Songs in the key of my life: Pere Ubu - Final Solution

Some songs turn into your personal anthems and some bands accompany you all your life. Pere Ubu is one of those bands to me. My pal Arno and I would meet on evenings at his place (this was in the late 70s/early 80s), we'd drink a huge bottle of Retsina wine with some cheese, and we had a list of songs we'd play at full volume and which we'd sing along with. 'Final Solution' was one of those anthems. I'll be mentioning the other ones over time. We pretty much got acquainted to Pere Ubu's music from the start, I had their early singles, and of course I immediately got their first album on its release, 'The Modern Dance', easily one of the great classics of rock music. I wasn't into punk, I prefered music with a bit more sophistication. Although 'Final Solution' comes along mightily as a punk song, the lyrics are more of a parody than to be taken seriously. But you can sing along very easily. Pere Ubu is one of those bands I've seen live most often (I also have their complete catalogoe of releases), they are great live performers and a legend, but they hardly ever get an audience of more than 100 people, sadly. It was a sensation to us that Pere Ubu currently are on tour performing their early singles and first album in a retrospective kind of program. Of course, Arno and and I were there and we sang along to 'Final Solution' - together with the few other people that found their way to the concert.

The girls won't touch me
Cos I've got a misdirection
Living at night isn't helping my complexion
The signs all saying it's a social infection
A little bit of fun's never been an insurrection

Mamma threw me out till I get some pants that fit
She just won't approve of my strange kind of wit
I get so excited, always gotta lose
Man that send me off
Let them take the cure

Don't need a cure
Need a final solution

Buy me a ticket to a sonic reduction
Guitars gonna sound like a nuclear destruction
Seems I'm a victim of natural selection
Meet me on the other side, another direction

Don't need a cure
Need a final solution