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General Category => General Discussion => Music Threads => Topic started by: Wingnut on February 11, 2017, 02:46:59 am
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp5JCrSXkJY
A Leftist is always a leftist. Doesn't matter the year.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9jG5rHb4tQ
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8 worse protest songs
https://33revolutionsperminute.wordpress.com/2011/03/10/the-eight-worst-protest-songs/
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Honorable Mention. Updated to include more Trump and Palin.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMq66DhYUmM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMq66DhYUmM)
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At least the left in the 60's had good music... now what do they have?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ8ERBr9yKI
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg6xaFZStEI
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At least the left in the 60's had good music... now what do they have?
Boy..ain't that the truth. These new ones...what are the good for. Absolutely nothin. Say it again.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d8C4AIFgUg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5Kr1YB2cs4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd6I36UQWcc
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d8C4AIFgUg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5Kr1YB2cs4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd6I36UQWcc
Now we are back on track!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec0XKhAHR5I
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55FZnYhCM-Y
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMOPQZ_JlsM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=9&v=L82_N3UPPDs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwXO0sbN4pc
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Barry McGuire, after "Eve of Destruction," became a Christian and started singing about Jesus Christ.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMOPQZ_JlsM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=9&v=L82_N3UPPDs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwXO0sbN4pc
Makes me think of that line from Cracker's "Teen Angst"....."What the world needs now is another Folk Singer, like I need a hole in my head."
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI7-m919ynU&list=PLB4ZwZjaUJxZ8CHexhf-TN_t3LTDlRVfd
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI7-m919ynU&list=PLB4ZwZjaUJxZ8CHexhf-TN_t3LTDlRVfd
Another example of trying to pin Vietnam on Nixon instead of on LBJ.
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Another example of trying to pin Vietnam on Nixon instead of on LBJ.
Never let facts get in the way of a good protest song...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jy_6Enxa-Lo
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXcG3tXYNF8
I think there are a lot of good folk songs without delving into the war protest song genre. I can set youtube to play the Kingston Trio's songs and find it enjoyable.
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Original
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOB3zo7Kg-o
One evening as the sun went down
And the jungle fires were burning,
Down the track came a hobo hiking,
And he said, "Boys, I'm not turning
I'm headed for a land that's far away
Besides the crystal fountains
So come with me, we'll go and see
The Big Rock Candy Mountains"
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains,
There's a land that's fair and bright,
Where the handouts grow on bushes
And you sleep out every night
Where the boxcars all are empty
And the sun shines every day
On the birds and the bees
And the cigarette trees
The lemonade springs
Where the bluebird sings
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains
All the cops have wooden legs
And the bulldogs all have rubber teeth
And the hens lay soft-boiled eggs
The farmers' trees are full of fruit
And the barns are full of hay
Oh I'm bound to go
Where there ain't no snow
Where the rain don't fall
The winds don't blow
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains
You never change your socks
And the little streams of alcohol
Come trickling down the rocks
The brakemen have to tip their hats
And the railway bulls are blind
There's a lake of stew
And of whiskey too
You can paddle all around em
In a big canoe
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains,
The jails are made of tin.
And you can walk right out again,
As soon as you are in.
There ain't no short-handled shovels,
No axes, saws or picks,
I'ma goin' to stay
Where you sleep all day,
Where they hung the Turk
That invented work
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains
I'll see you all this coming Fall
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains
Songwriters: HARRY MCCLINTOCK, HARRY KIRBY MCCLINTOCK
© Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
For non-commercial use only.
Data From: LyricFind
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx3lYqTAlnE
Songs like this, "This Land Is Your Land" were sung in school. RHCM is depression era, I guess Woody's may be too.
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Songs like this, "This Land Is Your Land" were sung in school. RHCM is depression era, I guess Woody's may be too.
I doubt that very many "conservatives" today realize how strong the left was during the 1930s. Then the USSR was our ally, in defeating the Axis powers.
The folk music of the 30s-60s would not have been viewed as "subversive" by any but a tiny sliver of people at most.
In retro tagging it as Pinko is not going to convince many people of anything.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogOWBqoc6VQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogOWBqoc6VQ
I actually enjoy this one.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5djVrVsI7W4
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Here is an oddity affirmed by wikipedia, The Guess Who visited the White House in the day but the First Lady, Pat Nixon, requested that they were not to play American Woman.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Woman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkqfpkTTy2w
Kind of a nice beat but I never cared for what sounds like the message.
So, tee up "She was an American Girl".
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So I guess my songs weren't protest-y enough?
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I doubt that very many "conservatives" today realize how strong the left was during the 1930s. Then the USSR was our ally, in defeating the Axis powers.
Oh no, when Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed the Non-Aggression Pact, suddenly The Left wanted us to stay out of the war and they suddenly loved Hitler, it was only when Hitler invaded the Soviet Union, the Left turned on him.
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I doubt that very many "conservatives" today realize how strong the left was during the 1930s. Then the USSR was our ally, in defeating the Axis powers.
The folk music of the 30s-60s would not have been viewed as "subversive" by any but a tiny sliver of people at most.
In retro tagging it as Pinko is not going to convince many people of anything.
Was this addressed to my post? Schools in Texas and all over sing "This Land Is Your Land",
Tennessee Cowboy Harry McClinton wrote "Rock Hard Candy Moutain"; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_McClintock
What's next? Something wrong with Oklahoma Hills?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29ZJzN-2o90
"way down yonder on the Indian Nation..." I think we all know those lyrics.
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Ya gotta play this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_ksYL26lZE
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A little help here. Can't quite tell what he is saying at the last. Can someone look that up for me?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWXazVhlyxQ
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ejga4kJUts
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM4vblG6BVQ
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee_uujKuJMI
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Ya gotta play this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_ksYL26lZE
I never got this one. Why was Joan Baez, ultra-liberal peace and equality preaching hippie, singing about the Confederacy? The CSA was diametrically opposite most of the hippie left's belief system.
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I never got this one. Why was Joan Baez, ultra-liberal peace and equality preaching hippie, singing about the Confederacy? The CSA was diametrically opposite most of the hippie left's belief system.
I think it was "here sing this" so she did. The guy who wrote it didn't like her version (The Band) and she didn't study up for it, getting the lyrics wrong.
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I never got this one. Why was Joan Baez, ultra-liberal peace and equality preaching hippie, singing about the Confederacy? The CSA was diametrically opposite most of the hippie left's belief system.
"Watching the relentless bandwagon of cultural cleansing of all things Southern has started me thinking about all the music that will have to be condemned if those who have vilified the Rebel Flag continue their bullying revisionism.
One song that comes to mind is "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down." And one of my favorite versions of the song, besides the original by The Band (the song was written by The Band's guitar player, Robbie Robertson, with assistance from The Band's vocalist and drummer, Levon Helm), is Joan Baez's version.(By the way, in most of her performances, her lyrics are not quite faithful to the original; e.g., instead of the historical reference to "Stoneman's Cavalry," she renders it as "so much cavalry.")
Baez has always been an "activist" for the whole laundry list of typical liberal causes: nonviolence, gay rights, environmentalism, opposition to the Vietnam and Iraq wars, and opposition to the death penalty. She has supported Amnesty International and Occupy Wall Street
To her credit, despite her opposition to the Vietnam War, in 1979 she condemned the Communist government of Vietnam in a full-page ad in the New York Times; she also condemned the Communist government of China after the Tiananmen Square massacre. But aside from that, she's been, and continues to be, a poster girl for all the left's politically correct pet causes.
So I wonder if Joan will join the chorus of those now seeking to once more "drive old Dixie down." I wonder if she will now repudiate and disown her recordings and performances of "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," on the grounds that it is sympathetic to the defeated Confederacy, and such sympathy is now unforgivably politically incorrect.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/07/will_joan_baez_or_anyone_ever_sing_the_night_they_drove_old_dixie_down_again.html
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The song was written by a bunch of Canadians anyway from what I know.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jREUrbGGrgM
She's sung songs about prisoners; doesn't mean she is endorsing what they did.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_southern_rock_bands
List of Southern Rock Bands, including The Band, The Allman Brothers, Lynerd Skynerd, Marshall Tucker band, Alabama, many popular performers such as Leon Russell, J.J. Cale, etc.
People like Eric Clapton were drawn to the music, for the sake of the music, not any particular political meanings.
And the music was and remains great, simply great.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh-JoW_8qw0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh-JoW_8qw0)