From '' American Psychobilly Archive 1986-2005 Vol. One ''
Label: Analog Arkives -- CD-AA-012
Released: 2009
Tracklist
01. Bamboula - Loser
02. Bamboula - Gray Matter (Oingo Boingo)
03. The Koffin Kats - Battery Acid Baby
04. The Koffin Kats - Beat My Guest (Adam Ant)
05. Season of Nightmares - Exhumed
06. Season of Nightmares - Psycho Killer (Talking Heads)
07. The Blue Flames - Valley of Love
08. The Blue Flames - Rock 'n' Roll Nigger (Patti Smith)
09. 7 Shot Screamers - Revo
10. 7 Shot Screamers - Rusholme Ruffians (Smiths)
11. Speed Crazy - Deficit
12. Speed Crazy - The Sky is a Poisonous Garden (Concrete Blonde)
13. Lords of the Highway - Phantom 369
14. Lords of the Highway - Rebel Yell (Billy Idol)
15. The Hellbillys - Bucket of Blood
16. The Hellbillys - Blank Generation
17. The Quakes - USA Psychos
18. The Quakes - The Killing Moon (Echo & The Bunnymen)
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\"Rock N Roll Nigger\" is a rock song written by Patti Smith and Lenny Kaye, and released on Patti Smith Group 1978 album Easter.
The song has since been covered by several artists, and was included on the soundtrack of the 1994 film Natural Born Killers.
Covers
U2 lead singer Bono references the song during an interlude in their performance of \"Bullet the Blue Sky\" on the Elevation 2001: U2 Live from Boston DVD.
Marilyn Manson released a cover on the Smells Like Children remix album. Manson cut out both the spoken word Babelogue track (which is often performed together with Rock N Roll Nigger as one work) and the poem which is interspersed in the song: Those who have suffered understand suffering and thereby extend their hand The storm that brings harm also make fertile Blessed is the grass and herb and the tree of thorn and light
Punk bands Anti-Heros and Toe to Toe also covered the song.
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Lyrics
Baby was a black sheep.
Baby was a whore.
Baby got big and baby got bigger.
Baby got something.
Baby get more.
Baby, baby, baby was a rock-and-roll nigger.
Oh, look around you, all around you,
I'm riding on a copper wave.
Do you like the world around you?
Are you ready to behave?
Outside of society, that's where you find me.
Outside of society, that's where you been waiting on me.
Baby was a black sheep.
Baby was a whore.
You know she got big.
But she's gonna get bigger.
Baby got a hand got a finger on the trigger.
Baby, baby, baby was a rock-and-roll nigger.
Outside of society, that's where you been waiting on me.
Outside of society, that's where I want to be.
(Those who have suffered, understand suffering,
and thereby extend their hand.
The storm that brings harm also makes fertile.
Blessed is the grass and herb and the true thorn and light)
I'm in love with the valley of pleasure.
I'm in love with the infinite sea.
I'm in love with the measure for measure,
Love spewed from the heart of me.
I was lost, and the cost,
and the cost didn't matter to me.
I was lost, and the cost
was to be outside of society.
Jimi Hendrix was a nigger.
Jesus Christ and Grandma, too.
Jackson Pollock was a nigger.
Nigger, nigger, nigger, nigger,
nigger, nigger, nigger.
Outside of society, that's where you find me.
Outside of society, that's where I want to be.
Outside of society, that's where you been waiting on me.
Outside of society, that's where I want to be.
Outside of society, that's where you find me.
Outside of society, come along with me.
Outside of society, that's where I want to be.
Outside of society, come on along with me.
Outside of society, no more shame
No more war, no more suffering
We love ya, we love ya all.
