Posted on 10/09/2023 10:19:01 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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Ironicly.
I never minded the song when I was a kid, but as I got older, I began to detest it.
When one takes the time to listen to it, your characterization of it as “repugnant” seems to be the best and most descriptive one.
Unfortunately, I can’t temper my contempt for it to avoid irritating heads-full-of-mush Leftists in training, or current/aging Leftists.
I don’t bring it up every time I hear it, but...if someone asks me...
None of the music types I know has been able to tell me why, since the lockdowns hurt performers the most, forbidding them from earning money for two years, they had not written one protest song against the man.
That tells you all you need to know about the sincerity of music types.
Eric Clapton has join forced with Van Morrison on a new song, the fourth track in the latter’s current series of anti-lockdown songs.
I hate that damn song and all the woke twats who think it’s a great philosophy.
And now it’s become a “Christmas Carol”, you hear it all the time around Christmas.
Beautiful song but horrendous lyrics.
Imagine is not the only song like that. It’s probably a good thing that most song lyrics are indecipherable.
For the longest time, I thought that Tubthumping by Chumbawamba was an inspirational song about never accepting defeat. It’s a drinking song...
Gee whatever gave you that impression?
He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink
*your characterization of it as “repugnant” seems to be the best and most descriptive one.*
Not my words. Heard it on Mark Davis this morning. Just had to run with it. It’s also Jackson Browne’s birthday. 75 I believe. I like him but he’s a whack leftie too.
*I never minded the song when I was a kid, but as I got older, I began to detest it.*
I didn’t go that far but questioning the meaning is part of maturing. Most people don’t evolve like that. Lennon then said ‘sharing all the world’ wasn’t communist. The non-evolvers were not prepared to think twice about it.
Think Monica and Paula Jones. My female friends thought very little of Hillary for putting up with it but they still voted for her anyway.
The next time I run into Van and Eric, I’ll ask them to play it for me.
I absolutely *HATE* that Marxist song!!
It's easy if you try.
Your startling discovery motivated me to look for (google) other music types who had written anti-lockdown songs.
It looks like there are two businessmen who have done such: Eric Clapton and van Morrison.
Is that how you found the two you mentioned?
Lennon grew up and changed his mind on a lot of things later in his life.
Sigh. I hate this. I had an experience that left me in utter detestation of Roger Waters, and I have never been able to listen to Pink Floyd since then...that was 2004.
I know I should be able to quarantine these things, but I can’t.
He enjoyed being rich and was never ashamed of it.
Imagine a world where Yoko Ono never existed.
And it has been my experience that people who say they don't want to believe in anything are the kind of people who will believe in anything...and those are some of the most dangerous types of people.
I never disliked John Lennon or his music, but the more I listened to that song over the years, the more I grew to dislike that particular one.
Instant Karma is a much better song.
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