History Music / ChokingVictim

* ContemptibleCover: Squatta's Paradise features a man hanging (whether it's a suicide or a lynching is unclear) from a tree.
** No Gods, No Managers features Mary and Joseph looking over the Choking Victim in the manger with an mash-up of items including inverted crosses, skulls, and a goat's head in a pentagram on the album's front cover; the back features two people with nooses around their necks.

* MohsScaleOfLyricalHardness: Easily a 9-10, even if the band didn’t take themselves remotely seriously.
* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Rather hard to quantify due to randomly mixing ska and crust punk, but averaging somewhere around a 6-8.

MohsScaleOfLyricalHardness: Easily a 9-10, even if the band didn’t take themselves remotely seriously.
MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Rather hard to quantify due to randomly mixing ska and crust punk, but averaging somewhere around a 6-8.

* CapitalismIsBad: The band openly endorsed policies that wouldn't be out of place in a more anarchistic circle, and even went so far as to include more "vagrant" themes in their lyrics, such as squatting, drug use, and shoplifting. The band even went so far as to have early copies of No Gods, No Managers ''not'' carry a barcode on the record and openly encouraged fans to copy their music and distribute it for free if they so desired.

* CrapsackWorld: The band frequently portrays the United States (and living in its borders) as this; see MyCountryTisOfTheeISting below.

* MyCountryTisOfTheeISting: The band pulled no punches in their views on the United States' tendencies for misleading the masses via media and aggressive globalization ("Fuck America"), its police ("Crack Rock Steady"), prison practices ("Apple Pie and Police State"), making the masses complacent with television and drugs ("500 Channels"), and so on. Even before 9/11, the band were known to burn models of the World Trade Center in protest, and after the day in question, Stza went on to claim that he "wasn't exactly opposed to [the towers] falling down" and even kept burning models of the WTC for at least a couple of years afterward.

** Choking Victim (the song) samples [[Music/BlackSabbath Tony Iommi's famous cough from Sweet Leaf.

** "Infested" - a faster tempo song about catching lice and scabies, and complaining about both their existence and treating the problem.

* MyCountryTisOfTheeThatISting: The band pulled no punches in their views on the United States' tendencies for misleading the masses via media and aggressive globalization ("Fuck America"), its police ("Crack Rock Steady"), prison practices ("Apple Pie and Police State"), making the masses complacent with television and drugs ("500 Channels"), and so on. Even before 9/11, the band were known to burn models of the World Trade Center in protest, and after the day in question, Stza went on to claim that he "wasn't exactly opposed to [the towers] falling down" and even kept burning models of the WTC for at least a couple of years afterward.

* SignatureSong: "500 Channels" and "Crack Rock Steady", followed by "Infested" and "Born to Die". These songs are still played live ''very'' frequently at Leftover Crack shows to the point where they could be considered constants in their setlist.

Formed in New York City's Lower East Side (and notoriously taking residence in Alphabet City's C-Squat), Choking Victim were a punk band that were active between 1992 and 1999 that fused elements of ska, hardcore, and metal in a style that would eventually be known as "crack rocksteady", however they were also popular among the local anarcho-punk and crust punk circles. During those seven years, the band managed to release two EP's to local acclaim - 1993's "Crack Rock Steady 7" and 1995's "Squatta's Paradise" before heading into the studio to record their full-length album...for all of a day. Seriously; the band broke up immediately after day one of recording the album, however in an aversion of WhatCouldHaveBeen, the band had recorded enough material (a mix of re-recordings and brand new recordings of material that hadn't made it to any real medium outside of concert bootlegs) to compile together into 1999's "No Gods, No Managers" - and much like the Music/{{Ramones}}, the band quickly became more popular after breaking up. After breaking up, the former members went on to form separate bands (some of whom collaborated with each other back in the day) including Music/LeftoverCrack, Morning Glory, INDK, and The Crack Rock Steady 7. As of 2016, the band has reunited sporadically, but intend to tour/play for the last time throughout the month of November.

* AlliterativeName: Scott "Stza" Sturgeon provides vocals for the band. As far as song titles, you also have "'''F'''ive '''F'''inger Discount" and "'''L'''iving the '''L'''aws".
* AntiPoliceSong: Crack Rock Steady, most notably, however criticism also appears in "Apple Pie and Police State" and "Suicide (A Better Way), among other songs.
* CapitalismIsBad: The band openly endorsed policies that wouldn't be out of place in a more radical anarchist circle - and even went so far as to have early copies of No Gods, No Managers ''not'' carry a barcode and openly encouraged fans to copy their music and distribute it for free if they so desired to enforce these beliefs.

** No Gods, No Managers takes this up to eleven and features Mary and Joseph looking over the Choking Victim in the manger with an mash-up of items including inverted crosses, skulls, and a goat's head in a pentagram on the album's front cover; the back features two deceased people with nooses around their necks.
* CrapsackWorld: Multiple songs paint the band's view of life in a manner similar to this one.

* FadingIntoTheNextSong: Fuck America segues into War Story so flawlessly that if one were to not carefully observe the track listing or only hear the album in passing, it could be confused as being one song.
** Same with Praise to the Sinners and Living the Laws.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Stza is said in the liner notes to appear from "the LeftoverCrack" corporation" and even mentions "the good leftover crizzack" in 500 Channels.
* LyricalDissonance: Crack Rock Steady is an upbeat ska song written about killing police officers, burning down churches, and "killing some rich, important people".
* MyCountryTisOfTheeThatISting: The band pulled no punches in their views on the United States' tendencies for misleading the masses via media and aggressive globalization ("Fuck America"), its police ("Crack Rock Steady"), prison practices ("Apple Pie and Police State") and so on. Even before 9/11, the band were known to burn models of the World Trade Center in protest, and after the day in question, Stza went on to claim that he "wasn't exactly opposed to [them] falling down" and even kept burning models of the WTC for at least a couple of years afterward.

* RefugeInAudacity: The band openly endorsed the murder of police officers, squatting, drug use, shoplifting, suicide, and used Satanic imagery - all to intentionally piss off those who "weren't in" on the joke.
* {{Sampling}}: The band uses an unidentified (possibly original) sample to begin "In Hell", and "Money", "Fuck America", and "Praise to the Sinners" all feature sampled speeches from political scientist Michael Parenti.
* SignatureSong: "500 Channels", "Crack Rock Steady", and "Infested" to a lesser extent seem to hold this role, especially since they're still played very frequently at Leftover Crack shows.
* TropeNamer: For the ska-punk offshoot known as "crack rocksteady", which includes bands like No Cops for Miles, Stupid Stupid Henchmen, Morning Glory, No Commercial Value, and Star Fucking Hipsters. Unsurprisingly, most of these bands also include Stza in them.

-->'''"Unauthorized duplication of this record is worshipped [sic] and even celebrated in some third-world countries, and it is the expressed opinion of the members of Choking V. that it is in fact punk to bootleg records, and the fact that it is looked down upon as "illegal" makes it all the more exciting, so by all means do whatcha like and make a copy for a more disadvantaged music lover. 666"'''

-->'''"Unauthorized duplication of this record is worshipped [sic] and even celebrated in some third-world countries, and it is the expressed opinion of the members of Choking V. that it is in fact punk to bootleg records, and the fact that it is looked down upon as "illegal" makes it all the more exciting, so by all means do whatcha like and make a copy for a more disadvantaged music lover. 666"

* Foreshadowing: Stza is said in the liner notes to appear from "the LeftoverCrack" corporation" and even mentions "the good leftover crizzack" in 500 Channels.

* MyCountryTisOfTheeISting: The band pulled no punches in their views on the United States' tendencies for misleading the masses via media and aggressive globalization ("Fuck America"), its police ("Crack Rock Steady"), prison practices ("Apple Pie and Police State") and so on. Even before 9/11, the band were known to burn models of the World Trade Center in protest, and after the day in question, Stza went on to claim that he "wasn't exactly opposed to [them] falling down" and even kept burning models of the WTC for at least a couple of years afterward.

* ContemptableCover: Squatta's Paradise features a man hanging (whether it's a suicide or a lynching is unclear) from a tree.

* MyCountryOfTheeISting: The band pulled no punches in their views on the United States' tendencies for misleading the masses via media and aggressive globalization ("Fuck America"), its police ("Crack Rock Steady"), prison practices ("Apple Pie and Police State") and so on. Even before 9/11, the band were known to burn models of the World Trade Center in protest, and after the day in question, Stza went on to claim that he "wasn't exactly opposed to [them] falling down" and even kept burning models of the WTC for at least a couple of years afterward.