“The Sad Skinhead” is regarded as some of Faust’s strongest lyrical work. It’s a masterwork of irony, taken straight from the perspective of the dolorous skinhead: “Apart from all the bad times you gave me / I always felt good with you,” the narrator opens, before deadpanning “going places, smashing faces / what else could we do?”

A whole lot, probably. But that’s the point. Once a sad sap’s caught up in the skinhead zeitgeist, alternative modes of living simply don’t compute. This classic Faust jam does compute, though. It’s a spunky, funky, and fun piece of humor.

Laugh it up!