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Definitions by black Flag

Trust Your Elected Leaders 

To place blind faith in your elected representatives with out holding them to account.

Something only a complete fool would do.
Too amny Americans Thrust their elected leaders.

Parasite 

A blood sucking vermin that drains strenght from it's host
The British royal family are the worlds most active group of parasites.
Parasite by black flag June 5, 2004

Marillion 

UK based art / prog rock band similar in style and scope to bands like early Genesis and Van Der Graaf Generator.
Recorded a string of classic and ground breaking albums between 1983 and 1987 including 'Script for a Jetsers Tear' and 'Misplaced Childhood'. Original lead singer, Derick Willian Dick (fish) quit in 1988 to be replaced by former European's Frontman Steve Hogarth. Recorded three more worthy albums including the epic concept project 'Brave' before loosing the plot and disapearing up their own backsides and into obscurity
"Are you gonna see Marillion this year?"

"Ten years ago hell wouldn't have stopped me, but now?.... nah."
Marillion by black flag June 5, 2004
A species of bird watcher. Not as fanatical as a twitcher. A bird will find hours of entertainment sitting by a window or in his car watching the behaviour and interaction of various species of birds.
My father was a birder, he would sit for hours staring onto the garden watching the flocks of chaffinches that thronged to his feeding table.
birder by black flag June 5, 2004
1) somebody who's away with the fairies, not on planet earth, etc

2) The Third Teletubby
My girlfreind can be a bit of a la la
la la by black flag June 5, 2004

fall off the truck 

UK slag,

Stolen goods. articles who's origin is not strictly legal.
(also 'fall off the back of a lorry')
"Nice telly"
"Yeah fell of the back of a truck"
New Wave Of British Heavy Metal

A movement in British rock. To get the full picture you have to understand that the 1976/77 punk explosion drove a lot of mainstream rock bands underground, many of them didn't survive. However the fanbase remained and in pubs and clubs in working class areas such as East London, Newcastle on Tyne and the West Midlands new bands started to form taking on the musician ship of the older 'dinosaur' rock outfits, but using the new punk method of doing things; brash attitudes, agressive sounds, self management / control etc.

The punk movement in the UK started to run out of steam as a mainstream musical form in the summer of 1979 and the new metal bands started to emerge from the pubs and clubs. Early examples were Saxon, Magnum and Raven. They were joined in 1980 by acts that were to become household names - Iron Maiden, Def Leppard etc.

NWOBHM was a very broad church that embrassed art rock (Pallas / Haze), glam (Wrathchild / Tygertailz), Early death and proto-thrash (Venom / Warfare) etc, as well as countless denim and leather bands. (Angelwitch / Demon)

The excepted period for NWOBHM is summer 1979 to autumn 1985. After this point NWOBHM became a tag to refer to bands in the Iron Maiden / Judas Preist vien (Marshall Law / Strangeways / Idol Rich)

The style has since influenced most modern forms of rock and metal.
The term was originally coined by Malcome Dome in the April '79 issue of 'Sounds' magazine.
NWOBHM by black flag June 5, 2004