Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes

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Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes

Studio album by Propagandhi
Released	February 6, 2001
Recorded	?
Genre	Punk
Length	33:21
Label	G7 Welcoming Committee Records/Fat Wreck Chords
Producer(s)	?
All Music Guide link MusicEmissions (4.5/5) link
Propagandhi chronology
Where Quantity is Job #1 (1998)	Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes (2001)	Potemkin City Limits (2005)

Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes is the third album by the punk rock band Propagandhi, released on February 6, 2001.

1 Track listing
2 Legacy
- 2.1 Lyrical mention by NOFX
3 Notes
4 External links

[edit] Track listing

"Mate Ka Moris Ukun Rasik An" – 3:03
"Fuck the Border" – 1:31
"Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes" – 2:37
"Back to the Motor League" (mp3) – 2:40
"Natural Disasters" – 2:04
"With Friends Like These, Who the Fuck Needs COINTELPRO?" – 3:23
"Albright Monument, Baghdad" – 2:27
"Ordinary People Do Fucked-Up Things when Fucked-Up Things Become Ordinary" – 2:17
"Ladies' Nite in Loserville" – 1:45
"Ego Fum Papa (I am the Pope)" – 1:38
"New Homes for Idle Hands" – 1:44
"Bullshit Politicians" – 1:33
"March of the Crabs" – 1:56
"Purina Hall of Fame" – 4:43

[edit] Legacy

[edit] Lyrical mention by NOFX

The song "The Marxist Brothers" from NOFX's EP Never Trust a Hippy and their 2006 album Wolves in Wolves' Clothing, mentions this album; however, the name is a mistake, as Fat Mike sings it as "Today's Empires are Tomorrow's Ashes."^[1]

Still, I’m waiting to see if my bid on eBay was enough
To get Today’s Empires are Tomorrow’s Ashes on Soviet red vinyl.
It's going on the wall, next to Tubthumper
And The Battle of Los Angeles.

The song was played on G7 Radio's third podcast (April 4, 2006); Chris Hannah, a G7 co-host and Propagandhi founding member, proceeded to credit the song by purposefully adding an incorrect word to the song title ("The Marxists are Brothers"), mispronouncing NOFX, and replacing a word in the EP title (Never Trust the Hippy).^[2]

The theme continued with the fourth podcast (May 5, 2006), when Derek and Chris played another NOFX song: "One-Celled Creature" from Wolves in Wolves' Clothing. The album title wasn't mentioned on the podcast itself, but on the G7 Welcoming Committee Records' website, the album is called "Wolves are in Wolves' Clothing" in the episode's music credits.^[3] In the podcast itself, while talking about Chumbawamba's album Tubthumper (which is also mentioned in "The Marxist Brothers"), Hannah pretends that he's looking for it on the studio wall (another reference to the song), saying "The Battle of Los Angeles, Today's Empires are Tomorrow's Ashes... Ah, Tubthumper!"^[4]