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War - Edwin Starr | The Midnight Special

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Elton John - Burn Down The Mission (BBC In Concert 1970)

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Times like these remind me that what had changed for the better about America is bow in full retreat.

Our better angels don't live in the WH anymore.

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-02-28 06:36 PM | Reply

now in full retreat

Which reminds me of

Sitting in a park in Paris France
Reading the news and it sure looks bad
They won't give peace a chance
That was just a dream some of us had

- Joni

#2 | Posted by Corky at 2025-02-28 06:40 PM | Reply

John Cale, "Ready for War"

www.youtube.com

#3 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-03-02 06:43 PM | Reply

Given the current anarchy:

The Fugs, "Nothing" (featuring notable historical references)

www.youtube.com

#4 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-03-02 06:45 PM | Reply

Capt. Beefheart, "Old Far+ at Play"

www.youtube.com

#5 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-03-02 06:50 PM | Reply

Mel Brooks, "Springtime for Hitler"

www.youtube.com

#6 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-03-02 06:53 PM | Reply

Fall Out Boy - We Didn't Start the Fire (2023)
www.youtube.com

An updated version of the Billy Joel classic.

Lyrics in the video.


#7 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-03-02 06:54 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Chick Corea Akoustic Band, "Humpty Dumpty"

[yeah I know he was a longtime Scientologist; take it up with him]

www.youtube.com

#8 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-03-02 07:01 PM | Reply

Another, one that I have cited previously ...

Muse - Uprising (2009)
www.youtube.com

A change from my usual lyrics excerpt ...

Uprising (song)
en.wikipedia.org(song)

... In September 2009, Muse performed "Uprising" for the first time at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards.[11] "Uprising" won Best Single at the 2010 Music Producers Guild Awards.[12] ...

Bellamy expressed discomfort that "Uprising" was used in YouTube videos advocating for conspiracy theories, saying "the conspiracy theory subculture has been hijacked by the right to try to take down people like Obama and put forward rightwing libertarianism".[20]

Muse refused requests from American politicians to use "Uprising" in their rallies.[20] ...

[emphasis mine]

#9 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-03-02 07:04 PM | Reply

Charles Mingus, "Prayer for Passive Resistance"

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#10 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-03-02 07:12 PM | Reply

Robert Johnson, "Me and the Devil Blues"

first couple verses:

Early this morning
When you knocked upon my door
Early this morning ooh
When you knocked upon my door
And I said, "Hello Satan"
"I believe it's time to go"

Me and the Devil
Was walkin' side by side
Me and the Devil, ooh
Was walkin' side by side
And I'm going to beat my woman
Until I get satisfied

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#11 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-03-02 07:21 PM | Reply

Old Man Trump

Words by Woody Guthrie Adapted by Ryan Harvey, Music by Ryan Harvey
Contact Publisher - Woody Guthrie Publications/BMG Chrysalis

I suppose that Old Man Trump knows just how much racial hate
He stirred up in that bloodpot of human hearts
When he drawed that color line
Here at his Beach Haven family project

(chorus)
Beach Haven ain't my home!
No, I just can't pay this rent!
My money's down the drain,
And my soul is badly bent!
Beach Haven is Trump's Tower
Where no black folks come to roam,
No, no, Old Man Trump!
Old Beach Haven ain't my home!

I'm calling out my welcome to you and your man both
Welcoming you here to Beach Haven
To love in any way you please and to have some kind of a decent place
To have your kids raised up in.

(chorus)

woodyguthrie.org

Ain't Got No Home - The Ballad of Old Man Trump

www.youtube.com

#12 | Posted by Corky at 2025-03-02 07:38 PM | Reply

Pink Floyd at Pompeii " MCMLXXII - Echoes - Part 1 - Edit

Pink Floyd
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Feb 26, 2025

Newly restored version of iconic 1972 film released by Sony Music Vision and Trafalgar Releasing in cinemas & IMAX worldwide beginning 24 April. Tickets on sale from 5 March

Pink Floyd At Pompeii pre-dates the release of The Dark Side Of The Moon. The film documents what Pink Floyd did before they became giants of the album charts on both sides of the Atlantic - where their music remains celebrated to this day.

Set in the hauntingly beautiful ruins of the ancient Roman Amphitheatre in Pompeii, Italy, this unique and immersive film captures Pink Floyd performing an intimate concert without an audience.

Filmed in October 1971, the performance marked the very first live concert to take place at Pompeii, and features the vital Echoes,' A Saucerful of Secrets,' and One of These Days.'

The breathtaking visuals of the amphitheatre, captured both day and night, amplify the magic of the performance. Additionally, the film includes rare behind-the-scenes footage of the band beginning work on The Dark Side of the Moon at Abbey Road Studios.

www.youtube.com

They're so young.....

#13 | Posted by Corky at 2025-03-02 07:51 PM | Reply

@#13 ... Pink Floyd At Pompeii pre-dates the release of The Dark Side Of The Moon. ...

Yeah, I'm a Pink Floyd fan, since before DSotM.

Indeed, I have a vinyl album of their performance at Pompeii. It is a ROIO (record of indeterminate origin, a.k.a, a bootleg album).

Good to see that performance now being revisited.

But, going back to Echoes.

Here's a version I found of that tune, a live performance on the BBC, and released under the "Screaming Abdabs" name that was used (by Pink Floyd?) for the ROIO albums.

Fwiw, "screaming adbads is Brit slang for what we colonists call the "heebie-jeebies."

Pink Floyd (Screaming Abdabs) - Echoes
www.youtube.com

#14 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-03-02 10:01 PM | Reply

Cramps - Goo Goo Muck (1981)
www.youtube.com

Lyrics excerpt ...

genius.com

...
[Verse 1]
Well, when the sun goes down and the moon comes up
I turn into a teenage goo goo muck
Yeah, I cruise through the city and I roam the street
A-looking for something that is nice to eat, mmm

[Chorus]
You better duck
When I show up
The goo goo muck

[Verse 2]
I'm the night headhunter looking for some head
With a way-out body underneath that head, ooh
Yeah, I'll get you, baby, with a little luck
'Cause I'm a teenage tiger and a goo goo muck
...



The Cramps were, how can I say this, a curious group.

Yeah, I'll leave it at that.



#15 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-03-03 12:34 AM | Reply

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