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CureCat
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popular music trashing US president.... I'm down.
#6923438 - 05/16/07 05:33 AM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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The trend seems to suggest that George W. Bush will be a name not soon forgotten, and undoubtedly, a prominent name in history- with a reputation for being one of the most stubborn, stupid, cowardly, and ruthless leaders the US has seen.
This is of course, all redundant. But I smile, and roll my eyes, as i listen to new popular music on the radio "subtley" trashing the US president. I would have been impressed 5 yrs ago...
The first new popular song was played on the radio as i was driving to work in San Diego a number of months ago. It was the Muse's "Knights of Cydonia" :
Come ride with me, Through the veins of history I'll show you how god Falls asleep on the job
And how can we win When fools can be kings Don't waste your time Or time will waste you
No one's gonna take me alive The time has come to make things right You and I must fight for our rights You and I must fight to survive
It doesn't take a genius to realize the reference... Yet slightly more conspicuous is the new Nine Inch Nails "Capital G" :
He pushed a button and it dropped a bomb You pushed the button and could watch it on the television Those motherfuckers didn't last too long uh-uh! I'm sick of hearing about the have's and the have not's Have some personal accountability The biggest problem with the way that we've been doing things is The more we let you have the less that I'll be keeping for me
Well I used to stand for something Now I'm on my hands and knees Traded in my god for this one And he signs his name with a capital G
Don't give a shit about the temperature in Guatemala Don't really see what all the fuss is about
Ain't gonna worry about no future generations and uh! I'm sure somebody gonna figure it out Don't try to tell me how some power can corrupt a person You haven't had enough to know what its like You're only angry cause you wish you were in my position Now nod your head because you know that I'm right, alright!
Well I used to stand for something But forgot what that could be There's a lot of me inside you Maybe you're afraid to see
Well I used to stand for something Now I'm on my hands and knees Traded in my god for this one And he signs his name with a capital G
I wonder what is next.
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Re: popular music trashing US president.... I'm down. [Re: CureCat]
#6923491 - 05/16/07 06:06 AM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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yeah, sometimes i get annoyed by overly political bands though
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Re: popular music trashing US president.... I'm down. [Re: haysoos]
#6923574 - 05/16/07 06:50 AM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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Well, it's better than songs SUPPORTING him...
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Re: popular music trashing US president.... I'm down. [Re: Siekoaktiv]
#6924449 - 05/16/07 11:01 AM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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Muse is fucking amazing.
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Re: popular music trashing US president.... I'm down. [Re: CureCat]
#6924463 - 05/16/07 11:03 AM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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That new Muse album is a big step back for them, if'n ya ask me.
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Re: popular music trashing US president.... I'm down. [Re: CureCat]
#6924464 - 05/16/07 11:04 AM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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Mr. Lif's been doing this for years.
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Re: popular music trashing US president.... I'm down. [Re: jewunit]
#6924994 - 05/16/07 12:53 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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Dunno who Mr. Lif is, but i was referring specifically to popular music- stuff you hear on lots of radio stations. Surely, Muse and NIN are not the first to bash on Bush.
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Re: popular music trashing US president.... I'm down. [Re: CureCat]
#6925028 - 05/16/07 01:02 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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never heard of muse. what type of music is that? not a big fan of country but the dixie chicks have been bashing bush for awhile now. dont know if you've heard of them but "pro-pain" has a new album called "age of tyranny" with songs like "all for king george", "impeach,indict,imprison" and "iraqnam" they have been around forawhile
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Re: popular music trashing US president.... I'm down. [Re: Siekoaktiv]
#6925077 - 05/16/07 01:13 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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Quote:
Siekoaktiv said: Well, it's better than songs SUPPORTING him...
Whose writing songs to support him? I'll give it a shot - here goes:
"Yuk yuk yuk, Yuk, yuk, yuk, Noo-kyoo-lar duck, Stuck in my truck, Don't give a hoozits! 'Cause dubbya's gonna loozits! And smack them pagan an-ee-mules in the watoozits - YEEHAW!"
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Re: popular music trashing US president.... I'm down. [Re: Astral Piper]
#6925092 - 05/16/07 01:17 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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lol, wtf is that?
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Re: popular music trashing US president.... I'm down. [Re: LloydChristmas]
#6925133 - 05/16/07 01:27 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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LloydChristmas said: lol, wtf is that?
Dunno, but it seemed appropriate. I think of dubbya's world as one where Jesus is white, with a crew-cut, and comes from a poor sharecropper's hut somewhere in Arkansas. That being the case, the lyrics to my song might actually be meaningful to dubbya and people like him, so I thought I'd throw it out there.
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Edited by Astral Piper (05/16/07 01:29 PM)
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Re: popular music trashing US president.... I'm down. [Re: Astral Piper]
#6925142 - 05/16/07 01:31 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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ministry fucking rocks!!!!!
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Re: popular music trashing US president.... I'm down. [Re: Astral Piper]
#6925144 - 05/16/07 01:31 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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I think it's a great song!
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Re: popular music trashing US president.... I'm down. [Re: blood4blood]
#6925153 - 05/16/07 01:36 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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Odessa Texas 1948 Destined for greatness, and he couldn't wait As for motive, that's up for debate Lone Star, yeah... he's packin the heat Rubbin elbows with the social elite Who took notice of a world at his feet The big drill, and the CIA Richard Nixon paved the way for this god to have his day VP under Bonzo Reagan Then Pres, of this once great nation 91', his first invasion Oh... the good ol' days I miss Now get me out of this, this hierarchal abyss Kissin' Middle Eastern ass While pride, black gold, and gas Just a profiteer on your foreign soil Operation Blood for Oil Passed the buck to his number one Now we're fucked by the bastard son Can't hide, so we better run Three cheers for the underachiever Once a drunk, and now a believer All hail The Great Deceiver First term saw mass corruption 2 wars to boost production All done for your protection C'est La Vie to French relations and to NATO's limitations that prevent occupations Oh... bleed me til' I'm bled Voices never heard, blues are getting' red Kissin' Middle Eastern ass Skull bones, black gold, and gas He an irritation and a fucking boil Operation Blood for Oil
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Re: popular music trashing US president.... I'm down. [Re: blood4blood]
#6925166 - 05/16/07 01:39 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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Young Abdel Madi Shabneh was only 18 years old, He was the youngest of nine children, never spent a night away from home. And his mother held his photograph up in the New York Times You see the killing has intensified along the road to peace
He was a tall, thin boy with a whispy moustache disguised as an orthodox Jew On a crowded bus in Jerusalem, some had survived World War Two And the thunderous explosion blew out windows 200 yards away With more retribution and seventeen dead along the road to peace
Now at King George Ave and Jaffa Road passengers boarded bus 14a In the aisle next to the driver Abdel Madi Shabnet And the last thing that he said on earth is "God is great and God is good" And he blew them all to kingdom come upon the road to peace
Now in response to this another kiss of death was visited upon Yasser Taha, Israel says is an Hamas senior militant And Israel sent four choppers in, flames engulfed his white Opel And it killed his wife and his three year old child leaving only a blackened skeleton
They found his toddlers bottle and a pair of small shoes and they waved them in front of the cameras But Israel says they did not know that his wife and child were in the car There are roadblocks everywhere and only suffering on TV Neither side will ever give up their smallest right along the road to peace
Israel launched it's latest campaign against Hamas on Tuesday And two days later Hamas shot back and killed five Israeli soldiers So thousands dead and wounded on both sides most of them middle eastern civilians They fill the children full of hate to fight an old man's war and die upon the road to peace
"Now this is our land we will fight with all our force" say the Palastinians and the Jews Each side will cut off the hand of anyone who tries to stop the resistance If the right eye offends thee then you must pluck it out And Mahmoud Abbas said Sharon had been lost out along the road to peace
Once Kissinger said "we have no friends, America only has interests" Now our president wants to be seen as a hero and he's hungry for re-election But Bush is reluctant to risk his future in the fear of his political failure So he plays chess at his desk and poses for the press 10,000 miles from the road to peace
In the video that they found at the home of Abdel Madi Shabneh He held a Kalashnikov rifle and he spoke with a voice like a boy He was an excellent student, he studied so hard, it was as if he had a future He told his mother that he had a test that day out along the road to peace
The fundamentalist killing on both sides is standing in the path of peace But tell me why are we arming the Israeli army with guns and tanks and bullets?
And if God is great and God is good why can't he change the hearts of men? Well maybe God himself is lost and needs help Maybe God himself he needs all of our help Maybe God himself is lost and needs help He's out upon the road to peace
Well maybe God himself is lost and needs help Maybe God himself he needs all of our help And he's lost upon the road to peace And he's lost upon the road to peace Out upon the road to peace
Tom Waits, 'Road to Peace'
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Re: popular music trashing US president.... I'm down. [Re: lukeboots]
#6925179 - 05/16/07 01:42 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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tom waits rocks too. is that off his new album?
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Re: popular music trashing US president.... I'm down. [Re: blood4blood]
#6925191 - 05/16/07 01:45 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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While I appreciate the sentiment, Tom Waits should stick to things he actually knows about, like hookers, cheap booze, and vomiting on his piano.
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Re: popular music trashing US president.... I'm down. [Re: blood4blood]
#6925194 - 05/16/07 01:46 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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yep, it's on the brawlers disc of orphans. it's a badass track. it's like ten minutes long though, so it's kind of like settling in for story time.
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Re: popular music trashing US president.... I'm down. [Re: lukeboots]
#6925216 - 05/16/07 01:53 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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UPDATE - Please disregard my earlier post knocking Tom Waits. I just started listening to "Nighthawks at the Diner" for the first time in like ten years, and I had forgotten just how good he is.
"My pork cutlet just got off the plate and walked down the counter to pick a fight with my coffee, and the coffee was too weak to defend itself...."
That's too cool for school.
In my defense, if I recall the lyrics of songs from the album "Closing Time" he does tend to sing about a lot of drunken vomiting.
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Re: popular music trashing US president.... I'm down. [Re: Astral Piper]
#6925239 - 05/16/07 02:01 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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Drunks love talkin' politics. Tom Waits is a smart guy anyway, from what I've noticed.
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