The DU Jukebox (July 2006 Edition)

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THE DU JUKEBOX - Soundtrack to a country waking up from its self-induced nightmare. Support your favorite artists. PM me with any tips! (Note: Chart info is NOT copyright Billboard Magazine and, frankly, I just made it up, for the most part.) The DU Jukebox Inaugural Thread: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1002374


#1) DIXIE CHICKS "Not Ready To Make Nice'"

Album: Taking The Hard Way
Last Month: #2 Weeks On Chart: 5



It’s a sad sad story when a mother will teach her/
Daughter that she ought to hate a perfect stranger/
And how in the world can the words that I said/
Send somebody so over the edge/
That they’d write me a letter/
Sayin’ that I better shut up and sing/
Or my life will be over
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Not-Ready-to-Make-Nice-lyrics-Dixie-Chicks/263740D86B90D36C4825713F0011E5A0


#2) NEIL YOUNG "Let's Impeach The President" b/w "The Restless Consumer"

Album: Living With War
Last Month: #1 Weeks On Chart: 9



Don't need no more boxes I can see/
Covered in flags but I can't see them on TV/
Don't need no more lies/
Don't need no more lies/
Don't need no more lies/
Don't need no more lies
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/The-Restless-Consumer-lyrics-Neil-Young/EC326E23B030BA224825717700276447


#3) BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN "Bring 'Em Home"

Album: Download Only http://www.brucespringsteen.net/news/index.html
Last Month: #3 Weeks On Chart: 5



It will make the politicians sad I know/
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home/
They wanna tangle with their foe/
Bring 'em home, bring'em home/
They want to test their grand theories/
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home/
With the blood of you and me/
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home


HOTTEST NEW ENTRY!

#4) MELISSA ETHERIDGE "I Need To Wake Up"

Album: 'An Inconvenient Truth' Soundtrack (fan club download)
Last Month: New Entry Weeks On Chart: 3

"Melissa has written a new song entitled "'I Need To Wake Up" for Al Gore's impactful and important new film AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH which offers a passionate and inspirational look at one man's fervent crusade to halt global warming's deadly progress in its tracks by exposing the myths and misconceptions that surround it. Melissa's new song plays during the closing credits of the film." - melissaetheridge.com http://melissaetheridge.com/news/index.php#114989783829243627

'An Inconvenient Truth' is playing in select theaters now. M.E.I.N. members can visit https://store.fanasylum.com/ME/membersonly/ - the members-only section - to listen to Melissa's new song.

#5) ANTI-FLAG "The Press Corpse"

Album: For Blood And Empire
Last Month: New Entry Weeks On Chart: 3



The (Downing Street) memo says.../
...We gotta work to make the facts fit the false charges/
Pull the wool over the eyes of the filthy masses/
Stab the people in the back for the corporate choice/
Roll the propaganda out using The People's Voice
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/The-Press-Corpse-lyrics-Anti-Flag/FEC1A88D0F156EDB48257119000F56B9


#6) NOFX "Leaving Jesusland"

Album: Wolves In Wolves Clothing
Last Month: Re-Entry Weeks On Chart: 9



We call the heartland not very smart land/
IQ's are very low but threat levels are high/
They got a mandate, they don't want man-dates/
They got so many hates and people to despise
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Leaving-Jesusland-lyrics-NOFX/23B4D78AF89BF0E6482570D6002922E3


#7) JOHNNY CASH "God's Gonna Cut You Down"

Album: American V - A Hundred Highways
Last Month: New Entry Weeks On Chart: 1



Well you may throw your rock and hide your hand/
Workin' in the dark against your fellow man/
But as sure as God made black and white/
What's down in the dark will be brought to the light/
Go tell that long tongue liar/
Tell 'em that God's gonna cut you down
http://www.metrolyrics.com/lyrics/2147432188/Johnny_Cash/God's_Gonna_Cut_You_Down


#8) THE TUBES "Proud To Be An American"

Album: Young And Rich
Last Month: Re-Entry Weeks On Chart: 29



'Cause it's impossible to give/
Equality and justice to inferior foreigners/
too jealous to trust us/
Gimme your weak and your homeless/
How 'bout checkin' the oil ah, fella?
I'm proud to be an American
http://www.thetubes.com/lyrics/proud.htm


#9) COWBOY JUNKIES "December Skies" b/w "Isn't It A Pity?"

Album: Early 21st Century Blues
Last Month: Re-Entry Weeks On Chart: 47



Time to kill our children/
And sing about it/
Let’s all kill our children/
And sing about it
http://www.alwaysontherun.net/cj.htm#e3


#10) KRIS KRISTOFFERSON "In The News"

Album: This Old Road
Last Month: New Entry Weeks On Chart: 2



Burning up the atmosphere and cutting down the trees/
The billion dollar bombing of a nation on it's knees/
Anyone not marching to their tune they call it treason/
Everyone says God is on his side
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/In-The-News-lyrics-Kris-Kristofferson/B9977AC669317C874825712C0009CDFA


#11) BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN "Eyes On The Prize"

Album: We Shall Overcome - The Seeger Sessions
Last Month: #3 Weeks On Chart: 10



Only thing that we did right/
Was the day we begun to fight!/
Keep your eyes on the prize/
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Eyes-On-The-Prize-lyrics-Bruce-Springsteen/653C9379AAAE3DB64825715000089F63


#12) THE TROUBLEMAKERS "International Flag Burning Day"

Album: Here Come The Troublemakers (Download)
Last Month: Re-Entry Weeks On Chart: 47



On the Fourth of July we declare our independence/
Independence from the greatest evil around/
That is the evil of nationalism/
It separates us and crushes us down
Flag Burning Day/ Flag Burning Day/
Burning those hateful borders away/
Flag Burning Day/ Flag Burning Day/
Happy International Flag

"A lot of Americans get whipped up about the notion of anyone “desecrating” the American flag. But remember, this is International Flag-Burning Day, a time to burn all flags representing every nation. But the lyrics of the song speak for themselves. I’m sad to say that the Troublemakers appear to be defunct post-Katrina. However, I have it on good authority that bandleader Dr. Paul Gailunas plans to return to the Crescent City in September with his wife, the talented filmmaker Helen Hill, and their son Francis Pop. That is also cause to celebrate." - http://.b.rox.com

#13) THE COUP "Head (Of State)"

Album: Pick A Bigger Weapon
Last Month: New Entry Weeks On Chart: 4



Bush and Hussein together in bed/
Giving H-E-A-D head/
Y'all motherfuckers heard what we said/
Billions made and millions dead
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Head-Of-State-lyrics-The-Coup/049FB6C54E0EC09748257169000ADA40


#14) PROPAGANDHI "Iteration"

Album: Potempkin City Limits
Last Month: Re-Entry Weeks On Chart: 33



He’s nothing more than a number on a docket thick with shareholders, engineers/
PR firms, politicians: war-profiteers/
How the fuck did I end up here? This just isn’t fair. Ain’t no place for a millionaire
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Iteration-lyrics-Propagandhi/59AE51CC7E3FE38D482570FD001D989C


#15) JACKSON BROWNE "Lives In The Balance"

Album: Solo Acoustic Vol. 1
Last Month: New Entry Weeks On Chart: 4



And there are lives in the balance/
There are people under fire/
There are children at the cannons/
And there is blood on the wire
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/LIVES-IN-THE-BALANCE-lyrics-Jackson-Browne/38410ECA62A785C348256A4D001DED34


#16) MINISTRY "Lieslieslies"

Album: Rio Grande Blood
Last Month: New Entry Weeks On Chart: 4

"Also, there are accusations of the Bush administration being involved in the 9/11 attacks on 'Lieslieslies,' which contains audio samples from the conspiracy documentary Loose Change (video)." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Grande_Blood

#17) T BONE BURNETT "Palestine Texas"

Album: The True False Identity
Last Month: New Entry Weeks On Chart: 3



Presidents come and presidents go/
They rise like smoke they fall like snow/
Do you believe the things you say/
Your lofty thoughts are filled with hay/
What is this faith that you profess/
That led to this colossal mess
http://www.tboneburnett.com/lyrics/tfi_palestine.html


#18) STEVE EARLE "The Revolution Starts Now"

Album: Songs And Artists That Inspired Fahrenheit 9/11
Last Month: #18 Weeks On Chart: 99



Yeah the revolution starts now/
In your own backyard In your own hometown
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/The-Revolution-Starts-Now-lyrics-Steve-Earle/50FE3799F386B3FA48256EF30010038F


#19) PAUL SIMON "Wartime Prayers"

Album: Surprise
Last Month: New Entry Weeks On Chart: 3



A mother murmurs in twilight sleep/
And draws her babies closer/
With hush-a-byes for sleepy eyes/
And kisses on the shoulder/
To drive away despair
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Wartime-Prayers-lyrics-Paul-Simon/DAEF31850616D5BC4825716A001035A3


#20) PET SHOP BOYS "I'm With Stupid"

Album: Fundamental
Last Month: New Entry Weeks On Chart: 3



Is Stupid really this stupid/
or a different kind of smart?/
Do we really have a relationship/
so special in your heart?/
Oh-oh, I'm with Stupid. Oh-oh, I'm with Stupid
http://www.lyricsandsongs.com/song/676759.html

"Working together for the first time since the 1988 single "Left to My Own Devices," the Pet Shop Boys and producer Trevor Horn partner together for Fundamental, an extremely well-crafted effort that is more of its time message-wise than any previous PSB album. Fundamental is heavily influenced by Tony Blair's allegiance to George W. Bush and his dragging of the U.K. into the Iraq War, which has left previously Labour Party-loving vocalist Neil Tennant bitter and disillusioned. Fully aware that the Pet Shop Boys would sound ridiculous if angry and punkish, Tennant and partner Chris Lowe show restraint, putting their venom on simmer on the most riveting songs and searching for a reason not to stick their head in the sand elsewhere... Better still is infectious and uptempo "I'm with Stupid," which casts Blair and Bush as irresponsible lovers who grin and pose while having their way with the world... For Pet Shop Boys fans who lean to the left and are skeptical about the future, this is as close to heaven as they want to be." - www.allmusic.com

#21) KEB' MO' "For What It's Worth"
ALBUM: Peace...Back By Popular Demand
LAST MONTH: Re-Entry WEEKS ON CHART: 72



I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound/
Everybody look what's going down
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/For-What-It's-Worth-lyrics-Buffalo-Springfield/59B9B924E7AC853A48256DB9002BB915


#22) TOM WAITS "Day After Tomorrow"

Album: Soundtrack For A Future America
Last Month: Re-Entry Weeks On Chart: 81



I still don't know how I'm s'posed to feel/
'Bout all the blood that's been spilled/
Will God on his throne/
Get me back home/
On the day after tomorrow?
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Day-After-Tomorrow-lyrics-Tom-Waits/19DC61F53270986B4825701C0008092A

"It is one of the most insightful and understated antiwar songs to have been written in decades. It contains not a hint of banality or sentiment in its folksy articulation." - Thom Jurek, www.allmusic.com

#23) ELROY "Republicans Suck"

Album: Download Only http://www.elroy.net/songs/republicanssuck.html
Last Month: New Entry Weeks On Chart: 2

Republicans suck/
Suck, suck, suck/
They suck/
Suck, suck, suck/
They suck like crazy/
But not in a good way


#24) DIXIE CHICKS "Travelin' Soldier"

Album: Home
Last Month: Re-Entry Weeks On Chart: 136



A man said folks would you bow your heads/
For the list of local Vietnam dead/
Cryin' all alone under the stands/
Was a piccolo player in the marching band/
And one name read and nobody really cared/
But a pretty little girl with a bow in her hair
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Travelin'-Soldier-lyrics-Dixie-Chicks/6A41186879B3231A48256C0E0008B7EE


#25) DAVE CARTER & TRACY GRAMMAR "The Emperor Is Naked Today-O"

Album: Seeds: The Songs of Pete Seeger, Vol. 3
Last Month: Re-Entry Weeks On Chart: 31



We say stand!/
And sing out for a great hooray-o!/
Why don't we be the ones to exclaim/
The emperor is naked today-o!
http://www.peteseeger.net/emperor.htm


#26) PINK "Dear Mr. President"

Album: I'm Not Dead
Last Month: #4 Weeks On Chart: 12



How do you sleep at night/
How do you walk with your head held high/
Dear Mr. President/
You'd never take a walk with me/
Would You?
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Dear-Mr-President-lyrics-Pink/D5573BBA412185094825713F000F00FD


#27) SINEAD O'CONNOR "War"

Album: Throw Down Your Arms
Last Month: Re-Entry Weeks On Chart: 27



A Bob Marley song Sinead sang the night of the notorious "Pope-incident" on Saturday Night Live
and a few days later during the Bob Dylan tribute concert.

That until the basic human rights/
are equally guaranteed to all/
without regard to race/
I'll say "war"
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/War-lyrics-Sinead-O'Connor/AC4454BAC7EFBF2648256897000C3DCA


#28) CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL "Who'll Stop The Rain?"

Album: Cosmo's Factory
Last Month: Re-Entry Weeks On Chart: 163



Long as I remember, The rain been comin' down/
Clouds of myst'ry pourin' Confusion on the ground/
Good men through the ages, tryin' to find the sun/
And I wonder. Still I wonder. Who'll stop the rain?
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/WHO'LL-STOP-THE-RAIN-lyrics-Creedence-Clearwater-Revival/2CDC74D8EE868C9D48256AAB003107E9


#29) NEIL YOUNG "Lookin' For A Leader"

Album: Living With War
Last Month: New Entry Weeks On Chart: 10



Yeah we’ve got our election/
But corruption has a chance/
We got to have a clean win/
To regain confidence/
America is beautiful/
But she has an ugly side/
We’re lookin’ for a leader/
In this country far and wide
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Lookin'-For-A-Leader-lyrics-Neil-Young/FB1389020200FC244825715C000F64D9


#30) BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN "How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live?"

Album: Download Only http://www.brucespringsteen.net/news/index.html
Last Month: New Entry Weeks On Chart: 5



There's bodies floatin' on Canal and the levees gone to Hell/
Martha, get me my sixteen gauge and some dry shells/
Them who's got got out of town/
And them who ain't got left to drown/
Tell me, how can a poor man stand such times and live?


#31) ANTI-FLAG "Depleted Uranium Is A War Crime"

Album: For Blood And Empire
Last Month: New Entry Weeks On Chart: 3



Gonna cut through their armor, then cut through your lungs/
If you make it home alive you’ll still die young/
A greedy gang of liars, yeah we’ve seen it all before/
A moneymaking scheme led by war-profiteering whores/
Depleted uranium is a war crime
http://www.sing365.com/music/Lyric.nsf/Depleted-Uranium-Is-A-War-Crime-lyrics-Anti-Flag/C44D86CB97329DAC4825712700039307


#32) PINK FLOYD "In The Flesh"

Album: The Wall
Last Month: New Entry Weeks On Chart: 4



If you wanna find out what's behind these cold eyes/
You'll just have to claw your way through this disguise
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/In-the-Flesh-lyrics-Pink-Floyd/2EB4CCF893717E21482568A10005976A


#33) STEPHEN SMITH "The Bell"

Album: EP The Bell
Last Month: Re-Entry Weeks On Chart: 106



Oh, but do you know the truth?" said the man at his desk/
"Yes, you lie and call it truth," said the child and he stood/
And he stood, and he stood, and t'were well that he stood/
"You lie and call it truth," said the child and he stood
http://www.stephansmith.com/audiovideo.html

Click Here to read Stephan Smith's "Open Letter To Neil Young" from May 14:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/05/14/ING3RIQCIJ1.DTL
Neil seems possibly to have responded to it with the creation of: http://www.neilyoung.com/lwwtoday/index.html

#34) BOB DYLAN "Masters Of War"

Album: The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
Last Month: #31 Weeks On Chart: 2,107



Come you masters of war/
You that build the big guns/
You that build the death planes/
You that build all the bombs/
You that hide behind walls/
You that hide behind desks/
I just want you to know/
I can see through your masks
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Masters-of-War-lyrics-Bob-Dylan/A17B1E57D80048D0482569690027973B


#35) AGAINST ME! "From Her Lips To God's Ears (The Energizer)"

Album: Searching For A Former Clarity
Last Month: New Entry Weeks On Chart: 3



After all this death and destruction do you really think your actions advocate freedom?/
The President's giving a speech in Georgetown to remember the voice of a slain civil rights leader/
Do you understand what the Martyr stood for?/
Oh Condoleezza, do you get the fucking joke? (No!)/
Condoleezza?/
Condoleezza?/
Condoleezza?/
Condoleezza? What are we gonna do now?
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/From-Her-Lips-To-God's-Ears-The-Energizer-lyrics-Against-Me/9663F7D4ABC6FB0B4825707E0029B2B9


#36) A PERFECT CIRCLE "Imagine"

Album: Emotive
Last Month: Re-Entry Weeks On Chart: 48



Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace...
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Imagine-lyrics-A-Perfect-Circle/A59C3CF56AC6E26A48256F1A0004BABB


#37) STEVE FORBERT "The Baghdad Dream" b/w "Underwatertown"

Album: Download Only http://www.steveforbert.com/audio/audio.htm
Last Month: Re-Entry Weeks On Chart: 29



It's enough to make you scream/
What a well mismanaged scheme/
Mr. Rumsfeld calls the shots/
And we all get what we've got/
Oh, the Baghdad dream


#38) JAMES BLUNT "No Bravery"

Album: Back To Bedlam
Last Month: #6 Weeks On Chart: 66



Houses burned beyond repair.
The smell of death is in the air.
A woman weeping in despair says,
He has been here.
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/No-Bravery-lyrics-James-Blunt/63FA24BD3783A68648256FCD0017443A


#39) RANDY NEWMAN and the LOUISIANA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA with members of the NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC "Louisiana 1927"

Album: Our New Orleans 2005 - A Benefit Album
Last Month: Re-Entry Weeks On Chart: 31



Louisiana/
Louisiana/
They're tyrin' to wash us away/
They're tryin' to wash us away
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Louisiana-1927-lyrics-Randy-Newman/30756012B05C3E6348256A3700482638


#40) SARAH MCLACHLAN "World's On Fire"

Album: Afterglow
Last Month: Re-Entry Weeks On Chart: 124



We part the veil on our killer sun/
Stray from the straight line/
On this short run .../
The more we take the less we become/
The fortune of one man means less for some/
The world is on fire
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/World-on-Fire-lyrics-Sarah-McLachlan/3EDE46F71F30D0FC48256DD500046974


PLAYING IN THE LOUNGE:



Should Young Children Be Told About Styx?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x5126431

Rap is all misogynistic, egocentric drivel
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x5309586

Seriously - we are all ABBA fans!!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=5315697&mesg_id=5315697

I love Beautiful Songs About terrible Things! Suggest some for me...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=5301828&mesg_id=5301828

Covers that exceed the original
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=5344546&mesg_id=5344546

That band you like? They blow.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x5322254

Hey, man! Is that Freedom Rock!?!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x5278006

Fucking Jeff "Skunk" Baxter!! Yarrrgh! YARRRGH!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x5309048

Granpa, what's "Trance Music"?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=5189412&mesg_id=5189412

What's The Official Music For Hell?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=5119872

My first attempt at song writing.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x5302913

Most disturbing "woman scorned" song ever: "Hex" by Neko Case
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x5321089

DU Deadheads: Sad, sad Welnick Obitiuary :(
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x5321771

Cool Video from Puffy AmiYumi.... Nice Buddy!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x5322244

Interested in the REAL "music of the spheres?"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x5321708

Oh shit. I just found the song that is going to kill me.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x5320051

A Kurdish rock video......
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x5311012

Odd? Perhaps. But I love "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald".
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=5298679&mesg_id=5298679

Favorite anti-war lyric?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x5297254

OMG! A Florence Henderson and Jose Ferrer musical LP!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x5288157

Mark Knopfler/EmmyLou Harris CD..... one word:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x5286923

I like Enya. So nyyaaa
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=5281425&mesg_id=5281425

Nadia Boulanger - did any of you study with her? I'm listening to an album
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x5283772

The Cowsills, i heard their songs but i didn't know it was them--duh
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=5279734&mesg_id=5279734

Some velvet morning when I'm straight.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=5279722&mesg_id=5279722

So ahead of their time... (D.O.A.)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x5279672

Best name ever for a band.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x5276644

Most bizarre music heard while in a supermarket?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x5276416

Gotta do it-fave 90's videos that are not well known.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=5256648&mesg_id=5256648

Dude, I'm totally gonna buy that Pink Floyd box set!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=5199453&mesg_id=5199453

Miles Davis Miles Davis Miles Davis Miles Davis
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x5199561

Erik Satie was born on this date in 1866
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x5164453

I miss Frank Zappa, but not Helen Reddy
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x5165576

The Suburban Lawns -- "Janitor"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x5166704

Ack! My roommate's listening to "My Humps!"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=5160648&mesg_id=5160648

They call Alabama the Crimson Tide, you know...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x5156508

It is TIME for the a Gino Vannelli appreciation thread! (pics)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=5149418&mesg_id=5149418

india arie is going to come play in my office
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=5144458&mesg_id=5144458

Mogwai is the best band around right now. (POLL)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=5135363&mesg_id=5135363

RIP Grant McLennan of the Go-Betweens
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x5126665

G-Love and Special Sauce are coming to my town!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x5142665

ROD STEWART CANNOT SING THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x5123811

My friends just got us concert tickets to see Wilco.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x5144387

What Was The First Rap Song?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=5144099&mesg_id=5144099

Let Us Now Praise Joan Armatrading (POLL)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=5124234

Post a Misfits lyric in the subject line
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x5135143

I must confess my passion for the FIRTH OF FIFTH
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x5131555

Songs for the dumped
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=5115474&mesg_id=5115474

Michael McDonald's voice makes MY SKIN CRAWL!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x5117275

I've heard "Light My Fire" is about California Peggy
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x5142313

Resurrecting the Classics: Peaches "Set It Off."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x5142925

What's your favorite end of the world song lyrics?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=5124978#5126797

I started a f*cking Olive Garden war an' didn't even know it!!!!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=5287496&mesg_id=5287496

I am bullish on Kudzu. It's going places!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=4465947&mesg_id=4465947

Be sure and check out OneAngryDemocrat's site: http://www.shockedandawful.com/Tunes.html

[wildhorses]

1. K&R and bookmarked

thanks
:hi:

[txwhitedove]

2. Wow, just WOW!! Thanks, Hissyspit.

I have Dixie Chicks' CD, and James Blunt's video for "No Bravery" is profound.

K&R

[Hissyspit]

3. Thanks.

Have a good week!

[LynneSin]

4. So Melissa Etheridge wrote her song just for the movie?

That's good because it means it'll be qualified for an Academy Award nomination. Academy Award will only consider songs specifically written for the movie which would include opening/closing credit songs.

:woohoo:

[Hissyspit]

5. That's what is indicated on her fan site.

I didn't even think of that. Their aren't a lot of original songs to get nominated, so maybe it will be nominated and mean more publicity for the film later in the year. (I imagine the film itself might get nominated in documentary category.)

[DFW]

11. They aren't MTV stars

But this song, sung to the tune of When Johnnie Comes Marching
Home,
is one of the most powerful you will ever hear:
From "Sing Along With The Republicans" by The
Freedom Toast

 ( www.thefreedomtoast.com/albums.asp )

When Johnny Comes Rolling Home


When Johnny comes rolling home again, IRAQ, IRAQ!
We know he’ll never roam again, IRAQ, IRAQ!
His legs don’t work, and his shoulder droops.
But that’s OK: we support the troops.
We will all think twice when Johnny comes rolling home.

When our boy comes back broke and bent, IRAQ, IRAQ!
We’ll wonder why he ever went, IRAQ, IRAQ!
Dick Cheney got all his contracts done
And Dubya proved he’s the favorite son
But we’ll all think twice when Johnny comes rolling home.

The White House thinks they did the job IRAQ, IRAQ!
They never heard our Johnny sob, IRAQ, IRAQ!
They never found what they went to find,
And they give no thought to those left behind.
Bush will NOT be there when Johnny comes rolling home.

We wait for Johnny to arrive, IRAQ, IRAQ!
His spirit’s more dead than alive, IRAQ, IRAQ!
He joined up to fight for the U S A,
He never thought he’d get tossed away
And we’ll all wake up when Johnny comes rolling home!

[Hissyspit]

34. Thanks!

Maybe next month.

[Maestro]

6. Lefty music is so much better than righty music

Look at what they have. :puke: http://www.therightbrothers.com/

[Hissyspit]

7. Didn't you hear? Many rock songs are actually conservative songs...

according to the National Review's Top 50 Conservative Rock Songs. :rofl: :eyes:
/facetiousness

[DFW]

14. I saw that when it came out

The author of this one has more contortionist moves than Mr. Fantastic of the Fantastic Four

[Warren DeMontague]

27. Yeah, those pinheads still think "Born in the USA" is a patriotic anthem.

Right. And "Free Bird" is an Ayn Rand-esque ode to a flat tax.

[go west young man]

8. www.myspace.com/tonedeafradio for two antiwar songs that

I wrote. Feel free to download. With tongue planted firmly in cheek heres my lyrics for Here's To War. A song I wrote during the days of the Iraq invasion. I remember hearing about reporter David Bloom dying and that afternoon these lyrics came to me.

"Here's To War"

Well here's to war. Can you tell me what it's for? Well if it's to make me free I guess that's good enough for me.
You speak of freedom yet you blew off both my legs. Then you laid my soul to rest. Now I've got peace on earth instead.
How blind could I be? Now I've got no eyes to see. I've no tongue with which to speak. I've no breath with which to breathe.
What was I thinking? I must of been completely stoned. I must of never really known. The trick of war is coming home.
I wanna thank the media for digging up the truth. For telling young boys they're bulletproof and that war is good for you.
How strong could I be? Stronger than my enemy? Stronger than a falling leaf. Now I'm so quiet so at peace.
Just kicking up daisys from my bed beneath the stars. I wish you'd seen inside my heart. I wish you'd seen me blown apart.
Oh war I love you. I love the way you spun me round. Love the way you brought me down. The way you put me in the ground.

[go west young man]

9. Sorry. Link here:

www.myspace.com/tonedeafradio

[rucky]

10. The new Ministry CD is excellent!

also check out "When the President Talks to God" by Bright Eyes.

[DFW]

12. Link to a "Johnny Comes Marching" clip

http://www.thefreedomtoast.com/audio/clip_johnny.mp3

[timber84]

13. They are in my town this Sat night been quite awhile since

I've seen them.

[marmar]

15. Add "Both Sides of the Gun" by Ben Harper...

In particular, the song "Black Rain"

Black Rain
Ben Harper

Written by: Harper/Yates

You left them swimming for their lives
Down in new orleans
Can't afford a gallon of gasoline
With your useless degrees and contrary statistics
This government business is straight up sadistic

Now you don't fight for us
But expect us to die for you
You have no sympathy for us
But still i cry for you
Now you may kill the revolutionary
But the revolution you can never bury

Don't speak to us like we work for you
Selling false hope like some new dope we're addicted to
I'm not a desperate man but these are desperate times at hand
This generation is beyond your command

And it won't be long
'til the people flood the streets
To take you down
One and all
A black rain is gonna fall

[Initech]

16. Got one to add: Queensryche - I'm American

If you voted for the man you're wasting time.
He's got his fingers dipped in everyone's pie.
The news can't wait to promote all the bullshit the government is selling.

I've got this plan in motion, countdown.
Assassinate, terminate, smack down.
There's a war in my head and it needs to be said.
If they think they can take me they're dead.

[Hissyspit]

32. It's at #41.

Actually, I was holding it for next month.

[semillama]

17. Another great anti-war tune:

"Waltzing Matilda" by the Pogues. Brings a tear to your eye. On the same album, "A pair of Brown Eyes" also works.

"In the name of God" by Ziggy Marley also seems appropriate for the times.

[TXDem24]

18. A non-release from Paula Cole

that I found a long time ago.

My Hero, Mr. President

Don't let the title fool you.

[Hissyspit]

31. I took that out at the very last minute.

To save something for next month. She REALLY deserves credit for releasing a song like that BEFORE the war started. Hopefully she will put it out on her next album, if she ever gets around to releasing another.

[Treclo]

19. Add "Your Flag Decal Won't get You Into Heaven Anymore"

John Prine rocks- here's the chorus

"But your flag decal won't get you into heaven anymore
They're already overcrowded from your dirty little war
Now Jesus don't like killin', no matter what the reasons for
And your flag decal won't get you into heaven anymore".

My husband heard this and thought it was one of Prine's new songs, but it's from long ago. Funny how slapping a flag decal somewhere never loses it's charm for those who don't want to think any harder than what they are told.

[AverageJoe]

21. Sam Stone

"Flag Decal" is great. I'm a big fan of "Sam Stone," too.

Sam Stone
©John Prine

Sam Stone came home,
To his wife and family
After serving in the conflict overseas.
And the time that he served,
Had shattered all his nerves,
And left a little shrapnel in his knee.
But the morphine eased the pain,
And the grass grew round his brain,
And gave him all the confidence he lacked,
With a Purple Heart and a monkey on his back.

Chorus:
There's a hole in daddy's arm where all the money goes,
Jesus Christ died for nothin' I suppose.
Little pitchers have big ears,
Don't stop to count the years,
Sweet songs never last too long on broken radios.
Mmm....

Sam Stone's welcome home
Didn't last too long.
He went to work when he'd spent his last dime
And Sammy took to stealing
When he got that empty feeling
For a hundred dollar habit without overtime.
And the gold rolled through his veins
Like a thousand railroad trains,
And eased his mind in the hours that he chose,
While the kids ran around wearin' other peoples' clothes...

Repeat Chorus:

Sam Stone was alone
When he popped his last balloon
Climbing walls while sitting in a chair
Well, he played his last request
While the room smelled just like death
With an overdose hovering in the air
But life had lost its fun
And there was nothing to be done
But trade his house that he bought on the G. I. Bill
For a flag draped casket on a local heroes' hill.

Repeat Chorus

[Up2Late]

20. SARAH MCLACHLAN "World's On Fire" should be in Top 10 for this video alone

Check it out at this blog entry at the Alternet.org website: <http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/38422/>

Sarah McLachlan - World On Fire

Posted by David DeGraw at 10:22 AM on July 2, 2006.

Why spend millions on a music video when you can make a very effective one for $15 and give the rest to humanitarian causes?

In this powerful video, Sarah McLachlan breaks down how the money would have been spent and how the money was spent:

In LA, catering for a one day shoot = $3000

But this time, $3000 has bought 10950 meals for street children in Calcutta

$5000 = cost of make-up and hair for one day or

$5000 = one years schooling for 145 girls in Afghanistan

<http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/38422/>

A complete list of Sarah's donations can be found here.

Most Expensive Music Videos:

"Scream" - Michael Jackson & Janet Jackson: $7,000,000

"Victory" - Puff Daddy: $2,700,000+

"Heartbreaker" - Mariah Carey: $2,500,000

"What's It Gonna Be" - Busta Rhymes: $2,400,000+

"Larger Than Life" - Backstreet Boys: $2,100,000+

"Bedtime Story" - Madonna: $2,000,000+

[Catherine Vincent]

22. Kick!

Excellent!

[MiddleAmerican]

23. Son Volt - Okemah & the Melody of Riot

An album often overlooked because it was released a year before the latest crop of "protest rock" CDs, is the sublime Okemah & the Melody of Riot by the latest incarnation of Son Volt.

Okemah is a small town in eastern-central Oklahoma that's famous as the birthplace of Woody Guthrie, who serves as the guiding spirit of Son Volt's latest album.

Of particular interest to DU'ers - songs like "Jet Pilot," (the best lyrical attack on Dubya yet) "Atmosphere," "Six String belief," and "Endless War."

Get this album!

[Warren DeMontague]

25. Jay Farrar is great.

"Sebastopol" is probably one of my top 5 albums from the last 10 years, easy.

I like O&TMOR, a lot, too. I personally like the version of "Six String Belief" on Jay's live CD, Stone Steel & Bright Lights a little better. But he kicks ass all around.

Welcome to DU! :hi:

[skids]

24. Diary from the vault:

If you liked this thread, some time ago I wrote a diary about re-invigorated music lyrics (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/10/8/215353/404) which you'll probably like as well.

Plenty of lyrics excerpted from some eerily germain 60's/70's rock.

[Warren DeMontague]

26. I don't understand how anyone can compile one of these w/no R.E.M.

How about the reworked "Bad Day" that they released in 2003?

A Public service announcement followed me home the other day
I paid it nevermind. Go away.
Shits so thick you could stir it with a stick
Free Teflon whitewashed presidency
We're sick of being jerked around
Wear that on your sleeve

Broadcast me a joyful noise unto the times, lord,
Count your blessings.
We're sick of being jerked around
We all fall down.

Have you ever seen the televised St. Vitus subcommittee prize
Investigation dance? Those-ants-in- pants glances.
Well, look behind the eyes
It's a hallowed, hollow anesthesized
"save my own ass, screw these guys"
smoke and mirror lock down

Broadcast me a joyful noise unto the times, lord,
Count your blessings.
the papers wouldn't lie!
I sigh. Not one more

Its been a bad day.
Please dont take a picture
Its been a bad day.
Please

We're dug in the deep the price is steep.
The auctioneer is such a creep.
The lights went out, the oil ran dry
We blamed it on the other guy
Sure, all men are created equal.
Here's the church, here's the steeple
Please stay tuned--we cut to sequel
Ashes, ashes, we all fall down.

Broadcast me a joyful noise unto the times, lord, Count your blessings.
Embrace the lowest fear/Ignore the lower fears
Ugh, this means war.

Its been a bad day.

Broadcast me a joyful noise unto the times, lord,
Count your blessings.
We're sick of being jerked around
We all fall down.

Its been a bad day...

[Hissyspit]

33. I thought about adding Final Straw.

Maybe next month...

[Warren DeMontague]

37. Final Straw is good, I wouldn't call it their best political work

but to Stipe's credit, he wrote it and got it out real quick when the Iraq invasion was first happening with a free download, to let everyone know where he stood.

In terms of R.E.M. political albums, Lifes Rich Pageant stands out tremendously.

My top picks for their (clearer) statement tunes throughout their career:

Little America
Begin the Begin
Cuyahoga
Exhuming McCarthy

Off the last album, the two most direct political songs (besides Final Straw) were, IMHO, "The Outsiders" and "I Wanted To Be Wrong", which, despite the subdued sound, has some pretty cutting lyrics:

You know where I come from
you know what I feel
you're Yul Brenner Westworld
reporting from the field.
I threw it into reverse,
made a motion to repeal.
You kicked my legs from under me,
and tried to take the wheel.

I told you I wanted to be wrong,
but everyone is humming a song
that I don't understand.

now I know that the sun has shined on my side of the street.
the basket of America, the weevils and the wheat.
the milk and honeyed congregation, scrubbed and apple-cheeked
salute Apollo 13 from the rattle jewelry seats.

mythology's seductive and it turned a trick on me
that I have just begun to understand.

I told you I wanted to be wrong,
but everyone is humming a song
that I don't understand.

the rodeo is staged, gold circle goat-ropers and clowns.
a rumble in the third act, tie 'em up and burn 'em down.
we're armed to the teeth, born a little breech;
blue-plate special analysts, cells and SUV's

we can't approach the Allies 'cause they seem a little peeved
and speak a language we don't understand.

I told you I wanted to be wrong
but everyone is humming a song
that I don't understand.

(prop up The Omega Man, we're primed for victory,
God gave us the upper hand, there's honor among thieves.
temper it with arrogance, a dash of sad conceit.
the top's down on the T-Bird, we're the children of the free)

storm into the boardroom of the conquering elite.
did you recognize the madman who is shouting in the streets?
destroy the things that I don't understand
destroy the things that I don't understand.

[Bluzmann57]

28. From a largely unknown artist

except in the world of the music I love; The Blues. A fella who calls himself Poppa Chubby, song called "Peace" from a cd entitled Peace, Love, and Respect".
"And when I stop to look around
and see all the people on the ground
I realize I've been brought up wrong
all I've ever been taught was wrong
Rights not might and war's not peace
and wrath does offer no release
double speak is just twice the lies
and there ain't no Old Glory flag to rise
The eagle hides his head in shame
his sons are wicked and to blame
for genocide and poverty they subjugate all humanity
and so it's easy to ignore the cry for peace while they make war
we cry for peace while they make war
we cry for peace while they make war"

Words and music by Ted Horowitz, Dutch Daddy music.
2004

[Warren DeMontague]

29. "Poppa Chubby"

Man, he gets points just for the name. :evilgrin: :thumbsup:

[Hissyspit]

35. Excellent!

Did not know about that one.

[timontheleft]

30. Great music

Thanks for posting. :hippie:

:dem:

[Hissyspit]

36. Everybody be sure and download The Troublemakers song.

It's REALLY catchy.

[Kaotac]

38. I Was Only 19 by The Herd / Redgum

This is a great Australian song, though The Herd version is a cover of the original Redgum song, which was about Vietnam (I think), which is why there is the line "And Frankie kicked a mine, the day that Mankind kicked the Moon."
The song is a fave of mine and seems to fit in with the current climate.

[Hissyspit]

43. Welcome to DU!

:patriot:

:toast:

I will be sure and check it out.

[jackster]

39. Don't forget...

Merle Haggard's "America First." It comes up automatically I think when you go to his webiste.

http://www.merlehaggard.com/

He's been quoted as saying he never understood and didn't go along with Country Music's treatment of the Dixie Chicks.

If the Rethugs have lost Merle Haggard, then they haven't got much farther left to fall.

[Hissyspit]

42. Was saving for next month.

Thanks.

[rman]

40. may i submit: S.T.O.P. Movement "Down With Us"

a snipet of the lyrics:

There's nowhere to hide, nowhere to run
when the sins of the father fall on the son
The bigger the problem the bigger the gun
and you don't wanna know what your government's done
The Taliban was down with us
Saddam Housein was down with us
South Africa was down with us
And y'all wonder why the whole world don't trust


DOWN WITH US
The original S.T.O.P. Movement Song.
http://www.fredwreck.com/stop.html

http://www.fredwreck.com/downwitus_dirty.mp3
(to download, right-click and save target as)

Track Features:
Everlast
Tray Deee
Defari
Daz
J-Ro
RBX
Soopafly
Bad Azz
WC
Dilated Peoples
Mac Minister

Track Produced By:
Fredwreck

===

STOP - DOWN WITH US
http://odeo.com/audio/917720/view
Why Did Major Radio Stations Try & Silence This Man and His Music?

"With the 3rd anniversary of this ridiculous war in Iraq upon us. ask yourself how come major radio stations around the country including stations in Los Angeles ignored and Blackout this Anti-War record produced by Fredwreck.

Fredwreck in case you don’t know has laced everyone from Ice Cube to Snoop on down to Eminem with incredible tracks.

He’s always been a political type of guy so he got a bunch of West Coast artists together around the start of the Iraq War and they dropped this Anti-war song which they offered up for free download.

They had apress conference and pout out a press release, but then all the big stations which normally play many of the artists featured on this song suddenly went dumb and tried to act like it doesn’t exist.

Feel free to check this cut. It’s the dirty version. You can also find this song featured on the new album Hard truth Soldiers Vol 1 which has been released by Paris."

[Hissyspit]

41. Excellent.

Thanks. I've been trying to find more hip-hop and my google searches haven't come up with much. The commentary reveals a glimpse of why this just might be...