Tag: Political music
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I would be in exile now but everywhere’s the same
Loving Phil Ochs music at the moment, and just watched There But For Fortune documentary about his life, and this song just resonates especially the lines about ‘I would be in exile now, but everywhere’s the same’ and ‘But every town I wander there’s a billboard on a throne’ about commercialisation, globalisation and alienation. I…
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In her eyes, in her eyes
Really being drawn to a lot of 60’s Nuggets and Psychedelic rock recently (as well as proto-punk) – was checking out the 100 Records That Set Fire To The World (Not – as the The Wire article pointed out – these are their ‘great lost classics’) after frenchbloke linked to a follow-up on Twitter. Working…
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Iran war: WW3?
Fairly balanced video (via Pete Wallace); ignores the socialist/communist drive of the revolution though (see the likes of Persepolis which talks about that, and the ensuing brutal clampdown in the years after the 1979 revolution) and makes it out to be a purely Islamic revolution – isn’t that like saying Arab Spring was purely Islamic-focused…
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RC 208: Drowning in The Sun
(Weymouth collage, by Tim B) From walks along cliff tops to the deaths of red tops, the paper sea keeps rolling on, so rains the British Summer. I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide, Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied…
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Never Buy The Sun – new free Billy Bragg track
Wonderful track from the underappreciated and ever-talented Billy Bragg – and you can download it for free or stream it here. (via Slicing Up Eyeballs)
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Don’t Tase Me Bro! The return of DEVO
Really digging the DEVO album ‘Something for Everybody’ the first proper DEVO album (The Wipeouters and Jerry Jihad don’t really count, but are good too). They’ve not lost their acerbic wit on songs such as Sumthin’, Fresh, What We Do, and Watch Us Work It – and of course they sound achingly current, because De-Evolution…