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1) Blitz, British punk band
Blitz were a British punk band who had enjoyed success in the indie charts in the early 1980’s. They were often lumped in with Oi bands such as Cockney Rejects; however, with the release of the "New Age" single and their second album Second Empire Justice, Blitz shifted from their punk roots to a much more new wave and post punk-electro sound. They came from New Mills in Derbyshire and were enthusiastically championed by music journalist Garry Bushell.
2) Blitz, Brazilian 80s rock band.
Blitz was the first Brazilian rock band to achieve mainstream success and to have hit singles (Você não soube me amar, A dois passos do paraíso, Ana Maria (biquíni de bolinha amarelinha tão pequenininho)) kick-starting the movement the 1980s boom that would later be called "BRock"[1].
Its "classic" (first) formation included Evandro Mesquita (voice), Lobão(drums), later Roberto "Juba" Gurgel), Antônio Pedro Fortuna (bass, formerly with Os Mutantes and Lulu Santos), William Forghieri (keyboards) and Fernanda Abreu and Márcia Bulcão (backing vocals).
In 1982, the first compact, "Você Não Soube Me Amar", achieved a huge success, followed by the album "As Aventuras da Blitz". Due to its success among children, they even publish a comic book.
Still in 1982 they recorded their first album "Você não soube me amar", an immediate success with fourteen songs and a comics-like design. The logo resembles that of X-Men comics.
They split in 1986 but some of the original members got back together ten years later. Since then they are making sporadic shows in Brazil.
They recorded 9 albums, one dvd and their history is told in the book "As Aventuras da Blitz" by Rodrigo Rodrigues. There is talk that their tenth album will be released in 2009.
Discography:
1982 - As Aventuras da BLITZ
1983 - Radioatividade
1984 - BLITZ 3
1990 - Todas as Aventuras da BLITZ
1994 - BLITZ ao Vivo
1997 - Línguas
1999 - BLITZ 2000 Últimas Notícias
2006 - BLITZ - Com Vida
2008 - BLITZ - Ao Vivo e a Cores
Book:
2009 - As Aventuras da BLITZ (Ediouro, Rodrigo Rodrigues)
3) Blitz, Rapper
It’s going to take more than verbal missiles for Hip-Hop to stay in power. Now more than ever, we need diplomats to forge lasting creative alliances, finesse fence-sitters and bridge the gap between warring factions.
Blitz the Ambassador has been ready for that job. And Stereotype, the underground king’s politically-charged, genre-bending third album, proves it.
“I went for broke with this album,” says the Ghana-born MC and producer who counts Fela Kuti, Bjork, Miles Davis, Nina Simone and Rakim among his influences. “I set out to change the way hip-hop approaches live instrumentation, to create synergy between all of the sounds on my personal playlist.”
To get the job done, Blitz and longtime co-producer Optiks enlisted a diverse cast of musicians including Chicago’s Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, emerging soul singer Rob Murat and indie rock sensation Kate Mattison.
Lest the hip-hop get lost in the musical mash-up, there’s Blitz’s bombastic flow and stadium-size stage presence. In the tradition of KRS-One and Chuck D, Blitz can move any crowd, small or large. He’s hijacked the hearts of Soulja Boy-loving teenyboppers in tiny Clemson, South Carolina. He’s swayed a grown and flossy Philly crowd who paid their money to watch Freeway and Akon but couldn’t help but shake their asses to Blitz’s cascade of sound.
….”Red, Gold, Green, Black Star authentic”
Growing up in Accra City where electricity and running water weren’t promised, Blitz found solace in creativity, drawing award-winning pictures, playing the djembe drum, and soaking up the urgent horns and multi-layered percussion of the local High Life music. In the early ‘90s when his older brother brought home Public Enemy’s ‘It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back’, Blitz found his calling.
“These guys felt the way I felt and they could speak honestly about it,” the Brooklyn transplant explains. “At that time, Ghana was just recovering form a brutal military government— try to make a political statement and you’d be gone. Hip-hop allowed me to hear people who looked like me speaking out.”
By blending the slang of his community with the cadences of American rappers, Blitz went on to win local MC battles, make radio appearances, and play venues and festivals from Arusha Tanzania, to Berlin, Germany. Even as a marketing major at Ohio’s Kent State University, he stayed focused on hip-hop, co-producing, distributing and directing videos for his first two efforts, ‘Soul Rebel’ and Double Consciousness. And of course he opened for any artist who came to town, including Talib Kweli, The Roots and De La Soul.
Now, more than a decade into the hip-hop game, Blitz still brings the undiluted passion of a new artist. Even the provocative cover of Stereotype—a man with a boom-box for a head blows out his brains—symbolizes of his love for the culture. “Hip-hop music is our lifeline,” the MC says of the image he designed as a response to the fuselage of ringtone-y singles and studio gangersterism on the market. “We can’t buy into stereotypes of young Black men and stay involved in our music’s destruction and think we’re going to survive ourselves.”
With Stereotype, we can all rest assured that Blitz the Ambassador is doing his part to help repair what’s wrong in Hip-Hop—and to celebrate what’s so very right.
4) Blitz, funky beatmaker from Estonia
BLITZ was born in the year '72 as a twin brother of Disco. He rose to prominence in late last century when pair of french lovers witnessed the healing power of his eyes. It's said that once you see deep into his irises you'll be hit by the full clarity of your life's purpose. Simultaneously you're freed from any of your drug addictions. Once he looked into the mirror far too long and his own destiny was revealed – mirror shattered and he made the first disco ball out of the debris.
Blitz absolutely adores pigs and aggressively refuses to eat any of their meat. Owns two of them.
Groove is in his heart. Blitz to the max!
http://www.myspace.com/mmblitz
5) BLITZ; Kidsmusic
Belgium kidsmusic project. Check http://www.blitzonline.be.
6) Blitz; Korean electro-rock band
They play electric Korean traditional instruments
7) BlitZ; UK rockers
UK rockers BlitZ consisting of Stuart Corden (lead vocals and bass), Kevin Simpson (guitar, piano and backing vocals) and Mathew Davis (drums and vocals) have unveiled a video for their new single “Freddie Said” which is their tribute to the late Queen frontman Freddie Mercury.
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Blitz Lyrics
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Forgetting reality by a mental block
You can't stand this and you can't stand that
You also know where it's been but never where it's at
All you factory girls and you factory boys
Whose been winding you up like cheap little toys?
Don't you know you suffer from metal fatigue
This is the problem of iron and steel
When you are a cog in a clockwork wheel
You've set your own course down a well trodden path
And made you a cog when you want to laugh
I've got metal fatigue
Blitz's powerful punk rock song "Fatigue" appears to be a scathing critique of the dehumanizing effects of modern industrial society. At its core, the song appears to be speaking to the disconnection that many individuals feel between their personal desires and the rigid, impersonal, and often oppressively monotonous demands of their jobs. The opening lines of the song seem to highlight this dynamic, describing the lives of individuals as being dictated by the minutes on their clocks, and as being characterized by a forgetfulness about the true nature of reality. This sense of being disconnected from a deeper truth about the world is further reinforced later in the song through lines like "You also know where it's been but never where it's at." Here, the vocalist seems to be suggesting that individuals are trapped in a cycle of frenetic activity in which they are always running to keep up with the next task or deadline, without ever taking the time to step back and consider the larger context of their lives.
Blitz then casts a critical eye on the broader social and economic forces that perpetuate this state of affairs, highlighting the ways in which workers are often treated as little more than "cogs in a clockwork wheel." The chorus of the song asserts that "you suffer from metal fatigue," a play on words that suggests both a psychological and a material exhaustion caused by the constant, grinding pressures of modern industrial society. The line "rust never sleeps in the minor league" underscores this idea of decay and wear, as if to suggest that both workers and the machinery they operate are being slowly ground down by the relentless march of capital. Ultimately, then, "Fatigue" appears to be a call to action, urging individuals to resist the soul-crushing routines of modern life and reassert their autonomy in the face of forces that seek to reduce them to mere cogs in the machine.
Line by Line Meaning
Living your life by the minutes on your clock
You are meticulously following your daily routine while ignoring the outside world.
Forgetting reality by a mental block
You've put up psychological barriers that prevent you from seeing reality.
You can't stand this and you can't stand that
You are easily irritated and can't tolerate certain things.
You also know where it's been but never where it's at
You have knowledge of past events but fail to grasp the present situation.
All you factory girls and you factory boys
The hardworking individuals who work in factories.
Whose been winding you up like cheap little toys?
Who is controlling and manipulating you like mechanical toys?
Don't you know you suffer from metal fatigue
You are exhausted and drained due to your mechanical lifestyle.
Rust never sleeps in the minor league
Even the smallest things can cause long-lasting harm.
This is the problem of iron and steel
The issue with mechanical structures is that they can't adapt to different situations.
When you are a cog in a clockwork wheel
If you're part of the machine, you're only as valuable as your function.
You've set your own course down a well trodden path
You've established your own life trajectory that others have also taken.
And made you a cog when you want to laugh
You've become a mechanical part of society when you desire to live life freely.
I've got metal fatigue
The singer of the song is also feeling tired and burnt out due to society's mechanical nature.
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@cheetahchrome9664
55 years old. Still makes the hairs on my arms stand up. Great band. So many beers killed listening to this song.
Gods! we were strong then
@concreterealityrecords7231
we are still strong now
@charleshanna5725
You are not alone my brother!
@pavulon5293
same here
@tomquirin4231
51 here , 80's oldschooler here , hey bro's check out band > dogflesh from the u.k. , thanks > tom !
@wescooley34
Yeah we were m8 people knew their place back then no one in your face trying to ram there shit religous islamic beliefs like these shit times we live in
@oigloriousoi
Yes please! I'd love some piano with my Oi, thank you! This, Plastic Gangster and Drinkin N Drivin always make me want to have a beer, or 10! I'm 50 now, been listening to these tunes for 36 years now and they never get old!
@supermegadrive64
Used to listen to this track walking back home from third shift at the gas station. Gave me the push I needed to make the 20 minute walk. Truth is I had lots of fatigue!
@extremely.hung.individual2693
You’ve lived as no other people have lived ❤
@mannyschewitz1456
This is basically the soundtrack to my life