7 Replies to “Weekend Jukebox: Getting Bombed”

  4. Loved Raw Power by The Stooges! We used to listen to it when my friends and I were about 14 or 15 and just starting to smoke cigarettes, swear, masturbate, etc. That album was like audio pornography and it always felt like a subversive act to listen to it.

    Speaking of subversive acts, does anyone remember when musical acts could actually make witty and insightful comments about the state of the world? What happened to that, anyway?

    Here are the ever-subversive Clash performing Rock the Casbah:

    http://youtu.be/bJ9r8LMU9bQ

    1. Well…, It’s Been A While…,
      since Jackson Browne has spoken up…, but he comes through loud and clear on his new release “Standing in the Breach”.

      Here’s a cut called Which Side? and the lyrics below.

      You might be a young man with the mountain in his step
      In search of El Dorado, but you haven’t found it yet
      Or you might be an old man with his whole life at his back
      And you can hear eternity whispering down the track
      Or maybe you’re a woman, or just about to be
      And you can feel the generations swimming in your sea
      But you know that it’s coming, as surely as the dawn
      The battle for the future, baby, which side are you on?

      Come on come on come on if you’re coming
      Come on come on come on
      Come on come on come on if you’re coming
      Which side are you on?
      Come on come on come on if you’re coming
      Battle lines are drawn
      Come on come on come on if you’re coming
      Which side – which side are you on?

      Which side?
      The corporations attacking
      The natural world – drilling and fracking
      All done with the backing of the craven and corrupt
      Or the ones who fight
      For the Earth with all their might
      And in the name of all that’s right
      Confront and disrupt

      There’s a restlessness out in the street there’s a question in the air
      How long if this theft goes on will our country still be here?
      People know the game is rigged even as they play
      They see their expectations slowly slip away
      They’ve got subsidies for billionaires, there’s a bailout for the banks
      A monopoly on medicine, and a sale on armored tanks
      The whole damned country’s being sold – out that revolving door
      Between Washington and Wall Street like it’s one big Dollar Store

      Come on come on come on if you’re coming
      Come on come on come on
      Come on come on come on if you’re coming
      Which side are you on?
      Come on come on come on if you’re coming
      Battle lines are drawn
      Come on come on come on if you’re coming
      Which side – which side are you on?

      Which side?
      The bankers and their special friends
      Who rob you time and again
      Who like to pretend they’re the only game in town
      Or the people who
      Hope with everything they do
      They can build something new
      And turn this world around

      Who owns the elections? Who profits either way?
      Who ends up with all that money politicians pay?
      To be the fearless leader, to put themselves across
      To be the one entrusted with the profit and the loss
      You try hard to believe that when you cast your vote it counts
      But elections are won with money in ever larger amounts
      Take the money out of politics and maybe we might see
      This country turn back into something more like democracy

      Come on come on come on if you’re coming
      Come on come on come on
      Come on come on come on if you’re coming
      Which side are you on?
      Come on come on come on if you’re coming
      Battle lines are drawn
      Come on come on come on if you’re coming
      Which side – which side are you on?

  6. You OK Partner? Where’s…
    the Pete Seeger?

    Here’s one from that new guy I keep pluggin’…, formerly from Idaho…, and now living over in your neighborhood I believe.

    Josh Ritter with, Temptation of Adam

    If this was the Cold War we could keep each other warm
    I said on the first occasion that I met Marie
    We were crawling through the hatch that was the missile silo door
    And I don’t think that she really thought that much of me
    I never had to learn to love her like I learned to love the Bomb
    She just came along and started to ignore me
    But as we waited for the Big One I started singing her my songs
    And I think she started feeling something for me

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