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ReidRansom: Oct 25, 2004

Phone posted:

The most D&D rap ever

I'm afraid that title goes to

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lIqNjC1RKU

# ? Dec 4, 2013 08:51

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# ? Apr 27, 2024 19:57

Bastaman Vibration: Jun 26, 2005

Post the LFest raps u got

Satellite High - Purestrain (Who Knows What Weirdness)

http://tindeck.com/listen/ymjh

# ? Dec 4, 2013 09:02

Crowsbeak: Oct 9, 2012; by Azathoth; Lipstick Apathy

Being a huge metal head.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spIXqAwDEKM

quote:

Can't believe the things I see
That happens in the state
By a mortal distance that I can't believe
Self destructive infernal
To save us from the breed
But I know that it is all a lie
Star wars begin now
His bombs come exploding
To bring back the death of the night
No mercy he's knowing
How strong he must show us
For the last film you all get a part
Be by my side
Or you've to die
Believe what I do is the right
Soon Armageddon
Last hours are running now
The final solution begins
The words of a madman
No children to tell them
For what they'll not see in the light
Choose by your voice
He kills and destroys
At the end you must die for the night
In earlier chess games
We're playing the part of a soldier
But now we are not qualified
To save our own life
The traps are all placed by command
They are ready to strike
We live and we'll die
By the lies to believe

[Lead]

[PreChorus:]
Try to escape from this suicide dreams
Or past time will come back again
Hiroshima is a joke to that what will come
At the end of the game we all die
Die now

[Ref.:]
Battalions of fear
They search and they scream
For the American dreams
Battalions of fear
The way of R.R.
To show he is the star
Battalions

[Solo]

Star wars

[Solo]

With hands full of blood
He talks about peace
With snake poisoning tongue
He's praying
El Salvador and Vietnam
You soon fast forget
But you satisfy on Afghanistan
You've been the master
You kill with a laughter
Your screams of peace are wrong and loud
Cause so we are and here we are
We scream and shout!
Your laughing about all the fools
Scream and shout!
With power of evil they stand

[PreChorus, repeat]
[Ref, repeat]

# ? Dec 4, 2013 09:13

Pope Guilty: Nov 6, 2006; The human animal is a beautiful and terrible creature, capable of limitless compassion and unfathomable cruelty.

Metal's good, sure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn8ndJOIEsI

quote:

Chaos A.D.
Tanks on the streets
Confronting police
Bleeding the plebs

Raging crowd
Burning cars
Bloodshed starts
Who'll be alive?

Chaos A.D.
Army in siege
Total alarm
I'm sick of this

Inside the state
War is created
No man's land
What is this poo poo?

Refuse / resist
Refuse

Chaos A.D.
Disorder unleashed
Starting to burn
Starting to lynch

Silence means death
Stand on your feet
Inner fear
Your worst enemy

Refuse / resist
Refuse / resist

# ? Dec 4, 2013 09:17

ReidRansom: Oct 25, 2004

NOFX seemed to have a libertarian bent to their old stuff, or at least I thought it did when I was an angry teenage punk rear end in a top hat, but I can't hate them for it since I think maybe they grew out of it. I dunno, I kinda stopped paying attention after Heavy Petting Zoo. But The Decline belongs here, it's pretty alright.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwGJ0EHdXDc

# ? Dec 4, 2013 09:34

AShamefulDisplay: Jun 30, 2013

These dudes are from Seattle and are pretty awesome

The Long March
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KL4CQxy8bx4

quote:

Left, right left, check it out
It goes left, right, left and we're marchin' on
Ya'll can pop your collars, Blue Scholars poppin' collarbones
Molotov cocktail party at the White House
Fire in the hole of the Oval Office, it's lights out
Alpha to Omega, Genesis to Revelation
The meek shall inherit but they're still miseducated
By the colonized mind idolized in America
New people's era once again break the barriers
To crush, kill, destroy
Stressin' over trying to find a job or just keepin' the one you got
Now war? Huh? What the gently caress's it good for?
Absolutely everything that America has stood for
Some read a book but can't overstand one love
Like Radio Raheem's right hand
Two mics, two turns, two cats and no others
My hypeman's the spirit of my still-born brother

Goin' left right, left and we're marchin' on
Left, right, left, keep it up ya'll
Left, right, left, keep marchin' on
Left, right, left (check it out)

It goes left, right, left like a pendulum
Swingin' the momentum in the people's direction
I learned lessons never taught in textbooks or chalkboards
Sittin' in the back of the class, the teacher talked more
Cock back this hammer to sickle-cell up you amateurs
Skills below average, you will always be a challenger
I walk like a champion, talk like a champion
Want to be somebody? Better get yourself some discipline
I spit good medicine, listen to the antidote
Clean the Clear Channel out your eardrums and throat
I wrote this manifesto for folks who can't afford most luxuries
And not those who boast that they're broke when they're not
Walk now, proud and tall, the occasional fall
It keeps me humble through it all
Now Geo's chillin', Sabzi's chillin', what more can I say?
We keep marchin' to the rhythm

Goin' left, right, left and we're marchin' on
Left, right, left, Blue Scholars ya'll
Left, right, left, it's the Long March

No Rest for the Weary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIqMIrmpUjc

quote:

There's no rest for the weary
Just another day grindin' up stones
'til they turn into dust
It's tough times in the rough
Diamonds ain't enough
To cover up a corrupted and hosed up legacy of strange fruit, bloody whips, and small pox;
Trigger happy cops, barbed wire, and fire water y'all it don't stop.
When the colonizer came with the cross and the sword,
I threw the first spear and said, "I declare war"
I'm a battle scar wearin' heir apparent,
Descendant of a long lineage of proletariat peasants

So check the work ethic in the name,
The lessons might change,
But the essence of the message is the same.
So when they say anything, say, "Why is it?"
Class is in session 'til the teacher gets a pink slip.
I ride the rhythm imbibe a little wine-talk,
Head hit the concrete to line with your spine.

I speak to find peace but it's war all the time,
It's deep like the drive from Renton to Shoreline.
I'm a more mindful guy ever since finding out that I'm about to be a father,
And doubt is not an option.
And now I can't be getting crunk or faded as often.
So getcha hands dirty 'cause a prayer ain't enough
Boss, what cross?
We got crucified by buckshots
One million Jesus' and Judas got his nuts off
Pages, torn out the memories of those who remain
Shackled by the chains of international capital gain
they claim civilized with they animal ways
Peace to Oakland, I've never been a fan of the A's
But some days you can find me inscribing my
soul on the page every crime has an alibi
Disciplined and organized
is how I handle my,
New Jacks is spending mad time on they battle rhymes.
I can't knock it if you find it entertaining,
I rep' those whose labor ain't compensated.

So check the work ethic and the name
The lessons might change,
But the essence in the message is the same.
So when they say anything, say, "Why is it?"
Class is in session 'til the teacher gets a pink slip.
Forty to a class, no wonder we're delinquent,
Half the school district never make it to commencement.

I bend the spine of the track until it snapped
Pops working overtime and he got a broken back
Got three little sisters, one brother in Iraq
And mom prays novenas to keep the fam' intact
But this song ain't a psalm waiting for God to answer
Brothers call me "dog" they got the letters backwards
I'm back with a plan of attack to repossess my name, face, and history y'all
Who goin' test my capacity to spit caliber poo poo
Into a rhythmic lesson entertainments's a legitimate weapon
Igniting the cipher session I'm deciphering life,
and blending both theory into practice
I write vernacular and actual fact, got no posturing
A thousand pointed fingers, I defied every one of them
I ride for my brethren who carry the burden
Of a future uncertain 'til the fall of the curtain
You Better Move
Hold your head high soldier it ain't over yet,
That's why we call it a struggle, you're supposed to sweat.

Check the work ethic in the name,
The lessons might change,
But the essence of the message is the same.
So when they say anything, say, "Why is it?"
Class is in session 'til the teacher gets a pink slip.
Crazy landlady tried to switch up on the lease
If she raises up the rent again it's time to say peace

Peace, peace, and that's my piece
It's still all about the bullet in the belly of the beast
From the east my brother, we came.
The lessons might change,
But the essence of the message is the same
So when they say anything, say, "Why is it?"
Class is in session 'til the teacher gets a pink slip
So keep marching till your feet split open
No rest for the weary, Blue Scholars keep goin'

We're going to talk about more, more matters that you can relate to, know what I'm sayin'?
'cause that's what, that's what the whole message about everything that we rhyme,
It's what we try to connect.

Life and Debt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shbAUTsG8n0

quote:

I like, making you so happy!
Yo, life and debt, light a cigarette smoke the stress,
Take a deep breath baby, let's rearrange the mess we've inherited
Alienated from what is rightfully yours and mine, land
is life, money is time paid for labor
Working eight to five, sometimes six seven eight
We come home and barely know the neighbors
Bills are usually late
Interest accumulates at a usury rate
Collection agency waits from
Pay check to next one, budget like a noose
Working while we sing the proletariat blues
On 501-C3 community plantations,
Non profit sector propped up to kill the movement
for the changes in production relations
But woman you're my comrade, ride and die, revolution-making mother earth
Standing with me in the grocery line
While I'm paying with a jar of pennies, nickels, and dimes

And I love how you don't like art without a message
I love it how you call some fellas on they fetish
Third world sister, never sacrificing substance for style
But stylish with a golden type smile
I love it how you organize with other strong sisters
Love it how you talk about tearing down the system
Like a soldier, my dialectical reflection,
"Yes" is the answer to your question.

Life and debt, write another check to the landlord,
No time to dwell on all the things we can't afford
Got a baby in the womb, a soldier for the future that we're fighting for
Concrete conditions that I'm writin for
The payback, it's way past due
And they say that the masses ain't ready but
We know that ain't true,
You and I both children of Filipino immigrants
From the same island, our ancestors smiling,
Cuz we found one another in a strange land struggling
Moms tryin' to tell us not to protest instead pray for peace,
But that ain't the nature of the beast
So lady grab the bullhorn and take it to the streets
Yellin power to the people, el pueblo unido jamas sera vencido
Til the wealth is spread equal
You 21st century Gabriela Silang
Fierce like Lorena with a rifle in her arms

And I love how you love the people as much as self
I love it how you want redistribution of the wealth
Third world sister, never sacrificing substance for style
But stylish with a golden type smile
I love it how you organize with other strong sisters
Love it how you talk about tearing down the system
Like a soldier, my dialectical reflection,
"Yes" is the answer to your question
Life and debt
I like, making you so happy!
I like, making you so happy!
I like, making you so happy!
Cuz making you so happy makes me happy too!

# ? Dec 4, 2013 09:45

Babylon Astronaut: Apr 19, 2012

War Party by GWAR had some great political songs:

http://youtu.be/Itc54N6gGkE

You Can't Kill Terror posted:

You can destroy an army
You can kill a man
But you can't kill terror
And terror is what I am
Terror your servant as you sturggle to rule
How can you kill terror when you use it as a tool
So when you write the history books remember to omit it
The sickest thing about your race is that you won't admit it

Decapitation, a merciful way for one to quickly die
Just think if they'd slowly plucked out both his eyes
Far better than being buried alive
Think of the babies you buried alive

You can't kill terror
So let's declare war
There's so many dead that we can't keep score
Madness and reason we at once combine
This is a war that can last for all time
The War Against Terror
Sublime!

It's man against monster and only both can lose
Fate is pre-ordained for you, so there's no side to choose
So much like hurricanes you seek to name the cosmic crime
To give a war a name is just a way for you to mark your time
Just think of the babies you buried alive
They haven't quite died

I just got some news from the Central Command
It seems the war didn't go quite as planned
It seems like terror is winning the battle
The humans are killing each other like cattle
The bodies are piled up from Rome to Seattle

Decapitation, a merciful way for one to quickly die
Just think if they'd slowly plucked out both his eyes
Cut off his penis and shoved it in his mouth
Just like they do down south
You can't kill terror

http://youtu.be/XLXp3YsfTsI

War Party posted:

I hear your piteous shrieking
In this valley of death
Of boils and bees and RPG's
And piles of prisoners masturbated on
Now you are on fire
You curse the choice you made
Your Humvee a pyre your life to expire
Your face and corpse that's bathed in flames

Come join the War Party
Let's see exotic lands
Your blood has stained the desert sands
Aaaaahhh...

I hear your body burning
A piping and piteous sound
The crowd tears apart your corpse after the flames have calmed down
You're dragged through the streets
With a chain 'round your neck
Hung from a bridge on the outskirts of town
They'll never find your head

Come and join the War Party
Let's see exotic lands
Your blood has stained the desert sands
Your blood is running through your hands

Still you expect pity
And you shall receive none
Why did death come hard for you?
You gave it to some
You joined the War Party
Your purpose was clear
You did your job with skill, you raped and you killed
Why so surprised that you finally got billed?

You put the gun to your shoulder
You put lead through a brain
You left bodies to molder
You spread havoc and pain
They will call you a hero
I call you an ignorant slave
Because before you died you acted surprised
So soon you were shown to your grave

Come join the War Party
Let's see exotic lands
Your blood has stained the desert sands
Your blood is running through your hands

All men die
So don't ask why
What the gently caress else did you think you were for?
You were made to decay
It's better that way
This is the price of your war

# ? Dec 4, 2013 14:17

Phlag: Nov 2, 2000; We make a special trip just for you, same low price.

Andrew Jackson Jihad

American Tune

quote:

I am white, and I've got everything I need
No one clutches their purses when they're in a room alone with me
And I can drive through any neighborhood I please
At any hour, and the police don't do a thing

So if I see a penny on the ground
I leave it alone or loving flip it
I'm a straight white male in America
I've got all the luck I need

I'm a guy getting paid more than a girl with a degree
And I can walk down the streets after dark, no one wants to rape me
And I can get a girl pregnant, and just as easily flee
Just like my straight white male dad did to me

So if I see a penny on the ground
I leave it alone or loving flip it
I'm a straight white male in America
I've got all the luck I need

I've got a pile of broken mirrors and I'm walking under ladders
And I'm spilling tons of salt because to me that doesn't matter
Because my skin and my gender and my orientation
Are the best things to have when you live in this nation
I recommend it highly

So if I see a penny on the ground
I leave it alone or loving flip it
I'm a straight white male in America
I've got all the luck I need
poo poo's gonna work out for me
I'm a straight white male in America
I got all the luck I need

People II 2: Still Peoplin'

quote:

If you've been kicked in or abused or mistreated or misused
You were told there is nowhere to go but up for you
If you've been hurt or you've been betrayed
Or you've been hosed or you've been displaced
You were told it was probably your fault anyway

But when your Hustler subscription and your Xanax prescriptions
Make you feel lonelier instead
You don't want to hear about all those starving children
You don't want to be told it's all in your head
'Cause if it's all in your head, that's terrible

I saw a junkie lying in a puddle of his own blood last week
I saw a cyclist get hit by a car
I saw a homeless guy chug a bottle of mouthwash on Christmas Eve
No, you can never fall too far

You can buy a salad glove, you can buy an iPod
And you can sell that poo poo to Bookmans when your wife dies and you lose your job
You can hope it gets better, you can follow your dreams
But hope is for presidents and dreams are for people who are sleeping

My friend Erin says, "at best, we're all two or three bad decisions away
from becoming the ones that we fear and pity"
And Tony says it's important to bear some witness when you can
And that's not hard to do in the city that I live in

You don't have it any better, you don't have it any worse
You're an irreplaceable human soul with your own understanding of what it means to suffer
And that's a huge bummer

# ? Dec 4, 2013 16:24

Alhazred: Feb 16, 2011

Boris Vian- Le d�serteur
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjndTXyk3mw

Tom Waits - Hell Broke Luce
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Fju9o8BVJ8

Johnny Cash - San Quentin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zgja26eNeY

# ? Dec 4, 2013 20:37

A Meat: Jun 28, 2013; CERTIFIED FRESH AS HELL DOC MAKER

I'm surprised not to have seen "El Pueblo Unido" yet, so I'm going to amend that:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F_9FEx7ymg

and if you have an hour to burn, you should listen to Rzewski's 36 variations on that theme. (It's actually a really interesting piece)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJDkVxbw_Ww

# ? Dec 4, 2013 21:22

kustomkarkommando: Oct 22, 2012

I'm reporting all of you to Senator McCarthy.

Janet Greene - Fascist Threat:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GabfmvQ8s0A

Billy Carr - What's Come Over This World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv1Z0SVeOWo

Jan Berry - The Universal Coward:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0y9CN_ta-A

Also, the funkiest drat American election song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k34-VmETA4

If anyone's looking for any more Vietnam War era political songs check out this massive list of recordings or, if you can find a copy, grab this

# ? Dec 5, 2013 00:06

Pesmerga: Aug 1, 2005; So nice to eat you

There is a criminal lack of The Coup in this thread. Time for The Guillotine: -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acT_PSAZ7BQ

# ? Dec 5, 2013 00:19

Pope Guilty: Nov 6, 2006; The human animal is a beautiful and terrible creature, capable of limitless compassion and unfathomable cruelty.

kustomkarkommando posted:

I'm reporting all of you to Senator McCarthy.

Well in that case, here's a few selections from CONELRAD: Atomic Platters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzKW-oz1Lbw

quote:

Joe, come here a minute
I get a red hot tip for you, Joe

See that guy with the red suspenders
Driving that car with the bright red fenders
I know he's one of those heavy spenders
Get that Communist Joe

He's fillin' my gal with propaganda
And I'm scared she will meander
Don't want to take a chance that he'll land her
Get that Communist Joe

He's a most revolting character
And the fellas hate him so
But with the girls this character
Is a Comrade Romeo

Since my love he's sabotaging
And the law he has been dodging
Give him what he deserves, jailhouse lodging
Get that Communist Joe (Get that Shmo, Joe)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMskjKZ4r4E

quote:

We're living in a country that's the finest place of earth
But some folks don't appreciate this land that gave them birth
I hear that up in Washington they're having an awful fuss
'Cause Communists and spies are making monkeys out of us

The bureaus and departments have been busy night and day
They're figuring out just how we gave our secrets all away
And Congress has appointed a committee so they said
To find out who's American and who's a low-down Red.

They call them up to Washington to speak for Uncle Sam
But when they ask them what they are, they shut up like a clam
I wish they'd take and put me on the witness stand today
I'd yell so loud old Stalin could hear me all the way

Refrain: I'm no Communist, and I'll you that right now
I believe a man should own his own house and car and cow
I like this private ownership, and I want to be left alone
Let the government run its business and let me run my own

Our government is bigger than it ever was today
The more they hire to work for it, the more they have to pay
Our public servants should be proud and honest you would think
Instead of taking bribes and dressing up their wives in mink

The taxes keep on going up of that there is no doubt
But still they just can't take it in as fast as they dish it out
Our national debt is monster size and growin' every day
Our children's children, still unborn are gonna have to pay

Our dollar used be the soundest money on this earth
But now two bucks won't even buy a good old dollar's worth
Unless we stop inflation and take care of what we've got
The Communists may win the fight and never fire a shot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4aRgvXxp3I

quote:

Oh this world is at a tremble with its strength and mighty power
They're sending up to heaven to get the brimstone fire
Take warning my dear brother, be careful how you plan
You're working with the power of God's own holy hand

Refrain: Atomic power, atomic power
Was given by the mighty hand of God
Atomic power, atomic power
It was given by the mighty hand of God

You remember two great cities in a distant foreign land
When scorched from the face of earth the power of Japan
Be careful my dear brother, don't take away the joy
But use it for the good of man and never to destroy

Refrain

Hiroshima, Nagasaki paid a big price for their sins
When scorched from the face of earth their battles could not win
But on that day of judgment when comes a greater power
We will not know the minute and we'll not know the hour

A bunch of the Atomic Platters tracks were compiled on the CONELRAD 640-1240 radio add-ons for Fallout 3 and New Vegas.

# ? Dec 5, 2013 01:18

Weird BIAS: Jul 5, 2007; so... guess that's it, huh? just... don't say i didn't warn you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwsAruHCHHw

quote:

Dear Ron MacLean.
Dear Coach�s Corner.
I�m writing in order
for someone to explain
to my niece the distinction
between these mandatory pre-game group rites of submission
and the rallies at Nuremburg.
Specifically the function
the ritual serves in conjunction
with what everybody knows
is in the end a kid�s game.
I�m just appealing to your sense of fair play

when I say
she�s puzzled by
the incessant pressure for her to not defy
the collective will,
and yellow ribboned lapels,
as the soldiers inexplicably rappel
down from the arena rafters
(which, if not so insane, would be grounds for screaming laughter).

Dear Ron MacLean,
I wouldn�t bother with these questions
if I didn�t sense
some spiritual connection.
We may not be the same
but it�s not like we�re from different planets:
we both love this game so much
we can hardly loving stand it.

Alberta-born and prairie-raised.
Seems like there ain�t a sheet of ice
north of Fargo I ain�t played.
From Penhold to the Gatineau,
every fond memory of childhood that I know
is somehow connected to the culture of this game.
I can�t just let it go.

But I guess it comes down to what kind of
world you want to live in,
and if diversity is disagreement,
and disagreement is treason,
well don�t be surprised
if we find ourselves reaping

a strange and bitter fruit
that sad old man beside you
keeps feeding to young minds as virtue.
It takes a village to raise a child
but just a flag to raze the children
until they�re nothing more than ballast for fulfilling
a madman�s dream of a paradise where
complexity is reduced to black and white.

How do I
protect her from
this cult of death?

# ? Dec 5, 2013 01:43

Sad Banana: Sep 7, 2011

Pete Seeger - Which Side are You On

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iAIM02kv0g

Pete Seeger posted:

Which side are you on boys?
Which side are you on?
Which side are you on boys?
Which side are you on?

They say in Harlan County
There are no neutrals there.
You'll either be a union man
Or a thug for J. H. Blair.

Which side are you on boys?
Which side are you on?
Which side are you on boys?
Which side are you on?

My daddy was a miner,
And I'm a miner's son,
He'll be with you fellow workers
Until this battle's won.

Which side are you on?
Which side are you on?
Which side are you on?
Which side are you on?

Oh workers can you stand it?
Oh tell me how you can?
Will you be a lousy scab
Or will you be a man?

Which side are you on?
Which side are you on?
Which side are you on?
Which side are you on?

Come all you good workers,
Good news to you I'll tell
Of how the good old union
Has come in here to dwell.

Which side are you on?
Which side are you on?
Which side are you on?
Which side are you on?

# ? Dec 5, 2013 03:05

ekuNNN: Nov 27, 2004; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

I think more than half the music I listen to is political, so this is the perfect thread for me :v:

I'll try not to spam too much :sun:

Here's some good anti-fascist ones:

ZSK - Antifascista
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q15qLdQ9bNM
Awesome song and awesome video :allears:

Translation of the refrain:

quote:

Our City
Do you notice that
for you there's no place there
Alerta Alerta Antifascista

We stop your marches
Hate-Propaganda
Alerta Alerta Antifascista

No matter where you emerge
We are there first
Alerta Alerta Antifascista

We don't need any bans
we can handle it far better
Alerta Alerta Antifascista

The Men They Couldn't Hang - Ghosts of Cable Street
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzKv5gjOzTA

Chumbawamba - The Day The Nazi Died
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLkPwxcIji0

Adam Tensta, Eboi, Infinite Mass - Area Turns Red 09
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO3OsMSB-KA
Awesome clip, also they had to blur the words "shoot the racist" in it :v:

Sin Dios - Alerta Antifascista
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOligXWECQM

Bella Ciao
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CI3lhyNKfo

# ? Dec 5, 2013 03:06

ReidRansom: Oct 25, 2004

Sad Banana posted:

Pete Seeger - Which Side are You On

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iAIM02kv0g

Billy Bragg did a decent cover of that one with revised lyrics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbddqXib814

quote:

This government had an idea
And parliament made it law
It seems like it's illegal
To fight for the union any more

Which side are you on, boys?
Which side are you on?
Which side are you on, boys?
Which side are you on?

We set out to join the picket line
For together we cannot fail
We got stopped by police at the county line
They said, "Go home boys or you're going to jail"

Which side are you on, boys?
Which side are you on?
Which side are you on, boys?
Which side are you on?

It's hard to explain to a crying child
Why her Daddy can't go back
So the family suffer
But it hurts me more
To hear a scab say Sod you, Jack

Which side are you on, boys?
Which side are you on?
Which side are you on, boys
Which side are you on?

I'm bound to follow my conscience
And do whatever I can
But it'll take much more than the union law
To knock the fight out of a working man

Which side are you on, boys?
Which side are you on?
Which side are you on, boys?
Which side are you on?

# ? Dec 5, 2013 03:13

ekuNNN: Nov 27, 2004; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

ReidRansom posted:

Billy Bragg did a decent cover of that one with revised lyrics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbddqXib814

Another great one with revised lyrics is Which Side Are You On by B. Dolan, about transphobia, homophobia and sexism in hip-hop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKHf1YVATfk

Also Awesome: Dropkick Murphy's - Which Side Are You On
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKWfnO7fhQM

# ? Dec 5, 2013 03:22

ComradeCosmobot: Dec 4, 2004; USPOL July

Stereolab has the most enthusiastic songs in favor of the communist revolution that I'm surprised no one has mentioned them yet.

Ping Pong

quote:

It's alright, 'cause the historical pattern has shown
How the economical cycle tends to revolve
In a round of decades three stages stand out in a loop
A slump and war then peel back to square one and back for more

Bigger slump and bigger wars and a smaller recovery
Huger slump and greater wars and a shallower recovery

You see the recovery always comes 'round again
There's nothing to worry for things will look after themselves
It's alright, recovery always comes 'round again
There's nothing to worry if things can only get better

There's only millions that lose their jobs
And homes and sometimes accents
There's only millions that die in their bloody wars, it's alright

It's only their lives and the lives of their next of kin that they are losing
It's only their lives and the lives of their next of kin that they are losing

It's alright, 'cause the historical pattern has shown
How the economical cycle tends to revolve
In a round of decades, three stages stand out in a loop
A slump and war then peel back to square one and back for more

Bigger slump and bigger wars and a smaller recovery
Huger slump and greater wars and a shallower recovery

Don't worry be happy things will get better naturally
Don't worry, shut up, sit down, go with it and be happy

Dum, dum, dum, de dum dum
De duh de duh de dum dum dum, ah ah
Dum, dum, dum, de dum dum
De duh de duh de dum dum dum, ah ah

Gus the Mynah Bird

quote:

A military regime in democratic disguise
That lies in all impunity
That takes apart what it took
People years to build
Public institutions
That promised a decent life

Self-determination should be a fact
Not essentially a right

There are the lobbies
Insurance companies
Who want to change the whole country
Into a vast commercial counter
For the pure consumer
The promise to give the generals a better place

Self-determination should be fact
In the face of corruption

# ? Dec 5, 2013 04:21

Insanite: Aug 30, 2005

You've got to get some Propaghandi up in here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbBlnFtb8W4

quote:

When the credits finally roll for this, the worst story ever told, don't bother sifting through the names for yours or anyone you know. Unless they were by chance a shepherd king, a virgin birth, a resurrection, a messianic prince or some such childish thing. You can storm the edit suite or move to block its theatrical release, but I think we can safely guarantee that there will be no revisions to the script made on behalf of a supporting cast(e). Because history exalts only the pornography of force-that of murderers and psychopaths (the rest of us, of course, stricken from the narrative wholesale: a back drop to the tale)-as we, the two-bits, are ushered on and swiftly off this stage with the jawbones of asses. No stirring curtain call for the masses. No floral bouquet. No breaking of legs. No recurring role. No artistic control. And so in these days, in this terminal phase, it's all left to chance. A piece of advice: if you're cast on thin ice, you may as well dance. Do what you feel you must, but as for me I was not put upon this earth to subjugate or serve.

Insanite fucked around with this message at 04:33 on Dec 5, 2013

# ? Dec 5, 2013 04:30

Knot My President!: Jan 10, 2005

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6CjO0H2j0s

Stargazer posted:

High noon, oh I'd sell my soul for water
Nine years worth of breakin' my back
There's no sun in the shadow of the wizard
See how he glides, why he's lighter than air?
Oh I see his face!

Where is your star?
Is it far, is it far, is it far?
When do we leave?
I believe, yes, I believe

In the heat and the rain
With whips and chains
To see him fly
So many die
We build a tower of stone
With our flesh and bone
Just to see him fly
But don't know why
Now where do we go?

Hot wind, moving fast across the desert
We feel that our time has arrived
The world spins, while we put his dream together
A tower of stone to take him straight to the sky
Oh I see his face!

Where is your star?
Is it far, is it far, is it far?
When do we leave?
Hey, I believe, I believe

In the heat and the rain
With whips and chains
Just to see him fly
Too many die
We build a tower of stone
With our flesh and bone
To see him fly
But we don't know why
Ooh, now where do we go

All eyes see the figure of the wizard
As he climbs to the top of the world
No sound, as he falls instead of rising
Time standing still, then there's blood on the sand
Oh I see his face!

Where was your star?
Was it far, was it far
When did we leave?
We believed, we believed, we believed

In heat and rain
With the whips and chains
To see him fly
So many died
We built a tower of stone
With our flesh and bone
To see him fly

But why
In all the rain
With all the chains
Did so many die
Just to see him fly

Look at my flesh and bone
Now, look, look, look, look,
Look at his tower of stone
I see a rainbow rising
Look there, on the horizon
And I'm coming home, I'm coming home, I'm coming home

Time is standing still
He gave back my will
Ooh ooh ooh ooh
Going home
I'm going home

My eyes are bleeding
And my heart is leaving here
But it's not home
But it's not home
Ooh

Take me back
He gave me back my will
Ooh ooh ooh ooh

Going home
I'm going home

My eyes are bleeding
And my heart is leaving here
But it's not home
But it's not home
Ooh

Take me back, take me back
Back to my home ooh, ooh, ooh

Definitely one of my favorite politically metaphorical songs.

# ? Dec 5, 2013 04:37

Rhesus Pieces: Jun 27, 2005

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20SNSOl97ro

quote:

The old devils are at it again.
who knows what they'll do.
it's true right now like it was back then.
The old devils are at it again.

from behind these bars the view don't change.
desperation death and despair.
from what little i hear of the outside world.
well its not to different out there.
and they tell me there's a war without no end.
The old devils are at it again.
they die by the millions children women and men.
The old devils are at it again.

when i say devil you know who i mean
these animals in the dark
malicious politicians with nefarious schemes
charlatans and crooked cops
the moonshine still gives you five to ten
The old devils are at it again.
stripes on your back and a ball and chain
The old devils are at it again.

two men stare out of prison bars wonderin what got'em here.
one saw mud but the other saw stars. prayin that the end is near.
well the billboard outside says "confess your sins"
The old devils are at it again.
I guess I will confess that I've been sufferin.
The old devils are at it again.

I said The old devils are at it again.
who knows what they'll do.
and it's true right now like it was back then.
The old devils are at it again.
I said The old devils are at it again. oh oh...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9axGUdvV2c

quote:

Well it's a goddamn shame what's going down
How we got to this I do not know
There's a sick, sick wind that is blowin' 'round
And the captain's got to go

About you or me he does not give a drat
What a low-down, dirty snake
With his mind on his money and his money on his mind
Well something's got to break

Like when the hounds start howling
And when there's fiends about
I will stand up and shout

I declare mutiny on this ship

Well the captain's been drinking below the deck
And this vessel's headed way off course
I want to wrap my hands around his crooked neck
And throw him overboard

Send him to his Lord
Send him to his Lord

Well I don't want to be saved
No, I just want to be free
And take back what these old Devils have taken from me

No, I don't want to be saved
Oh I just want to be free
Adn take back what these old devils have taken from me

Like when the hounds start howling
Oh when there's fiends about
I will stand up and shout

I declare mutiny on this ship
I declare mutiny on this ship

Well the captain's been drinking below the deck
And this vessel's headed way off course
I want to wrap my hands around his crooked neck
And throw him overboard

Send him to his Lord
Send him to his Lord

I want to send him to back to where he came
Not to mercy no, but to burning flame

I said, he don't need no water
Well let the motherfucker burn

I said he don't need no water
Well let the motherfucker burn

Well, burn motherfucker, burn
Well, burn motherfucker, burn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSnRchjw8aE

quote:

when the boss comes callin' they'll put us down
when the boss comes callin' gotta stand your ground
when the boss comes callin' don't believe their lies

when the boss comes callin' his take his toll
when the boss comes callin' don't you sell your soul
when the boss comes callin' we gotta organize

let em know
we gotta take the bastards down
let them know
we gotta smash them to the ground
let em know
we gotta take the bastards down

when the boss comes callin' you'll be on your own
when the boss comes callin' will you stand alone?
when the boss comes callin' will you let them in?

when the boss comes callin' will you stand and fight?
when the boss comes callin' we must unite
when the boss comes callin' we can't let them win

let em know
we gotta take the bastards down
let them know
we gotta smash 'em to the ground
let em know
we gotta take the bastards down

we gotta take the bastards down

when the boss comes callin' they'll put us down
when the boss comes callin' gotta stand your ground
when the boss comes callin' don't believe their lies

when the boss comes callin' his take his toll
when the boss comes callin' don't you sell your soul
when the boss comes callin' we gotta organize

let em know
we gotta take the bastards down
let them know
we gotta smash 'em to the ground
let em know
we gotta take the bastards down

let em know
we gotta take the bastards down
let them know
we gotta smash 'em to the ground
let em know
we gotta take the bastards down

# ? Dec 5, 2013 04:54

BrutalistMcDonalds: Oct 4, 2012; Lipstick Apathy

Some commentary:

My deal is that I don't like much folk, rock and punk music which is often more political than dance, disco, pop and electronic music. These latter genres have tended more towards the apolitical. An exception in the latter category is electronic-industrial music, which has some similarities to punk. But the fact the pop and dance is generally more apolitical has occasionally lead to backlashes against it for being too at ease with the establishment. The "Disco Sucks" campaign had an element to this in the late 1970s among the genre's critics.

But this is also unfair, I think. Pop and dance has often been in the crosshairs of social conservatives when these genres pushed racial and sexual boundaries. Some music critics have also asserted--with good evidence--that the backlash to disco was partly a reaction by white heterosexual punks and rockers to a cultural movement associated with blacks and gays. Pushing disco back into the closet was a means of reasserting white heterosexual cultural supremacy. This wasn't the entire reason for the backlash of course, the genre also helped eat itself, but the anti-disco mood did take on undeniably racist and homophobic forms.

For exhibit below, a cartoon from a 1979 issue of Punk magazine in which disco fans are derided as "faggots."

http://www.punkmagazine.com/vault/back_issues/16/16index.html

Point being, it's time for some loving disco.

A mid-2000s commentary on Britain and America's "special relationship":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dfdlG_5wuc

This song, a *massive* hit in France and Quebec in 1991, tapped into Mitterrand-era ennui:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUQZZW2GrAA

Not exactly pop but the Pet Shop Boys composed a soundtrack for Sergei Eisenstein's silent film The Battleship Potemkin (can you see I like the Pet Shop Boys?):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9d2mW3qGy58

Edit: gently caress it. One more because I love Mylene Farmer. Another thing about pop is that it's usually more innovative in the visuals than it is with the sound, and it's where more of the political commentary goes on. This video is another tribute to Eisenstein and has lots of blood, violence, Lenin, revolution, Marx and creepy Tsarist witches:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlTco8Yg1cY

BrutalistMcDonalds fucked around with this message at 07:10 on Dec 5, 2013

# ? Dec 5, 2013 06:21

Math Debater: May 6, 2007; by zen death robot

Hi friends, thanks so much for all of your fabulously fantastic posts! It's so cool to have a thread dedicated to political music and I really appreciate all of your efforts to share some of your favorite political and D&D-esque tunes!

I decided to make another video of myself singing one of my favorite political songs! This time I've made a video of myself singing "Hasta Siempre, Comandante" by Carlos Puebla. This is a famous and fantastic musical tribute to a great revolutionary hero, and I made a video of myself singing this song while staring lovingly at a finger puppet of Che Guevara so that I could pretend to be singing directly to Che Guevara himself! This is another a cappella rendition and I've uploaded the video to youtube. Be sure to watch the whole thing so that you can hear me say "oops" at the end! Here is the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz9k80KX_0s

And here are the lyrics, thanks to Wikipedia:

Aprendimos a quererte
desde la hist�rica altura
donde el Sol de tu bravura
le puso cerco a la muerte.

Chorus:
Aqu� se queda la clara,
la entra�able transparencia,
de tu querida presencia,
Comandante Che Guevara.

Tu mano gloriosa y fuerte
sobre la Historia dispara
cuando todo Santa Clara
se despierta para verte.

[Chorus]

Vienes quemando la brisa
con soles de primavera
para plantar la bandera
con la luz de tu sonrisa.

[Chorus]

Tu amor revolucionario
te conduce a nueva empresa
donde esperan la firmeza
de tu brazo libertario.

[Chorus]

Seguiremos adelante,
como junto a t� seguimos,
y con Fidel te decimos :
��Hasta siempre, Comandante!�

# ? Dec 6, 2013 05:59

Quantumfate: Feb 17, 2009; Angered & displeased, he went to the Blessed One and, on arrival, insulted & cursed him with rude, harsh words.

When this was said, the Blessed One said to him:

"Motherfucker I will -end- you"

Insanite posted:

You've got to get some Propaghandi up in here.

Going to second this, because not only is propagandhi awesome but supporting caste is an incredible album.

Farecoal posted:

The most swingin' version of L'Internationale you've ever heard: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP4l_PeBMyk

Still not as good as this version:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLF7Fl4SXh8

Also this really should have been posted by now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFTHYRK6MXg

# ? Dec 6, 2013 06:15

bagual: Oct 29, 2010; _{_{inconspicuous}}

How come no one posted "A las barricadas"? It was the CNT-FAI hymn during the spanish civil war, has some powerful lyrics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvONbo3GVho

quote:

Black storms shake the sky
Dark clouds blind us
Although pain and death await us
Duty calls us against the enemy
The most precious good
is freedom
And we have to defend it
With faith and courage
Raise the revolutionary flag
Which carries the people to emancipation
Raise the revolutionary flag
Which carries the people to emancipation
Working people march onwards to the battle
We have to smash the reaction
To the Barricades! To the Barricades!
For the triumph of the Confederation
To the Barricades! To the Barricades!
For the triumph of the Confederation

This one here is a real treat, especially the video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0XhjbKEMRo

Some french rap.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1Co1mfz23U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=622QUs5aZeQ

And finishing with some DK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HF7e2rgzsrU

quote:

Rioting-the unbeatable high
Adrenalin shoots your nerves to the sky
Everyone knows this town is gonna blow
And it's all gonna blow right now

Now you can smash all the windows that you want
All you really need are some friends and a rock
Throwing a brick never felt so drat good
Smash more glass
Scream with a laugh
And wallow with the crowds
Watch them kicking peoples' rear end

But you get to the place
Where the real slavedrivers live
It's walled off by the riot squad
Aiming guns right at your head
So you turn right around
And play right into their hands
And set your own neighbourhood
Burning to the ground instead

Riot-the unbeatable high
Riot-shoots your nerves to the sky
Riot-playing into their hands
Tomorrow you're homeless
Tonight it's a blast!

Get your kicks in quick
They're callin' the national guard
Now could be your only chance
To torch a police car

Climb the roof, kick the siren in
And jump and yelp for joy
Quickly-dive back in the crowd
Slip away, now don't get caught

Let's loot the spiffy hi-fi store
Grab as much as you can hold
Pray your full arms don't fall off
Here comes the owner with a gun

The barricades spring up from nowhere
Cops in helmets line the lines
Shotguns prod into your bellies
The trigger fingers want an excuse
NOW

The raging mob has lost its nerve
There's more of us but who goes first
No one dares to cross the line
The cops know that they've won

It's all over but not quite
The pigs have just begun to fight
They club your heads, kick your teeth
Police can riot all that they please

Tomorrow you're homeless
Tonight it's a blast

# ? Dec 6, 2013 06:49

XyloJW: Jul 23, 2007

Rent-A-Cop posted:

poo poo!

Well here's my second favorite Phil Ochs song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvcNZ-KOEcg

Came here to post this, as someone from the State of Mississippi. It really pisses people off, the few who've ever heard it. It doesn't get a lot of play.

# ? Dec 6, 2013 07:23

Pope Guilty: Nov 6, 2006; The human animal is a beautiful and terrible creature, capable of limitless compassion and unfathomable cruelty.

Here's Propagandhi in full-on obnoxious atheist mode.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPpXY1aWKgI

quote:

You speak of Rastafari,
But how can you justify belief
In a God that's left you behind.

You simply fill the gap
Between the upper and lower class
And your faith merely keeps you in line,
In line, yeah

An amalgamation of jewish scripture
And christian thought.
What will that get you? Not a gently caress of a lot.
Take a look at your promised land.
Your deed is that gun in your hand.
Mt. Zion's a minefield.
The West Bank. The Gaza strip.
The West Bank. The Gaza strip.
The West Bank. The Gaza strip.
The West Bank. The Gaza strip.
Soon to be parking lots for American tourists
And fascist cops, yeah.

gently caress zionism.
gently caress militarism.
gently caress americanism.
gently caress nationalism.
gently caress religion.
gently caress religion.
gently caress religion.
gently caress religion.
gently caress religion.
gently caress religion.
gently caress religion.
gently caress religion.

# ? Dec 6, 2013 07:32

RC and Moon Pie: May 5, 2011

Barry McGuire: Eve of Destruction

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: Ohio

The Animals: We Gotta Get Out of This Place. Ended up becoming even more political when it became a favorite of American soldiers during Vietnam.

A lot of Dead Kennedys have been posted, but I have yet to see Holiday in Cambodia yet.

Midnight Oil: Beds are Burning

# ? Dec 6, 2013 08:07

Quantumfate: Feb 17, 2009; Angered & displeased, he went to the Blessed One and, on arrival, insulted & cursed him with rude, harsh words.

When this was said, the Blessed One said to him:

"Motherfucker I will -end- you"

Pope Guilty posted:

Here's Propagandhi in full-on obnoxious atheist mode.

They've matured so much since How to Clean Everything. It always astonished me. :allears:

EDIT: gently caress it, more immature propagandhi being gloriously obnoxious singing 'bout the cops.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJxjS0dCpAc

And for contrast a newer gently caress the police song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OFwCLcajbk

And why not, one more cause gently caress the rich:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dASeDXA2wtE

Quantumfate fucked around with this message at 09:14 on Dec 6, 2013

# ? Dec 6, 2013 08:59

satan!!!: Nov 7, 2012

Everybody like Lynyrd Skynyrd right!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql49eLRRJ_E

Yes, it was written after the 'clinging to guns and religion' gaffe. The funny thing is they've written songs that are critical of some elements of gun culture before:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFfiSGy26wA

# ? Dec 6, 2013 11:53

Alec Bald Snatch: Sep 12, 2012; by exmarx

Hard to believe, but Skynyrd weren't absolute poo poo at one point. The band died with the plane crash.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c80ErUAIaVs

quote:

Well, have you ever lived down in the ghetto?
Have you ever felt the cold wind blow?
Well, if you don't know what I mean
Won't you stand up and scream?
'Cause there's things goin' on that you don't know

Too many lives they've spent across the ocean
Too much money been spent upon the moon
Well, until they make it right
I hope they never sleep at night
They better make some changes
And do it soon

Well, they're goin ruin the air we breathe
Lord have mercy
They're gonna ruin us all, by and by
I'm telling all you beware
I don't think they really care
I think they just sit up there
And just get high

Well, have you ever lived down in the ghetto?
Have you ever felt the cold wind blow?
Well, if you don't know what I mean
Won't you stand up and scream?
'Cause there's things goin' on that you don't know

Well, if you don't know what I mean
Won't you stand up and scream?
'Cause there's things goin' on that you don't know

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-JCPAp-7GM

quote:

Mr. Banker, Mister please
How much does money mean?
Won't you reconsider Mister?
Won't you do this thing for me?

Ain't got no house, ain't got no car
All I got, Lord, is my guitar
But you can have that Mr. Banker
Won't you bury my papa for me?
Oh Mr. Banker please
Listen well that sound

Watch out
I would not be here on my knees
But hey Mr. Banker
It means so much to me
Oh won't you reconsider Mister?
Won't you do this thing for me?

I told you Mister
I ain't got no house, ain't got no car
I got me a 1950, a Les Paul guitar
Won't you take it Mr. Banker
Won't you bury my papa for me, yeah?
Oh Mr. Banker please

# ? Dec 6, 2013 13:39

exmarx: Feb 18, 2012; The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

Quantumfate posted:

Still not as good as this version:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLF7Fl4SXh8

Quoting for Truth (it's the Tuvan version everybody)

Daniel Kahn

Nakam (6 Million Germans)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugx-2tZgVJs

March of The Jobless Corps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KFVVKFxr60

I'd post the lyrics but there's lots of :words:

# ? Dec 6, 2013 14:22

Insanite: Aug 30, 2005

La Vida Boh�me is plenty political and Venezuelan. What's not for D&D to like?
Viernes Negro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_khgl3CUcHA
La sangre y el eco
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzAE62jV-oo

Insanite fucked around with this message at 20:37 on Dec 6, 2013

# ? Dec 6, 2013 19:32

R. Mute: Jul 27, 2011

XyloJW posted:

Came here to post this, as someone from the State of Mississippi. It really pisses people off, the few who've ever heard it. It doesn't get a lot of play.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVQjGGJVSXc

# ? Dec 6, 2013 19:47

Alhazred: Feb 16, 2011

M.I.A.:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNJ96imMskk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewRjZoRtu0Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cA3b-PbPE0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh6V-lygOwA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCkIYkaLBGs

# ? Dec 6, 2013 20:12

kustomkarkommando: Oct 22, 2012

None of these songs do enough to educate the worker in Marxist-Leninist thought and are therefore bourgeois indulgences hindering the development of the international proletariat.

Red Shadow- Understanding Marx
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz6c6kaFG5E

:ussr:

# ? Dec 6, 2013 22:33

hello i am phone: Nov 24, 2005; ¿donde estoy?

Argentinian band Bersuit Vergarabat of a song called Se�or Cobranza by Las manos de filippi.
It pretty much tells that everyone in the government is a narco. The funny thing is that managed to reach the top of the musical rankings when released.
https://vimeo.com/9292659
http://vimeo.com/9292659
English lyrics embedded inside the video.

Los metodos piqueteros - Las manos de filippi.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIi8FxRXv0w
Sorry I couldn't find any translation but like the name says it's about the piquetero movement.

# ? Dec 7, 2013 07:23

Pope Guilty: Nov 6, 2006; The human animal is a beautiful and terrible creature, capable of limitless compassion and unfathomable cruelty.

Crass responded to the punk obsession with fashion by dressing in black-dyed military surplus clothes, and then in response to accusations that they were presenting themselves in a macho, militaristic way, put out Penis Envy, which features no male voices and is basically Radical Feminism: the album, focusing both on the individual and societal level. I think it's their best album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqR9jJFt4lE

quote:

Little girls of about six or seven were asked, what do they like to do? And then, sometime later, the same question was asked in a slightly different form. They were asked, what do little girls like to do?

I've got 54321,
I've got a red pair of high-heels on,
Tumble me over, it doesn't take much,
Tumble me over, tumble me, push.
In my red high-heels, I have no control,
The rituals of repression are so old,
You can do what you like, there'll be no reprisal,
I'm yours, yes I'm yours, it's my means of survival.

I've got 54321,
Come on my love, I know you're strong,
Push me hard, make me stagger,
The pain in my back just doesn't matter.
You force-hold me above the ground,
I can't get away, my feet are bound,
So I'm bound to say
That I'm bound to stay.

Today I look so good,
Just like I know I should,
My breasts to tempt inside my bra,
My face is painted like a movie star,
I've studied my flaws in your reflection
And put them to rights with savage correction,
I've turned my statuesque perfection
And shone it in your direction.
So come on my darling, make me yours,
Trip me over, show me the floor,
Tease me, tease me, make me stay,
In my red high-heels I can't get away.
I'm trussed and bound like an oven ready bird
But I bleed without dying and I won't say a word.
Slice my flesh and I'll ride the scar,
Put me into gear like your lady car,
Drive me fast and crash me crazy,
I'll rise from the wreckage as fresh as a daisy.
These wounds leave furrows as they heal,
I've traveled them, they're red and real,
I know them well, they're part of me,
My birth, my sex, my history,
They grew with me, my closest friend,
My pain's my own, my pain's my end.
Clip my wings so you know were I am,
I can't get lost when you're my man.
Tame me so i know your call,
I've stabbed my heels so I am tall,
I've bound my twisted falling fall,
Beautiful mute against the wall,
Beautifully mutilated as I fall.
Use me, don't lose me.

I've got 54321,
I've got a red pair of high-heels on.
Strap my ankles, break my heels,
Make me kneel, make me feel.
Turn, turn, turn, like a clockwork doll,
Put in your key and give me a whirl.
Tease me, tease me, the reason to play,
In my red high-heels I can't get away.
I'll be your bonsai, your beautiful bonsai,
Your black-eye bonsai, erotically rotting.
Will my tiny feet fit your desire?
Warped and tied I walk on fire.
Burn me out, twist my wrists,
I promise not to shout, beat me with your fists.
Squeeze me, squeeze me, make me feel,
In my red high-heels I'm an easy kill.
Tease me, tease me, make me see,
You're the only one, I need to be me.
Thank you, will you take me?
Thank you, will you make me?
Thank you, will you break me?
Use me, don't lose me,
Taste me, don't waste me.
Use, lose, taste, waste.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHH54FYISTY

quote:

System, system, system.
Death in life.
System, system, system.
The surgeons knife.
System, system, system.
Hacking at the cord.
System, system, system.
A child is born.

Poor little fucker, poor little kid,
Never asked for life, no she never did.
Poor little baby, poor little mite,
Crying out for food as her parents fight.
Crying out for food as her parents fight.

System, system, system.
Send him to school.
System, system, system.
Force him to crawl.
System, system, system.
Teach him how to cheat.
System, system, system.
Kick him off his feet.

Poor little schoolboy, poor little lad,
They'll pat him if he's good and they'll beat him if he's bad.
Poor little kiddy, poor little chap,
They'll force feed his mind with their useless crap.
They'll force feed his mind with their useless crap.

System, system, system.
They'll teach her how to cook.
System, system, system.
Teach her how to look.
System, system, system.
They'll teach her all the tricks,
System, system, system.
Create another victim for their greasy pricks.

Poor little girly, poor little wench,
Another little object to prod and pinch.
Poor little sweety, poor little filly,
They'll gently caress her mind so they can gently caress her silly.
They'll gently caress her mind so they can gently caress her silly.

System, system, system.
He's grown to be a man.
System, system, system.
Taught to fit the plan.
System, system, system.
Forty years of jobs.
System, system, system.
Pushing little buttons, pulling little knobs.

Poor loving worker, poor little serf,
Working like a mule for half of what he's worth.
Poor loving grafter, poor little gent,
Working for the cash that he's already spent.
Working for the cash that he's already spent.

He's selling his life,
She's his loyal wife,
Timid as a mouse,
She's got her little house,
He's got his little car,
And they share the cocktail bar
She likes to cook his meals,
You know, something that appeals.
Sometimes he works til late
So his supper has to wait,
But she doesn't really mind
Cos he's getting overtime.
He likes to put a bit away
Just for that rainy day,
Cos every little counts
As the cost of living mounts.
They do the pools each week
Hoping for that lucky break.
Then they'd take a trip abroad,
Do all the things they can't afford.
She'd really like to have a fur,
He's like a bigger car.
They could buy a bungalow,
With a Georgian door for show.
He might think of leaving work,
But no, he wouldn't like a shirk.
He'd much prefer to stay
And get his honest days pay.
He's got a life of work ahead,
There's no rest for the dead.
She's tried to make it nice,
He's said thank you once or twice.

System, system, system.
Deprived of any hope.
System, system, system.
Taught they couldn't cope.
System, system, system.
Slaves right from the start.
System, system, system.
Til death do them part.

Poor little fuckers, what a sorry pair,
Had their lives stolen, but they didn't really care.
Poor little darlings, just your ordinary folks,
Victims of the system and it's cruel jokes.
Victims of the system and it's cruel jokes.

The couple views the wreckage
And dreams of home sweet home,
They'd almost paid the mortgage,
Then the system dropped its bomb.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9DhY-9XSps

quote:

Is there any prepared to tell me why?
Tell me why I'm being sucked dry?
Oh yes, that is yours and this is mine,
As long as that balances out, that's fine.
I don't define the terms of the oppression,
Do you awake to that dull and grey depression?

You ride on me,
Suck my energy.

You take want you want when you want it,
You reject any change that I make.
You ask me for more when I've spent it,
When I've given it all, you still take.

Is there any prepared to tell me why?
Tell me why I'm being sucked dry?

Oh yes I know the lines you draw for protection,
The number given for a name is simply for detection,
I know I'm only paper in a file,
But couldn't you treat me as a human for awhile?

You ride on me,
Suck my energy.

You take want you want when you want it,
You reject any change that I make.
You ask me for more when I've spent it,
When I've given it all, you still take.

Is there any prepared to tell me why?
Tell me why I'm being sucked dry?

You offer your protection, but insist when I decline,
You offer independence, but demand I tow the line.
You say you give me freedom, but you hang on to the key,
Well, don't you think, perhaps, the decision's up to me?

You ride on me,
Suck my energy.

You take want you want when you want it,
You reject any change that I make.
You ask me for more when I've spent it,
When I've given it all, you still take.

Is there any prepared to tell me why?
Tell me why I'm being sucked dry?

So tell me I'm dreaming if I want to live
And I'll tell you you're scheming to make me give,
More than i want to, more than I can,
You don't want person, you just want woman.
You hide behind logic, secure with your facts,
You've a history of time to back up your claims,
Protecting the future by filling up the cracks
That might expose the real nature of your games.
You want woman cos she's children for your system,
Well, people wither in that living death.
You hide behind your prejudice, afraid of my wisdom,
Afraid I might question your unquestioned worth.

You ride on me,
Suck my energy.

You take want you want when you want it,
You reject any change that I make.
You ask me for more when I've spent it,
When I've given it all, you still take.

Is there any prepared to tell me why?
Tell me why I'm being sucked dry?
Used as a tool?
Treated as a fool?
Shat on?
Spat on?
Totally confused?
hosed up?
Mucked up?
Totally abused?
Pulled about?
Fooled about?
Treated like a toy?
Joked about?
Poked about?
Something to destroy?
Tricked?
Kicked?
I don't want these games.

# ? Dec 7, 2013 07:59

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# ? Apr 27, 2024 19:57

Dimebags Brain: Feb 18, 2013

Panopticon's pretty cool. Black metal project that rejects the typical right-wing nature of most European black metal.

First album was general all purpose anarchy/left wing stuff, last song on the album is based on Emma Goldman's Marriage and Love.
Emma's Song

Emma's Song posted:

Salt in the fields.
harvest iniquity.
is this how we show we care?
obligation,grief and despair?
the roots are poisoned
dig in the earth.
the bounty you've sewn.
restricted wings... wedding rings
the roots are poisoned
in their hair there are no braids.
slaves who refuse to serve their masters.
your evening obligation is the soil that stains your face.
when I'm burned alive,will you go down in flames?
what freedoms are denied you?
other than the right to breathe?
what expectations are placed on you?
conform,discard,dilute..
the roots are poisoned

Made a song about Sacco and Vanzetti
La passione di Sacco & Vanzetti

Made an album based on the seven years he spent working in social services with abused children (It's a pretty angry album).
Client

Client posted:

Sobbingly confess of a dark figure in the doorway.
A voice she had known for so long across from her at the dinner table.
Not only would she share this trauma with him, she also shared a birthright and a namesake.
Loss of innocence and dignity. Tell no one.

The tears you cry won't empty the seed from your womb.
The tears you cry won't make your menstrual blood flow.
Sob for your loss: The wolves will drink your tears.
Your misfortune will become their fortune.

Welcome to a home you aren't allowed to leave.
Herded like cattle into walls of concrete.
Sterile like your raped womb.
Therapists wait to pour salt on your wounds, Your insurance pays for it all.
A ghost of a world you could have known.
Surrounded by drugged rage, you will face this horror alone.

Latest album is based on the labor movement in regards to Kentucky's coal mining industry.
Black Soot and Red Blood

"Black Soot and Red Blood posted:

Tonight, the dis-harmonic symphony of the cicadas plague my ears�
Drifting off to the mind numbing hum of grinding gears.
Families starving in the eerie silence of the hills�lie exposed to the elements so fierce�
Hold out just one more day�say the same tomorrow�say the same tomorrow.
For the union, hold out, for a fair wage and a living, this sorrow.
Living and dying union men.
Meet them in the streets, meet them in the hollers, meet them in the hills and don't back down.
Fight for what is right, for every working man to earn his keep.
Fight for what is right till they meet your demands�in Bloody Harlan�lives laid down for the union.
Scarlet red around your neck.
Black lungs and broken backs in Bloody Harlan, in Bloody Harlan�in Bloody Harlan.
The years go on and the mountains crumble.
The right to live and work, sacrificing body and land.
From Kentucky to West Virginia, the workers rise and fall while wringing hands profit off of it all...

# ? Dec 7, 2013 08:34

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