Album: "Fuaim Catha" by oi polloi (1999)

Because our friend aigaiopelagitis expressed some disagreements to my (candiru) interpretations upon some oi polloi's songs, a creative discussion has begun in the comments, so I move up this oi polloi's post in order to be viewed by visitors who may want to take part to it


Terra-Ist

They've poisoned and clear-felled and strip-mined this earth
Made a cess pit of the paradise that was ours by birth
They've raped and they've burned and they've plundered our world
Our banner of resistance will now be unfurled
We're nailing our colours right up to the mast
The sands of time are running out fast
To stop the nutters destroying our home
Kidnapped from our children from whom it's on loan
Enough is enough is enough of their greed
Mass eco-defence is what the earth needs
Terra-ist action all over the land
To stop the lunacy the rich have got planned
E.L.F. strike in the dead of night
See the bulldozers are burning bright
Construction area totally trashed
Earth-rape machinery utterly smashed
Some might say that we're too "extreme"
But all we want is air and water that's clean
And a green earth not a desert is what we need
Don't let them sacrifice it on their altar of greed
Rise up and conquer your fear
They can be stopped like Jose-Maria
Our world a toxic slag-heap they will make
So take whatever action you feel it's right to take
It's up to you it's up to me to make a stand
Our generation holds it's future in it's hands
Time to fight back let them do their worst
Green anarchy in action - put the earth first!


A strong call to action and support of ecosabotage against any kind of equipment used by enterprises and businessmen to destroy environment. It plays with the words (terrorist/terra-ist) because US government considers such actions as terrorism, no matter that they don’t harm people but only equipments. But today when human rights are globally under attack, and a new McCarthyism, the "Green Scare" is grown up, such eco-activist organizations (ALF, ELF, Earth First, etc) are considered the number 2 public enemy in USA after Al-Qaeda!!!!! You can see in youtube an interesting video about ALF



Take Back the Land

Tore the people from the land
Torched their houses with bloodied hands
Thousands starved or died at sea
A sickening toll of human misery

Broke the old clan system where land was there for all
And once the people had their backs against the wall
The connivance of the church cleared them off the land
"Remember it's God's will so don't try to make a stand"

They made a desert where trees once stood
Squeezing from the land every penny that they could
Ethnic cleaning of the glens for farming sheep
'Cos that way there's more profit for the rich scum to reap (rape)

"Beautiful bleak moorland?"- I don't think so
This is a place where great forests used to grow
Laid waste by a rich man's greed
Reclaim the land and plant the seed

Yet still every year, seeking their roots
They come from overseas to kiss the boots
Of the clan chief and lick the hand
Of the very people who threw their families off the land

This is nothing more than a sick farce
paying homage to the ruling class
Who, without hesitation, do it all again
Those who forget history to repeat it are condemned

"Gee, Scotland-It's so quaint
All this scenery makes me feel quite faint
Clan chief looks so good in his kilt
We never think of the blood his family spilt"

"I'm the clan chief o.k. yah
I support Scotland when they play rugger
But an independent country? there I'd draw the line
I own this land it's mine all mine

FUCK YOU, You arrogant prick
You inbred rich bastard, YOU MAKE ME FUCKING SICK
You own fuck all-except in your head
One day the land will be ours-and you'll be dead

I won't beg permission to walk the land they claim to "own"
And I won't pay no fucker to gain access to THE STONES
The rich have stolen and buy and sell our earth
But it belongs to NO ONE-or to all by right of birth

TAKE BACK THE LAND, TAKE BACK THE LAND
TAKE BACK THE LAND, TAKE BACK THE LAND

TAKE IT


A song about the stolen lands and destruction of local cultures and natural landscapes. Land is sold and becomes a property of entrepreneurs for “development”. This land may be the territory of a tribe who is replaced and thrown out in cities where they continue to live in misery, may be once free shores of forests for free camping of trekking, may be villages that are evacuated or they suffer degradation of life because of “Pharaonic” works like huge dams, mines, nuclear plants, etc. The artist call for resistance, supporting people, tribes, peasants, activists, etc all over the world who rise against any kind of trial to take their land and degrade their life.



No More Roads

Swarming over the fence in droves
We're gonna stop this road
Handcuffed to the machinery
In defence of beautiful greenery
People come from far and near
To stop the road right here
Earthmovers trashed in the dead of night
It's time to stand up and fight

Reclaim the streets
Reclaim the land
No more roads
It's in your hands

Lying down in front of the bulldozer
A courageous young girl shows her
Determination to see It through
An inspiration to me and you
To stop this road to destruction
Put an end to motrway construction
From Kernow up to Caledonia
In the spirit of Wastonia

No more roads - cars kill
No more roads - make you ill
No more roads - cars kill

Oi! Oi! Oi! Oi! Oi! Oi!


A song also that supports peoples activism against the construction of new motorways and freeways that promotes car transportation at the expense of sensitive natural ecosystems and landscapes, quality of life and public health. Our country suffers a lot from such kind of development (Egnatia freeway divides bear and wolf’s habitats, and impedes the communication between villages or settlements that are located along the huge road that connects East and West in Greece. Also, huge peripheral roads destroy forests around big cities like Athens and Thessaloniki worsening the bad atmospheric conditions and air pollution in them)



The Earth Is Our Mother

How can you buy or sell the sky? The warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them? Every part of the earth is scared to my people - every shining pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods, every clearing and humming insect is holy in our memory and experience. The sap which courses through the trees carries our memories - we are part of the earth and it is part of us. We know that the white man does not understand our ways - one portion of the land is the same to him as the next, for he is a stranger who comes in the night and takes whatever he needs. The earth is not his brother but his enemy and when he has conquered it he moves on. He leaves his father's graves behind and he does not care. He kidnaps the earth birthright are forgotten. He treats his mother the earth and his father the sky as things to be bought, plundered or sold like sheep or bright beads. His appetite will devour the earth and leave behind only a desert. I do not know. Our ways are different from your ways. The sight of your cities pains my eyes. There is no quiet place in the white man's cities - no place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring or the rustle of an insects wings. The clatter only seems to insult the ears - and what is there to life in one cannot hear the lonely cry of the Lapwing or the arguments of the frogs around a pond at night? What is man without other animals? If all the beasts were gone, man would die from a great loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens t othe beasts soon happens to man - all things are connected. Teach your children what we have taught our children: That the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons and daughters of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life - he is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web he does to himself.

The secret corners of the forest are heavy with the scent of many men.
Where is the thicket? Gone.
Where is the eagle? Gone.
The end of living - and the beginning of survival...


you can hear a song from this album in youtube "Don't burn the witch". In the beginning you can hear the singer making some statements in Greek: It's about two very famous Greek antiauthoritarian political slogans: "Να καεί να καεί το μπουρδέλο η βουλή!" & "Μπάτσοι, γουρούνια, δολοφόνοι!". The translation is "Burn, burn, the bordel Parliament" & "Cops, Pigs, Murderers!"

The Right To Choose by oi polloi, split album with blownapartbastards, 1994

Are we to go back to the days of victoria
will we so easily surrender the gains we made so far
back to an age of repression hypocrisy and lies
forced into the back streets as another freedom dies

No! no return to the back streets
Christian fundamentalist right wing nutter
claim to respect life soon show their true colours
abortion clinic doctor gunned down in the street
is this the sanctity of life they claimed to belief

No! no return to the back streets
Thousands more will die back street abortion
the bloody human consequenses if we do not resist
the bombings and the terror well what do you think
your future as a breeding sow chained to the kitchen sink
Fight or loose the right to choose


another song against the abolishment of abortion and in defense of women's right to choose. The hypocrisy of those who claim that they defend unbornlife is that they usually support wars and they don't hesitate to commit even murder in order to terrorize doctors who made abortions. We have discussed again the same issue here

In this album Blownapart bastards appear with the song "Convinction" about non-violent direct action. Unfortunatelly we could't find the lyrics.

You can hear some songs in myspace

Album: In defence of our earth, by oi polloi, 1990

Thin Green Line

So here we are - a thin green line
Into the nineties, runnig out of time
Extinction of our planet has already begun
but don't let them tell you nothing can be done

Some of us are angry & fighting back
Non-violent direct action is a means of attack
No, we're not giving up without a fight
No nuclar plant here - we're going to trash the site

Gotta be honest, gotta be blunt
If we really want to stop them we've got sab the hunt
Smash that bulldozer, watch the flames go higher
Pull the plug & cut the wire

We get beaten up & send to jail
But I don't care if that's what it takes to save the whales
Save our Earth, save the wilderness land
Are you for us or againts us? Time to make your stand

See that whaling vessel sinking into brine
Taken out by a limpet mine
See those trees standing so tall They've been spiked so they won't fall
See that excavator going up in smoke

Sugar in the petrol tank - that's no joke
Ecosabotage in the dead of night
Like mushrooms break through concrete in the moonlight



Victim Of A Chemical Spillage

Safety rules - corners cut
Just to keep the profits up
Money saved - profits rise
But consequence is someone dies

Victim of a chemical spillage

Safety regulations breached
Critical concentrations reached
Money is saved but a live is lost
Loved ones left to count the cost

Tanker crashin the village
Death could from the spillage
No escape from the fumes
Peoples' homes become their tombs

In the face of corporate greed
Ecodefence is what we need
Read and act upon this text
Or you become the next victim of a chemical spillage

Never forget that one thing that motivates big business is profit. As far as the multinationals are concerned, there is nothing that they will not destroy in their insane drive for increased takings: forests, meadows, rivers, the sea - even their own employees are all seen as expedable. This kind of omnicidal madness is killing our Earth and can only be stopped by mass direct action. Anyone who advocates this of course is branded as an extremist - Yet what could be more extreme than the mass poisoning and polluting of our planet, the destruction of huge areas of rainforest and the wholesale slaughter to extinction of vast numbers of species of animals? It's time to stand up and be counted - If you're not part of the solution. You're part of problem. No compromise on defence of our Earth


Whale Song

Once this magnificent animal swam freely in the seas
But now held captive for human greed.
A miserable "life" behind bars and concrete walls
No companion killer whales to hear its calls.

Yes. I'm sickened by what I've seen
And the mass Faroe Islands pilot whale slaughter is Obscene.
My eyes don't easily fill with the tears
But when I watched those whales scream and die
The tears ran freely from my eyes
To see them murded, hacked apart
Was like something tearing indide my heart

Yet one day such creatures might all swim free
Peaceful coexistence - no fear, no need to hide
Ourselves and whales together side by side


What have we done

I'm lost for words when I think of the depths to which we sink
Sometimes there just seem to be no depths to which our species will not sink. Surely, in this day and age, we should be seeking to establish meaningful and constructive relationships with other higher intelligences like dolphins and whales. Instead, however, we seen intent on either exterminating them or roping them in to our sick, perverted power games. How anyone can take friendly, playful wild dolphins and cold-bloodedly turn them into drug addicted killing machines is almost beyond comprehension. Yet people do it.
Cold death flies from harpoon gun - The sea turns red - What have we done?
A horrific death by harpoon - Scientific research? Blue whales, the largest animals on the Earth, have already been hunted to virtual extinction while sperm whales (who are also highly intelligent creatures with complex social organisation and even their own culture) have found themselves bruttaly slaughtered by rich scum like Aristotle Onassis, the sick evil scumbag who even went so far as to use the penises of sperm whales to make his luxury yacht's bartools.
Poison and kill - We are the ones - See what we do - What have we done?
Not content with exterminating the most intelligent form of marine life, we are also doing a pretty good job of killing everything else in the sea as well. Radioactive waste, oil slicks, heavy metals, chemical spillages - We're turning the oceans into radioactive cesspit. There are already upwards of fifty nuclear warheads and nine nuclear reactors lost on the seabed. Pollute and kill - Is that all that mankind can do?


World Park Antarctica

I asked them why the wilderness had to die
Their replay to me showed the reason was naked greed.
Mass action could stop them - But you've got to start it
World Park status for the Antarctica.
They rape and plunder whatever they find - Sea polluted and minerals mined. Poisoned animals slowly die as they suck Antarctica dry.
Cumoan chris - Gie it laldy ya raj!!
And the factory ships set sail - A death sentence for the whale
And as the sea turns to red yet more life blood is shed.
Park proposals are greeted with mirth by those who rape our Earth
So will you really just stand by and watch the last great wilderness die?
Antarctica - twelve million square kilometers of the last almost untouched wilderness left on Earth. It is thus vital that it is protected from greed of those who would turn it into a vast open-cast mineral mine. Unchallenged, such commercial exploitation will simply kill this continent. Toxic waste will be pumped into the seas (as the Americans are already doing at their base at McMurdo Sound), rubbish will be simply thrown away and the inevitable oil disasters similary to the Exxon Valdez in Alaska will ruin the coastal ecology. Then, goverments and multinationals will move on, leaving it poisoned and scarred - Only one thing stands in their way - You.


Five songs about environmental issues in an album dedicated to the defence of our Earth. The majority of these songs have extensive narrative parts, so our comments are superfluous. We only notify the first song "Thin Green Line" about the non-violent action and ecosabotage which were classified as "terrorism" in USA, under a totalitarian policy against green activistic groups which reminds Macarthism against communism in 50s.

you can hear some songs in myspace

One of these songs is called "Stop the vivisection now", but we couldn't find the lyrics. Vivisection is a cruel, unscientific practice against animals and sometimes involves health hazards to patients. But it continues to exist because of many purposes (investments, carriers, avoidance of responsibility, etc), but especially because of humans' superiority attitude towards other forms of life. You can read more about this fraud of animal experimentation in the following websites:
Doctors and Lawyers for Responsible Medicine
The scientific case against animal experiments
ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION: THE MEDICO-LEGAL ALIBI

No filthy nuclear power by oi polloi, Album: Mad as.. (split with Toxik Ephex, 1987)

Radioactive discharge spews forth from wastepipe
It poisons land and sea
It poisons you and me

NO FILTHY NUCLEAR POWER

This filthy stinking waste
They try to tell us it's safe
Try telling that to those dying slowly of leukaemia

And while officials lie
Diseased young children cry
Their changce for full and healthy life has been denied

Our planet's slowly dying
The earth is being abused
Yet cheaper and safer alternatives lie unused

A song that shows the most everyday terrific consequences of nuclear plants. Cancers and other related diseases cused by the nuclear wastes. These are the brutal truth against the lies by the nuclear lobby who revives today.

you can hear some songs in myspace

oi polloi, 1986

Resist the atomic menace, Album: Resist the atomic menace, 1986


In March 1984 an old age pensioner by the name of Hilda Murrell was stabbed to death when she surprised an Intruder at her home In Shrewsbury.

The Police treated the Incident as If It was just an ordinary burglary that had gone wrong - but it was not and they knew It. Hilda Murrell was murdered by the British Nuclear Industry.

A World famous rose grower, Hilda Murrell had been a campaigner for ecological sanity for many years and was In the process of writing a paper on the dangers of nuclear power to be presented at the Inquiry Into the proposed building of a pressurized water reactor at Sizeweil. This was vital evidence for those opposing the P.W.R. but after the break-in her final dart was strangely found to be missing. Is It your ordinary burglar that steals that sort of thing and yet leaves money and other valuables untouched? She died because she saw through their lies

Yet another victim of Britain's nuclear power program the truth behind nuclear power Is grim and stark so they weave a web of lies to keep us In the Dark British nuclear fuels and the U.K.A.E.A will do anything to silence those who stand in their way

There can be no justification for the use of nuclear power. It leads to widespread contamination of the environment, numerous deaths from cancer and leukemia and unacceptable restrictions on our few remaining civil liberties - while all the lime cheaper and safer alternatives exists.

Because she realized this and decided to make her stand Hilda Murtefi became the target for a particularly foul and vicious attack. A frail old lady, she was repeatedly stabbed then dumped In the woods and left to bleed to death.

Are there no depths to which they will not stoop?
If she was not to die in vain
We must resist this atomic menace

Resist this atomic menace
Resist this atomic menace

No comments, this song speaks about all the problems, social and environmental nuclear energy creates. The song is in an alternating narrative/singing form.




Album Unlimited Genocide (split with AOA) 1986


Go Green

Governments and multinationals
Corrupt and twisted women and men
Are going to bring this planet
To a premature end

With their selfishness and greed
They destroy anything of worth
Are you just going to sit and watch
Their rape of mother earth?

They just could't care less
About the ecological devastation
Inflicted by their insane striving
For profit maximisation

We've got to fight back
We've got to give resistance
Or they'll pollute and exploit
Our world out of existance

Industrial accidents and radiation leaks
So babies are born as freaks
Like the Re-Chen babies with one eye
Or those who Windscale called before their time

And the petrol is full of lead
So kids grow up wrong in the head
And aerosols destroy the ozone layer
No protection - no we're layed bare

And nuclear waste is dumped into the sea
A slow poison for you and me
And what was once fertile land
Has now turned to desert sand

And acid rain pours from the sky
So whole forests wither and die
And dirty cities grey and drab
Cover theyland like concrete scabs

And toxic chemicals are pumped into streams
Death where once life would have been
The whole situation has got out of hand
So go green and make your stand

And it seems you couldn't care less
That our earth is in such a mess
It makes me wonder how long it will take
Before you finally awake

Please, please you got to open your eyes
'Cos you've got to realise
Exactly what those in power got planned
This is the last chance to make your stand

Now that we see what's going on
We've got to stop them and we aint got long
This isn't something just to sing about
'Cos our time is running out...

A call to action, to become “green” activist against the destruction of nature, health and society by those who have the power to use the planet and its sources with devastating ways as disposable items for their own sakes and profits


Nuclear Waste

Nuclear energy is a con
It's just a cover for making their bombs
And it sends people to an early grave
So we want the power of the wind and the waves

[Chorus:]
Harness the wind
Harness the waves
We don't need this filthy nuclear waste
Solar power - yet another alternative
Think of the boundless energy the sun has to give
Then there's hydro-electricity with turbines and dams
And we can out our consumption with conservation programmes

[Chorus:]
Harness the wind
The sun the waves
We don't need this filthy nuclear waste
The civil atomic energy programmes
is nothing but an elaborate cover-up for the real use of nuclear power
namely the production of fissile materials for nuclear weapons
We call for an end to the nuclear power programmes and properly
funded research into renewable sources of energy

[chorus:]
Harness the wind
The sun the waves
We don't need this filthy nuclear waste

Reject dangerous and dirty nuclear power, the solution is in the clean alternative and sustainable solar, wind or wave power.

You can hear “Nuclear waste” in you tube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foNzCPH2a2I