Posted on 10/30/2010 5:34:05 AM PDT by Michael van der Galien
What albums might Leon Trotsky have done some head-banging to if Josef Stalin hadn’t sent an assassin to shove an icepick through his skull?
Answer: the 10 Neo-Communist (and some flat-out communist) titles on our list. We count them down from the more benign Democrat-supporters to outright totalitarian radicals.
Included in this collection are alternative, rock, rap, folk, and hip-hop titles. We’ve also done our best not to be too obvious with our choices — you won’t find Greenday’s “American Idiot” on this list, for example. We also made the choice to select albums that despite being nauseating in their politics can actually be enjoyable to listen to — hence the decision to include a video with each. That’s your cookie for having to endure the next ten pages of anti-Americanism as we expose some of music’s most politicized albums.
10.“Hail to the Thief” by Radiohead
Considered by music critics and fans alike as the 20th century’s most important rock band, Radiohead took over the alternative music world in the mid ’90s with “OK Computer,” a brilliant album about the alienation we feel because of technology and the ways it makes us a little less human each day. (Certainly an accurate prediction of our Facebook-Twitterverse world of today.) They then turned themselves inside out in 2000 with the release of “Kid A” an almost completely electronic album that is considered by many to be the most important record of the past ten years. Lead singer Thom Yorke, never one to shy away from slamming George Bush and the administration’s stance on environmental issues, decided to use the band’s 2003 album title as a soundboard on the 2000 US presidential elections. Apparently “Impeach George Bush” was already taken as an album title.
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Evidently this writer never listened to the Beatles.
This is news?
...or the Stones, or Zep, or...
Did you know this had already been posted?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2616568/posts
Are you aware of the search function?
Malvina Reynolds also wrote “What Have They Done To the Rain”, an early “green” song, which reached a fairly wide audience in late 1964-early 1965 when it was done by the SEARCHERS.
Neil Young? Am I the only one who is annoyed by what passes for singing by Neil Young?
Mike
In the list of Most important bands of the 20th Century, Radiohead is a few pages back from the Trogs
I'm a Radiohead fan, but I agree. What about Floyd? Who are these people?
Well, I heard Mister Young sing about her.
Well, I heard ole Neil put her down.
Well, I hope Neil Young will remember
a southern man don't need him around anyhow.
I have composed a country song that is an answer to “American Idiot” by Gree Day. Here’s the lyrics...
Deer In The Headlights
Well, everything I know about the world is what I saw on TV
And the sad part is I already knew they’re lying to me
They say those that don’t study history
Are doomed to repeat it, but don’t blame me
Cause they quit teachin history round about ‘63
Now, they got me feelin like a Deer in the Headlights
Wide eyed, dumbfounded, staring at the bright lights
Just tell me anything I’ll believe it, all right
Lord, have mercy, I’m a Deer in the Headlights
Well, everything I know about America is all BS
Since they took over the schools and the tube and the IRS
So I’m screaming for the state to come fix my life
Put food on my table, take care o’ my wife
She’s frettin like a fawn over who’s gonna fix this mess?
And they got me feelin like a Deer in the Headlights
Wide eyed, dumbfounded, staring at the bright lights
Say the earth is warmin I’ll believe it, all right
Lord, have mercy, I’m a Deer in the Headlights
Well I’m starin straight ahead
just tryin to get across and graze
Should’a listened when my momma said
Little buck, you gotta look both ways…
Well, everything they tell me ‘bout myself makes me so contrite
Turns out that I’m a kook fringe crazy and I’m wound too tight
Who’d a thought I was the hatin’ kind
Be careful what you say ‘cause somebody’s gonna mind
Lord, save me from myself, guess I just don’t know wrong from right
So, they got me feelin like a Deer in the Headlights
Wide eyed, dumbfounded, staring at the bright lights
Say the world hates us I’ll believe it, all right
Lord, have mercy, I’m a Deer in the Headlights
Copyright 2009 Songs From The Holler
Send the police out to collect all the Woody Guthrie records.
"This Land is my land, but it is not your land"
"This land belongs to the True Conservatives and Real Americans"
The chief blogpimp master at NRB must have edicted that page-views at NRB be increased, maybe threatening the "editors" with the loss of parts of their exalted titles if hits don't improve.
If you've noticed, lots of the NRBer posts lately have been lists that are spread over multiple pages at NRB. The article in this thread spans 10 pages at NRB meaning 10 individual page-views get racked up on the hit counter which moves NRB up in web popularity ranking. Sneaky, if you ask me.
Never heard of them. But then again, I sill remember when dirt smelled new.
I guess if I could say one thing and one thing only to all these wannabe commie phony baloney popsters who really just wanna see their own mugs on the cover of the Rolling Stone and will sing whatever it takes to get ‘em there, it would be this, in a nutshell, something like—If you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao, you ain’t gonna make it with anyone anyhow...
Well, maybe that one is taken.
The entitlement class. Are they fer it or agin it?
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