#Me First And The Gimme Gimmes

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ALBUM TAG GAME!! ✨

Thank you everyone for the tags @sweetxvanixlla @panzershrike-pretz @dontirrigateme @themysciraprincess @executethyself35 !!

Rules: 6 albums you've been listening to, plus one track from each that you're especially fond of

Like many of my taggers, I just have one playlist of songs that I listen to 😂 I'll pick songs from albums I listen to multiple songs from!

Fat Bottomed Girls by Queen; Jazz

My absolute favorite song - @dontirrigateme showed it to me when I was a kid and honestly nothing ever beats it

Welcome to the Black Parade by My Chemical Romance; The Black Parade

I started my emo phase a little late, so I didn't really get into this song until a few years ago, but it honestly slaps and it's one of the few that I virtually never skip

Sunshine Highway by the Dropkick Murphys; The Warrior's Code

Probably my favorite DKM song, it keeps their Celtic punk vibes while still being more lighthearted than their usual stuff~

Over the Rainbow by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes; Are a Drag

Another one shown to me by @dontirrigateme (they have had a major influence on my music taste 😂❤️) a rock version of an already lovely song? FUCK YES

The Invisible Man by Queen; The Miracle

fun fact! This song actually inspired the Danny Phantom theme song! it's also just a banger and I love saying the band member's names in it lmao

Somebody to Love by Queen; A Day At the Races

I will never not love this song. I can't explain it but it's somehow a bop, banger, and emotional catharsis all in one.

I tried so hard not to do all Queen songs for this 🤣

No pressure tags! @xxluckystrike @ithinkabouttzu @ewipandora @blueberry-ovaries @whollyjoly @jiang-mingyi @ronsenthal @b00ks1ut and anyone else that wants to do this!!

[punkrockmixtapes]

Me First and The Gimme Gimmes - Dancing Queen

[myvinylplaylist]

Vans Warped Tour 2001 Tour Compilation (2001)

Side One Dummy

[musics4u]

me first and the gimme gimmes - over the rainbow

[covers-on-spotify]

“Friday On My Mind”

Original by The Easybeats

Covered by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes

[enchanted-teaforest]

Rant

Me first and the gimmie gimmies — just stop.

Good 4 u cover is just no.

Thanks, I hate it.

Edit: I’m ​not a fan of the original for that matter. However, this band usually makes great covers from shitty songs. Cover and original both suck.

[bennylikesstars]

ME ME ME I HAD THE INFECTION AU IDEA FIRST I SWEAR I DID. LISTEN TO ME WHEN I SAY I DID AUAGAH PLEASE I WAS THE ONE WITH THE IDEA FIRST IT'S BASICALLY THE INK SCROLL INFECTING PEOPLE AND TURNING THEM INTO SAD DEPRESSING MONSTERS IT WAS ME WHO HAD THE IDEA FIRST PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE

[admiralgiggles]

I think of this song every time it rains. It is, in fact, raining again. So much so that the Mets had to postpone their home opener with the Brewers. 😩

*This is arguably my favorite Gimme Gimmes album.

[punkrockmixtapes]

Me First and the Gimme Gimmes - Good 4 U (Official Audio)

[paintingsandrecords]

a ferret; ink and watercolor

last seven day’s listening:

rvivr - the beauty between

b. dolan - house of bees vol 2

ss decontrol - the kids will have their say

on being an angel - playin it cool

dowsing - no one said this would be easy

they might be giants - dial-a-song direct

me first and the gimme gimmes - blow in the wind

the clash - sandinista

[mortifiedandawesome]

Phantom of the Opera Song

[captainpirateface]

[red-hot-moon]

"Punk rock has been homophobic forever," he tells Double J before the band return to Australia for this weekend's Good Things festival.

"I've always been scared of my sexuality in punk rock. I didn't come out as a cross-dresser till I was 45. I was terrified to be feminine.

"In the 80s, if someone had long hair, you'd get beat down by 10 people. There was no room for any vagueness."

Dumb jokes, substance abuse and railing against the system have seemed like key tenets of Fat Mike's life and career to this point. These days, his focus seems squarely on his sexual identity.

He wants the world to know who he is – a male kinkster (Mike has long been an advocate of a BDSM lifestyle) who identifies as queer – and he wants his fans to know it's okay to be who they are.

"I think it's important for someone like me, who is a popular punk musician and a bro – you know, I can hang, I'm a bro – but I'm very feminine," he says.

"I want to feel sexy, and I want to feel feminine, and I want to be submissive. And men have such a hard time with that.

"We're allowed to do whatever we want. We're allowed to be as feminine as we want to be. We're not allowed by society. So, I'm taking it on. I'm taking on being a role model that I don't wish to be, but I think it's important."

Naturally this side of his life has become a part of NOFX. Mike has worn dresses on stage for years, and recent records feature revelations about how he wants the world to see him.

'I'm not a cis, I'm a sissy' he sings on 'Fuck Euphemism' from NOFX's 2021 record Single Album.

"It doesn't help my career," he says. "When I first started cross-dressing on stage, I got shit. I got shit from people in my band. Like, 'Do you have to wear a dress every night?'

"I'm like, 'No, I don't have to. But what's your fucking problem with it? It makes me happy. And I think it means a lot to people in the crowd'."

Fat Mike in an interview with Double J