The Meteors are a psychobilly band from the United Kingdom, who are often credited with giving the genre its distinctive sound. Although the origins of psychobilly are debatable, the Meteors consider themselves the first and only psychobilly band. Fans of the band are known to use the slogan "Only the Meteors are pure psychobilly" (often shortened to just "OTMAPP") as a rallying cry.
The Meteors were started in 1980 by P. Paul Fenech (guitar and vocals), Nigel Lewis (upright bass), and Mark Robertson (drums). Fenech and Lewis had played in rockabilly bands before, but left their former band, Raw Deal, in order to experiment with a new sound that mixed horror and science fiction lyrics with a punk rock-rockabilly crossover. This sound would later be called psychobilly.
The Meteors played their first show during Rockabilly Night at The Sparrow Hawk in north London, but after being heckled due to their punk fashion, decided to begin playing shows beyond just rockabilly clubs. They developed a loyal following known as "the Crazies," who invented their own dance style called "going mental," a cross between dancing and moshing. This would later be renamed "wrecking," and is still a staple of the psychobilly scene to this day. Coupled with Fenech's ritual of spitting blood during performances, many clubs believed they were dangerous and refused to book them. The band began playing at punk rock clubs alongside other UK punk bands such as the Anti-Nowhere League and the UK Subs. However, unlike punk bands, the Meteors would insist that their shows be "a politics and religion free zone" in order to focus on having a good time instead of allowing disputes between fans to break out. Because of their example, there are nearly no political themes in psychobilly today.
Due to their cult following, the Meteors made a film in late 1980 with comedian Keith Allen called Meteor Madness. It was released as a double feature with two-tone ska film Dance Craze in March 1981. The movie featured four songs, which made it onto the band's first vinyl single. In August 1981, the band were signed to Island Records and recorded their first full-length, In Heaven.
The Meteors have gone through numerous line-up changes since, with Fenech being the only original member today. The current line-up includes Mark Burnett on bass and Wolfgang Hordemann on drums. They have 17 official albums, countless singles, and numerous reissues and compilation appearances. They continue to record using their own recording studio, In Heaven, and have extensively toured Japan, America, Europe, and Scandinavia.
P. Paul Fenech has also released many solo albums and plays in a rockabilly side-project, the Legendary Raw Deal, named after his first band. Nigel Lewis and Mark Robertson went on to first play together in the Escalators, a psychedelic rock band, then the Tallboys, a rockabilly band best known for recording the song "Take a Walk" for the Return of the Living Dead soundtrack.
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There's also a dutch band called The Meteors. One of the most wayward Dutch rock groups in the period between the late '70s and early '80s. The Meteors release three records which feature a futuristic sort of 'art' rock which is influenced by Roxy Music and David Bowie. The band formed in 1977 and disbanded in 1982.
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I Hate People
The Meteors Lyrics
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And find a wall to bang my brains
I'm living in a fantasy, a nightmare dream, reality
People ride about all day
In metal boxes made away
I wish that they would drop the bomb
And kill these cunts that don't belong
I hate people, hate your ugly face
I hate people, I hate your fucking mess
I hate people, and they hate me
My mother thinks that I am a jerk
Because I hate my bleeding work
Be like your daddy he's sincere
But don't be true, or you'll be queer
I'm working at my nine to five
With boring cunts that give me jibe
Their talking of the love they give
They never give, they never give
I hate people, I hate the human race
I hate people, I hate your ugly face
I hate people, I hate the mess
I hate people, and they hate me
The Meteors’s song “I Hate People” is an anti-society anthem. The singer is expressing frustration and discomfort with people and everything they represent. He wants to hide away from them, but because he can’t, he imagines banging his brains against a wall. The world he lives in is a nightmare, a fantasy that clashes with reality, which he perceives as made up of metal boxes in which people ride around all day. He wishes something would destroy those people and asserts that they don’t belong.
The lyrics show that the singer holds a strong negative opinion of people, which he repeats in each verse. He hates their ugly faces, the mess they make, and the boring and insincere nine-to-five jobs they work. He thinks that following his father’s steps and embracing sincerity would make him queer, which highlights his perception of society as oppressive toward those who don’t conform to its standards. The song concludes with the singer stating that people hate him, which reinforces his isolation and alienation from the rest of society.
Line by Line Meaning
God I wish that I could hide away
The singer wishes to escape from society
And find a wall to bang my brains
The singer wishes to release their frustrations in a safe way
I'm living in a fantasy, a nightmare dream, reality
The singer feels lost and confused in life
People ride about all day
The singer is annoyed by the constant hustle and bustle of people in society
In metal boxes made away
The singer is referring to cars as metal boxes
I wish that they would drop the bomb
The singer is expressing a desire for destruction to wipe out the people they dislike
And kill these cunts that don't belong
The singer sees certain people in society as unwanted and deserving of death
My mother thinks that I am a jerk
The singer's mother disapproves of their attitude
Because I hate my bleeding work
The singer dislikes their job
Be like your daddy he's sincere
The singer is being told to emulate their father's behavior
But don't be true, or you'll be queer
The singer is being warned against deviating from societal norms
I'm working at my nine to five
The singer has a typical office job
With boring cunts that give me jibe
The singer is frustrated with their bland and uninteresting coworkers
Their talking of the love they give
The singer is annoyed by their coworkers' hypocritical talk
They never give, they never give
The singer feels that their coworkers do not actually care about anyone but themselves
I hate people, I hate the human race
The singer expresses their disdain for humanity
I hate people, hate your ugly face
The singer dislikes the physical appearance of certain individuals
I hate people, I hate your fucking mess
The singer is bothered by the chaos and disorder in society
I hate people, and they hate me
The singer feels disliked and rejected by society
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
Written by: Jordan D. Mancino, Phillip J. Sgrosso, Samuel Nicholas Hipa, Timothy Lambesis
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Jonathon Brainflower
Much as I love The Meteors this is so not Psychobilly now is it and its a fucking cover!?
Personally I much prefer the original by the fabulously amusing (back then anyway!) Anti-Nowhere League, who appeared in early 80's, performed & written i very much expect by Chris Elvy (Bass) who i thought had all the ideas and originated the League's fab name & wrote their best classic piss take tunes (in the stylee of the Pathetique Punk aroun in late 70's very early 80's..
Chris Elvy then got booted out of the League, his own creation (I may be wrong here but that's what he told me as i recall back in t'day) for a much harder looking roofer/bouncer mate of Nick's (Animal) Elvy was the punk "mentallity" in the band the rest where Rocker Bikers quiet amusingly from my home town in fucking tediously posh tory stronghold of Royal Tunbridge Wells dontcha fuckin know!
As far as the local punks in TW, where concerned, of which i was one and in a punk band The Fruit Machine Babies (later to morph with the stinky TW festi hippy band "Luminous Slug" into "The Freaks of Science") they were apart from Elvy Bikers taking the piss in a Pathetique Punk jokey kinda way but Nick (Animal off Muppets!) as front man totally made it and we loved it!! Heh heh heh!!
We all drunk in the same boozers in TW such as The Castle and The Sussex Arms and often played in "Doughnuts" a tiny little club under The Hermitage hotel which was a falling down old once posh Hotel (now flats that would cost you a fuckin fortune) and was at the time renting out all its shabby rooms/flats to the local army of on the social/dole punks, hippies and bikers it was at that time a wonderfuel center for drug abuse, moral decay and working class psuedo anarchy in an very upper class middle england town!!
Funny place TW! It always has had fuck off good music/party scene and is saved IMHO from its pretentious bullshite rich tory arseholes by being a mini checking center for drugs on the way up to London from the South Coast, those drugs fuelled over the decades a small but hardcore underground scene now centered around The wonderful converted Victiorian toilets/bronze rubbing centre (i kid you not!!) award winning small venue of excellence the Forum (not the drugs the music scene!) and allowed those working class types living there and around to have something affodable and all their own.. Namely the Culture of the place!
Happy days! Fuck only knows how Nick ANWL carved a career out of all this!! Good for him tho he is the real deal and a nice bloke, if you dont fuck him off!..
Happy New Year all do check out the real purveyors of pathetic punk such as Peter & The Test Tube Babies, Splodgenessabounds, The Notsensibles, Half Man Half Biscuit & the Toy Dolls all kin brilliant!! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punk_pathetique
starrychica82
This is my favorite song after working customer service all day
Meelow
This is just me in general lol
Gloominusdm
Amen, sister!! Working at a fvcking headshop in fvcking inbred Alabama, this is my theme song on the daily.
JJahnu
Jeah... and I'm an undertaker...
The Mad MGTOW
i used to work as a grocer and i used to listen to this song on the way home from work every day. Cos one thing you learn in retail is that contrary to what they tell you Customers are not always right. Some where just self-entitled twats who think they owned the shop. Tell them off then you got Told off.
koffinkat666
Damn Right
ThedaBaratheon
This is so perfect for me right now. I'm in such a 'I hate people' mood at the moment. Brilliant! <3
jenniferswe
This is one the reasons I love Punk. Their songs are about about the way the way you actually feel.
Stefan Murhagen
This song is literally the story of my life
Lina Eslava
I love this song!