#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!!

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[punkrockmixtapes]

Me First and The Gimme Gimmes - Dancing Queen

[myvinylplaylist]

Vans Warped Tour 2001 Tour Compilation (2001)

Side One Dummy

[grogrock]

8/11/24

Art Garfunkel & Art Garfunkel Jr. - Father and Son (2024)

12 songs; 8 added, 66.67%

when I brought this album's announcement up to my aunt, who is also a fan specifically of Garfunkel, she pointed out the background of the cover for 'Time After Time' was the same as for 'Fate for Breakfast', which I like

the rest of this is going to be on the Me First and the Gimme Gimmes performance, all notes made as it was going; (brackets being edits afterwards, curly brackets being options that i'm not sure which it is, and square brackets being editing notes to myself)

now, i do not look punk, my though of what to wear were my only pair of ripper pants, sneakers and a buttoned shirt. two of them i did go with, but subbed out the buttoned shirt for a Knowledge Demon one.

and before halloween i might have passed, but i shaved and had a severe haircut, from reaching the bottom of my nose cut back to my eyebrows (afterwards; there were multiple guys with thr same haircut, i guess it's an attitude thing)

figured it wouldnt start at 7, that doesn't seem very "punk rock" [editing note; change that to like purple and bold] but it was 9:30. generally that'd be fine, but i don't know how long they'll go, and i have work at 5 the next morning, so i'm nervous

also kinda nervous in general, and about going to a pub by myself middlingly far from home, i try to keep my head down normally, so asking about shit worries me

bought my first drink and stood back a bit from the bar to drink it, and had a couple of people ask if i was in line, one of which was the guitarist of the first band. waited for the ticket checking to start

the first act asked if there were any Mormons there. the song after that was pretty good, but i don't remember the band (St Judes). loved the {bass player, other guitarist}, who did the full ball jump, the one where you bring your knees up as much ad you can, and turned and played at the drummer and stuff. pretty good

the second band, Dwarves, was b much louder and had a guy in a balaclava aNd no shirt in the audience. and the singer went over and posed midsobg for a lady's camera. Salt Lake City was a highlight.

it's occurred to me that i don't know what any of MFatGG' look like, so the people setting up the guitars and cables might be roadies, or might be them

one of the songs while setting g up sounded like a ska or punk cover of 99 Luftballons. i love that song. what i don't love is the English lyrics, which is what they used

i think the lead singer was at the bar next to me filling his water bottle, but i'm not good with faces sometimes

they were roadies, and the water bottle guy i think was a guitarist

the biggest mosh was for fucken On the Road Again

there was a lady in an admiral coat, and a guy sitting at the back with curly hair down to his elbows, and a jacket with patches, and i think he looked great

[lisamarie-vee]

[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

[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

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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.

[punkrockmixtapes]

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

[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