Posted on 09/27/2007 7:37:19 AM PDT by teddyballgame
On his new album, "Magic," Springsteen jumps right into the fray again. In a dramatic new REM-ish anthem called "Last to Die," he sings: "Who'll be the last to die for a mistake/The last to die for a mistake/Whose blood will spill, whose heart will break/Who'll be the last to die for a mistake."
The mistake is clearly the Iraq war. "We don't measure the blood we've drawn anymore," he sings. "We just stack the bodies outside the door."
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Pretty safe to sing about death from a mansion in the Guarded (by U.S. troops)State: hope he’ll hug the first wave of murderists to hit the Jersey shores since he don’t want us fighting them in The Middle East. Born To Whine!
Sadly, many jazz artists are as left wing as the rockers but they don’t get a public soapbox to preach at us, so I’ll keep listening to ‘em. Just don’t read Jazziz or Downbeat.
Actually he’s been irrelevant since 1972.
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Political relevance and musicians.
Oil and water since the dawn of time.
There was plenty of Bush bashing last weekend at the Monterey Jazz Festival.
Now he sits in his $10 million Rumson mansion writing rants against capitalism. The hypocrisy is too much. What a shame. Makes me miss the early days even more.
All artists care about is their art, like it’s the most important thing in the world. As if they really matter is the big scheme of things.
Springsteen and Seger, the kings of "If I only knew then what I know now." Just for fun one night, my band played "Shame On The Moon" but we changed the lyrics to "if I only knew then what I know now" for the entire song. Got lots of laughter.
Where were all of these “anti-war” types when Clinton was bombing Yugoslavia?
Let me clarify - the SONGS are not political. I never think for a moment that jazz musicians are anything other than moonbats (Charles Johnson excepted).
“Hey there’s always country music if you want more respect for the military.”
I love country music.
Me too - although I think I've seen him six times at least. His politics have become impossible to overlook though as it now permeates his music.
When I saw him at Fenway Park in Boston, he said that he supported everyone, “except maybe Dick Cheney” and then went right into a song before people could boo. Kind of pathetic.
When I saw him at Fenway Park in Boston, he said that he supported everyone, “except maybe Dick Cheney” and then went right into a song before people could boo. Kind of pathetic.
>>Who’ll be the last to die for a mistake
Those words sound familiar. (From pres. debate 9/30/04)—
LEHRER: All right, new question. Two minutes, Senator Kerry.
Speaking of Vietnam, you spoke to Congress in 1971, after you came back from Vietnam, and you said, quote, “How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?”
Are Americans now dying in Iraq for a mistake?
KERRY: No, and they don’t have to, providing we have the leadership that we put — that I’m offering.
you:
Where were all of these “anti-war” types when Clinton was bombing Yugoslavia?
me: yes, i have often wondered why, using the dhimmicrats reasoning..what clear and present threat to the u.s. did yugoslavia have?
did they attack us?
funny the silence on all things klintoon....
Janeane Garofalo said it best, “It just wasn’t ‘cool’ to protest Clinton’s wars.”
The Ramones did far more to accomplish that goal. And briefly Bruce tried to play up being a “punk” with a black leather jacket. Tom Petty tried to say his was “new wave” music. They wouldn’t make those claims about their early days now but their PR people thought they could get away with it in 77-78.
Gee, a washed-up rock star coming out with an anti-war album, how original. /s
We aren’t supposed to remember our dead soldiers being dragged naked through the streets of Somalia.
Born to Run was a big hit on the pop charts in I think 1975. I don’t remember the Ramones getting pop-chart popular until later but I could be wrong. I’m fuzzy about that... lots of Rainy Day Women #12 and 35. ;-)
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