In the middle of the late-'80s hair rock jungle of Orange County, No for an… Read Full Bio ↴In the middle of the late-'80s hair rock jungle of Orange County, No for an Answer was making intelligent, confrontational, straight-from-the-heart hardcore punk that couldn't have been more at odds with most of the music coming out of the area at the time. Utilizing a kind of furious speed-rap hardcore style that recalls some early Bad Brains, singer Dan O'Mahoney (later of 411 and Speak 714) ranted, sometimes brilliantly, about social pressure, desperation, and isolation. The featured track, "Don't Look Away," is a fierce straight-edge manifesto, containing the band's most central message: "Acquiring a taste spells addiction to me/It's safest, it's smartest to live poison free."
Don%E2%80%99t Look Away
No For An Answer Lyrics
A disease, a sickness, a real cause of pain,
And though you are stricken, you claim there's no change,
The effects, the damage, are easy to see,
Don't lie to yourself, please listen to me...
Don't look the other way!
Heightened awareness that lasts only hours,
Is just an illusion of real strength and power,
But Oh! how you'll miss it when the drugs start to fade,
I tell you, you'll need more with each passing day,
Don't look the other way!
Heed the warning, listen to me,
Of course when it started it was casual and free,
But acquiring a taste spells addiction to me,
It's safest, it's smartest to live poison free.
And though you are stricken, you claim there's no change,
The effects, the damage, are easy to see,
Don't lie to yourself, please listen to me...
Don't look the other way!
Heightened awareness that lasts only hours,
Is just an illusion of real strength and power,
But Oh! how you'll miss it when the drugs start to fade,
I tell you, you'll need more with each passing day,
Don't look the other way!
Heed the warning, listen to me,
Of course when it started it was casual and free,
But acquiring a taste spells addiction to me,
It's safest, it's smartest to live poison free.
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SB DRUMS
Bow, love to listen this good music!
Septiansyah DK
A disease, a sickness, a real cause of pain,
And though you are stricken, you claim there's no change,
The effects, the damage, are easy to see,
Don't lie to yourself, please listen to me...
Don't look the other way!
Heightened awareness that lasts only hours,
Is just an illusion of real strength and power,
But Oh! how you'll miss it when the drugs start to fade,
I tell you, you'll need more with each passing day,
Don't look the other way!
Heed the warning, listen to me,
Of course when it started it was casual and free,
But acquiring a taste spells addiction to me,
It's safest, it's smartest to live poison free.
ill phil
This record fucked me Up in a great way in 1997…. Awesome Hits
Piotr B
"Utilizing a kind of furious speed-rap hardcore style that recalls some early Bad Brains...". This is basically a standard style of vocal expression in hardcore, a kind of super fast shouting/ranting/screaming, rather than melodic singing. This is typical for all hardcore, not something specific to Bad Brains or No For An Answer. Just listen to early Agnostic Front, early Suicidal Tendencies, early D.R.I., Attitude Adjustment, Youth Of Today, Cause For Alarm, S.O.D., M.O.D.