RANT ALERT!

[ElboRuum]

Sorry to disrupt the goodvibes around here with a pernicious screed, but while I'm still angry, I felt the need to get this down.

I was just listening to the radio and the local rock station is apparently covering the CSNY concert in, what... Chicago, I think. Now I love CSNY even though I'm a GenXer sort... in fact I've got nothing but love and respect for most of the 60's and 70's music scene and I've always dug the unabashedly political views that Neil Young puts into his tunes.

These guys are fan-f'ing-tastic, and I grant them this without reservation. And apparently there's an album out or about to be out with songs like "Impeach the President", whatever.

But then they started "exit-polling" the people at the concert and a couple of them made remarks like, 'it's about time that someone spoke up', and 'why don't the young ones do it, the old guys are stepping up', or some other such nonsense.

It was at this point that my brain became consumed by the fire of rage as, immediately, Green Day, Rage Against the Machine, and System of a Down popped into my head... in fact if I sat down and gave it some thought I could come up with a host of modern bands who are/have been politically charged. Modern bands have been more pissed off than the average bear these days and for A WHILE! Where the hell have you been?

I think my rage stems from the fact that, I believe that, from the vocal tonality and inflection and other indicators, these were older CSNY fans. I hate to drag out the old chestnut of the older generational folks are less than interested in the views of the younger even to the point that they're not even paying attention anymore if they ever did, and I wouldn't do so at all, except for the fact that evidence keeps popping up.

To them, I say: Open your eyes, ears, and mind to what younger people are saying and have been saying for years, as it seems you've got a lot of catching up to do! Christ, even Pink's got a protest song, and she's POP.

:rant:

Thank you for your patience in these trying times. I need a damn cigarette like nobody's business.

[VolcanoJen]

1. Eminem, Incubus, even the Dixie Chicks.

Today's musicians ARE standing up. And doing it well. And it takes nothing away from classic rock musicians to say so, either.

:thumbsup: for your rant!

[OC_Lars]

4. Mosh

Not a huge Eminem fan but that video still gives me goosebumps

[annabanana]

2. The boomers with teens and young 20's kids at home

know what's going on. If they have kids that age and DON'T know, they haven't been inculcating them properly with progressive thoughts.

[gkdmaths]

3. I figured out all on my own

what DKNY stood for a few years ago.

what's CSNY?

:eyes:

[OC_Lars]

5. Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young n/t

[gkdmaths]

6. OMG

I knew that. what a dipshit.

Ive got an excuse, though. read the latest entry in my blog and it will explain everything.

:dunce:

[ElboRuum]

7. OK...

What's the link?

[gkdmaths]

8. LOL

nevermind. Im sick with a summer cold, I took Nyquil last night.

I do not react well to dyphenhydramine, so Ill take one nyquil to get to sleep the first night and then drink scotch to sleep through the rest of my cold. so, right now I am a little loony on nyquil and liquor.

BTW: the link is in my user profile, silly. ;)

[ElboRuum]

9. Gotcha...

JagerCrank has that effect on people.

[Warren DeMontague]

10. Three word response to the question "Where is the Gen X Political Music?"

Lifes Rich Pageant.



And R.E.M. is STILL doing it, two decades later.

[SmokingJacket]

11. Radiohead's another.

And what about that Eminem fellow?

People get stuck in their own little music universes. I don't even know what older people listen to these days -- but they're not going to pay attention to what Green Day's doing unless it's right in their face.

[justgamma]

12. Check these lyrics out!

The Project For A New American Century Lyrics

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It's a gut check of what you believe

A Global Pax Americana
Neo-con, neo-fascist blue print USA hegemony
Charlatan war hawks, untried, untrue
Celebrate and exploit tragedy
To steal away control

And it's a gut check of what you believe
Will you stand up for democracy?
or a New American Century?
Endless.......

Endless violence, endless hatred
Endless empire tyranny
Will you make a stand for human dignity?
Or never ending hate?

It's a think tank, psycho and crazed
War profiteering membership - a world catastrophe
They've got a war plan that counts on you
to kill for their corporate empire
while they sit at home

And it's a gut check of what you believe
Will you stand up for democracy?
or a New American Century?
Endless.......

Endless violence, endless hatred
Endless empire tyranny
Will you make a stand for human dignity?

Are you going to...Fight Back!
Time to prove what you really believe
We gotta FIGHT BACK!
Until we win the fall
We gotta FIGHT BACK!
Will you heed the call?
The Neo-Fascist race to war
The PNAC plan to rule...the world

It's a gut check of what you believe
Will you stand up for democracy?
or a New American Century?

Are you going to...

And it's a gut check of what you believe
Will you stand up for democracy?
or a New American Century?

Endless violence, endless hatred
Endless empire tyranny
Will you make a stand for human dignity?

Will you? Or never ending hate