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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Good examples. I make a distiction in my mind between those musicians who criticize our culture, but realize their own frailities, as with Joan Baez, and those who revel in a hatred for everything American which is rooted in a self-loathing I cannot understand. For example, Frank Zappa, who saw America as some kind of diabolical materialistic prison, and seeming to hate most of all those things closest to himself -- his groupies, the R&B music he cut his teeth on, and of course his own self, without mention or apparent awareness that he really, really was full of self-loathing.
The self-loathing Leftist is the most dangerous kind. Joan Baez and Buffy St. Marie, otoh, I would give a hug to if I were to meet them. They are sincere and live what they preach and do it without hating.
From the lyrics:
There is not enough black in the Union Jack
and to much white in the Stars and Stripes?
The irony is that the entire audience is white and there is not a single black person in the band.
I sure used to like NY when he rocked, rather than whined....
The irony is that they demonize the same system that makes them rich. Fat cat executives suck but give me my millions for saying it. Hypocrisy is a trait of liberalism.
The irony is that they demonize the same system that makes them rich. Fat cat executives suck but give me my millions for saying it. Hypocrisy is a trait of liberalism.
I’ve always considered Rage Against the Machine to be a bad joke. If your lead singer has to wear a beret with the word “guerrilla” embroidered on it, chances are he’s not *really* a guerrilla. (grin)
Or, as a friend of mine who grew up in Peru during the 1980s once said about RATM: “If you guys think The Shining Path is so f-—ing great, come ride a bus in Lima the next time they’re in town!”
This list is a bunch of baloney. The Jefferson Airplane’s “Volunteers” is not even mentioned. The author suffers the state of believing the world began about ten years ago.
If you want affirmative action in music, then you’ll love the Black Eyed Peas. A pack of clowns jumping around and circles yelling and grunting to a heavy beat. But hey, they’re diverse! The perfect Obama generation house band.
Of course he knew.
He and HorowitzianConservative are one and the same:
Blogpimps
He left out The Clash...anything by the Clash.
BTW, the Beatles are a 60s boy band - the baby boomer version of nsync.
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