Lucky | |
Type: | studio |
Artist: | Fifteen |
Cover: | Lucky (fifteen album).jpg |
Released: | 27 April 1999 |
Label: | Sub City |
Prev Title: | Surprise! |
Prev Year: | 1996 |
Next Title: | Survivor |
Next Year: | 2000 |
Lucky is a 1999 album by the punk band Fifteen, named after local musician (and former bassist for the band) Rich "Lucky Dog" Gargano, who had recently committed suicide. The album was filled with political songs, most notably ones like "Stolen Life", where singer/songwriter Jeff Ott takes an anti-police stance, and "My Congressman" and "War On Drugs", which criticize the government for hurting drug addicts and non-violent drug users and accusing politicians for using them as a scapegoat and an excuse for "genocidal" campaigns (e.g. "incarcerating all the homeless"). Drugs would later become Jeff Ott's main focus as an activist, having been a drug addict for most of his life (starting when he became homeless around age 14).