Скачать или смотреть The Teen Idles ✖️ I Drink Milk (1981)

Punk Rock slipped in the back doors of Washington D.C.'s Woodrow Wilson High School in the late 1970s and four of the students, Ian MacKaye, Jeff Nelson, Geordie Grindle and Mark Sullivan formed a band called The Slinkees in the spring of 1979. The Slinkees played only one show before the singer, Mark Sullivan, went off to college. The band then asked Nathan Strejcek to take over the vocals. It was this line-up that became The Teen Idles. The band became friends with another local band called the Bad Brains, who may well have been the greatest band in the world in 1980.


The Bad Brains didn't take "No" for an answer, and this was pure inspiration to the younger D.C. punks. Some of the members of The Teen Idles, and many of their fans, were under 18 and unable to see bands that played at many of the local bars. This led them to search out alternative spaces to play as well as confront the clubs that enforced age-limits. These confrontations along with the energy of the shows got the band, to their delight, kicked out of a number of clubs. That summer, The Teen Idles and their roadies (Mark who was home from college, and Henry Garfield "the fifth Idle," later to become Henry Rollins) took a Greyhound bus to California for two shows. It was at the Mabuhay Gardens club in San Francisco that they first came across the "X" on the hands of underage concert-goers and the band brought this idea back to D.C. to use as a tactic to get clubs to let kids into the shows.

Band: Teen Idles
Album: "Flex Your Head" compilation (1981)
Song: I Drink Milk

Websites:
Bandcamp: www.teenidles.bandcamp.com
Dischord: www.dischord.com/band/teen-idles

Members:
Nathan Strejcek - vocals
Geordie Grindle - guitar
Ian MacKaye - bass
Jeff Nelson - drums

Some Photos by:
Jay Rabinowitz and Lucian Perkins

Live Footage by:
Brian Nelson

Lyrics:
I drink milk, I drink milk, I drink milk, I drink milk
I don't care what people say
I drink milk every day
I drink milk, I drink milk, I drink milk, I drink milk
I don't care what people say
I drink milk for Vitamin A

Don't drink tap water
Don't drink tap water
Don't drink tap water
Don't drink tap water

I drink milk, I drink milk, I drink milk, I drink milk
I don't care what people say
I drink milk for tooth decay
I drink milk, I drink milk, I drink milk, I drink milk
I don't care what people say
I drink milk every day

Don't drink lemonade
Don't drink lemonade
Don't drink lemonade
Don't drink lemonade

I drink milk, I drink milk, I drink milk, I drink milk
I don't care what people say
I drink milk every day
I drink milk, I drink milk, I drink milk, I drink milk
I don't care if you make fun of me
Drinking milk's the thing for me

Don't drink Coke
Don't drink Coke
Don't drink Coke
Don't drink Coke