...and do I believe in anything? That was me just questioning myself. A lot of songs are just self-questioning put on paper. Um, what's my reason for existence? Good question. Just to keep questioning things, oddly enough-to keep wondering, to keep being surprised by things, both negative and positive. I like being surprised by positive things, like nature. My reason for existence is to make the most of what time there is and not settle back into anything I'm not happy with.
Dick Lucas / Subhumans interview, Razorcake, 2019
SUBHUMANS released their second EP, Reason for Existence, on this day in 1982 through Spiderleg Records.
Are you slagging off peroxide?
Dick Lucas / Subhumans interview, Sounds, 1982
Dick: "Not at all. No, it's just a made-up fantasy type story about this girl who dyes her hair and it goes wrong. Instead of going on her hair it goes on her face and she f** *s herself up. "
But the majority of punk bands wouldn't dream of writing something like that...
"Not nowadays, no. Because it's not considered hip at all. It's just a fun number, we've got to have some fun numbers."
I thought it was an anti smoking song, but as you all smoke it obviously isn't.
Dick Lucas / Subhumans interview, Sounds, 1982
Dick: "No, it's... imagine the situation where this bloke who's got cancer is sitting, down at work in his lunch break with his mates, and he's feeling depressed because he knows he's got cancer, and there's these blokes trying to cheer him up by giving him fags. People think that fags actually cheer you up and, er, more so than, ...em."
Bruce: "Sweets."
Dick; "It's like 'Drugs Of Youth', it's just a statement. It's not pro-drugs or anti- drugs..."
But how do you feel when you see punks sniffing glue?
Dick: "I don't like glue".
Bruce: "We don't agree with glue."