Dumb As A Rocker: Popular Musicians Unite To "Oust Bush"

TOOGOOD REPORTS ^ | 12/04/03 | Bob Ellis

[metalboy]

Broooce is just PO'd that he lost the best Album Grammy to Norah Jones.

Yeah, Norah Jones. That`s another winner."Say, let me sing like Edie Brickell and rip of the Charlie Brown Christmas song and name it "Don`t know why". I don`t know who in their right mind would accept a Grammy nowdays. It`s more like an insult considering who`s won that thing in the past. "You suck just like so and so, so heeeere`s your award!"

[StoneColdGOP]

With the exception of Willie Nelson and Don Henley (Eagles), I've never bought an album or downloaded a stolen mp3 from any of these clowns.

Why the f should I care what they think?

[KriegerGeist]

Do you notice that you don't see names like: Toby Keith, Martina McBride, Sarah Evans, Daryl Worely, Alan Jackson and other Country singers whose CDs are selling great? I don't think there is any Country artists (except Willie) that are included in the "hate-Bush-get-rid-of-him" campaign...

[metalboy]

After hearing that song, I thought Bruce had become the new Viagra spokesperson.

Ha ha!!! NA NA NA NA VI-AAAGRA!! NA NA NA VI-AGRA!!! ha ha ha!!

[squidly]

This wouldn't deter me from buying a Springsteen record. Unlike the Dixie Chicks, at least he has something worthwhile to offer musically. For that matter, I'd have a lot more respect for the DC's if they'd said what they said at a concert in Houston as opposed to Wembley.

[metalboy]

" John Cougar Mellencamp is declaring on his web site that America has "been lied to and terrorized by our own government, and it is time to take action."

These guys are killing me! This is a quote from John "USA" Mellenhead, I mean Cougar, I mean Mellencamp??? Say what? Is everyone turning into Barbara Streisand now? Wow John, I didn`t know our own government brought down the WTC. Yeah, maybe we gave those guys who bombed it the first time those Iraqi passports. *whew* Let`s hope it never comes down to burning to death 81 people for practicing their 2nd amendment right, or kidnapping a kid at gunpoint to send back to a ruthless tyrant after his mother gave her life so he could live in freedom.

[SortaBichy]

i sent this on! i nag as often as i can on this topic!

[Astronaut]

Pop stars. Moby - who should get stomped by Obie because he is a 36 year old bald headed fag who doesn't know its over and no one listens to techno. (Thanks to Eminem).
John Cougar Watermellon. Hasn't had a hit in years. Springsteen - washed up.
Natalie Maines and the Dixie Sluts - what more can be said?

No one cares what a bunch of brainless moron celebrities think.

[Bringbackthedraft]

"John Cougar Watermellon. Hasn't had a hit in years. Springsteen - washed up.
Natalie Maines and the Dixie Sluts - what more can be said?"

Maybe now they can do something useful like going back to school and getting their diplomas.

[At _War_With_Liberals]

True artists are self made via their own talent, not corporate PR creations.

[At _War_With_Liberals]

You're right. The absolute lack of talent is staggering. Success has nothing to do with a core band writing music and playing instruments. It's all pro songwriters and studio musicians.

[Soulcleaver]

Wha...? I'd think that at least Willie Nelson would have a bit of sense in him, despite being an aging hippie.

[Joe 6-pack]

From a review of this year's grammy night goings-on:

Kid Rock won't be joining the music industry's anti-war movement.

"Why is everybody trying to stop the war? George Bush ain't been saying, 'You all, make shitty records.' Politicians and music don't mix. It's like whisky and wine. [Musicians] ought to stay out of it."

But it doesn't take much nudging to hear the Kid's policy analysis. "We got to kill that mother-[bleeper] Saddam," he says. "Slit his throat. Kill him and the guy in North Korea."

My respect for Kid Rock grew immensely after reading this...He has also made at least one USO tour, Afghanistan, I believe.

[RightWingNut]

He looks constipated.

[Wondervixen]

Just how DID Springsteen become an "icon"?

My father figures that in the 1970's, New Jersey's pot smoking hippies were listening to a local boy for the first time. Since pot will make a cat caught in a hay baler sound "awesome" to the smoker, they had to know who this "awesome dude" was.

Told the guy's name was Springsteen, the potheads thought, "Whoa, Springsteen...That's like Shakespere or something", and the whole damn hollow legend was born.

[Jorge]

The more I hear about these losers and and has-beens opposing Bush, the more convinced I am he'll be re-elected in 2004.

[sandlady]

Related thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1030761/posts

[Lizavetta]

When people or a society in general gets too affluent or comfortable, they begin to be able to afford nutty and counterproductive ideas.

Ain't that the truth.

[jagrmeister]

Part of the answer is that none of these bands are in their prime. Many are has-beens:

Don Henley,James Taylor - way past prime
Moby - limited audience
Green Day - would be bold stance if this were 1994 and they were actually selling albums