Not yet but I meant to post this earlier. One of my favorites.
“Here comes the future and you can’t run from it. If you’ve got a black list I wanna be on it.”
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He is touring with Squeeze this year, we are going to Nottingham on Nov 14. I can’t wait!!!
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Essentially a cover. “Venceremos” is originally a Chilean political anthem from the early ‘70’s that was banned.
The Working Week version was released in 1983 in support of the Chilean people against the Pinochet regime.
Speaking of Pinochet
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In my head, this is a U2 song
Let it be said that without Andy’s experimentation in guitar effects (delays, echos, loops, etc.) The Edge had nothing much to write home about
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Chatting w/Dkid(she’s at the gym, BTW), after I sent the vid
Me: Look at U2, waking up to the 21st Century and trying a Green Day thing!!!
Dkid: crazy that an Irish band has something to say
Me: You DO know what Bono is about, right? He’s a HUGE Human Rights advocate
DK: yes of course I do! um - YOU!! Punk Rock Warlord!!! LOL that’s how I know it’s bad if bono has to step in
Me: Considering he’s always focusing on 3rd World Countries, and dictatorships, & whatnot - I guess we qualify now? LOL FDT
DK: that’s what i’m saying!!
Josh Ritter - Some Kind of Dream. If you don’t know him, worth studying
The most outspoken band of all of last year was probably Kneecap from Northern Ireland and their position in relation to Palestine. BBC wouldn’t broadcast their Glastonbury performance as a result.
Mary Coughlan a famous Irish singer came out strongly against Bono and U2 over Gaza last year, saying their stance was too measured on “both-sides,” and even saying she’d lost all respect for him saying his comments on Gaza “were putrid and pathetic. She also suggested his position might be influenced by business ties to Israel. The younger Irish artists like Kneecap, Lankum, CMAT and Fontaines D.C. were all openly supporting Palestine, calling for ceasefires and speaking at protests.
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“Call To Arms”
I done Syria, Afghanistan,Iraq and Iran
North Korea, tell me where does it end
Well the bodies keep piling up with everyday
How many more of them they’re gonna send
Well they sent their sons and daughters off to die
for some war to control the heroin
Well, son I hope you don’t grow up
Believin’ that you’ve got to be a puppet to be a man
Well they cut off your hair and put a badge on your arm
Strip you off your identity
Tell you to keep your mouth shut boy and get in the line
Meet your maker overseas
Wearin’ that Kim Jong-il hat while your grandma is selling pills stat
Meanwhile I’m wearing ‘can’t pay my fucking bills’ hat
Nobody is lookin’ up to care about a drone
All too busy lookin’ down at our phone
Our ego’s begging for a food like a dog from our feed
Refresing obsessively until iur eyes start to bleed
They serve up distractions and we eat them with fries
Until the bombs fall out of our fucking skies
Turn off the TV
Turn off the news
Nothin’ to see here
They’re serving the blues
Bullshit on my TV
Bullshit on my radio
The Hollywood telling me how to be me
The bullshit’s got to go
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This kid has it down.
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Out there.
Intense artistic response to the early years of the HIV / AIDS epidemic.
Slightly unconventional protest song but goddam it rips.
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Some Kendrick to kick start the day!
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Back in 1994, the BBC commissioned Lies Damned Lies to do a one-hour radio special for Remembrance Day. It was titled, “Release the Peace.” I dug it out and listened to it today for the first time in a long time. Still poignant and thought-provoking. Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be any of it available to stream anywhere.
Instead, here is a like-minded song from their third album, The Human Dress.
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