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Well I'm in NYC today for my CMJ panel with George Clinton and Gibby Hanes so I won't see your comments until Sunday, but please don't let that dampen the party. This week's podcast is to further inspire the troops for this Tuesdays election. What's your favorite stand up and fight anthems? These are some of mine.
I'd love to hear your comments in the comments section. PEACE and POWER TO THE PEOPLE!
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donita!
As he soft shoes slowly of the stage, with the O clutched to his bosom.
To the applause of the crowd. Heh
Jeffreyw, did you ever get to the bottom of the Obama/Rezko thing? Read Kass’s Trib column of yesterday.
Get Up Stand Up Marley
Volunteers Airplane
Up Against the Wall MC5
We Should Be Together Airplane
Won’t Get Fooled Again Who
Hee hee, no cookies in the oven today, making do with fig newtons.
Masters of War
Ballad of a Thin Man
Times are a Changin
Blowin in the Wind
I can’t listen to music at work, but I can rock to this:
One of the great entertainments to watch just before an upheaval election is list of candidates who want to make sure they lose their dignity ahead of losing their seat. Along those lines is Rep. Deborah Pryce, number four in the House leadership who’s just announced that “What’s happening in Iraq is not a direct reflection on me.” And you know it’s good because those were actually her prepared remarks her campaign sent CNN after the interview. During the live session, in the midst of answering, she wigged out and declared the interview over.
– Josh Marshall
Go Mary Jo Kilroy!
I can’t wait for the latest Republican talking point: Everyone knows that 49-year-old gay prostitutes give the best massages. Nothing to see here. Move along.
Sparkles the Iguana @ 3
I did some reading, looks like that fellow is an Abramhof wanna be. Downstaters like me don’t pay much mind to the snakes up in Chicago.
Looks as if Obama needs to be a tad more circumspect with his personal financial dealings.
Not a stand up and fight anthem, but pretty amazing:
Tony Royster Jr.
“Red Right Hand” Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Universal Soldier Donovan
I ain’t Marchin any More Phil Ochs
Liberation Chicago Transit Authority
sofistic (I think) shared this video yesterday and I really like it. It’s Kris Kristofferson and will make you angry and sad, but it is worth a listen and may convince others you know to GOTV.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rxm17Soz3c
Hi Donita and thanks for the music and the visit!
“Takin’ It To The Streets”, MMacD and the D Dros.
Ack! Podcast quit for me during Reason Is Treason.
Who Cares What You Think: The Movie
Gibby Hanes was revving up the venues in Austin with the Butthole Surfers when I lived there in the late 80’s. Fun Times, I tell ya.
“Born In The USA” – Bruce Springsteen
“Know Your Rights” – The Clash
“The Man’s Too Strong” – Dire Straits
RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS
The Power Of Equality
(you tube)
I’ve got a soul
That can not sleep
At night when something
Just ain’t right
Blood red
But without sight
Exploding egos
In the night
Mix like sticks
Of dynamite
Red black or white
This is my fight
Come on courage
Let’s be heard
Turn feelings
Into words
American equality
Has always been sour
An attitude
I would like to devour
My name is peace
This is my hour
Can I get
Just a little bit of power
[Chorus]
The power of equality
Is not yet what it ought to be
It fills me up like a hollow tree
The power of equality
Right or wrong
My song is strong
You don’t like it
Get along
Say what I want
Do what I can
Death to the message
Of the Ku Klux Klan
I don’t buy supremacy
Media chief
You menance me
The people you say
Cause all the crime
Wake up motherfucker
And smell the slime
Blackest anger
Whitest fear
Can you hear me
Am I clear
My name is peace
This is my hour
Can I get
Just a little bit of power
[Chorus]
I’ve got tapes
I’ve got c.d.’s
I’ve got my Public Enemy
My lilly white ass
Is tickled pink
When I listen to the music
That makes me think
Not another
Motherfuckin’ politician
Doin’ nothin’ but something
For his own ambition
Never touch
The sound we make
Soul sacred love
Vows that we take
To create straight
What is true
Yo he’s with me
And what I do
My name is peace
This is my hour
Can I get
Just a little bit of power
[Chorus]
Madder than a motherfucker
Lick my finger
Can’t forget
‘Cause the memory lingers
Count ‘em off quick
Little piccadilly sickness
Take me to the hick
Eat my thickness
I’ve got a welt
From the Bible belt
Dealing with the hand
That I’ve been dealt
Sitting in the grip
Of a killing fist
Giving up blood
Just to exist
Rub me wrong
And I get pissed
No I can not
Get to this
People in pain
I do not dig it
Change of brain
For Mr. Bigot
Little brother do you hear me
Have a heart oh come get near me
Misery is not my friend
But I’ll break before I bend
What I see is insanity
Whatever happened to humanity
volunteers
OT: Another question for the heterosexual married men: Would you really try to get away with, “It was just a massage, honey. Nothing to it.”? Go ahead, try. Then refer your wife to his website: http://pageoneq.com/news/2006/page110207.html
Eve of Destruction– McGuire
Redemption Song– Marley
(oops – in moderation with too many lyrics):
Red Hot Chili Peppers – The Power of Equality
Speaking of Gibby Hanes (and Ministry), I’d like to dedicate one to Rev. Haggard:
“Jesus Built My Hotrod”
.
Revolution – The Beatles
Someone dug this up on another blog:
http://www.ccn.tv/images/images1/MarriageEmail.gif
thanks, mod(s)!
Frank Probst @ 21
“When the Broadway shows play in town, the cast and crew call upon me for massage.”
It’s like a code, but I just can’t figure out what he’s getting at…
Shez @ 25
A totem pole of smarm!
Frank Probst @ 9
And I threw those drugs away. Never used ‘em… Nope… Never did…
Lovers in a Dangerstein Time
Oh and I Blame Clinton ;)
Power to the People — John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band
Independence Day — Martina McBride
Everyday People — Sly and the Family Stone
“Hi Mike, this is Art,” one call began, according to the station. “Hey, I was just calling to see if we could get any more. Either $100 or $200 supply.”
A second message, left a few hours later, began: “Hi Mike, this is Art, I am here in Denver and sorry that I missed you. But as I said, if you want to go ahead and get the stuff, then that would be great. And I’ll get it sometime next week or the week after or whenever.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200…..llegations
Doh
Go4 – To Hell with Poverty
In this land
Right now
Some are insane
And they’re in charge
Concrete Jungle – The Specials
Motive (”Motivated”) – Zebda – a franco-north african group who updated a rousing song from the Resistance. here’s a mediocre you tube of it.
lyrics, in French.translated excerpt:
And I thought “I didn’t inhale” was lame
Perfectly credible.
Mwa Ha Ha
Marion in Savannah @ 31
Then , of course
Heaven 17 – (We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thing
So…if you’re not already sick of the Haggard scandal, I found a video clip that is totally creepy. It’s from a movie by British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, and shows the disturbing personality of Ted Haggard in full bloom. It’s only five minutes, but it is worth watching…
(clip is here)
steve earle – the revolution starts now.
Election Fave Spins:
“I am the Cosmos” – Chris Bell (how could I not?)
“Get up, get into it, get involved” – James Brown
“Give the People what they want” – O’Jays
“You’re the Man” – Marvin Gaye
and this James Tate poem, which I find very appropriate:
WAKE UP
For November it is November,
you were always so proud of that.
It’s the first cold day
of a cold day’s insistence,
the crisp tautness you’ve waited for.
There you are, wrapped:
you have good sense, yes,
you’ve been anxious for something like this.
What’s Goin On Marvin Gay
Back in the World Curtis Mayfield
Say it Loud James Brown
Ball of Confusion Temps
Hey Donita,
Whats the instrumental track under the intro.
(Apologies in advance if it’s yers)
NEY: I’M OUTTA HERE
Rep. Bob Ney, facing certain expulsion from the House after being convicted of two felonies in relation to the Jack Abramoff scandal, said on Friday he will resign by the end of the day
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/001933.php
Thanks, I was feelin pretty old.
sticky @ 40
For title, at least, if not content: “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised — The Revolution Will be Live.” Gil Scott Heron
“I blame
Bill ClintonJohn Kerry”Real Compared to What – Eddie Harris and Les McCann
I mock your Temptations’ Ball of Confusion with THIS:
Ball of Confusion
Bob Ney (R) resigning by end of the day:
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/001933.php
That’s quite big of Ney to put his resignation at the front of the news just a few days before election day. Interesting timing.
Donita, I love MOST of your choices, but I still don’t like rap or hip-hop. Ok, I’ve given it a chance but it still grates on my nerves like nails on a chalkboard. Sorry, call me hopelessly uncool but I just can’t see any redeeming value in Public Enemy’s hit. That’s fine, right? I don’t have to buy it or listen to it. But could someone please tell me why this stuff is popular to begin with? If I was interested in bad, rhyming poetry, I’d read it. I can’t stand the lack of musicianship in rap. I don’t care if it is cultural or urban or requires a particular point of view. It just sounds like bad music to me. Couldn’t it be all of those things and sound good?
Ok, I’m sorry, it I’ve offended anyone. I just had to get that off my chest.
Uggg
I like to watch the returns with the tv muted, listening to Ray—America the Beautiful.
Then there is always the Asylum Street Spankers doing “Stick a Yellow Ribbon up your SUV”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmsOIjzQ1V8
punaise @ 47
Yeah, P. Al Jarreau (sp) does a kick-ass version, too.
tearin up the goddamn nation!
punaise @ 48
portia.vz @
52
I’ve been exposed to a fair amount of rap / hip hop via punaise jr., and I’ve grown to like much of it. not the gangsta mysogynist stuff, but the jazzier funkier side.
Have fun at the conference… I’ll never forget the time I accidentally ran into George Clinton. Nothing like having someone tap you on the shoulder from behind only to turn around and see Dr. Funkenstein himself staring you in the face!
Yes and some folks like Rod Stewart and Jeff Beck doing “People Get Ready”.
Evil Parallel Universe @ 49
portia.vz @
52
I’m always amused when I hear this kind of thing about music — even when I’ve said it myself. It amuses me because this exact sentiment has been expressed about every new musical style in known history (even classical, back when it was new!)
Those are good songs Donita. I still say “Idependent Worm Saloon” is one of the best record titles ever. I brought a video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXgAbrhAI7I
Stand up and fight anthems?
Rage Against the Machine. The entire catalogue. If you don’t want to go and take out some right-wing ass after listening to “Killing in the Name of…” stop breathing now. Michael Moore did a video for “Sleep Now in the Fire” that has to be seen to be believed. During the filming of it, Rage stormed the New York Stock Exchange, causing it to shut down for the day. Other bands have talked about being political. Rage really was. I miss them. I miss them so much (Zach–come back! We need you!).
The “new” incarnation of RATM, Audioslave, does great political things still (the successful Taco Bell protest!), but they’re not RATM.
System of a Down: Boom! Aside: Michael Moore did an incredible job with the video for this song, using news footage from around the world of people protesting the Iraq war in Feb. 2003 interspersed with footage of ordinary people and SOD speaking against the war during the protests. It was awesome. SOD is almost worthy enough to assume the mantle Rage discarded when they broke up.
jinny @ 50
Yessirree! It’s “Take Out The Trash” Friday all right!
seepeesate @ 60
And like any genre, it has it’s exceptional forms and it’s, uh, baser forms.
Old Public Enemy is tops for it’s style, though… nobody could rock an sp1200 like those guys.
I consider this the first rap song.
Zappa
Well I’m about to get sick
From watchin’ my TV
Been checkin’ out the news
Until my eyeballs fail to see
I mean to say that every day
Is just another rotten mess
And when it’s gonna change, my friend
Is anybody’s guess
So I’m watchin’ and I’m waitin’
Hopin’ for the best
Even think I’ll go to prayin’
Every time I hear ‘em sayin’
That there’s no way to delay
That trouble comin’ every day
No way to delay
That trouble comin’ every day
Wednesday I watched the riot . . .
Seen the cops out on the street
Watched ‘em throwin’ rocks and stuff
And chokin’ in the heat
Listened to reports
About the whisky passin’ ’round
Seen the smoke and fire
And the market burnin’ down
Watched while everybody
On his street would take a turn
To stomp and smash and bash and crash
And slash and bust and burn
And I’m watchin’ and I’m waitin’
Hopin’ for the best
Even think I’ll go to prayin’
Every time I hear ‘em sayin’
That there’s no way to delay
That trouble comin’ every day
No way to delay
That trouble comin’ every day
Well, you can cool it,
You can heat it . . .
‘Cause, baby, I don’t need it . . .
Take your TV tube and eat it
‘N all that phony stuff on sports
‘N all the unconfirmed reports
You know I watched that rotten box
Until my head begin to hurt
From checkin’ out the way
The newsman say they get the dirt
Before the guys on channel so-and-so
And further they assert
That any show they’ll interrupt
To bring you news if it comes up
They say that if the place blows up
They will be the first to tell,
Because the boys they got downtown
Are workin’ hard and doin’ swell,
And if anybody gets the news
Before it hits the street,
They say that no one blabs it faster
Their coverage can’t be beat
And if another woman driver
Gets machine-gunned from her seat
They’ll send some joker with a brownie
And you’ll see it all complete
So I’m watchin’ and I’m waitin’
Hopin’ for the best
Even think I’ll go to prayin’
Every time I hear ‘em sayin’
That there’s no way to delay
That trouble comin’ every day
No way to delay
That trouble comin’ every day
Hey, you know something people?
I’m not black
But there’s a whole lots a times
I wish I could say I’m not white
Well, I seen the fires burnin’
And the local people turnin’
On the merchants and the shops
Who used to sell their brooms and mops
And every other household item
Watched the mob just turn and bite ‘em
And they say it served ‘em right
Because a few of them are white,
And it’s the same across the nation
Black and white discrimination
Yellin’ “You can’t understand me!”
‘N all that other jazz they hand me
In the papers and TV and
All that mass stupidity
That seems to grow more every day
Each time you hear some nitwit say
He wants to go and do you in
Because the color of your skin
Just don’t appeal to him
(No matter if it’s black or white)
Because he’s out for blood tonight
.
Ten Years After – I’d Love to Change the World
.
Peterr @ 63
Peterr called his shot earlier a la Babe Ruth
People Have the Power — Patti Smith
You know we gotta sit around at home
And watch this thing begin
But I bet there won’t be many left
To see it really end
‘Cause the fire in the street
Ain’t like the fire in my heart
And in the eyes of all these people
Don’t you know that this could start
On any street in any town
In any state if any clown
Decides that now’s the time to fight
For some ideal he thinks is right
And if a million more agree
There ain’t no great society
As it applies to you and me
Our country isn’t free
And the law refuses to see
If all that you can ever be
Is just a lousy janitor
Unless your uncle owns a store
You know that five in every four
Just one amount and nothin’ more
Don’t watch the rats go across the floor
And make up songs about being poor
Blow you harmonica son!
I fought the law – MC5
Life during wartime – Talking Heads
bdu @ 64
Ahh, too true. The 80-20 rule (80% of everything is crap) is universal.
Neil Young / CSNY – Ohio
CMJ? You mean people really go to that still? Why? I thought all those industry junket events-errrr-”conventions” died out, more or less.
Oh well, I’m sure the discussion is fascinating. All about how to convert CMJ play into P1 spins and probably lots of talk of that whole new “digital delivery” thingie the kids keep going on about.
Amazing song – very powerful – from a remarkable man. It’ll make you cry ~~
Artist: Ochs, Phil
Lyrics for Song: Power and Glory
Lyrics for Album: There But for Fortune
Come and take a walk with me thru this green and growing land
Walk thru the meadows and the mountains and the sand
Walk thru the valleys and the rivers and the plains
Walk thru the sun and walk thru the rain
Here is a land full of power and glory
Beauty that words cannot recall
Oh her power shall rest on the strength of her freedom
Her glory shall rest on us all (on us all)
From Colorado, Kansas, and the Carolinas too
Virginia and Alaska, from the old to the new
Texas and Ohio and the California shore
Tell me, who could ask for more?
Yet she’s only as rich as the poorest of her poor
Only as free as the padlocked prison door
Only as strong as our love for this land
Only as tall as we stand
(additional verse supplied by Sonny Oches)
But our land is still troubled by men who have to hate
They twist away our freedom & they twist away our fate
Fear is their weapon and treason is their cry
We can stop them if we try
*
portia.vz @ 52
Sometimes, the way to get into rap is to do it via a “normal” song that a rap band does. Did you like a recent pop hit called,”Hey Ya?’
Well, it’s done by a rap group, OutKast, from the album Speakerboxx/Love Down Below. Also on the album is a seductive song called, “The Way You Move.” It sounds like what would happen if you crossed Earth Wind and Fire with rap. There are raps speaking out against the war, rap about the usual rap stuff (partying and being badass)…and funny snippets in between tunes, like Andre praying to God…only to find out God is a WOMAN.
Try listening to a few selections from that album, and maybe you can move on to some of the “other” rap, like Deltron 3000 (extremely political rapper). It’s not all gangstas and bitches and hos in rap. A lot of them discuss very serious issues, and from a point of view most liberals would agree with.
Another avenue to help understand rap better is to dig into some blue-eyed rap, which is the rap of white guys, aka nu metal. Rage Against the Machine is without a doubt the best attempt of merging rock and rap. If you’re leery, this might be an incentive to give them a listen: They were the most political band ever to sign a contract in America. And they had one of the best guitarists any band has ever had. Check ‘em out!
“Sometimes, the way to get into rap is to do it via a “normal” song that a rap band does. Did you like a recent pop hit called,”Hey Ya?’”
Agree completely. Became not a convert but at least a tolerator with Quincy Jones ‘95 “Jook Joint” release. Bought it just for “Killer Joe” but came to appreciate a couple other rap-oriented other tunes.
I think Chuck D had the best rap delivery.
revolution
fight the power
and all of Billy Braggs cd – talking to the taxman about poetry
Everythingseemssoneat @ 77
Chuck D’s got the power of the “preacher’s voice”, a style that’s hooked listeners since long before old white record label execs began making money by selling records to young black folks.
The only thing that bothers me about rap, is the boom-boxes sometimes associated with it. I don’t particularly like being forced to listen to other folks music, no matter the genre. And later in their lives many of these boom-boxers are going to pay quite a price in hearing loss.
LJ/Aquaria @ 75
Believe it or not, this was my gateway song: By The Time I Get to Arizona, mashed up by The Evolution Control Committee. You can hear the whole album here.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 80
One of the funniest things to happen to me recently was being next to a car at a light that was booming…Christian rock. That was kind of an, “Oh God, I may be in Kansas after all” moment.
Waiting Room – Fugazi
I Will Refuse – Pailhead
Smothered Hope – Skinny Puppy
Invincible – Pat Benatar
Adrenochrome – The Sisters of Mercy
speaking of Lou Reed’s Walk on the Wild Side, I like the way its bass line was sampled to become the foundation of “Can I Kick It?” by A Tribe Called Quest
seepeesate @
81
OMG! That song’s incredible! It’s like Lawrence Welk meets rap. Gotta have it! Thanks!
I figure most of you were familiar with the other songs on my list, but this one is a bit more obscure, and undeservedly so:
I’m just and ageing drummer boy
And in the wars I used to play
And I’ve called the tune
To many a torture session
Now they say I am a war criminal
And I’m fading away
Father please hear my confession
I have legalised robbery
Called it a belief
I have run with the money
And hid like a thief
I have re-written history
With my armies and my crooks
Invented memories
I did burn all the books
And I can still hear his laughter
And I can still hear his song
The man’s too big
The man’s too strong
Well I have tried to be meek
And I have tried to be mild
But I spat like a woman
And sulked like a child
I have lived behind walls
That have made me alone
Striven for peace
Which I have never known
And I can still hear his laughter
And I can still hear his song
The man’s too big
The man’s too strong
Well the sun rose on the courtyard
And they all did hear him say
‘You always were a Judas
But I got you anyway
You may have got your silver
But I swear upon my life
Your sister gave me diamonds
And I gave them to your wife’
Oh father please help me
For I have done wrong
The man’s too big
The man’s too strong
Scarier now than it was back then, but it’s an affirmation that what we do lives on, and that there’s a lot more to the human will than many people who believe they’re strong think there is.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 80
Shhh…. Don’t let them know… We also do hearing tests and sell hearing aids in the medical practice where I work, and we’re banking on those folks to keep us in clover…
Kick out the Jams: MC5
Not ready to make nice: Dixie Chicks
Black Freighter: Nina Simone
Chuck D with Son of a Bush in Quicktime
Yea, and Killing in the Name by Rage rawks!
Well, vanamose a lunche (sp?)
L8r
oh my . . . the video of haggerd in his car with his wife and three kids . . . lying thru his teeth is fucking startling.
sure he bought meth from a trick but did not use it. WHAT????
damn . . . jesus is rolling over in his paradise.
Beastie Boys – Fight for the Right (to Party)
(just kidding….)
Portia, et al.
For me it started with the words. I am still not exactly ‘into’ rap, but I am getting there. By which I mean, it no longer sounds all the same to me ; ) My intro was via slam poetry when we hauled harpsichord for our favourite neo-cabaret orchestra. Our guys were the headliners, one of the opening acts was Vancouver-based The Fugitives. Amazing, amazing show, I couldn’t find my socks for a week. After that rap & hip-hop and such just sort of started making sense.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 80
No moreso than everyone running around with their iPod ear buds banging away.
Whoever thought it was a good idea to stick a transducer *in* our ear…
Hell, I can’t even listen to “closed-ear” headphones for very long without my ears bugging me. If it must be “private”, it’s got to be the “open-ear” type for me, and really that’s better for my hearing anyhow.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 80
Boomboxes are like, sooo 1970’s
nowadays one is assaulted by iPod earspray
(of course the primary listener is even more likely to suffer long-term hearing loss)
I’m surprised more Clash hasn’t been posted –
The Card Cheat, which closes with these lines:
Man of God – Eliza Gilkyson (Austin singer/songwriter) from her Paradise Hotel CD
One of the best anti-W songs I’ve heard….
oh,
and outKast roKKs
^_^
Oh, how about Ludlow Massacre
really going to lunch now
i heart jane @ 90, that is so cruel to question Haggard with his wife and children in the car. They don’t deserve that. His wife must be worse than heartbroken. Some here said she knew about him but that may not be true at all and, even if it is true, it doesn’t lessen the hurt she must feel. Decency is in short supply these days.
Boomboxes and ipods now; hearing aids later. It’ a matter of priority. At least ipods don’t rattle my house and everything in it.
Evil Parallel Universe @ 95
and I’ve been looking for:
(Guns of Brixton)
———————————
EPU!
TPM:
i heart jane @
90
And Bob Ney just announced he’s resigning at the end of today’s workday!
kirk murphy @ 100
I cited excerpts of “Clampdown” on the previous thread, re the LieberThugs.
I’m a poet, and the thing that amazes me about rap is the use of rhythm/meter and internal phonetic rhyme patterns. They listen to the sound of language, and the use of meter and rhythm to mirror tone and the velocity of thought is what I appreciate. Most of the lyrics, eh.
Sally @ 98
i agree; but; i do not blame the reporter. haggert did not need to stop his car and take the questions. what was he thinking???
this is a sick man. i predict REHAB!
what you need is “hip hop for people who don’t like hip hop”!
Try Digable Planets’ “Blowout Comb” lp, or J-Dilla’s “Donuts” (which is mostly instrumental). Other great stuff that may move you: Pete Rock and CL Smooth (the first two albums are cuddly-nice), or A Tribe Called Quest’s “Midnight Marauders.”
To LJ/AQUARIA – My vote for the best hip-hop/rock combo is Cypress Hill.
Whoever said Chuck D has great delivery is right. Whoever said the BombSquad’s production is amazing is right (for great production, see also: Pete Rock, Prince Paul, Large Professor, et. al.). But the most amazing flow has to go to Biggie (I know, I know, it’s cartoonish and mysoginistic, but he spits hot fire).
oh, and… VOTE!
Hey Marion
What do you reccommend for a 57 year old who has killed his ears with artillery and rock and roll? I can hardly hear a word my wife says!
Marion in Savannah @
87
john in sacramento @ 89
A kindred spirit!
My younger (13 years!) husband thinks I like “Killing in the Name of” only because Zack keeps saying, “Fuck you I won’t do what you tell me!”, starting from a quietly angry tone, and building in intensity until he’s shouting it from the rafters.
“Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me” is what I’ve been saying most of my life, explicitly or implicitly, so I really relate to it. :)
punaise @ 103
I’ve been rooting around for my Clash CD’s ever since… :)
#81 seepsate: mind blowing.
On the other hand, I heard a muzak “light jazz” version of “get up stand up” last week. Lite the power.
Public Enemy covered “For What Its’s Worth” in He Got Game. . .worth a listen for a rap blend.
punaise @ 101
lie detector test . . . on radio. this is a MEDIA whore . . . ha ha. i love colorado!
LJ/Aquaria @ 108
is that legal in your state? :~)
Republican theme song: It takes an army of prostitutes to keep us down.
sticky @ 106
To each their own. I’ll check them out. But it’s gonna be a HARD sell.
Can’t find any data on them anywhere. How do I find them?
raven @ 111
heard that on the car radio once and had to pull over to listen and note who it was. great version.
punaise @ 113
Well, I am 44, so…
No, he’s not 13 years old, 13 years younger, silly.
LJ/Aquaria @ 117
I’m just relieved to learn that he’s not 13…
(yes, I’m being deliberately obtuse)
i heart jane @
105
The pastor or whatever he calls himself probably dragged his wife and kids out with him knowing the media was there. I watched the through-the-window interview on CNN this morning the first time it was run nationally. Blaming the reporter for asking a very fine succession of questions which sort of left this guy out to dry was good journalism.
I’ve worked with enough sex offender pastors (I’m not saying he broke any sex offender law) and professionals in denial about their drug and/or alcohol use over the years to suggest that the pastor created the family problem and now the whole family has to be in on a solution.
Personally, the quicker she leaves that lying SOB, the better off she and the kids will be.
sally@98
The kids are blameless, but she associated with a criminal rightwing scuzzball. I sympathize not a bit.
LJ/Aquaria @ 115
I’m sure you’ve probably heard one or two things by them… their big hit back in, oh, was it 92-93-ish? You could hardly miss it even if you wanted to, it was everywhere… insaaane in the membrane, insane in the brain. That nasal voice working it’s way through your head on the road to familiarity.
Evil Parallel Universe @ 95
Funny, I was reading George Fraser’s Flashman the other day, and this post reminded me of that book, especially the follies of the British in Afghanistan and how their problems compare to ours there, and in Iraq. A lot of it had eerie parallels to today, but one paragraph really stood out. I’ll have to dig the book out again and find it… It very scarily describes how a nation with every possible advantage went into a foreign nation to conquer it, and had one person in charge who squandered every advantage in the worst possible ways imaginable.
LJ/Aquaria @ 117
almost had you pegged for gooper Congressperson there…
LJ/Aquaria @ 115
Cypress Hill? Major label, 1990s, check out allmusic. Their first two albums reek of weed, but the production is off the chain.
citizen k @ 120
hear hear: this bimbo will ’stand by her man’ and keep her hair appointments ala babs bush. waste of human flesh.
these poor kids should be put into foster care; now.
bdu @ 121
92-93 is kind of a blur for me. My whole life was in complete upheaval, so I don’t remember many things going on outside the crap I was dealing with then. Rage sticks with me because, when I was ready to deal with the outside world again, they were readily available.
My email shortly ago to the CO Springs PD, City Atty, and the various editorial people at the local paper (Gazette):
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This “Pastor” Ted Haggard dude just admitted on camera to the criminal purchase and possession of a particularly demonized dangerous illicit drug. Shall I hold my breath until he’s hauled in questioning and felony charges?
‘eh?
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Howdee Firepups, sorry I couldnt get here sooner but I had to meet the new landlords for keys to the new half double I move to in the AM. YAY a second move in 3 months!
I saw one person had a technical difficulty with the podcast, are there any others? I’m not sure why it would stop in midstream like that but will look into it.
This is choice. Even the architects of Bush’s fiasco are bailing out in new ways:
New York, N.Y., November 3, 2006 — A group of neoconservatives led by former chairman of the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee Richard Perle and former Pentagon insider Kenneth Adelman tell Vanity Fair contributing editor David Rose that they blame the “dysfunctional” Bush administration for the “disaster” in Iraq and say that if they had it to do over again they would not advocate an invasion of Iraq.
Perle tells Rose that, “at the end of the day, you have to hold the president responsible…. I don’t think he realized the extent of the opposition within his own administration, and the disloyalty…. [Bush] did not make decisions, in part because the machinery of government that he nominally ran was actually running him.”
Adelman tells Rose that when he wrote in 2002 that “liberating Iraq would be a cakewalk,” he “just presumed that what I considered to be the most competent national-security team since Truman was indeed going to be competent. They turned out to be among the most incompetent teams in the postwar era. Not only did each of them, individually, have enormous flaws, but together they were deadly, dysfunctional.”
Adelman also tells Rose that “the idea of using our power for moral good in the world” is dead, at least for a generation. After Iraq, he says, “it’s not going to sell.”
Of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, whom Adelman says he is “very, very fond of,” he admits, “I’m crushed by his performance. Did he change, or were we wrong in the past? Or is it that he was never really challenged before? I don’t know. He certainly fooled me.”
That’s from Vanity Fair’s press release about this article:
http://www.vanityfair.com/poli…..cons200612
OT but good news only if we win on Tuesday:
http://americablog.blogspot.com/
Oh, and about my husband situation…
Good grief, why would anybody want a 13 year old boy? I like ‘em young and trainable, but really, there’s trainable and there’s too much work for me to deal with. And let’s not go into how they’re just not up to snuff, physically. No, this isn’t just about size issues (a, er, sizeable concern). Good grief, I could break a boy that young! They’re no good to me broken! ;)
Well, here’s that album on Amazon, with audio snippets for listening…
From Arlo
Halfway around the world tonight
In a strange and foreign land
A soldier packs his memories
As he leaves Afghanistan
And back home they don’t know too much
There’s just no way to tell
I guess you had to be there
For to know that war was hell
Chorus:
And there won’t be any victory parades
For those that’s coming back
They’ll fly them in at midnight
And unload the body sacks
And the living will be walking down
A long and lonely road
Because nobody seems to care these days
When a soldier makes it home
They’ll say it wasn’t easy
Just another job well done
As the government in Kabul falls
To the sounds of rebel guns
And the faces of the comrades
Being blown out of the sky
Leaves you bitter with the feeling
That they didn’t have to die
Chorus
Halfway around the world tonight
In a strange and foreign land
A soldier unpacks memories
That he saved from Vietnam
Back home they didn’t know too much
There was just no way to tell
I guess you had to be there
For to know that war was hell
And there wasn’t any big parades
For those that made it back
They flew them in at midnight
And unloaded all the sacks
And the living were left walking down
A long and lonely road
Because nobody seemed to care back then
When a soldier made it home
The night is coming quickly
And the stars are on their way
As I stare into the evening
Looking for the words to say
That I saw the lonely soldier
Just a boy that’s far from home
And I saw that I was just like him
While upon this earth I roam
And there may not be any big parades
If I ever make it back
As I come home under cover
Through a world that can’t keep track
Of the heroes who have fallen
Let alone the ones who won’t
Which is why nobody seems to care
When a soldier makes it home
LJ/Aquaria @ 131
You have been reading Flashman.
Patrick 4/4 @ 114
Wouldn’t that be, it takes an army of prostitutes to get us up?
egregious @ 135
Yes, and I botched the reference anyway. It should be “a Nation of prostitutes to hold us back”
Howard Fineman on Hardball just a few ago, mentions a poll which says 1/2 of evangelicals are planning to vote Democratic next week.
LJ/Aquaria @ 131
I was just, errr, pulling your leg….no aspersions intended
egregious @ 135
nope, just $50 of meth
Looks as though Hillary and Bill have pretty much written off Lamont. I’m angry and disgusted about this.
Perle, Adelman:
fascismcommunismneocon-conservatism is still a good idea, it was just implemented wrong. Somebody else’s fault, rawwwwk! Somebody else’s fault! I blame Clinton.btw this is the Cheney people v the Bush people. It’s gonna be ugly.
And speaking of ugly we’ve got to be ready for some heavy duty recount battles. Start thinking about it while we’re getting out the vote.
Hey firepups -
What’s the best score for a report that Rep. Hastert’s staff are threatening a young man that Coach Denny paid for sex?
I’m thinking musical, but grades would do nicely…
[PS - I’m guilty as charged for helping with the Friday trash dump….]
bdu @
132
Well, it’s fine for plain old rap, I even went from there to other albums, and dug through the other samples, I like enough of the tunes to buy albums to get them, but it sounds like ordinary rap to me. Where’s the rock? And what’s with the “disconnected” sound? It’s like they’re somewhere else. I kinda liked Zack de la Rocha’s in-your-face style.
LJ/Aquaria @ 143
Well, that was all someone else’s description… I can’t say as I really would call it crossover material.
As to the “disconnected” sound, I think it may have been all the green stuff ;0)
LJ/Aquaria @
82
Hah! My older son used to listen to that. “Jesus Freak” is the only song I remember.
Then he got into regular rap, and the one that I can think of that I sort of like is “Wanna Be a Ballah” by Li’l Troy.
I was filling my car up and someone next to me had that playing, and I was singing along. They laughed.
Woody was here a couple of weeks ago for a fine 59th Folk Festival.
“btw this is the Cheney people v the Bush people. It’s gonna be ugly.”
Oh I hope so!
Fini FiniTOOBZ! @
128
Yeah, that was me. I’m sure it’s on my end, have been having little luck with youtube as well, get a third to half and then nothing.
I’m out in the boonies, no choice for broad band except for the Hughes satellite thing. Way faster than dial-up, not as fast as cable or DSL. Speed varies with load.
No tech am I, but am guessing a time-out issue. Finally got all the ‘cast on about the third reload.
Green influences would do the trick. :)
Maybe someone can point me to a rock/rap fusion from Crystal Hill in here that I missed. I’m not finding it.
As I said, I’m a very hard sell about anybody displacing RATM as one of the best, if not the best, rock/rap fusion bands, ever.
I sincerely hope that 41 Bush sits 43 Bush down after the midterm slaughter and tells him to dump Cheney to save his presidency. Bush 41 never served a second term and could be named VP, making him elegible for the Presidency should anything happen to 43. This is perhaps the only way he can avoid an impeachment, if you remove Cheney from the picture its easier to remove Rumsfeld and the other cancerous tumors on the Administration.
new thread
jeffreyw @ 148
You might try changing your hardware acceleration settings to full acceleration. I will see if I can dig up a tutorial on how to do this real quick.
Ney has turned in letter of resignation
Margot @ 146
You should see the looks on people’s faces when they hear that I’m in my 40s and get in mosh pits. OMG. It’s like I just sprouted horns and a tail! Best of all, I tell them my TEENAGED SON is the one who has to grab me and keep me from leaping into the pit, when we’re at concerts where we didn’t get pit admittance, most notably at the Korn concert. I kid you not, my son grabbed me by the shirt and arm, to haul me back, before I made a complete fool of myself. And I wasn’t even drinking or high!
For the record, Korn is the loudest band I’ve ever seen in concert. I used to say it was Deep Purple, but Korn made them sound like whispering gnats. The sound came out of the speakers so hard that you literally could not breathe from the impact. It felt like a sucker punch to the chest (and never mind your ears!). Bolted down chairs felt like they were coming loose from a concrete foundation; I was leaning against the chairs in front of me, and the damned things shook and rattled! Then I got used to that level of noise, and started climbing over the rail for the pit again, to my son’s consternation. Totally cool!
LJ/Aquaria @
62
Two cheers to that and I raise you Nine Inch Nails:
Head Like A Hole
and
The Hand That Feeds
And I’ll add Afrikaa Bambaataa and John Lydon:
World Destruction
Ooh, NIN! Love Trent Raznor. Mmmmmmmm!
And I forgot to post up CCR:
Fortunate Son
portia.vz @ 52
My dad (a lovely man) really doesn’t like brocolli. Yet he has some at least once a week. Now, he gets plenty of greens from other veggies he likes, so there’s no nutritional need to do this. He just likes a challenge of doing stuff he doesn’t enjoy.
Personally, I think he’s a bit silly on this one.
So, yes, it’s very fine indeed to not like something. Don’t let my dad fool you :)
Donita,
I don’t see that anyone answered your Elvis query, but I always assumed that line was Chuck D’s response to Elvis’s co-optation of black music for a white audience, as though he were a slightly less pernicious Pat Boone.
Muzzy @
18
Tell Gibby that Muffin says “Hello”
Here’s a bunch of good ones from an old buddy:
http://steveterrell.blogspot.c…..llads.html
My favorite anti war song is Hundred Year Flood’s “Rich Man’s War”
Great podcast today, Donita!! Nice flow to this selection.
Thinking anthemically…
Nirvana’s “Come As You Are” (because friends who are vets of the first Gulf War said they played this and “Smells like Teen Spirit” ad nauseum while they were in Iraq)
Cat Steven’s “Peace Train”
Tracy Chapman’s “Talkin’ About A Revolution”
Chumbawamba’s “Jacob’s Ladder”
Green Day “She’s a Rebel”, “Jesus of Suburbia”, “Holiday” (I’d throw in Boulevard of Broken Dreams, too, but then we might as well play all of American Idiot…)
Eminem’s “Mosh” (natch!)
Beastie Boys, “In a World Gone Mad”
Sting, “Brand New Day” (yeah, long, but I always feel better after singing this one along with Sting in the car or shower)
Kekuhi Kanahele, “Omoomo” (in Hawaiian language, about a chieftain who gets his comeuppance — ouch)
Annie Lennox, “Train in Vain” (a sing-along-at-the-top-of-your-lungs, this cover, while thinking about utter disappointment in this president)
Catch you next Friday, when I hope we have many reasons to be celebrating.