The Quantitative Roland Stephen Taylor Ubiquitous Volume
The Moshing Floor has had 1 recorded version released over the years. The version is a studio version recorded for the Squint Project. This version was used as theme music on a long-form video package. It appeared on the following recordings:
written by Steve Taylor
Copyright © 1993 Soylent Tunes (ASCAP)
Pendleton elbows
Stick in my craw
Old Doc Marten
He made me say "aaaaw"Deck your best partner
Lasses or lads
Don't you feel lucky
In your knee pads
CHORUS
On the moshing floor
Whatever, whatever
On the moshing floor
Whatever, whatever
Whatever stage, whatever floor
Hangtime, hangtime
And it's 1,2,3,4
What are we dying for?
No guru
No mother
No method
No smile
Nice style
Bad form
Is the body still warm?I wanna see you blink
Shrinks in lab coats
Huddle in the back
Whatcha blaming me for?
I'm just the soundtrackAll you baby boomers
Feigning dismay
You hired the nanny
You faked her resume
(CHORUS)
I wanna do that crawl
Malls and religion
Build the new forts
Jesus is a franchise
In their food courtsWho needs commitment?
You gargle, then spit
Just like the home team
In the moshing pit
(CHORUS)
The moshing floor is the landing pad for stage divers. It's also a metaphor for the end of the 20th Century, where the only action is reaction ("whatever, whatever"), and all commitment to principles gets lost in the free fall. - Steve
The first verse is a basic account moshing pit behavior down to Doc Marten steel-toed boots and the Pendleton brand name flannel shirts for that grunge look held dear by Generation Xers.
The chorus is cry of a Generation X mosher. There really doesn't seem to be anything to care about. "Whatever". This attitude could be a result of their parents lack of really caring about them and not even trying to hide it. "No mother". Perhaps she puts a higher priority on her career than on her kids because she didn't want them to begin with.
"Is the body still warm?" which follows the chorus the first time through. The body this is referring to could be the body of Christ or the Church. It could also be a reference to the laziness of Xers, ie so lazy are they dead.
Verse two focuses on the reaction to moshing pit behaviour. Baby boomers, the parents of Xers, blame such behaviour on the music. It's not the soundtrack's fault that Xers grew up seeing parents who didn't care. But they still feign dismay or pretend to be bewildered with Generation X but don't think twice about getting unqualified child care. Simply put they don't care, perhaps the children were unwanted.
The final verse is about how Christianity was handled by the Baby Boomers. It was just one of those other interests. It was compartmentalized like a franchise in a food court at a shopping mall. There was no commitment to their faith. It was only skin deep. Like a mouth wash, it would wear off after a while. The end of the verse brings us full circle back to the Gen Xers in the pit.
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