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DISCOGRAPHY:	Masses Against The Classes
LYRICS:	Nicky Wire
MUSIC:	James Dean Bradfield and Sean Moore
QUOTES:	Excerpt from an interview with Nicky Wire from the Official Homepage (27.12.99): The song 'Masses Against The Classes' seems to invoke the ghosts of old songs like 'Motown Junk' and 'You Love Us'. Is that right? Nicky: "To coin your phrase, it's 'super-punky weirdness'. That's exactly what we went for. If you listen to it on headphones, you hear James mumbling stuff, like '1-2-3-4', and there's a Beatles lift from 'Twist and Shout'. There's a Noam Chomsky sample at the start and the last thing James says is a quote from Albert Camus. "I sometimes feel that as you get older, you should strive to get into other things. But sometimes you've just gotta go back to your roots. Not just musically, but I should also be proud that I like Camus and Orwell. Just because I've liked them for 15 years, doesn't mean that I should be getting into other stuff just for the sake of it. I feel comfortable with it." Click here for an article from Melody Maker.

CAMUS, ALBERT Algerian/French journalist and writer (1913-1960) Albert Camus was born in Algeria but because of his interest in philosophy he moved to France at the age of 25. During World War II he was an active member of the French Resistance. He was a columnist for the underground paper Combat. In the 40s he retired from political journalism and started to write fiction and essays and became producer and playwright in the theatre. His works include The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), The Stranger (1942), The Plague (1947), The Fall (1956) and Exile and the Kingdom (1957). In 1957 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. In 1960 Albert Camus died in a car accident. MANICS REFERENCE: A SLAVE BEGINS BY DEMANDING JUSTICE AND ENDS BY WANTING TO WEAR A CROWN (Masses Against The Classes lyrics) "In a universe suddenly divested of illusion and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land." (Generation Terrorists booklet) "Then came human beings, they wanted to cling but there was nothing to cling to" (Love's Sweet Exile sleeve) FOR MORE INFORMATION: Albert Camus

CHOMSKY, NOAM AVRAM Professor of Linguistics (1928-) Both a linguist and political acitivist Chomsky, who was born in Philadelphia and studied at Pennsylvania and Harvard universities, is now professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). One of his works include the 'Syntactic Structure' (1957) where he introduced a new theory of language called 'transformational generative grammar'. In 1969 he published 'American Power and the New Mandarins' where he, the Vietnam War in mind, attacked politically liberal intellectuals who force their ideology on other nations. MANICS REFERENCE: THE COUNTRY WAS FOUNDED ON THE PRINCIPLE THAT THE PRIMARY ROLE OF THE GOVERNMENT IS TO PROTECT THE MAJORITY - AND SO IT REMAINS (Masses Against The Classes lyrics)