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Interactive Poll #01/2021: Protest (+ Folk) Songs |
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suitkees 
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 Posted: January 17 2021 at 05:58 |
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Would have loved to be able to spend a bit more time to all this, because there is some good music coming by again. Last weekend I gave all song a first listen, but paying mainly attention to the music. This weekend I had some time to pay more attention to the lyrics and come to my top three (which, again, wasn't that easy) for which my main criterion is the music, lyrics coming second, in order to sort out the best tandems put up here. - First, a combo of songs that are a bit out of my normal listening habits and maybe therefor a pleasant surprise regarding both music (especially the first one) and the lyrics : Dispossession + Got No Shotgun Hydrahead Octopus Blues. - Second: The Anarchists. The Ballad of Sacco & Vanzetti is the stand-out song for me here, both musically and lyrically. The singing on Pishkù Li was less to my liking, but the music and the emotion it conveyed all the more. - Third: I was hesitating between I Was Only 19 + Shipbuilding on the one hand and Kein Ende + Racist Friend on the other. It's the actuality of things happening in Washington DC on January 6 (exactly when this songs was put up here) that made the decision for me: Trump and his mob illustrated the acuity of the lyrics of Kein Ende, sadly. Other than these mentioned above, there were some beautiful poetic lyrics here and I am thinking especially of Tom Rapp, Roy Harper and Leon Rosselson. And when you team the latter up with Cheryl Wheeler, I think you can scrap the word "silence" from your dictionary...
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Snicolette
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Posted: January 17 2021 at 08:35 |
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Many thanks for all of the positive response to Tom Rapp and Cheryl Wheeler. Both are excellent lyricists, in my view, both of these songs are pointed criticisms of events that were of the moment when they were written. Both artists have a large catalogue worth exploring, so I'm glad I was able to showcase them here.
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"Into every rain, a little life must fall." ~Tom Rapp
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Logan
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Posted: January 17 2021 at 19:26 |
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Hard to choose just three, but
The Ballad of Sacco & Vanzetti + Pishkù Li The Solidairity and Identity songs No One is Responsible + Plan Cantic de Haiduc is another fave. |
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Lewian
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Posted: January 18 2021 at 04:49 |
Good point, I have thought about this, too, but it's a difficult one. It's one thing to ask what to do to help the person to get out of their racism, and quitting the friendship may not be the way to go (although it depends on the character of that person - some may ask themselves at some point why they lost one or more dear friends, and if the answer is clear...) - it's another thing to ask yourself whether you should rather show some solidarity with the victims and targets of racism, which you don't do by continuing to have racist friends.
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