Stacked Up is the debut album by UK rap-rock group Senser. It was released in the UK on 2 May 1994, and entered the national charts at No.4.
It features an eclectic, incendiary cross over of hip hop, rock and psychedelia.
Background
Senser was formed in the late eighties, originally with Kerstin Haigh on lead vocals and, from 1991, Heitham Al-Sayed as the drummer. Al-Sayed moved onto vocal duties when the band covered Public Enemy's "She Watch Channel Zero?!", from that groups influential It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back album.
The band's first two singles, "The Key", released in September 1993, and "Switch", released in March 1994, made the UK Singles Chart Top 50, and garnered rave reviews from both dance and indie reviewers.<name=nme-bio/>
The political background in Britain, and the impending passing of the Criminal Justice Act into statute paved the way for a series of politically influenced artists such as The Levellers, The Prodigy, Dreadzone, and Pop Will Eat Itself, and Senser fit into that group with a blend of aggressive hip-hop, thrash metal and psychedelic ambience.
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by Senser
Stacked Up
by: SenserOhh, I am tireless, sub zero, comin' from the wireless
Won't be no scenery, no part of the machinery
I go on and on but never below
So, now you see me and know, you can check it and go
'Cause I'm so bored that I can't even pretend no more
It's so pathetic that I'm rolling around on the floor
Laughing at one big gag
And every now and then they pull another rabbit out of the bag
Of sad diversions, useless tedious excursions
Roll into unrealistic, crypto-fascistic
Comedy doctrine, kick the ballistics
Again and again and again, just say when
Ya had enough, sad enough or mad enough
To do something simple and kind
Now is the time
A change of state of mind
I am a loner, a zoner, I utilize the microphone
And if they try a tap, I leave 'em hangin' on the telephone
Wasted, so wasted, so
They're waiting for the visitors so they can go and try again
On the next step, on the next one
Come on and get some, jet some, static
Solid state, automatic
Sporadic and random 'cause nobody planned 'em
Anarchy, free thought can't be bought
So, disregard the lessons and the shit you've been taught
I'm saying it and now they're playing it to me
Larger than life every day and this is what they say
Shut your mouth and get back in line
And if you don't like it, well, it suits us just fine
We pull the levers, we hold the strings
And these are just a few of our favorite things
Learn the words of the company song
White is right is right is strong, come on children all sing along
'Cause if you think you can change
You were never more wrong
No, fuck that, you won't take me, you won't break me
And you'll never make me, step in line and step march in time
Well, you can violate my body but my soul is still mine
You must think that I'm fucking stupid, man
If you think I'm gonna hang with the program, some fool schedule
I don't give a shit about what is or isn't cool
I make the rules, I stand alone
And if they try a tap, I leave 'em hangin' on the telephone
One of these days I'm gonna get sectioned
I bet they even say it's for my own protection
Rejection leads straight to correction
Look out, here comes a strange injection
They've got a drug to numb my erection
But they won't take this from me
My state of mind, it won't change me
My state of mind, state of mind
Ohh, change me, ohh, change my fate
State of mind