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goobster  ·  1659 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 393rd Weekly "Share Some Music You've Been Into Lately"

Stiff Little Fingers just shouldn't exist. Everything about them is improbable.

  Their Name

Their first album was beyond brilliant and still is the defining work for an entire branch of punk.

Their singer's voice. Is perfect. And awful. And amazing.

They didn't die/weren't killed during The Troubles for singing in-your-face shit.

They didn't die of anything else.

They didn't go down the drugs hole.

They continue to travel, play, and innovate EVEN TODAY. (I last saw them this year, just before COVID.)

They write new music that is just as cutting/poignant as their early stuff ("Bang Bang" hasn't even been recorded yet, I think, but they are playing it live.)

They are big fat old men, who still have integrity and VERVE. Amazing

Their web URL is "slfrocks.com". Which rocks.

SLF is under-appreciated. Absolutely.