001.
One of the album's tracks, "Back to the Motor League", indirectly refers to two songs by theDead Kennedys, "Triumph of the Swill" and "Chickenshit Conformist", as well the year of their release on the 1986 album Bedtime for Democracy. The "Back to the Motor League" lyrics state: "fifteen years later it still reeks of swill and chickenshit conformists". Both the Dead Kennedys songs and the Propagandhi track concern the co-opting of punk ideology by the corporate record industry.
"Purina Hall of Fame" is a reference to the Nestlé owned pet food company, The Ralston Purina Company. The title is cynical take on the Purina Animal Hall of Fame, a site that celebrates animals who have saved human lives. The lyrics of "Purina Hall of Fame" obliquely outline Propagandhi's concerns about animal cruelty.


Track List :

1. Mate Ka Moris Ukun Rasik An
2. Fuck the Border
3. Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes
4. Back to the Motor League
5. Natural Disasters
6. With Friends Like These Who the Fuck Needs Cointelpro
7. Albright Monument Baghdad
8. Ordinary People Do Fucked-Up Things When Fucked up Things Become Ordinary
9. Ladies' Nite in Loserville
10. Ego Fum Papa (I Am the Pope)
11. New Homes for Idle Hands
12. Bullshit Politicians
13. March of the Crabs
14. Purina Hall of Fame



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