one of the greatest protest artists in history in on lb's pages

yeah cant imagine dylan doing 2 years in a russian prison

IDLES are pretty spot on politically and that shows in their lyrics! ‘The only way to scare a Tory is to read and get rich’.

Idles are the Radiohead of post punk and I love them

Will lookup on tidal later?

Don't want to start a war between them but... Dave > Stormzy :P

edit - don't know whats going on with lb but this post went wacky, anyway jokes aside Dave actually deserves a little shout in this. The live performance of Black was really invoking and things like Question Time and Children of the Internet will appeal to any stoned thinker haha :) - at least the UK scene isn't just kids dying on cough medicine after one youtube hit, wtf happened to America?!

You've got a lot to choose from in metal.
Check out some of the following:
Body Count: Black Hoodie
Body Count: No Lives Matter
Lamb of God: Poison Dream
Lamb of God: Now you've got something to die for
Dead Label: Dystopian Complex
Lock Horns: Blood and Oil
Gojira: Silvera
And I know this is basically a pisstake, but Dethklok Detharmonic in on point.

Bob Vylan are a great UK act not getting enough attention

https://youtu.be/ckf5Awk4fuU?si=2goqti20l5Wl2mEc

This has one of the greatest lyrics lines of any song ever written imo

"No liberal lefty cunt
Is gonna tell me punching Nazis ain't the way"

I'd say for this definitely Run The Jewels. Akala is still about as well. Immortal technique is meant to be releasing a new album soon. I don't think we will see the likes of a band like RATM again for sometime

Left a RATM gig with cracked rib from the most hectic mosh pit I’ve ever known, mega fun. Second best mosh was the Pogues in 88.

I saw someone with there arm twisted the wrong way being carried out of a RATM set. Reading 96' I believe. Great set, terrifying moshpit.. Did it anyway though. Fun times.

Cant believe nobody's mentioned Sleaford Mods

I’m quite liking these ‘Kneecap’ fellas! I like the cut of their jib!

Some "friends" of mine, sadly not currently performing together.

I agree the power of the music to inform and protest is lost, but straight out of the gate, you have macklemore Hinds Hall (this came out of nowhere!). Whatever your position on the conflict (or the tune) it sums up what the issue is. Bands are commodities and businesses know they can be used to influence, so they invest heavily. And if you don't tow the line then your out!

Toomaj Salehi is facing a death sentence for telling truths about the country he loves

he was released from prison in 2024

Depends how you classify protest. I'd say Bruce Springsteen, Iris DeMent, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Tom Waits, at a pinch you could add Pulp though they're more against our modern way of life than against the way we are governed. I admit I'm not up to speed with "modern" music. I'm 70 for fuck's sake!

Money speaks louder than protest ;-)

Jesse Welles , not sure if it's protest music,but worth a gander.

I forgot Public Enemy are still going strong.
I think they cornered the market in the American black protest field fighting fire with fire to show the other side of the American nightmare.

Tom MacDonald

Protest the Hero + Show Me the Body are two bands that spring to mind. These are certainly not protest artists sonically, as they are both heavier guitar bands, but are both aggressively anti-establishment, discussing topics you won’t hear other artists sing about.

What ever happened to Billy Bragg?

Anyone remember chumba wumba, great live band.

Unfortunately he grew up and joined new labour.
Saw him live at least dozen times, used to do loads of small gigs and protests. I was in socialist workers party and he was doing loads of fundraisers for the miners.

Today's protest singers? Taking shit on social media.at a guess.

it's tiktok's finest hour

Name calling,ie liberal, woke, lefty, there’s a trend to criticise caring views.

Just as much intolerance on the left as on the right. We live in a shallow social media driven world. In which we all eat consume far too much whilst slowly killing ourselves and the planet. Facebook, mcdonald's,nike etc. It's a shallow,plastic world and that's not a suitable environment for growing protest singers.

Sort of agree, unfortunately the mass media (particularly print media) are owned run by right wing, ie Sun, times, telegraph etc

The BBC, THe Guardian Newspaper, Channel 4, ITV to name a few left wing media outlets.

And for the BBC to be so biased is a disgrace just look at the stats over 14% LBGTQ within there workforce as opposed to 0.4% in most other organisations massively disproportionate.

Also the mainstream media seems to love to demonise the working classes.

The white indegoius male is despised by the main stream media especially the BBC.

All I do know is before all this WOKE nonsense started we had not been at this much level of war activity since the second World War and now look at all this mess.

Weak leftist policies have risked our safety and security to the point where I worry about my relatives safety in the UK and have also made us a target from forces that want to destroy us.

You need only look at who was the London mayor best mate at UNi for example ? None other than the leader of Albasha terror GROUP. and if that does not worry you to realise that if all this wokey business continues there won't be no western songs ti sing no more because they will be banned.

I remember the cold War, I remember living in the troubles and feeling and hearing the sounds of cemtex around me and going through the checkpoints. I talk from experience and no the real dangers that all this liberal far left nonsense brings as I have lived and breathed this shit before.

"The perceived partiality of the BBC comes from both sides of the political spectrum. Of the people in the YouGov survey who identified as supporting the Conservatives, 15% thought the BBC is generally a little more favourable towards the left and 23% thought they were much more favourable. Conversely, 26% of those who identified as supporting Labour thought the BBC is generally a little more favourable to the right and 20% thought they were much more favourable."

https://www.politics.co.uk/reference/bbc-bias/

Oh look your are wrong in the very first statement

Hilariously you are a excellent example of media manipulation imo

Billy Bragg is still going strong and sticking it to the suits and mega rich.

I blame the growing influence of the network - attentions turning inwards as the younger generation start living in the fantasy of the online world. I showed my teenage step daughter the matrix the other day thinking she'd love it - her response "why would anyone choose not to stay in the matrix"!

Oh, no. Humanity has reached that place. We are all fucked then.

its a perfect substrate for protest. people have the means and motive.

that's why there is tons of it in rap, singing is as dead as springsteen.

You said substrate! A thumbs up purely for that mushroom related word!

Fellow bald guy here. Just shave it all off, and move on, own it - it shows confidence, which is far more attractive than some guy obsessing over his barely there hair.

And do not - under any circumstances - start wearing a baseball cap. It looks ridiculous, and you are fooling no one.

i like hats for the situation though mine's not baseball cap bald. more like a yarmulke, well maybe a taqiyah on the smaller side.

Hate to be the bearer of bad news my friend, it’s not because you’re bald lmfao

You need to work on your confidence. Embrace the bald, start looking after yourself and your mental health. Everything will fall into place for you, but you will need to work for it.

+1 to what this guy said.

The one universal thing I have heard from so many of my female friends regarding men losing hair

It only bothers them when the guy constantly brings it up, same with height. Yes there will be exceptions and some women will only date tall hairy men and that is okay, the vast majority of women DO NOT GIVE A SHIT until you start bringing it up every day.

I like curvy women, with the exception that they own it and are confident.

I will go against the grain and say women are far less shallow than men. I had a friend who was 5'8, skinny as a rake but could pull a 10/10 every time we went out. I honestly have 0 examples of unfortunate looking women pulling model looking men. I am sure it happens, but far less.

If it's in your genes it's unavoidable my friend. I started going bald in my mid 30s. As Clive James once said the O at the back of my head started getting closer to the W at the front. I finally accepted the truth when I was about 40 and had it all shaved off. Then a couple of years later I went for the classic compensation and grew a beard. 30 years later I'm still shaved and bearded.

I like the turban idea

It's possible to take finasteride topically without the side effects. Not sure where you can get that - maybe somebody here.

I've sent to Morocco a few times and honestly it's one of those hit and miss countries. Usually much better with courier than national carriers but wasn't the 99% record i've achieved with other places. You are in the home of hash my friend, probably best to take advantage of that.

I'd be very VERY careful smoking up there. Plenty of offers were made when I visited for hashish but I rejected them all in fear of some very nasty looking jails

If you're dead set tho why can't you just go local and mitigate risk?

What are you ordering you can't get there?

Red Dead 2- massive map and Amazing score

Thank you, I think I might get this one it does look very good

Brilliant game, prepare for a long download too if you haven’t already... graphics are beautiful but the player control system is slightly annoying, it feels very heavy. Never the less i love the way you can ‘greet’ and ‘antagonise’ npc’s🤣...

Try ‘greet’, ‘greet’, ‘antagonise’, I’ve had many of laughs from it.

-It’sWeed

Good game

I normally play shooters but I highly recommend ghost of Tsushima

I've heard a lot of good things about the ghost of Tsushima, will give it a look. cheers mate

Best game of PS4 generation, and it’s just got a PS5 update for all the lucky fuckers that have one

Just finished Subnautica. Really nice just looking around after a smoke. More relaxing than FPS. The Outer Wilds is another similar open world. Fantastic looking.

Totally agree, awesome game, so atmospheric.
On the open world side I'd add Rust. It's impossible not to enjoy Rust, even if you never manage to get further than hitting people with a rock while giggling maniacally

I gave up on normal servers a few years ago, I've been playing a RP/PVP server for all this time and I thoroughly enjoy it.
Peoples RP can change each wipe or stay the same if they like what they are doing.
We've done events in the past: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IZogY8Ravo&feature=youtu.be
We do loads of stuff and it changes every month. There are wars and stuff but there are some rules that go with it.
Anyhows if you wanna check it out client.connect 54.39.130.212:28015

Rust RP servers are for betas lol

Try playing on official servers and watch the fun leave! Great game.

I've seen some gameplay of subnautica on YT it does look good, I'm definitely going to give it a try after a smoke thats sounds like a banging plan

If you have a PC it might be worth it looking into VR and buying a headset. Half-life Alyx is really good and will hopefully set the new standard for AAA VR games if they do end up really taking off.

Currently my PC isn't great but i'm looking at getting an upgrade. Have you got a VR headset, I would love to hear how good they are from an actual user. cheers

I love subnautica!!!

If you want a break from the norm I would recommend trying a few indie titles, I loved the little nightmares games, hotline Miami 1 & 2,

res evil 2 remake is good too. If you got a good pc, cyberpunk maybe.

Indie is where I think you find more interesting games these days, but there is also a lot more junk to go through to find the gems.

I have also been playing older indie titles again like limbo and inside, shadow complex and mark of the ninja, all great games in my opinion

If you want to check out something completely different mount and blade is a great game, you can get vanilla on xbox, or all sorts of mods on PC.
Or if you don't mind going really old with a game, X-com: terror from the deep. The gameplay in the older X-com games really puts the newer ones to shame. Terror from the deep in unfairly difficult, but it has a good atmosphere and you should get plenty of play time out of it.

Cheers for that mate, I like a challenge I will have a look at it

Have a look at Scum. It's a beautiful and the real survival game. Great graphics, great little details, you've to know some basic knowledge to really survive ahah
https://youtu.be/h488fgqQtZQ
And i can't go without mention my favourite game of all time, Arma 3. The one and only military simulatior. It's a little bit old but... See for yourself ;) https://youtu.be/9rXxa2a3iIw

I used to play Arma 3 a while ago now, very good game. I might have to hop back on it. Cheers mate

Oxygen not Incuded, Factorio if you are up for dabbling in engineery stuff
Doom 2016, no, really, try it, way better that the new one.
Anything from Zachatronic for casual puzzles.
Portal 2 - everyone should play Portal 2 I know it's old, but...

Cheers mate I sometimes think the older games are better than the new ones anyway

red dawn is like a gta reboot if you havent already

No haven't heard of this before, if its like gta I'm sure I will like it though, cheers mate

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - I had so much fun with this game. Not one I would usually play either but I genuinely couldn't leave it alone for a good while

I second this ..it’s a masterpiece and the story is fantastic.

I’m of the same opinion of you, not my style of game butttt! God damn it’s one if the best games I’ve ever played especially stoned, the music, the lore, the gameplay, all completely mesmerising, not sure if anyone has already suggested these games but the dark pictures franchise games are really good as each game is like a horror game where you control the players and every action has a different consequence, some of the games are better than others but it’s a new story and cast with each one with 1 normally recognisable actor.

If you want a real challenge of an adventure game with amazing graphics and gameplay check out Sekiro. One of my favourites and slept on. Similarly ghosts of Tsushima is pretty good too. Sleeping dogs is also pretty good (few years old), was meant to apart of the True Crime series and is based in Chinatown LA I think. I’m more of a FPS kind of guy like Warzone but those games were something else 👌

Sports: UFC 4 – It’s tough to get for a newbie, but once you get the hang of it, it’s very addicting. There’s nothing like MMA.

Racing: Forza Horizon 5 – Amazing graphics, realistic driving, sounds/feels real.

Shooter: Insurgency: Sandstorm – The most realistic shooter on console, it’s unrivaled.

Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege – The games’ been out since like 2015(?) but it still holds up, it’s comparable to search & destroy on CoD, but with the element of Battlefield. It’s easy, doesn’t require an absurd amount of skill, barring you’re facing sweats, it’s still a top 3 shooter IMO.


Misc: Chivalry 2 – It’s literally gorey, medieval first person sword combat. It’s a sick ass game.

Yeah you need to take a break from those triple aaa games like that, they all bleed into 1, like COD, let’s face it, it’s been the same game for years now. Try some refreshing indie games, play little nightmares 1 & 2, it’s great. The hotline Miami games are fun too. There are others, can’t think of them now, but will update if my stoney brain remembers…

Haha I seem to have replied twice to the same thing here, must have been smoking some good stuff at the time….

2 words. Hitman Trilogy. If you like roleplay with tasteful incorporated violence then youll be well away. Its AAA, but is single player only. Sandbox levels so intricately made it has unlimited playback potential. The vr on ps4 isnt great but i bet pc would be immense, although i haven't tried.

Borderlands 3 mate. Or Spider-Man miles morales if you like superhero games. I play cod all the time and like those two when wanting something different.

Cheers mate I've been looking for something a bit different

Try a game called Running with Rifles. Top.down shooter. Really good. Easy to pick up. Hard to put down.

Haha sounds good, I will give it a look cheers mate

No worries..if your keen on it and can't find any players DM me I'll add you on steam.

Thanks mate I'll let you know

Valheim on Steam... You will never look back!

My brother really likes that game but I don't know much about it, whats it like if you don't mind me asking, cheers mate

It's a cross between a survival game, RPG, Minecraft, Ark... It's hard to explain. But you basically have to level up a Viking character, build everything, craft weapons, etc. However it's all woven into a HUGE procedurally generated map (different in every game). It's SUPER chilled, but also great fun, creative, and rewarding. Check out 'Valheim worth a buy" on Youtube.. but don't watch any other videos as you'll ruin it for yourself. You'll get lost in this game... as will your free time.

Those 20,000 games in 1 consoles on amazon, just plug and play into tv, options of PS or Xbox style controllers, games consist every console game in history, even commodore and spectrum days 😆 👍

God of War 2018- Ragnarok, both phenomenal, the lore is really cool, the combat is so satisfying when you get the full hang of it, plus you truly feel like a god of war but as much as a fan of the the original god of war series I’d be lying if I didn’t say I prefer the newer rpg style god of wars,

the Witcher 3 is a game that to this day shits on most modern games, it’s got a amazing story, great gameplay mechanics but what really sets it apart is all of the different things you hunt and fight, there’s pretty much every mythical creature you can think of in the game and each one has a specific weakness which you can craft certain things to make killing them easier or potions that give your character certain buffs, it’s a game you’ll get extremely addicted to and playing for 40+ hours easily, one of the few games I can genuinely say the world feels alive even when your not playing.

Cyberpunk, pretty decent game and is free on game pass, the game had a lot of potential and was definitely rushed, that being said though it’s still extremely fun and satisfying to play, the stuff you can do by giving your character cyber enhancements, also you can can decide how you want things to go mission and story wise the same as the Witcher which makes sense considering they are made by the same studio.

A huge classic is l.a noire, it’s 1947ish (I believe) you play as officer Cole Phelps and you start off as a street officer then work your way up into different police departments it’s your job to go and solve crimes that have been committed by searching for evidence investigating witnesses and interrogating suspects all while getting in the occasional shootout with criminals every now and then, it’s made by the same company as gta so it’s got a sold studio behind it.

Metal gear vengeance, I’ve never played the other metal gears but forget them right now, this game will put hairs on your chest with the pure dosages of testosterone you get playing this, the fighting is just chefs kiss, each boss has a badass song to go with it to give you that full nuts to butts experience, your basically a ninja in a metal armour suit that goes around destroying everything, the end boss fight was so good it made my dad come back from the shop after 15 years with the milk just to watch me beat it

I've been playing Greyzone Warfare recently, been really enjoying that! Haven't been doing much of the questing tbh xD just roaming around looting and hoarding, but still been enjoying it all the same!

Dayz it's hard but once you got the hang of it best game by far

I fell in love with sim racing. Assetto Corsa, BeamNG, iRacing. You can start with cheaper Moza R3 direct drive wheel with pedals and H-shifter and enjoy it from the first moment, if you like cars. Its basically like when you drive, but here are thousands of cars and modifications. If you need to know more, write me and i will send you where are free mods :)

Valheim is a fantastic game. Check it out.

Deathloop is a blast.

Oldie but goodie Halo Wars or any real time strategy games, you have time whilst you build your army to roll up and smoke😂

I've not seen anything decent from UK vendors in close to a year. Not since the popo closed some smuggling route/tunnel somewhere in the world last year. Its all lab produced crud based on D9, HHC, terps & god knows what.

Getting imports is a lot harder now but it's still possible and I'll be watching and lurking for it but yeah they have definitely been cracking down

Ik but gc was selling piatella for £180 a oz

And I'm seeing quarter pounds going for 400$ in USA idk how nobody is capitalising on this stuff

So many 40$ grams that are just your bog standard wax

Any luck with this mate?

Sadly not dab man has gone on a little break bought his margarita before he disappeared and shit was soo gassy and fire but sadly he's gone for a bit

There's so many extract vendors I wouldn't touch with a ten foot poll cause there overpriced wank

I really need to start saving up so I can buy bulk when a vendor comes by

I know you said you are mid 20s, but this smacks of you being a minor. If I was a vendor viewing this post I would be steering very well clear lol

Ask a mate and cut them in on your stash…

i dont have much friends who smoke

What risk are you perceiving? More risk in delivering it to a collection point instead of your home.

There must be lot of ways who buy without using their personal address

You'll find 99% of Biggas use their home address.

I don’t want to get caught Wht if the parcel get seized when I try to collect it I get caught?

"Wht if the parcel get seized when I try to collect it I get caught?"

1. Royal Mail are the biggest courier for the black market in existence. Some may say it's the drug market keeping RM in business.
2. Do you know how many sales go through on Biggy per day? Hundreds, very rarely do you see posts about seizures. Order with confidence to your home. It's not like you're ordering Pounds and Tons.

It’s with who I live with parents I that’s why can’t risk it

Why would they open your post? I don't know anyone on here that doesn't use their address. Its not like the package comes through the door with "big bag of bud inside" on it.

If your worried about your parents your too young to be on here

I’m in my mid 20s but where I’m raised it’s different and I have been caught before I don’t want to risk it again and disappoint them

You're an adult. Grow up and discuss it with them if you're that concerned. The mail will be addressed to you, they've no reason to be opening their mid 20s adult sons mail.

yeah i know bro i dont want to get caught again and disapoint them im only asking for solutions like virtual mailbox or renting it

Have you got any (safe) mates who live alone/partake who will let you post it to them?

I did this a couple of times when I was having issues with stolen post.

thats wht im doing rn but they even decline most of time but cant be always dependend on someone im willing to rent a po box but problem is id verification