Rollins Band - Volume 4

[@dowens3781]

This song is so heavy and intense it could cause earthquakes. Should have at least a million views, but I'm happy to be among the chosen few who love the Rollins Band.

[@jamesriver3745]

That's for certain. So raw, heavy, and brutal. Love rollins.

[@ennio5596]

🙌🇧🇷

[@carrieann6800]

This Song Has Gotten me thru as well as inspired me to write poetry

[@rekocastren923]

I think its part about his friend Joe Cole who he saw getting shot a few years earlier. Such a raw song. "I just wait around to die, like he did." good grief :(

[@rekocastren923]

Yeah, heavy like the earlier Rollins Band! This must be about his friends death by shooting.

[@adamcorso2972]

I have never heard lyrics that describe me so much. Every line of this song! Never tire of hearing this song.

[@SethHMG]

“You’re talkin bout all the hell you’ve seen; man, I live there.”

[@jamesriver3745]

Rollins is a sick lyricist. Deep, powerful, and brutal. This tune really shows their genius. Sim Cain is nasty!

[@KaliYuga030]

Holy funk! this hit me out of nowhere...I thought I knew Rollins Band but I knew nothing!

[@iamcanadian7559]

26 years ago this was my favorite album. End of silence was my introduction to the band. My son is 26 and he loves this album almost as much as I did so long ago. Thanks Henry for such a great piece of work that for me is still one of the great albums from the 90s.

[@dowens3781]

I play this shit for every hardcore punk and hard rock/metal fan I know who hasn't heard it - great stuff. Lately I've been getting into the Rollins Band's first two albums, Life Time and Hard Volume - killer raw heavy jazzy punk-funk-metal.

[@patdisaster8543]

Relevant here and now....

[@SKIADK]

Had this on CD when it came out. My cousin introduced me to Black Flag 3 years prior, I was 15 when this came out. 🔥

[@KazzArie]

I hope you had him read Get In The Van?

[@ScumOfCaligula]

It was my favorite album 23 years ago.

[@BobS-0727]

Absolutely Blown away when I saw him do this live... Every lyric is Me.

[@SethHMG]

“Bullet driven eyes!!”

[@Nickstermc]

Chris Haskett’s guitar playing on this has been a huge influence and stuck with me since the 90s. Listened to this album and Volume 4 in particular a lot. Powerful playing and a powerful song, it’s emotion manifest. Understandably

[@UnderSeaShadow]

CH is probably one of the most underrated guitarists in history! The dude is so talented!

[@bozotosco]

rip joe cole

[@SKIADK]

Truth. Fuckers!!!!

[@xyaeiounn]

Every man has a creature like Rollins caged somewhere inside him, a screaming goblin that rarely, sometimes never, gets to be heard or seen. This man has made a life's work of calling up his inner fuckwit and letting him be clearly and simply expressed. A life's work that functions as a magnifying glass on what is normally just a facet of a personality, but under that lens becomes this awful, morbid, raging monster. Through Rollins we get to see a huge, clear picture of something in broken-off, damaged isolation that is normally integrated into a personality. We all have a crowd of faces, this persona devoured or starved the rest into dust. One of the finest examples of malignant narcissism turned into positive and serious art.

[@dowens3781]

That's quite eloquent and fairly accurate. I wouldn't say narcissism though - more like introspective obsessive self-analysis and self-loathing.

[@xyaeiounn]

@@dowens3781 Sure! They both spring from being self-involved. To adjust, most people learn to think lightly of themselves and deeply about the world, but to avoid becoming well-adjusted to what he thinks of as a sick society, the emo-hardcore-punk makes the personal into the political. Rollins has managed to side-step all the usual coping mechanisms and burn his thinking down to the last clinking ashes until we get a manifesto like End of Silence. In his writing he returns again and again to the theme of 'don't blink, this is all about you', which looks like a life-affirming power grab common to all loner outsiders, but ends up as a formula for refusing to trade autonomy for company. It might have worked for him, but I still think it's narcissism because he feels entitled to do that. His work seems to appeal to rebelliousness, but it's tolerated because he's always stopped short of encouraging people to organize or co-operate for anything. Outwardly corrosive, but actually no threat to corporate influence on your life, ultimately a children's entertainer too vague to bother with.

[@dowens3781]

@@xyaeiounn Well, his lyrics evolved as he got older and less self-obsessessed. And I still don't think that cathartically venting your frustrations and purging your demons is narcissistic - it's a healthy thing that more people should participate in, but they're too shy, ashamed, fearful and/or repressed to do so. Kudos to Rollins for being the Jesus who vents our frustrations for us. Turned inside out for all to see indeed.

[@xyaeiounn]

@@dowens3781 Catharsis and purging aren't narcissistic, some of the best performers do that, Rollins has that ingredient X about him that lets him take a crowd's energy, transmute it and feed it back. His writing, though, shows that he's one of the few narcissists I've ever seen who admits and embraces it. He's written at length about how entitled he feels, how self-absorbed he is and how that ruins his chances at happiness. A weak personality HAS to be larger-than-life, childishly demands perfection and can never get enough attention. The heart it takes to see that in yourself and work with it is amazing.

[@dowens3781]

@@xyaeiounn Well, I've always admired his brutal honesty, especially when it comes to self-reflection and self-analysis. One of his most well-known songs Low Self Opinion is a perfect example of that.

[@patdisaster8543]

Volume 4.......Rollins .....makes sense right now.....

[@bossrarrington]

I see the dirty millions and they're trying to survive somehow! .. Timeless line right there!

[@SKIADK]

Every fucking emotion put into this one!

[@poisonous-shadows]

My favorite Rollins band ever wish I had a chance to see them live it will probably never happen but at least I still have there music that I can turn on anytime i wanna rock out thank god for hard rock and heavy metal it's my outlet to what's out in this world

[@MegaOldjack]

Fucking awesome

[@jimjones9491]

but now I go from day to day and wait around to die

[@mikiesherlock4848]

LIKE HE DID!

[@jamiestewart1644]

Who the Fuck is Christ?

[@steveodonoghue2772]

dont we all. depressed or not.

[@jimjones9491]

@@steveodonoghue2772 No not waiting at all, too busy raising kids and working.

[@jeffsmith6596]

Joe Cole 1961-1991

[@mattgeezy3002]

So heavy

[@frankcavani1543]

Música muito fodaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[@gamelord5798]

I see the dirty millions..............and I try to survive.................somehow.........

[@johnfrew2798]

I took GF to Rollins band at Greek in brkly She said" Sounds like he's verbally abusing me."

[@wheeliedart]

Exactly!

[@BobS-0727]

Remember when we saw him at the BFD..? Dude.. I could swear you and I saw him at Berkley with Helmet and Primus. in fact, I got the shirt still.

[@danielhughes5250]

Hilarious

[@haywoodhawkins735]

yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@PatrickSantos-sn8ox]

​@bobsaber1443 I was at the Sausage ( primus)....Rollins Band and Helmet show 94 in San Antonio Texas......we drove from Laredo.....Rollins played.........Liar .....that song...had the entire venue , West Ave Showcase Theatre......the entire venue was a slam pit ....couple hundred plus to a few hundred.....moshing......Helmet was using sonic warfare....the bass vibes would make people nauseous and angry.....loud and violent.

[@ChannelTUT]

Kentish Town 1994 I think - they kicked off with this and i felt a bit gay for the first time in a years

[@INGEL69]

I.Q