Rock Against Capitalism

Written in 1991 and 1993 / Recorded in 1994

The idea to write a song about a philosophical term 'Ressentiment' first arose in my mind while I was working like human trash in 1991. It was not the nature of job that provoked my mind towards pronouncing some resentful words to be expressed in lyric, but an experience I came across during that job.
An attempt of demo recording of the song was made in the same year but I am not sure if I wrote the lyric in question at that time, for all I can acknowledge is the existence of an unfinished backing track with no voice part at all.

A couple of years later, I picked up the idea once again, not being provoked by some nasty experience, but genuinely inspired by the rise of Grunge Rock, especially the use of guitar noises by Sonic Youth. In this second attempt, I changed the music style to more aggressive one but made a little change on the lyric, preferring to make it a bit challenging or provocative thing. By the time it was finally recorded by my band called Culotte, I changed the lyric to a bit more modest one, or at least, I totally removed quoted lines, rather caring about copy right issues.

When Culotte released its second single with a format of cassette tape, I picked up this song for filling the flip side. Nonetheless, partly because it was too long to fit in there, I made a clumsy edition of the song, by using fast-forward function of a cassette player, to deliberately destroy the song to junk status and reduce the lyric to be almost unrecognisable.

Making of this video coincided with the so-called Occupy Movement in 2012 and I took the opportunity to even change the title of the tune. In this way, what is presented in the audio track of this video became a mere remnant of what was supposed to be something utterly different thing, in other words, something worse.