The DU Jukebox (August 2006 & Labor Day Edition)

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The DU Jukebox (August 2006 & Labor Day Edition)

THE DU JUKEBOX (Special Labor Day Edition) - Soundtrack to a country waking up from its self-induced nightmare. Support your favorite artists. PM me with any tips! (Note: Chart info is NOT copyright Billboard Magazine and, frankly, I just made it up, for the most part.) The DU Jukebox Inaugural Thread: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1602108

HOTTEST NEW ENTRY!

#1) WILL KIMBROUGH "Less Polite"

Album: Americanitis
Last Month: New Entry Weeks On Chart: 3

I'm trying to be less polite/
I'm fed up with the Christian wrong/
Let the people marry/
Tell me why are you so worried/
Let me sing it too you in this song

I'm trying to be less polite/
I'm gonna tell you what I've seen/
Worthless information is a corporate creation/
Yeah, they're trying to kill democracy

"I want to be mysterious and coy like Bob Dylan when he had the cool high hair and the Tom Petty outfit, around 1965-1966. When he refused to answer any questions straight. But my Mama and Daddy raised a nice southern boy who says yes ma’am and yes sir and can smile and nod his way through most situations. Then came the 2004 election." - Will Kimbrough

"Republicans who listen to 'Americanitis' may tap their country club golf shoes a while before they realize they're not in on the joke here but the punch line." - Tony Peyser's Blue State Jukebox Review

#2) BOB DYLAN "The Levee's Gonna Break"

Album: Modern Times
Last Month: New Entry Weeks On Chart: 1

I woke up this morning, butter and eggs in my bed/
I woke up this morning, butter and eggs in my bed/
I ain't got enough room to even raise my head

If it keep on rainin', the levee gonna break/
If it keep on rainin', the levee gonna break/
Some people still sleepin', some people are wide awake...
http://www.expectingrain.com/dok/cd/2006/moderntimeslyrics.shtml

#3) NEIL YOUNG "After The Garden"

Album: Living With War Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57PzfwhjYFw&search=neil%...
Last Month: New Entry Weeks On Chart: 17

Won't need no shadow man/
Runnin' the government/
Won't need no stinkin' war/
Won't need no haircut/
Won't need no shoe shine/
After the garden is gone
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/After-the-Garden-lyrics-Neil-Young/E9AE57C3B147517548257173000D1F27

#4) ANTI-FLAG "Depleted Uranium Is A War Crime"

Album: For Blood And Empire
Last Month: #31 Weeks On Chart: 8

Gonna cut through their armor, then cut through your lungs/
If you make it home alive you’ll still die young/
A greedy gang of liars, yeah we’ve seen it all before/
A moneymaking scheme led by war-profiteering whores/
Depleted uranium is a war crime
http://www.sing365.com/music/Lyric.nsf/Depleted-Uranium-Is-A-War-Crime-lyrics-Anti-Flag/C44D86CB97329DAC4825712700039307

#5) RICKIE LEE JONES with TOM MAXWELL, KEN MOSHER & DAVE ROOF (formerly of SQUIRREL NUT ZIPPERS) "Have You Had Enough?"

Album: Download Only http://myspace.com/haveyouhadenough
Last Month: New Entry Weeks On Chart: 3

Have you had enough of hypocrisy?/
Have you had enough of the spending spree?/
Have you had enough?/
Does it make you want to scream and shout?/
Have you had enough of the rubber stamps?/
Have you had enough of the wire taps?/
If you’ve had enough, then it’s time to throw the rascals out!

#6) TIM EASTON "J.P.M.F.Y.F"

Album: Ammunition
Last Month: New Entry Weeks On Chart: 8

Jesus protect me/
Jesus protect me/
From your followers/
Like the ones who turn their back on the dying/
And laugh in the face of pain and suffering/
They would kill in the name of freedom/
All the ones who would manipulate the Constitution/
And try to make laws of their opinions/
While walking shoulder to shoulder with greed and violence/
To the ones who would start wars in your name/
To the ones who would attack me for this song
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playlistId=152797498&selectedItemId=152797898

#7) S.T.O.P. MOVEMENT: FREDWRECK featuring EVERLAST, MOBB DEEP, THE ALCHEMIST, KRS-ONE, MACK 10, EVIDENCE "Dear Mr. President"

Album: Hard Truth Soldiers Vol. 1 Free Download: Free Download: http://www.fredwreck.com/mr_pres.mp3 Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eb9KuZ5i5LA
Last Month: Re-Entry Weeks On Chart: 24

Dear Mr. President, you and your friends you all are crooks/
Selling out the poor man, the soldiers' lives are took/
I can't see no difference from Mr. Hussein to Mr. Bush/
Death and deception are the brew the devil cooks

News media soundbite:"...deadly suicide car bomb in the Iraqi capital today. In one of those attacks another soldier from Task Force Baghdad, an American soldier, has died..."

There's blood on all our hands/
There's blood on all our hands/
There's blood on all our hands

"Why Did Major Radio Stations Try & Silence This Man and His Music?

With the 3rd anniversary of this ridiculous war in Iraq upon us. ask yourself how come major radio stations around the country including stations in Los Angeles ignored and Blackout this Anti-War record produced by Fredwreck. Fredwreck, in case you don’t know, has laced everyone from Ice Cube to Snoop on down to Eminem with incredible tracks." - http://odeo.com/audio/917720/view

#8) HUMAN LEAGUE "The Lebanon"

Album: Hysteria
Last Month: Re-Entry Weeks On Chart: 834

And who will have won/
When the soldiers have gone/
From the Lebanon
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/The-Lebanon-lyrics-Human-League/060C5B01E7C01D9E482569600008BD20

#9) DIXIE CHICKS "Not Ready To Make Nice"

Album: Taking The Hard Way
Last Month: #1 Weeks On Chart: 10

Forgive, sounds good/
Forget, I’m not sure I could/
They say time heals everything/
But I’m still waiting
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Not-Ready-to-Make-Nice-lyrics-Dixie-Chicks/263740D86B90D36C4825713F0011E5A0

#10) JARVIS COCKER "Running The World"

Album: Download Only http://myspace.com/jarvspace
Last Month: New Entry Weeks On Chart: 3

Well did you hear, there’s a natural order/
Those most deserving will end up with the most/
That the cream cannot help but always rise up to the top/
Well I say: Shit floats/
If you thought things had changed/
Friend you’d better think again/
Bluntly put in the fewest of words/
Cunts are still running the world/
Cunts are still running the world
http://www.merseyremakes.co.uk/gibber/index.php?tag=music

"Former Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker has released his first solo track on the internet. "Running The World" can now be heard on Cocker's MySpace page. The song was written a year ago on the night of the Live 8 concert. 'It's in no way critical of Geldof and co. but I remember thinking at the time: 'Where does engaging with these politicians/businessmen really get you?' — (12 months on & the cunts still haven't paid up as far as I can make out) — maybe the problem is something more… fundamental,' Cocker writes on his MySpace page. 'Anyway, what do I know? I'm just a pampered rock star — but at least I think it's good to discuss this stuff. Don't you?' " - chartattack.com

#11) PUBLIC ENEMY "Hell No We Ain't All Right!"

Album: Rebirth Of A Nation Downloads http://www.shutemdown.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_No,_We_Ain't_Alright
Last Month: Re-Entry Weeks On Chart: 40

New Orleans in the morning, afternoon, and night/
Hell No We Ain't Alright
http://www.counterpunch.org/chuckd09062005.html

#12) PETE SEEGER "Waist Deep In The Big Muddy"

ALBUM: The Best of Broadside 1962-1988
Last Month: Re-Entry Weeks On Chart: 1001

We're -- waist deep in the Big Muddy/
And the big fool says to push on
http://www.songmeanings.net/lyric.php?lid=3530822107858539055

#13) THOM YORKE "Harrowdown Hill"

Album: The Eraser
Video: http://youtube.com/watch?v=66N5hUZf1OQ
Last Month: New Entry Weeks On Chart: 3

I can't take their pressure/
No one cares if you live or die/
They just want me gone/
They want me gone
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Thom-Yorke-lyrics/83533352F19B7378482571A800116406

On the explicitly political end is "Harrowdown Hill," anchored by a snapping bass riff and percussive accents that skitter and slide back and forth between the left and right channels. Yorke defeatedly states, "You will be dispensed with when you become inconvenient," and asks "Did I fall or was I pushed?" referring to Dr. David Kelly, a whistle-blowing U.N. weapons inspector whose death — which took place following a sequence of events that led to a testimonial before a parliamentary committee — was ruled a suicide. -- Andy Kellman, allmusic.com

MOST REQUESTED!

#14) JOHN PRINE "Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore"

Album: John Prine
Last Month: #41 Weeks On Chart: 727

We're already overcrowded/
From your dirty little war/
Now Jesus don't like killin'/
No matter what the reason's for/
And your flag decal won't get you/
Into Heaven any more
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Your-Flag-Decal-Won't-Get-You-Into-Heaven-Anymore-lyrics-John-Prine/3053C33F7683834D48256A2A0014F9C8

#15) BRUCE COCKBURN "This Is Baghdad"

Album: Life Short Call Now
Last Month: New Entry Weeks On Chart: 3

Uranium dust and the smell of decay/
Sewage in the street where the kids run and play/
Not enough morphine and not enough gauze/
Firefight in darkness like snapping of jaws/
This is Baghdad

You couldn't see the blast - the morning was bright/
But some radiant energy flared up into the light/
Like the sky throwing its hands up in a horrified dismay/
Or the souls of the dead as they sped on their way
http://cockburnproject.net/songs&music/baghdad.html

#16) HUDSON FALCONS "Labor Day"

Album: La Famiglia
Last Month: Re-Entry Weeks On Chart: 33

What they did was really bad, the way they did it even it worse/
Last week they said they weren't gonna close down and that's for sure/
You had no warning no way to prepare /
Always lived paycheck to paycheck how can you live if a paycheck is not there
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Labor-Day-lyrics-The-Hudson-Falcons/03862E0D60EE4A2E48256E8C000D8F66

#17) JAHLE "Lullaby"

ALBUM: The Rough Trade Guide To The Music Of Iran
Last Month: New Entry Weeks On Chart: 4

"The sexy dance track "Afsoongar" - taken from Arian Band's top-selling Iranian CD - may strike some as surprising. But demonized foreign cultures rarely sound like you expect them to. If the pop songs on this illuminating survey are mainly for curiosity seekers, the Persian folk and classical music is mostly mesmerizing. A reminder of the human beauty drowned out by sword rattling." - Will Hermes, Entertainment Weekly

"It's virtually impossible to consider the state of contemporary Iranian music without taking into account the country's contentious political relationship with the rest of the world. As compiler Simon Broughton acknowledges at the outset of his liner notes, the images of Iran received on the outside, particularly in the West, tend to give an impression that this complex country is populated entirely by religious zealots who would suppress any creative expression. Compounding that false notion is that not much indigenous Iranian music has been allowed to escape, to be heard and appreciated in the West. Not surprisingly though, Iran, both in its cosmopolitan city of Tehran and throughout the rest of the country, hosts a diverse range of traditional and modern artists, as well as many who fuse the two into a new whole." - Jeff Tamarkin

#18) ANI DIFRANCO Millennium Theater

Album: Reprieve
Last Week: New Entry Weeks On Chart: 2

Millennium spectacle/
Everybody put on a show/
Slip the little prince in the back door/
21st century here we go

Patriarchies realign/
While the ice caps melt/
And new orleans bides her time/
New orleans bides her time
http://www.songmeanings.net/lyric.php?lid=3530822107858620548

#19) MELISSA ETHERIDGE "I Need To Wake Up"

Album: 'An Inconvenient Truth' Soundtrack http://www.radionewsamerica.com/media/kynd/wakeup.mp3
Last Month: #4 Weeks On Chart: 7

I need to move/
I need to wake up/
I need to change/
I need to shake up/
I need to speak out/
Something's got to break up/
I've been asleep/
And I need to wake up now

#20) CURSIVE "Bad Sects"

Album: Happy Hollow
Last Month: New Entry Weeks On Chart: 1

For 20 years I’ve held this pulpit, preached the word, served the Eucharist/
Gained the trust of the townsfolk, made every football game, never missed a social/
A lifetime of burning culminated in one innocent forbidden touch/
I know this is wrong cuz I’m told this is wrong/
When all those nights we stayed up the two of us/
Singing our lives just the two of us/
We were hiding in the dark/
I fell asleep by his side
http://www.songmeanings.net/lyric.php?lid=3530822107858606066

#21) THE ROOTS "False Media"

Album: Game Theory
Last Month: New Entry Weeks On Chart: 1

Send our troops to get my paper/
Tell them stay away from them skyscrapers/
Ain’t long before y’all get y’all acres
We gon' pimp the shit out of nature/
. . . I'm gonna make you feel a little bit safer/
Because it ain't over/
See that's how we get your fear to control you

#22) JOAN BAEZ "Deportees (Plane Wreck At Los Gatos)"

Album: Blessed Are
Last Month: Re-Entry Weeks On Chart: 824

Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye, Rosalita/
Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria/
You won't have your names when you ride the big airplane/
All they will call you will be "deportees"

#23) GARY HOOD AND THE LAST SHOW EVER "Sibel Edmonds"

Album: Download Only http://www.myspace.com/garyhoodandthelastshowever
Last Month: Re-Entry Weeks On Chart: 46

I wanna know/
I wanna know/
For who the whistle blows/
She blows for you/
Get off the couch/
Raise up your hands/
In a world where it's time to take a stand/
Don't tell me that's just the way it goes/
I need to know what Sibel Edmonds knows... So do you

#24) BILLY BRAGG "The Price of Oil"

Album: Peace Not War Vol. 1
Last Month: Re-Entry Weeks On Chart: 163

It’s all about the price of oil/
‘cause it’s all about the price of oil/
don’t give me no shit/
about blood, sweat, tears and toil/
it’s all about the price of oil

http://www.billybragg.com/releases/miscellaneous/price_of_oil.html

#25) BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN "Pay Me My Money Down" b/w "How Can A Poor Man Survive Such Times And Live"

Album: We Shall Overcome - The Seeger Sessions
Last Month: New Entry Weeks On Chart: 15

Well, forty nights, and nights at sea/
Pay me my money down/
That captain worked every last dollar outta me/
Pay me my money down/
Pay me, pay me/
Pay me my money down/
Pay me or go to jail/
Pay me my money down
http://www.sing365.com/music/Lyric.nsf/Pay-Me-My-Money-Down-lyrics-Bruce-Springsteen/E20AD0D6041ACE514825715000089F80

"... and on October 3, Columbia will release an expanded set with an expanded title: We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions - American Land Edition. The fall release takes its name from the new song that Springsteen unveiled for the last three shows of his recent U.S. tour... CD: Five additional tracks for the album itself. Two of them, 'Buffalo Gals' and 'How Can I Keep From Singing?,' were audio bonus tracks on the DVD side of the original DualDisc. The remaining three are previously unreleased: 'How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live,' 'Bring 'Em Home,' and 'American Land.'" - backstreets.com

#26) KRIS KRISTOFFERSON "In The News"

Album: This Old Road
Last Month: #10 Weeks On Chart: 8

See the lightning, hear the cries/
Of the wounded in a world in Holy war/
Mortal thunder from the skies/
Killing everything they say they're fighting for
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/In-The-News-lyrics-Kris-Kristofferson/B9977AC669317C874825712C0009CDFA

#27) MUSE "Take A Bow"

Album: Black Holes and Revelations
Last Month: New Entry Weeks On Chart: 4

And spell, cast a spell/
Cast a spell on the country you run/
And risk, you will risk/
You will risk all their lives and their souls
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Take-A-Bow-lyrics-Muse/8F27FB1F8B9913B44825718C00106940

#28) ALISON KRAUSS & UNION STATION "Pastures of Plenty"

Album: Lonely Runs Both Ways
Last Month: Re-Entry Weeks On Chart: 31

California, Arizona, I harvest your crops/
When it's on up North to Oregon to gather your hogs/
Take the beet from your ground, cut the grapes from your vine/
Just to place on your table your light, sparkling wine
http://www.sing365.com/music/Lyric.nsf/Pastures-of-Plenty-lyrics-Alison-Krauss/71EAD362FDB6D1E048256F5C000EF05D

#29) EDWIN STARR "Stop The War Now"

Album: Involved
Last Month: Re-Entry Weeks On Chart: 2918

And what does a mother get in return/
For the life of the son she’s lost/
A few measly pennies a month/
A medal, a grave and a doggone cross

I said, stop the war now/
Good God, hear me saying/
Don’t put it off another day
http://www.top40db.net/Lyrics/?SongID=70207&By=Year&Match=

#30) NEIL YOUNG "Let's Impeach The President"

Album: Living With War
Last Month: #1 Weeks On Chart: 9

What if Al Qaeda blew up the levees/
Would New Orleans have been safer that way/
Sheltered by our government's protection/
Or was someone just not home that day?
http://www.songmeanings.net/lyric.php?lid=3530822107858593904

#31) RISE AGAINST "Prayer of the Refugee"

Album: The Sufferer & The Witness
Last Month: New Entry Weeks On Chart: 7

So open your eyes child/
Let’s be on our way/
Broken windows and ashes/
Are guiding the way
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Prayer-Of-The-Refugee-lyrics-Rise-Against/AE3DA3E5A017984F48257177001DE973

#32) PAULA COLE "My Hero, Mr. President (DEMO)"

(available online only) http://www.paulacole.com/multimedia/index.html
Last Month: Re-Entry Weeks On Chart: 350

Now what you gonna do about our economy/
You spend three trillion dollars in a heartbeat/
Now what about us folks who live hand to mouth/
We can't afford our lives, and we're working three jobs
Daddy's little helper, silver spoon in your mouth/
The Policeman of the world gonna kick Hussein's butt/
Connecticut yankee in a cowboy hat/
You're my hero, Mr. President
http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/lyrics/myheromrpresident.html

#33) BOB DYLAN "Talkin' World War III Blues"

Album: The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
Last Month: Re-Entry Weeks On Chart: Way Too Long

Some time ago a crazy dream came to me/
I dreamt I was walkin' into World War Three

http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Talkin'-World-War-III-Blues-lyrics-Bob-Dylan/671A41B0E3BF5D6A4825696900276E98

#34) MOBY "In This World"

Album: 18
Last Month: Re-Entry Weeks On Chart: 89

Lordy don't leave me all by myself/
Lordy don't leave me all by myself
http://www.songmeanings.net/lyric.php?lid=124717

#35) NEIL SEDAKA "The Immigrant"

Album: Sedaka's Back
Last Month: Re-Entry Weeks On Chart: 333

Now he arrvies with hopes and his heart set on miracles/
Come to marry his fortune with a handful of promises/
To find they've closed the door/
They don't want him anymore/
There isn't any more to go around/
Turning away he remembers he once heard a legend/
That spoke of a mystical magical land called America

It was a time when strangers were welcome here...
http://www.stlyrics.com/songs/n/neilsedaka10670/theimmigrant342315.html

#36) SON VOLT "Jet Pilot"

Album: Okemah and the Melody of Riot
Last Month: Re-Entry Weeks On Chart: 53

Jet pilot for the day/
Washed his sins away/
Loves to see the Rangers play/
His daddy has a job in Washington/
Wants to raise a Harvard son

Junior liked to let his hair down/
Only trouble is, word gets around
http://www.songmeanings.net/lyric.php?lid=3530822107858574291

#37) PINK FLOYD "Pigs (3 Different Ones)"

Album: Animals
Last Month: Re-Entry Weeks On Chart: 501

Big man, pig man, ha ha charade you are/
You well heeled big wheel, ha ha charade you are/
And when your hand is on your heart/
You're nearly a good laugh, almost a joker/
With your head down in the pig bin

http://www.songmeanings.net/lyric.php?lid=2867

#38) PEACHES "Fuck Or Kill"

Album: Impeach My Bush
Last Month: New Entry Weeks On Chart: 3

Let's face it: we all want toosh/
If I'm wrong impeach my bush/
Impeach my bush/
Impeach my bush/
Impeach my bush/
Impeach bush/
Impeach bush
http://www.lyricsmania.com/lyrics/peaches_lyrics_8197/impeach_my_bush_lyrics_29554/fuck_or_kill_lyrics_321701.html

"Merrill Beth Nisker, better known as Peaches, remains fascinating, despite a catalog weighted with great album titles rather than great albums. While her great record, Teaches Of Peaches, introduced an oversexed, foul-mouthed caricature, her follow-ups favor metasexual jokiness over aggressive id relief: she tells interviewers she has hermaphrodite envy, not penis envy." -- Jessica Suarez, rhino.com

#39) JOHNNY MANDEL "Theme From M*A*S*H (Suicide Is Painless)"

Album: Soundtrack 'M*A*S*H'
Last Month: Re-Entry Weeks On Chart: 842

Through early morning fog I see/
Visions of the things to be/
The pains that are withheld for me/
I realize and I can see...
http://www.songmeanings.net/lyric.php?lid=122330

#40) UTAH PHILLIPS & ANI DIFRANCO "Joe Hill"

Album: Fellow Workers
Last Month: Re-Entry Weeks On Chart: 220

"The Copper Bosses killed you Joe/
they shot you Joe" says I/
"Takes more than guns to kill a man"/
Says Joe "I didn't die"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Hill

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#41) DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS "Dress Blues"

Album: Download Only http://ninebullets.org/home/index.php
Video: http://www.neilyoung.com/lwwtoday/videolinks/videolink_21.html
Last Week: New Entry Weeks On Chart: 16

Your baby would just about be here/
Your very last tour would be up/
But you ain't coming back/
They're all dressing in black/
Drinking sweet tea in styrofoam cups

Mama's and grandmama's love you/
American boys hate to lose/
And you never planned on the bombs in the sand/
Or sleeping in your dress blues
http://www.enctoday.com/mess/index.cfm?page=topic&topicID=8465

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