I have just spent an hour -in the morning!- dancing around the room and singing at the top of my lungs. Deviating from my normal high-volume lineup (Tori Amos, Godspell, Kate Bush, etc), I went to Real Player and Yahoo Radio and cranked up the volume on Green Day. I can now do a passable “Holiday” and “America Idiot.” I am so energized! I’m ready to run, to hit, to punch, to scream. Liberation! <\/p>\n
Hear the dogs howling out of key
\nTo a hymn called “Faith and Misery” (Hey)
\nAnd bleed the company lost the war today…<\/p>\nHear the drum pounding out of time
\nAnother protester has crossed the line
\nTo find the money’s on the other side
\nCan I get another Amen (Amen)
\nThere’s a flag wrapped around a score of men (Hey)
\nA gag
\nA plastic bag on a monument
\nI BEG TO DIFFER FROM THE HOLLOW LIES
\nThis is the dawning of the rest of our lives\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\nDon’t want a nation under the new mania
\nAnd can you hear the sound of hysteria?….
\nThe subliminal mindf*** America.<\/p>\nWelcome to a new kind of tension
\nAll across the alien-nation….<\/p>\nI’m not part of a redneck agenda.
\nNow everybody do the propaganda.
\nAnd sing along in the age of paranoia….<\/p>\nInformation age of hysteria.
\nIt’s calling out to idiot America….<\/p><\/blockquote>\nCan you picture it? I mean, I’ve got it DOWN. I’m at back-row-of-the-theater full VOICE. And I’m jumping up and down and getting a stitch in my side because I am way too old to be doing this. <\/p>\n
Anybody know any other terrific critical political music? I knew of Green Day, but really only had listened to what played on the radio – (Good Riddance-Time of Your Life). When they were on SNL the other night, I was struck by the performances. I was affected at so many different levels. <\/p>\n
Music isn’t really as important or meaningful to me now as it once was, but once in a while something really hits me. The last one was Eminem “Mosh.” Before that, probably Ani DeFranco, “Self-Evident.” There were a few little criticisms in Tori Amos’ “The Beekeeper” – only really a line or two in songs like “General Joy” and “Mother Revolution.” I’ve seen the video for “Amerika the Brutal” by Six Feet Under, but that’s a little too harsh for everyday – I save that one for serious depressive moods! There’s another “Amerika” song, I think by Rammstein or something like that – the video is great, but again, not really music I can get into. <\/p>\n
I would like to see a lot more music. Music can do and say more than argument at this point.
\nWriters, composers, musicians – get to it please! You’ve done it before, do it again!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Singing and dancing like a fool<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,5,10,6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative","category-culture","category-human-rights","category-personal","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}