Pussy Riot: Wont Get Fooled Again 2015

 

Pussy Riot is a Russian feminist protest punk rock collective and performance art group based in Moscow. Founded in August 2011, it has had a variable membership of approximately 11 women 

ranging in age from about 20 to 33 (as of 2012). The group staged unauthorized provocative guerrilla gigs in public places. These performances were filmed as music videos and posted on the Internet. The group's lyrical themes included feminism, LGBT rights, opposition to Russian President Vladimir Putin and his policies, and Putin's links to the leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church.
                                                           

On December 14, 2011, the group performed atop a garage beside the Moscow Detention Center No. 1 prison, where opposition activists were being held among the prisoners. Political activists Alexey

Navalny and Ilya Yashin had been arrested one week earlier at a mass protest against the results of the State Duma elections. Pussy Riot played their song "Smert tyurme, svobodu protestu" ("Death To Prison, Freedom To Protests"), a pun on the Yugoslav Partisan World War II slogan "Death to fascism, freedom to the people", and were applauded by the prisoners watching from inside the bars of the jail cell windows.
                                                                      

On January 20, 2012, in what the Associated Press described as their "breakthrough performance", eight members of the group performed a song on the Lobnoye Mesto in Red Square, entitled "Putin

Zassal". The title was variously translated by English language media as "Putin has Pissed Himself", "Putin Chickened Out", "Putin Got Scared" and "Putin is Wetting Himself". The song called for a popular revolt against the Russian government and an occupation of Red Square. According to a Pussy Riot member identified as "Shayba", the song was inspired by the events of December 24, 2011, during which approximately 100,000 people attended anti-Putin rallies in central Moscow.
                                                          

On February 21, 2012, five members of the group staged a performance on the soleas of

Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Savior.Their actions were stopped by church security officials. By evening, they had turned it into a music video entitled "Punk Prayer - Mother of God, Chase Putin Away!". On March 3, 2012, two of the group members, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina, were arrested and charged with hooliganism. In late October 2012, Alyokhina and Tolokonnikova were separated and sent to prison.
                                                       

A third member, Yekaterina Samutsevich, was arrested on March 16. Two other members of the

group, who escaped arrest after February's protest, reportedly left Russia fearing prosecution. On October 10, following an appeal, Samutsevich was freed on probation, her sentence suspended. The sentences of the other two women were upheld.
                                                             

Protests were held around the world after the sentence was announced. Amnesty International declared August 17 "Pussy Riot Global Day" for activists. People gathered in New York City,

where actress Chloë Sevigny, Karen Finley and others read statements by the convicted members of the band. Pussy Riot released a single in August 2012 as the court case against three of their members drew to a close. It was called "Putin zazhigayet kostry" ("Putin Lights Up The Fires"), and its lyrics addressed issues related to the case. Among other statements, they suggested that "seven years [imprisonment] are not enough, give us eighteen!"
                                              

In February 2014, a statement was made anonymously on behalf of some Pussy Riot members that both Alyokhina and Tolokonnikova were no longer members. However, both were among the group that

performed as Pussy Riot during the Winter Olympics in Sochi, where group members were attacked with whips and pepper spray by Cossacks who were employed as security guards. On March 6, 2014, Tolokonnikova and Alyokhina were assaulted and sprayed with green dye by local youths in Nizhny Novgorod.
                                           

                                                 
The group cited British punk rock and oi! bands Angelic Upstarts, Cockney Rejects, Sham 69 and The 4-Skins as their main musical influences. The band also cited American punk rock band Bikini Kill,

performance artist Karen Finley and the riot grrrl movement of the 1990s as inspirations. They stated: What we have in common is impudence, politically loaded lyrics, the importance of feminist discourse and a non-standard female image. The difference is that Bikini Kill performed at specific music venues, while we hold unsanctioned concerts. On the whole, Riot Grrrl was closely linked to Western cultural institutions, whose equivalents don't exist in Russia.
                                                

Pussy Riot used situationist-style guerrilla performances. Tolokonnikova stated: "Pussy Riot's

performances can either be called dissident art or political action that engages art forms. Either way, our performances are a kind of civic activity amidst the repressions of a corporate political system that directs its power against basic human rights and civil and political liberties".
                                            

In an email interview with The St. Petersburg Times, the group explained their political positions

further, saying that members' perspectives ranged from anarchist to liberal left, but that all were united by feminism, anti-authoritarianism and opposition to Putin, whom members regard as continuing the "aggressive imperial politics" of the Soviet Union. Group concerns include education, health care, and the centralization of power, and the group supports regional autonomy and grass-roots organizing.
                                        

On February 3, 2016 Pussy Riot released clip Chaika, alluding to findings of Anti-corruption

Foundation. In March 2018 Pussy Riot, together with TV on the Radio's Dave Sitek, released the single and video "Bad Apples". The song is a statement against corruption in the criminal justice system. In December 2019, Pussy Riot, together with Vic Mensa and Junglepussy, released the song "Hangerz." The song was written in response to Alabama's anti-abortion legislation. All proceeds from the song will go towards Planned Parenthood.
                                               

In October 2020, Pussy Riot, along with the Village People, made guest appearances on the Dorian Electra single "My Agenda." Pussy Riot's lyrics in the song encourage rebellion against the Russian gay propaganda law and also make reference to similar anti-gay laws in Uganda. The song was released on Electra's album of the same name.
                                          

Pussy Riot – Wont Get Fooled Again
Label: Burning Girl Productions – none
Format:    CD Album
Country: UK
Released: Apr 26, 2015
Genre: Rock
Style: Punk

TRAXS

01. Won't Get Fooled Again    3:41
02. Complete Control    3:18
03. Rebel Rebel    3:49
04. White (Pussy) Riot    2:01
05. (Keep On) Rockin' In The Free World    3:05
06. Oh Bondage Up Yours!    2:45
07. Smells Like Teen Spirit    5:01
08. Helter Skelter    3:05
09. Blitzkreig Bop    2:24
10. Eve Of Destruction    2:32

Bonus Track

11. Sorrow

MP3 @ 320 Size: 87,2 MB
Flac  Size: 266 MB