A Night of Patriotic Protest
Political subject matter was the rule last night on Roundtrip (WNRB-LP, 93.3 FM, Wausau). I almost felt subversive as tune after tune attacked political badness of all sorts. The goal for the show: just to add to the general presidential polemic in some small way … make people think a little more about issues and choices and stuff. I will do this sort of show a few times again before voting day. Here’s last night’s lineup:
Bob Dylan, A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall … Bob always said he didn’t do protest songs
Bob Marley, Get Up Stand Up
Cream, Politician
The Clash, Guns of Brixton
John Prine, Your Flag Decal Won’t Get You Into Heaven Anymore … thanks, Jim S. for the loan
Randy Newman, Political Science … “let’s drop the big one and see what happens”
Elvis Costello, Tramp the Dirt Down … not a big Maggie Thatcher fan evidently
Kate Bush, Army Dreamers
Cat Stevens, Where Do the Children Play?
Buffalo Springfield, For What It’s Worth
David Crosby, What Are Their Names?
Uncle Tupelo, No Depression
Wilco, Christ for President … Woody Guthrie’s words, Billy Bragg’s voice
REM, Exhuming McCarthy
Rolling Stones, Sweet Neocon
Green Day, American Idiot
Jefferson Airplane, Volunteers … it’s morning at Woodstock “up against the wall, tear down the wall!”
Joe Jackson, Obvious Song … “the walls are coming down!”
Mothers of Invention, Trouble Every Day … “I’m watchin’ and I’m waitin’ hopin’ for the best … but there’s no way to delay that trouble comin’ every day”
John Prine, Some Humans Ain’t Human
Peter Gabriel, Wallflower … “I will do what I can do”
George Harrison, Brainwashed
Beatles, Revolution
Don’t be afraid to talk about politics. And make sure you vote.
cupcake said:
Here’s a blast from the past: Are you familiar with a song by David Gates & Bread (I know - they probably weren’t a group you followed, like I did), from the early 70s: “This isn’t what the Governmeant” - about taxes and war, etc. What goes around comes around.
September 12th, 2008 at 3:08 pm #