Please help compile list of musicians standing up to *

[paineinthearse]

This was inspired by LibertyorDeath's "Green Day Bash Bush At End of Year Bash" - http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x34836

Please list the band or solo artist name, website and compilation of their anti*/anti-war work.

peace

p.s. I'll start the list (below) with Evan Greer, a local kid who is toruning nationally and will be playing at the January 7 "Out of Iraq / Impeach *" forum in Cambridge. See the Massachusetts forum for details.

[salin]

1. Mellancamp's "On Washington"

He took a lot of local hoosier bad press after releasing the song, and then after writing a long public article explaining his concerns about bushco and their war.

[Triana]

70. Moby (read his journals)

[hellbound-liberal]

135. "Vote for Change" tour in D.C. in 2004 was great!

Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Raitt and Jackson Browne, R.E.M., John Fogerty, John Mellencamp, Pearl Jam, Dave Matthews Band. It was a fantastic show. I became a big fan of DMB immediately, R.E.M and Pearl Jam were fantastic too. We caught the last Metro out of D.C. for our 20 mile ride home.

[paineinthearse]

2. Evan Greer

http://www.geocities.com/evangreer2003/ http://www.myspace.com/evangreer



"An eloquent and energetic writer, he reminds me of Phil Ochs."

~ Howard Zinn

enough said!

[paineinthearse]

14. .

self-deleted

[tx_dem41]

3. The Decemberists....check out this video.

http://www.otaku-house.com/films/decdnload.htm

(Quicktime required).

[jen4clark]

9. Oh Love this!

Thanks txdem!

[tx_dem41]

11. No problem. They are a great band even without the political

message. Thank you for taking the time to watch it.

[Clark2008]

38. I loved it!

Thanks tx_dem41!

They remind me of The Jam with the beat of the HouseMartins.

Oh - I really like them!

Will show them to my fellow musical-lover-in-lust, the fiance, when he returns from playing board games with his buddies.

I'd say we'll have their CD downloaded by this evening.

[tx_dem41]

42. Its a great CD. I'm a huge indie/college rock fan.

I had them on my radar before I heard this song. When I finally saw the video, I was way past hooked.

Thanks for checking it out.

[Wilms]

65. Thanks. Right up my alley. n/t

[JanMichael]

4. Billy Bragg, Lester Chambers, Tom Morrello, Steve Earle, Jill Sobule...

...Mike Mills, Boots Riley...

Bunches and bunches!

Those above mentioned performed on the Tell Us The Truth Tour in 2003.

[donheld]

5. Barbra Streisand

She's stood against * for a long time.

[rucky]

6. Bright Eyes / Ken Oberst

do a lyric search for "When The President Talks To God"

he played it on the Tonight Show and Leno's chin dropped to the ground.

EDIT: Also The Cowboy Junkies!

[ghostsofgiants]

113. That's Connor, not Ken

Also check out his other band Desaparecidos.

[jen4clark]

7. James McMurtry - We Can't Make It Here

We Can’t Make It Here

James McMurtry


There’s a Vietnam Vet with a cardboard sign
Sitting there by the left turn line
Flag on his wheelchair flapping in the breeze
One leg missing and both hands free
No one’s paying much mind to him
The V.A. budget’s just stretched so thin
And now there’s more coming back from the Mideast war
We can’t make it here anymore


That big ol’ building was the textile mill that fed our kids and it paid our bills
But they turned us out and they closed the doors
We can’t make it here anymore


See those pallets piled up on the loading dock
They’re just gonna sit there ‘til they rot
‘Cause there’s nothing to ship, nothing to pack
Just busted concrete and rusted tracks
Empty storefronts around the square
There’s a needle in the gutter and glass everywhere
You don’t come down here unless you’re looking to score
We can’t make it here anymore

The bar’s still open but man it’s slow
The tip jar’s light and the register’s low
The bartender don’t have much to say
The regular crowd gets thinner each day
Some have maxed out all their credit cards
Some are working two jobs and living in cars
Minimum wage won’t pay for a roof, won’t pay for a drink
If you gotta have proof just try it yourself Mr. CEO
See how far $5.15 an hour will go
Take a part time job at one your stores
Bet you can’t make it here anymore

There’s a high school girl with a bourgeois dream
Just like the pictures in the magazine
She found on the floor of the laundromatA woman with kids can forget all that
If she comes up pregnant what’ll she do
Forget the career, forget about school
Can she live on faith? Live on hope?
High on Jesus or hooked on dope
When it’s way too late to just say no
You can’t make it here anymore

Now I’m stocking shirts in the Wal-Mart store
Just like the ones we made before
‘ Cept this one came from Singapore
I guess we can’t make it here anymore

Should I hate a people for the shade of their skin
Or the shape of their eyes or the shape I’m in
Should I hate ‘em for having our jobs today
No I hate the men sent the jobs away
I can see them all now, they haunt my dreams
All lily white and squeaky clean
They’ve never known want, they’ll never know need
Their shit don’t stink and their kids won’t bleed
Their kids won’t bleed in their damn little war
And we can’t make it here anymore

Will work for food will die for oil
Will kill for power and to us the spoils
The billionaires get to pay less tax
The working poor get to fall through the cracks
So let ‘em eat jellybeans let ‘em eat cake
Let ‘em eat shit, whatever it takes
They can join the Air Force, or join the Corps
If they can’t make it here anymore

So that’s how it is, that’s what we got
If the president wants to admit it or not
You can read it in the paper, read it on the wall
Hear it on the wind if you’re listening at all
Get out of that limo, look us in the eye
Call us on the cell phone tell us all why

In Dayton Ohio or Portland Maine
Or a cotton gin out on the great high plains
That’s done closed down along with the school
And the hospital and the swimming pool
Dust devils dance in the noonday heat
There’s rats in the alley and trash in the street
Gang graffiti on a boxcar door
We can’t make it here anymore


from Childish Things

http://www.jamesmcmurtry.com/4albums.htm

Listen to it HERE! (band version is better than acoustic version imo.)

[Lex]

8. Steve Earle

Check out his CD entitled "The Revolution Starts Now."

http://www.steveearle.com/

[no_hypocrisy]

10. Dixie Chicks.

Bruce Springsteen

[Angry Girl]

12. Green Day

And here's a DU link!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x34836

Oh, yeah, Nightweed, of course -- We'll even have a free song ready to download within a few weeks!

[RagingInMiami]

13. From Eminem's Mosh

They ain't gonna stop us they can't, we stronger now more than ever
They tell us no we say yea, they tell us stop we say go
Rebel with a rebel yell, raise hell we gonna let em know
Stomp, push, shove, mush, Fuck Bush, until they bring our troops home (c'mon)

[kliljedahl]

15. Steve Earle

Played at the demonstrations in DC, album "The Revolution Starts Now. Good except for that awful "Condi, Condi". What's up with that?



Keith’s Barbeque Central

[Lex]

37. Yep, see #8.

I think he was making serious fun of Condi being an uptight ice-queen in "Condi, Condi."

[kliljedahl]

39. #8 wasn't there when I started

DAMN I wish I were a better faster typer. I wasn't sure, that's the only song I don't like on that album. I mean REALLY don't like.



Keith’s Barbeque Central

[otohara]

16. Jackson Browne

w/ this new video of an old song "Lives in The Balance" http://www.jacksonbrowne.com/

[ddeclue]

111. This was tremendous..

http://video.jacksonbrowne.com/lives/mov

Jackson is one of my heroes.

Please post this as a top level thread. I would do it but you found it first.

The video is outstanding - of course it'll never make MTV these days.

I prefer the original studio music version.

Doug D.

[EstimatedProphet]

17. Willie Nelson

[Marleyb]

50. Whatever happened to peace on earth

MP3
http://www.kucinich.us/nelson_poe_song.php

[Marleyb]

too many to count

how about...NOFX Idiot son of an asshole
http://plaza.ufl.edu/xkimx/NOFX%20-%20Idiot%20Son%20of%20an%20Asshole.mp3


here's a great collection
http://www.benfrank.net/nuke/Free_Peace_mp3s.html

[TomPainesBones]

18. Sting

The song sucks but the lyrics are good...


THIS WAR (2003)

You've got the mouth of a she wolf
Inside the mask of an innocent lamb
You say your heart is all compassion
But there's just a flat line on your cardiogram

Yet you always made a profit baby
If it was a famine or a feast

Yes, I'm the soul of indiscretion,
I was cursed with x-ray vision,
I could see right through all the lies you told,
When you smiled for the television

And you can see the coming battle
You pray the drums will never cease
And you may win this war that's coming
But would you tolerate the peace?

Investing in munitions
And those little cotton flags
Invest in wooden caskets
In guns and body bags, guns and body bags

Your daddy was a businessman
And it always made good sense
You know the war can make you rich my friend
In dollars, pounds and cents

In the temple that was Mammon's
You were ordained the parish priest
Yes you may win this coming battle
But could you tolerate the peace?

Invest in deadly weapons
And those little cotton flags
Invest in wooden caskets
In guns and body bags
You're invested in oppression
Investing in corruption
Invest in every tyranny
And the whole world's destruction

I imagine there's a future
When all the earthly wars are over
You may find yourself just standing there
On the white cliffs of Dover

You may ask, what does it profit a man
To gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his soul?
Is that your body you see on the rocks below
As the tide begins to roll?

And you invested in this prison
From which you never got released
You may have won this war we're fighting
But would you tolerate the peace?

There's a war on our democracy
A war on our dissent
There's a war inside religion
And what Jesus might have meant

There's a war on mother nature
A war upon the seas
There's a war upon the forests
On the birds and the bees

There's a war on education
A war on information
A war between the sexes
And every nation

A war on our compassion
A war on understanding
A war on love and life itself
It's war that they're demanding

Make it easy on yourself
And don't do nothing

* * *

[donheld]

19. Remember Linda Rondstadt was kicked out of a hotel

because she stood up to *

[BuyingThyme]

20. System of a Down

http://www.systemofadown.com/


B.Y.O.B. Lyrics:

WHY DO THEY ALWAYS SEND THE POOR!
Barbarisms by Barbaras
With pointed heels.
Victorious, victorious, kneel.
For brand new spankin' deals.
Marching forward hypocritic
And hypnotic computers.
You depend on our protection,

Yet you feed us lies from the table cloth.
La la la la la la la la la,
Everybody’s going to the party have a real good time.
Dancing in the desert blowing up the sunshine.

Kneeling roses disappearing,
Into Moses’ dry mouth,
Breaking into Fort Knox,
Stealing our intentions,
Hangars sitting dripped in oil,
Crying FREEDOM!

Handed to obsoletion,
Still you feed us lies from the table cloth.
La la la la la la la la la,
Everybody’s going to the party have a real good time.
Dancing in the desert blowing up the sunshine.
Everybody’s going to the party have a real good time.
Dancing in the desert blowing up the sunshine.

Blast off, its Party time,
And we don't live in a fascist nation,
Blast off , its party time,
And where the fuck are you?
….. Yeah
Where the fuck are you?
Where the fuck are you?

Why don’t presidents fight the war?
Why do they always send the poor?
Why don’t presidents fight the war?
Why do they always send the poor?

Kneeling roses disappearing,
Into Moses’ dry mouth,
Breaking into Fort Knox,
Stealing our intentions,
Hangars sitting dripped in oil,
Crying FREEDOM!

Handed to obsoletion,
Still you feed us lies from the tablecloth.
La la la la la la la la la,
Everybody’s going to the party have a real good time.
Dancing in the desert blowing up the sunshine.
Everybody’s going to the party have a real good time.
Dancing in the desert blowing up the sunshine.

Where the fuck are you!
Where the fuck are you!

Why don’t presidents fight the war?
Why do they always send the poor?
Why don’t presidents fight the war?
Why do they always send the poor?
Why, do, they always send the poor
They only send the poor

[Pushed To The Left]

48. System is probably my favorite band

right now, even without the political message! I need to see them in concert one of these days.

[evirus]

82. also sad statue

that ones good also, i got a line on sig i think

[paineinthearse]

21. Jim Infantino / Jim's Big Ego

This absolutely flopped when in September, but let's try again.

http://www.bigego.com/

Asshole

From They're Everywhere! (cc) Some rights reserved 2003 Jim Infantino

I've been bashed and battered
and bruised and beaten
I've been abused, misused
and I've been mistreated
I've been up and down
and still I feel
you're an asshole.

And I've looked at it from your side
and I've looked at it from mine
and I know you had a hard time
when you were only 9
but that was long ago
and now there's just now denying
that you're an asshole...

and You're an asshole
you're an asshole
yeah yeah yeah yeah
you're an asshole.

na na na na na
na na na na na
na na na na na na
na na na na na
na na na
na na na na na
you're an asshole

Yeah You're an asshole
you're an asshole
yeah yeah yeah yeah
you're an asshole.

and I know there are those people
who say they never are to blame
and that's not my modus operandi
I don't play that game
and then there are some people
who claim the sun shines out their behind
and it's oh so hard
to get them to change their mind
and I've given up trying

It's a valuable muscle
near the base of the spine
and I know I'd be sorry if i ever lost mine
but it stinks when you're always full of shit
all the time
cause you're an asshole

and You're an asshole
you're an asshole
yeah yeah yeah yeah
yeah yeah yeah yeah
yeah yeah yeah yeah
you're an asshole.

"Jim's Big Ego" - http://www.bigego.com/jbe04/#red - is a Massachusetts-based band. "Asshole", from the album "They're Everywhere", was used for this production.

See their tour schedule - http://www.bigego.com/egog/calendar.php for a venue near you.

[Marnieworld]

22. Bruce Springsteen eom

[seemslikeadream]

23. Until that day the dream of lasting peace,

MARCUS GARVEY

Marcus Garvey's words come to pass,
Marcus Garvey's words come to pass,

Ain't got no food to eat,
Ain't got no money to spend, wo-oo-oo
Ain't got no food to eat,
Ain't got no money to spend, woo-oo-oo

Come, little one and let me do what i can do for you
And you and you alone
Come, little one, come wo-oo-oo
Let me do all i can do for you and you alone, woo-oo-oo

He who knows the right thing
And do it not
Shall be spanked with many stripes,

Weeping and wailing and moaning,
You've got yourself to blame, I tell you.
Do right do right do right do right do right,
Do right do right do right do right do righ
Tell ya to do right, woo-oo-oo
Beg ya to do right, woo -oo- oo

Where is bagawire, he's nowhere to be found
He can't be found
First betrayer who gave away Marcus Garvey
Son of satan, first prophesy,
Catch them, Garvey old

prophesy fullfilled
Catch them Garvey, catch them woo-oo-oo
Hold them Marcus, hold them woo-oo-oo
Marcus garvey, marcus woo-oo-oo



WAR

Until the philosophy,
Which holds one race superior
And another inferior,
Is finally and permanently
Discredited and abandoned,
Everywhere is war.

WAR

Until there is no longer first class
Or second class citizens of any nation.
Until the color of a man's skin,
Is of no more significance than
The color of his eyes,
I've got to say "war".

WAR

That until the basic human rights,
Are equally guaranteed to all,
Without regard to race,
I'll say "war"

Until that day the dream of lasting peace,
World-citizenship and the rule of
International morality will remain
Just a fleeting illusion to be pursued,
But never obtained.
And everywhere is war.

Until the ignoble and unhappy regime
Which holds all of us through,
Child-abuse, yeah, child-abuse yeah,
Sub-human bondage has been toppled,
Utterly destroyed,
Everywhere is war.

War in the east,
War in the west,
War up north,
War down south,
There is war,
And the rumors of war.

Until that day,
the african continent will know no peace
There is no continent,
Which will know peace.

Children, children.

Fight!

We find it necessary.
We know we will win.
We have confidence in the victory
Of good over evil
Of good over evil

Fight the real enemy!



Downpressorman where ya gonna run to
tell me
Downpressorman where ya gonna run to
Downpressorman where ya gonna run to
oh on that day

if ya run to the sea the sea will be boiling
if ya run to the sea the sea will be boiling
if ya run to the sea the sea will be boiling
oh on that day

Downpressorman where ya gonna run to tell me
Downpressorman where ya gonna run to
Downpressorman where ya gonna run to
oh on that day

if ya run to the rocks the rocks will be melting
if ya run to the rocks the rocks will be melting
if ya run to the rocks the rocks will be melting
oh on that day

Downpressor man where ya gonna run to tell me
Downpressor man where ya gonna run to
Downpressor man where ya gonna run to
oh on that day

And if ya make your bed in hell I will be there
make your bed in hell i will be there
I say make your bed in hell i will be there
on that day

Downpressorman where ya gonna run to tell me
Downpressorman where ya gonna run to
Downpressorman where ya gonna run to
oh on that day

if ya run to the rocks the rocks will be melting
if ya run to the rocks the rocks will be melting
if ya run to the rocks the rocks will be melting
oh on that day

Downpressorman where ya gonna run to
Downpressorman where ya gonna run to
Downpressorman where ya gonna run to
oh on that day

where are ya gonna fuckin' run to
Downpressorman
where are ya gonna fuckin' run to


THROW DOWN YOUR ARMS

Throw down your arms and come
Throw down your arms and come
Throw down your arms and come
Drop them!

Two of us have a little fuss
Ev'rything you draw your last
Ev'rything you run for your gun
Ev'rything you fling rock stone
Hear this!

Throw down your arms and come
Throw down your arms and come
Throw down your arms and come
Drop them!

A no ignorance he do it
A no brute force do it.
And Your weapons can't do it
So hear this!

Throw down your arms and come
Throw down your arms and come
Throw down your arms and come
Drop them!
Put them away to stay

As I was from my old grandmother
Mother mother mother
She was from she usually say
children children children please obey

Throw down your arms and come
Throw down your arms and come
Throw down your arms and come
Drop them!
Put them away to stay
Put them away

I long to see you
I long to reason with you
I long to hold your hands in my hands
Can't you see
Can't you see?

Throw down your arms and come
Throw down your arms and come
Throw down your arms and come
Drop them!
Put them away to stay


Paddy's Lament Lyrics

Well it's by the hush, me boys, and sure that's to MIND your noise
And listen to poor Paddy's sad narration
I was by hunger stressed, and in poverty distressed
So I took a thought I'd leave the Irish nation

Well I sold me horse and cow, my little pigs and sow
My FATHER'S FARM of land I soon did part with
And me sweetheart Bid McGee, I'm afraid I'll never see
For I left her there that morning broken-hearted

Here's you boys, now take my advice
To America I'll have ye's not be going
There is nothing here but war, where the murderin' cannons roar
And I wish I was at home in dear old Dublin

Well myself and a hundred more, to America sailed o'er
Our fortunes to be making we were thinkin'
When we got to Yankee land, they put guns into our hands
SAYING "Paddy, you must go and fight for Lincoln"

Here's you boys, now take my advice
To America I'll have YOUSE not be going
There is nothing here but war, where the murderin' cannons roar
And I wish I was at home in dear old Dublin

General Meagher to us he said, if you get shot or lose your Head
Every MOTHER'S SON of youse will get a pension
Well in the war I lost me leg, AND ALL I'VE NOW'S a wooden peg
And by soul it is the truth to you I mention

Here's you boys, now take my advice
To America I'll have YOUSE not be going
There is nothing here but war, where the murderin' cannons roar
And I wish I was at home in dear old Dublin

Well I think myself in luck, if I get fed on Indianbuck
And old Ireland is the country I delight in
To the devil, I would say, God curse Americay
For the truth I've had enough of your hard fightin

Here's you boys, now take my advice
To America I'll have YOUSE not be going
There is nothing here but war, where the murderin' cannons roar
And I wish I was at home in dear old Dublin

I wish I was at home
I wish I was at home
I wish I was at home in dear old Dublin

--Sinead O'Connor

[malaise]

35. Great songs but youleft out a key Marley

Get Up Stand Up
by Bob Marley

Get Up, Stand Up, stand up for your right (3 times)
Get Up, Stand Up, don't give up the fight

Preacher man don't tell me heaven is under the earth
I know you don't know what life is really worth
Is not all that glitters in gold and
Half the story has never been told

So now you see the light, aay
Stand up for your right. Come on
Get Up, Stand Up, stand up for your right
Get Up, Stand Up, don't give up the fight
(Repeat)

Most people think great God will come from the sky
Take away ev'rything, and make ev'rybody feel high
But if you know what life is worth
You would look for yours on earth
And now you see the light
You stand up for your right, yeah!

Get Up, Stand Up, stand up for your right
Get Up, Stand Up, don't give up the fight
Get Up, Stand Up. Life is your right
So we can't give up the fight
Stand up for your right, Lord, Lord
Get Up, Stand Up. Keep on struggling on
Don't give up the fight
We're sick and tired of your ism and skism game
Die and go to heaven in Jesus' name, Lord
We know when we understand
Almighty God is a living man
You can fool some people sometimes
But you can't fool all the people all the time
So now we see the light
We gonna stand up for our right
So you'd better get up, stand up, stand up for your right
Get Up, Stand Up, don't give up the fight
Get Up, Stand Up, stand up for your right
Get Up, Stand Up, don't give up the fight.

[seemslikeadream]

49. jah bless malaise

Glory to the Most High JAH Ras Tafari

Glory be unto I an'I Father. Glory Be unto I an'I His loving sons

and daughters. Glory be unto the Holy One of Creation.

As Jah was before the beginning JAH is now and ever must be

JAH world without end, liveth for Iver. JAH Ras Tafari!

[malaise]

55. One love n/t

[malaise]

96. By the way that Sinead O'Connor

CD is out of this world. Her versions of classic reggae hits are amazingly good.

Edit - gr.

[seemslikeadream]

100. Yes it is especially JAH NUH DEAD

They tried to fool the black population
By telling us jah jah dead
Say they tried to fool the black population
By telling us jah jah dead..
I & I knows jah - jah nuh dead - jah nuh dead

Jah nuh dead

Jah nuh dead

Jah nuh dead

Jah nuh dead

Oooh nooo - jah nuh dead

My knowledge increase
My memory reflect
Marcus Garvey did say

A rumour rumour rumour rumour rumour
Aah Marcus say

Jah nuh dead
Jah nuh dead
Jah nuh dead
Jah nuh dead
Jah nuh dead
Oooh nooo - jah nuh dead

It was I-man who say
Green and gold, it's the rainbow

The lion the lion decrowned the king
The lion the lion decrowned the king
Inna in adis abeba - aaafrica

Jah nuh dead
Jah nuh dead
Jah nuh dead
Jah nuh dead
Jah nuh dead
Oooh nooo - jah nuh dead

Meet me at the bank of the beautiful river
When your journey has end
I & I will discuss about this matter
Jah nuh dead, jah nuh dead, jah nuh dead

[Idylle Moon Dancer]

107. did you know

there was a time when Irish folks were sent to slavery in the Caribbean, and that the pronunciation of "dia," the word in Irish for "god," is not far from "jah" ?

[Zhade]

24. Here's a few...

Paris, Sonic Jihad - http://www.guerrillafunk.com/paris/sonic_jihad/

Immortal Technique, Revolutionary Volume 2 - http://www.immortal-technique.com/ (new site, needs work), http://www.viperrecords.com/imtech/bio.shtml (old site)

MC Frontalot, Nerdcore Rising ("Special Delivery") - http://www.frontalot.com/music.html (free downloads)

[SkiGuy]

25. Rolling Stones' Sweet Neocon

[ComerPerro]

71. Fantastic Song, great lyrics

[SkiGuy]

88. Yes it is

Surprised it's not mentioned more being it's the Stones and all.

[countingbluecars]

26. Ricky Lee Jones

Ugly Man

He's an ugly man
He always was an ugly man
He grew up to be like his father
An ugly man

And he'll tell you lies
He'll look at you and tell you lies
He grew up to be like his father
Ugly inside

Hey - ugly man
What's the plan?
If people knew
What would they do
To the ugly man?
Having fun?
But will we be here
When you're done
With me....?

Revolution
Now it's finally going to come
Everywhere that you're not looking
Revolution

And we'll take it back
Now we take the country back
Everywhere that you're not looking
Ugly man
Ugly man
Ugly man

[Neecy]

44. That's from a terrific album...

Evening of my Best Day, which also contains a nice rant about the Patriot Act: tell somebody (repeal the patriot act now).

Jones is a true progressive and has an activist site:

http://www.furnitureforthepeople.com/

[countingbluecars]

51. Thanks for the information.

I will check it out.

[bbernardini]

27. John Francis, Jim Boggia, 4 Way Street

[globalvillage]

28. Thom Hartmann had a country song on the other day

but I can't seem to find it. It was excellent, and I'm not a country music fan. Did anyone else catch the song/artist?

[satya]

67. The HonkyTonkers for Truth: I'm Taking My Country Back

Country music tune slams Bush

[butterfly77]

29. Does Barbara Streisand have a website...

with message boards or a forum?

[donheld]

52. She has a website

but not forums that I know of www.barbrastreisand.com

[seemslikeadream]

30. All de dreams you go sell, de whole dem turn inna hell

http://www.thieverycorporation.com/

http://www.alwaysontherun.net/thievery.htm



Amerimacka

Miss Liberty turn inna Jezzabelle
All de dreams you go sell, de whole dem turn inna hell
Her bed of roses are filled with thorns
Her righteous robes are tattered and torn

If she had only stood for love
That would have been enough
She wouldn’t have to hide her shame
If she had only stood for love
That would have been enough
But now she’s burnt us all with her flames

Amerimacka
Oh what a beautiful life
Amerimacka
Is like licking honey off a knife

Amerimacka
Oh what a beautiful sight
Amerimacka
Oh what a beautiful life

The land of the free built on slavery
Our consciousness in captivity
The promise land is the liar’s den
Your culture of greed has got to end

Now we’re laying in the mud
Looking up above
Tear water just ah drop from the sky
They try to keep us in the mud
Separating us from love
But me nah go let dem conquer de I

Amerimacka
Oh what a beautiful life
Amerimacka
Is like licking honey off a knife

Amerimacka
Oh what a beautiful sight
Amerimacka
Oh what a beautiful life



The richest man in babylon

There is no quidance in your kingdom
Your wicked walk in Babylon
There is no wisdom to your freedom
The richest man in babylon

Your beggars sleep outside your doorway
Your prophets leave to wonder on
You fall asleep at night with worry
The saddest man in Babylon

The wicked stench of exploitation
Hangs in the air and lingers on
Beneath the praise and admiration
The weakest man in Babylon

There is no hope left in your kingdom
Your servants have burned all their songs
Nobody here remembers freedom
The richest man in Babylon

Si la lou babylon go 'dain
Babylon gon' be rich again
But to we don' sick again
But no we no weak again
Babyloooon on on on on
(Rasta scat)
Sal la lou ca uba whoa
Si la douba douba do wa bay
??
Si la loo babylon come 'round
You better know you better understand
'Fact you know you better hear what they say
Babylon this is your final day
Babylon this is your final call
Read the writin' it's on the wall
Said United we stand
And together we fall
And if I know that
You're not 'gon catch me in a rat pack
We not go fallin' on your death trap
No way...

Whoooooa oh oh oh oh whoa oh who oh oh
Whooooooa oh oh oh
Whoa oh oh o oh

[seemslikeadream]

31. I am too scared to close my eyes.

http://solair.eunet.yu/~gamax/

http://www.vnvnation.com/

Enveloped in a sentiment,
a sound that rushes over me.
Engage an impulse to pretend
I have a faith as pure.
Not forgetting what it means to dream.
Indulging everything.
Entertaining thoughts that I've the strength
of those I yearn to be.
Cheers and tribute greet the saviours.
Reckless thoughts survive.
Anachronistic and impulsive.

And what will happen?
Will I dream?
I am too scared to close my eyes.
For a second please hold me.
None can change in me these things that I believe.
But I don't know what happens now.
I am too scared to close my eyes.

[proud2BlibKansan]

32. Linda Rhonstadt

[proud2BlibKansan]

33. John Prine

Some humans ain't human
Some people ain't kind
You open up their hearts
And here's what you'll find
A few frozen pizzas
Some ice cubes with hair
A broken Popsicle
You don't want to go there

Some humans ain't human
Though they walk like we do
They live and they breathe
Just to turn the old screw
They screw you when you're sleeping
They try to screw you blind
Some humans ain't human
Some people ain't kind

You might go to church
And sit down in a pew
Those humans who ain't human
Could be sittin' right next to you
They talk about your family
They talk about your clothes
When they don't know their own ass
From their own elbows

Jealousy and stupidity
Don't equal harmony
Jealousy and stupidity
Don't equal harmony

Mmmm Mmmm
Mmmm Mmmm
Mmmm Mmmm
Mmmm Mmmm

Have you ever noticed
When you're feeling really good
There's always a pigeon
That'll come shit on your hood

Or you're feeling your freedom
And the world's off your back
Some cowboy from Texas
Starts his own war in Iraq

Some humans ain't human
Some people ain't kind
They lie through their teeth
With their head up their behind
You open up their hearts
And here's what you'll find
Some humans ain't human
Some people ain't kind

Mmmm Mmmm
Mmmm Mmmm
Mmmm Mmmm
Mmmm Mmmm
Mmmm Mmmm
Mmmm Mmmm

[kliljedahl]

40. I've got tickets to see him March 10th

:woohoo::woohoo::woohoo::woohoo:
:woohoo::woohoo::woohoo::woohoo:
:woohoo::woohoo::woohoo::woohoo:



Keith’s Barbeque Central

[proud2BlibKansan]

41. You dirty dog - where?

I saw him about 15 years ago in a small music theater. It was a great show.

[kliljedahl]

43. Indianapolis

Here: http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/05003B94CB669767?artistid=735898&majorcatid=10001&minorcatid=1



Keith’s Barbeque Central

[fishwax]

103. warms my heart to see that

i sure do like john prine :D

[americanstranger]

34. Foo Fighters

Grohl named 'In Your Honor' for John Kerry - and Nate Mandel wore a 'No War' t-shirt when they played on SNL just before hell broke loose.

-as

[mtnester]

36. Dixie Chicks, Neil Young, Sonic Youth, The Donnas...

REM, Sonic Youth, System of a Down, Moby, Foo Fighters, Offspring, David Byrne, Lou Reed, Eddy Vedder, Tom Morello, Rikie Lee Jones, James Taylor, Mike D and MCA, Dave Matthews, Cjris Martin, Diddy, Elvis Costello, Rosenne Cash (before she passed away), Ozzy, Elton John, Ani DeFranco, John Fogerty,

ALL of these artists have spoken out..loudly.

If yuo want a great site to check, try http://www.spacechase.net/green/rock_against_bush.htm
Bands Against Bush...scroll down some and there is a clickable A-Z list

[Tsiyu]

57. Rosanne Cash is very much alive, IIRC

Perhaps you were thinking of June Carter Cash?

http://www.rollanet.org/~vbeydler/van/rosecash.html

[mtnester]

89. Yes, I was...thank you

too late to edit the post...what a fax pax!

Egads, feeling a tad embarrassed right now

[Tsiyu]

91. AW, we all mess up sometimes

No big deal. :hug:

[Ron Green]

45. Charlie Haden "Not In Our Name"

He's been a major force in jazz for 40 years, and his political awareness is of the highest order. Check him out at:

[Kazak]

46. S*T*E*R*E*O*L*A*B

Good is Me
I am good, therefore good is me
He is not me therefore he's not good

I am good, therefore good is me
He's not me therefore he's not good

I am good, therefore good is me
He is not me therefore he is not good

Our norms are good
Good are our norms
Theirs aren't ours
Therefore are not good

Our God is true
True is our God
Their God's not ours
So is not true

Inpossible to consider
Reality of the other
Other people's institutions
Not better or worse than other

I am good, therefore good is me
He's not me therefore he's not good

http://stereolab.koly.com/songs/index.php

[Lisa]

47. Burt Bacharach, Dan Bern, GWAR (quite the range, there ...)

"Things are getting very bad," Bacharach declares. "Young men and women are dying in an unwinnable war in Iraq, there's Hurricane Katrina, and this President shows so little empathy. I'm scared for the future."

(snip)

For Bacharach's new CD, "At This Time" - the first album released under his own name in nearly 30 years - he wrote out of frustration and anger. "Never in my life have I been a political person," the 77-year-old composer explains. "I never marched about the Vietnam War or protested. But it's really hit me what's going on now."

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/story/360174p-306846c.html



"This just in. The President is wearing no clothes. And with My Country II, Dan Bern sets out, in no uncertain terms, to reveal the stark naked emperor behind George W. Bush. Mission accomplished."

http://www.messengerrecords.com/dan_bern.php
http://danbern.redacorn.net/lyrics/bush_must_be_defeated.html



""Of course we did it," says Oderus Urungus, the band’s sword-wielding lead singer. "I mean, we saw every vote for George Bush equaled at least one dead Iraqi baby, burned alive, and a crack rock in every pipe. As long as George Bush continues to push his agenda of ultraconservative, Nazi religion I will be there supporting him—I will wheel him out on stage and I will flay his butt cheeks with my sword."


http://www.vueweekly.com/articles/default.aspx?i=921

"Then again, how does one compete with a stage show that includes band members beating President Bush with his own dismembered limbs?"
http://newtimes.rway.com/2002/042402/music.shtml

[splat@14]

53. Bonnie Raitt, Dave Matthews....

[lakemonster11]

64. I saw Bonnie Raitt a couple of months ago,

and, during the concert, she said that whenever she thought about Bush and the Republicans it made her want to sing her song "I Will Not Be Broken." My parents talked to her after the concert and they said she was really harsh in her criticism. She, like Willie Nelson, is also a big supporter of Biodiesel. She had invited a bunch of progressive groups to hand out information in the lobby.

[TheBaldyMan]

98. Jello Biafra @ Alternative Tentacles n/t

[IDemo]

54. David Ippolito, "That Guitar Man from Central Park"

has posted here at DU and on the old Kerry forum -

http://www.thatguitarman.com/

[Wickerman]

56. Son Volt - Jet Pilot, Camper Van Beethoven - New Roman Tmes

[Bluebear]

58. Joni Mitchell

When she heard Bush had her song on his play list, she says: "it gave me a giggle."

Still, she wishes it had been another song of her's on his iPod, perhaps "Dog Eat Dog," she said.

She recited the lyrics to "Dog Eat Dog": Land of snap decisions/Land of short attention spans/Nothing is savoured/Long enough to really understand/In every culture in decline/The watchful ones among the slaves/Know all that is genuine will be/Conned and scorned and cast away.

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1114455404208_109864604/?hub=CanadaAM

[paineinthearse]

59. I've loved that woman all my life

Thank you, Joni.

[LibertyorDeath]

60. THE OFFSPRING "Neocon"

Cheers paineinthearse :toast:
Not many lyrics from the OFFSPRING on this one
they just cut right to the point!


THE OFFSPRING

"Neocon"

we are strong
we are right
we won't be pushed aside
we'll go on
we will fight
we will not compromise
we will never lose to you
we will never lose to you
we will never lose to you
we will never lose to you

http://www.offspring.com/

[Spirochete]

61. Paula Cole

I think she was one of the first.



http://paulacole.com/

[Warren DeMontague]

62. Geez. I'm the first one to mention R.E.M.?

Tsk.


(IMHO, "The Final Straw" and "I Wanted To Be Wrong" were the most linear political statements, lyrically, on the last album. But anyone familiar with the band knows where they sit politically.)

[Peter Frank]

63. Being a musician & instructor - here's the 5th recommendation n/t

[ClayZ]

66. Jim Hinde "folksinger"

www.jimhinde.com

Raise your glass to the sky.

Celebrate your freedom while there’s time.

If you’re banking that tomorrow’s sun will rise,

In the morning you may have a big surprise.

Raise your voice, speak your mind,

Until the waters of emotion fill your eyes.

It’s just your soul spilling over from inside

To let you know you’re still alive.

There is no need to fight and kill.

Just ‘cause we’ve always done it don’t mean we always will.

I think it’s time that we got on o’er that hill.

Find a cure, take a pill.

Who has won and who has lost

Is determined by who’s killing and who is not.

Bringing war to an end is a must,

Or surely war will bring an end to us.

Are we fighting to survive?

Or are we killing people just to show our might?

How many more will have to pay the price?

How many deaths will it take to make it right?

If it’s war that brings you pride,

Just remember that there’s bad on either side.

It’s that bad we have to fight,

For war is wrong and you know that peace is right.

Don’t raise a flag, don’t raise a gun.

Raise a pen, raise your tongue.

Raise your children with respect for everyone,

For what is lost cannot be won.

[soup]

74. "We're serving apple pie

from the barrel of a gun."

from Shout Down the Wind


whoaa.... good stuff. Thanks for the link.

[flvegan]

68. Beastie Boys, Rise Against, Nine Inch Nails, Ministry

Beastie's "World Gone Mad" and scores of various pokes in their songs over the past couple albums. Plus, Adrock wore an anti-Bush button to the Grammy's. Their live shows always involve some sort of political discussion. Website: www.beastieboys.com

Rise Against...well, you can practically look at anything they've done. Their latest "Give It All" is a kick-ass video, which is very anti-corporation, anti-Bush. The song was also on "Rock Against Bush" but I forget which volume. Website: www.riseagainst.com

Nine Inch Nails' live show had a video montage (that a good amount of our audience missed the point of completely) that was anti-war/Bush. Website: www.nin.com

Ministry's Al Jourgensen is one of the big driving forces behind punkvoter.com. Website: www.ministrymusic.com

[mogster]

69. Gatas Parlament (Street Parliament)

A Norw. rap group who had their website taken down after complaints by the US embassy in Oslo.
The website was a pun to the Norw. campaign tellhim.no, which collected money for an ad in WP during the election 2004, to implore the Am. people not to reelect Bush.
The url was killhim.no, and the website showed Bush in the crosshairs of a telescope.
Kinda underground Norwegian humor bound not to go down well in the current situation ;-)

[nicknameless]

72. Given their reaction to the Katrina disaster, I would guess

Harry Connick Jr. & Celine Dion.

Connick addressed the Senate in an effort to get aid for Katrina victims and the NOLA area.
http://www.habitat.org/disaster/2005/katrina/news/10_07_2005_Harry_Connick_talks_to_Senate_about_hurricane_relief.aspx#TopOfPage

And "Celine Dion Attacks Bush On CNN"
http://www.undercover.com.au/news/2005/sep05/20050905_celinedion.html

Dion has accused the war-happy president of being more interested in the Middle East than his own backyard. "How come it's so easy to send planes in another country, to kill everyone in a second, to destroy lives at a time when Americans need to serve their own country, she said on the Larry King program on CNN."We need to serve our country, and be there right now to rescue the rest of the people. We need the cash, we need the blood, we need the support, right now we need the prayers."

[Drifter]

73. Frank Zappa

Check out "Broadway the Hardway"

This was from the 1988 tour, which was a GOTV effort.
You would think this was current.

Cheers
Drifter

[Initech]

86. Pretty much any album from the 1988 tour has a lot of anti-repub sentiment

Just listen to any of the You Cant Do That On Stage Anymore series or The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life.

[YOY]

75. NOFX and (to a lesser and more analytical extent) Bad Religion

NOFX: "Idiot Son of an Asshole" See it on Bushflash.com

Bad Religion has always had strong views against the far right and the far left (more-so for the strong right...but perhaps that's just these days.) Their new albums are definitly anti-Neocon, but an older song "American Jesus" fits many of the religious rights Neocon beliefs and indeed the instilled unltra-nationism that resides inside of all of us:

I don’t need to be a global citizen
Because I’m blessed by nationality
I’m member of a growing populace
We enforce our popularity
There are things that
Seem to pull us under
And there are things
That drag us down
But there’s a power
And a vital presence
Thats lurking all around

We’ve got the american jesus
See him on the interstate
We’ve got the american jesus
He helped build the
President’s estate

I feel sorry
For the earth’s population
’cuz so few
Live in the u.s.a.
At least the foreigners
Can copy our morality
They can visit but they cannot stay
Only precious few
Can garner the prosperity
It makes us walk
With renewed confidence
We’ve got a place to go when we die
And the architect resides right here

We’ve got the american jesus
Overwhelming millions every day
(exercising his authority)

He’s the farmers barren fields
The force the army wields
The expession in the faces
Of the starving children
The power of the man
He’s the fuel that drives the clan
He’s the motive and conscience
Of the murderer
He’s the preacher on t.v.
The false sincerity
The form letter that’s written
By the big computers
He’s the nuclear bombs
And the kids with no moms
And I’m fearful that
He’s inside me

[PleadTheFirst]

79. I'm glad someone said NOFX

"Idiot Son of an Asshole" is my favorite anti-* song of all time. :evilgrin:

[randr]

76. Merl Haggarts newest album

[BushOut06]

77. Project 86 - and they're a christian band, to boot

They've been pretty outspoken against Bush and the whole Iraqi war. When their album Truthless Heroes came out, they included a link on their website to a very progressive website - sorry, can't find it now though, but it was pretty good and caught my attention at the time. They're a 'christian' rock band, but they've taken some pretty good shots at organized religion. Here are the lyrics to one of their songs, "SMC" (Sunday Mass Consumption)

Big business ain’t easy
I’m sure you’d agree
Especially when the product is eternity-
To stay one step ahead we must achieve
And turn this holy temple
Into a factory
Is there anywhere you can run
To hide from these thieves? -
Cause eternity’s on sale today for a fee

Faith is buying me away
Buying me a way
To convert the masses into little servants
Faith is buying me away
Buying me a way
Buying me into your home (soul)

Our sanctuary of this high-rise
Our steeples our billboards
Our slogans our converts
Oh don’t forget to buy this T-shirt
As you leave
And open up the offering box
And give until it hurts
Show me an open heart and we’ll steal it away
Cause eternity’s on up for sale for a small fee today
You Know

This altar is a stage
Our sponsor must be paid
And maybe even make the front page

[devilgrrl]

78. Burt Bacharach

[The Stranger]

80. Where's Bono?

Is he still chumming around with the extreme Right Wing and talking about "the poor"?

[ultraist]

81. A lot of anti Bush and anti Repub RAP out there

Of course, RAP has always been filled with social commentary.

I'd have to ask my kids for specifics.

[malmapus]

83. Pearl Jam / Eddie Vedder

I still remember Eddie taking flack for impaling a rubber mask of Duh'byah on the microphone stand during a concert. Seem to recall it being around the time the Dixie Chicks were taking flack too for Natalie's comment.

[Jean Louise Finch]

95. And they have the great song Bushleaguer

How does he do it? how do they do it? uncanny and immutable.
This is such a happening tailpipe of a party.
Like sugar, the guests are so refined, (look like melting mice)

A confidence man, but why so beleagued?
He’s not a leader, he’s a texas leaguer
Swinging for the fence, got lucky with a strike
Drilling for fear, makes the job simple
Born on third, thinks he got a triple

Blackout weaves it’s way through the cities
Blackout weaves it’s way through the cities
Blackout weaves it’s way,...

I remember when you sang
That song about today
Now it’s tomorrow and
Everything has changed

A think tank of aloof multiplication
A nicotine wish and a colossus decanter
Retrenchment and foolishness
What’s the buckos?
The raves have not a clue
The immenseness of suffering
And the odd negotiation, a rarity
With onionskin plausibility of life,
And a keyboard reaffirmation

Blackout weaves it’s way through the cities
Blackout weaves it’s way through the cities
Blackout weaves it’s way,...

I remember when you sang
That song about today
Now it’s tomorrow and
Everything has changed

[Hard_Work]

84. Can't believe no one mentioned

Public Enemy. Ya'll must check out their latest, "New Whirl Odor". Or their release a couple of years ago, "Revolverlution", which included the song 'Son of a Bush'.

Glad someone else mentioned the rapper Paris.

[BushOut06]

85. Gotta love the Public Enemy

Although I really haven't listened to them much since Apocalypse '91: The Empire Strikes Black. One of my favorite songs was "By the Time I Get to Arizona". That, and the collaboration they did with Anthrax, "Bring the Noise" - remains one of my all-time favorite metal moments.

But what's up with Flavor Flav lately? He's been riding the hell out of this whole reality show craze.

[ohio_liberal]

87. Jadakiss, Adam Levine of Maroon 5, Kanye West

n/t

[WritingIsMyReligion]

133. Levine and Kanye are really cool in that "Heard 'Em Say"

single of West's.

Sorry, I just had to say it. I like the song. :D :P :D

[omega minimo]

90. Good idea, PITA

[ave]

92. Musicians' Alliance for Peace - Colin Carr and others

www.m4p.org/localfestival2006.txt

www.m4p.org/localfestival2005.txt

www.m4p.org/localfestival2004.txt

[kainah]

93. R.E.M.

they did the Vote for Change tour, opening for Springsteen. They donated "The Final Straw" to one of those antiwar music compilations. Their most recent album, "Around the Sun," is filled with lots of anti-Bush lyrics. (Of course, they're in Michael Stipese.)

[Cults4Bush]

94. Cool Nine Inch Nails remix "The Hand That Feeds ( Impeach Bush Mix)" here

www.didjake.com

Its long in the tooth but kind of rousing. Cindy Sheehan clip and lots of bushisms.

www.didjake.com

[XemaSab]

108. I was listening to that

less than a half hour ago!

It's WORTHY!

(who made it?)

[stlsaxman]

97. OTEP- Warhead

http://otep.com/video.asp

Follow this link to the "Warhead" video... choose a player and download rate...

then hang on to your seat!

[KharmaTrain]

99. Band In Last Year's Kerry Tour...Pearl Jam, DMB...also Neil Young

I just found my video of that concert and enjoyed seeing Mellencamp, Pearl Jam, Dave Matthews, REM, John Fogerty and a bunch of others perform. And, of course...The Boss...Springsteen's still very vocal against this regime.

I also saw Farm Aid the other night and heard Neil take a few shots at how this regime is out to completely destroy the family farm. IIRC, he supported asshat in 2000.

Party on...

[PuraVidaDreamin]

101. michail franti and Spearhead

stay human

[jonnyblitz]

102. MInistry does big time. they have a song called No W.

here are lyric's to the song:

No W

If this is really living
Then why am I so unforgiving
Half the world is down the toilet
Half on its way

If I had a dollar for every time he hollers
Trust us with your hearts and minds
Or I'll make you pay

Trust me
Trust me

Ask me why you're feeling screwed
And I'll give you the answer
There's a Colon Dick & Bush
Justa hammerin' away

Ask me why you feel deceived
Stripped of all your liberties
It doesn't take a genius to explain
That today

Trust me
Trust me http://www.ministrymusic.org/

[Swamp Rat]

104. me

:)

[electricmonk]

105. Radio 4, Sleater-Kinney

All or Nothing HC, Patti Smith, Joe Keithley( DOA ).

Check out Radio 4's website and watch the video for State of Alert or listen to the "Nation" single. One of my favorite bands of the last 5 or 6 years.

[Lady Effingbroke]

106. Carole King

http://www.caroleking.com

[ddeclue]

110. Oh yeah..how could I forget?

I ran into her in Charleston South Carolina when I was a Kerry Traveller during the SC primary. She was there to speak on behalf of Kerry along with Kerry's sister Peggy. I didn't know who she was until she got up and said "I'm Carole King.." She looked like someone my age's mom... (which she no doubt is..)

Doug D.

[Lady Effingbroke]

112. She is the same age as my father (63) - I'm 35.

She is a great songwriter and musician!

[ddeclue]

109. Don Henley and the Eagles..

I saw the Eagles in concert in Providence Rhode Island in March and Don took the time to say that this next song is dedicated the "brash young man that we elected King" and then they sang "The End of the Innocence" off of one of Henley's solo albums from the 80's which was originally a dig at Reagan.

I later saw Don in Concert in Kissimmee Florida about 6 weeks later and he did essentially the same while on tour as a solo act. He has a long history of despising these people dating back to the Reagan administration and what they did in Central America in the 80's.

Jackson Browne, originally with the Eagles on their very first album but then a solo artist has also been vocal against Bush and the war although I can't name a song at the moment. He too despised what the Reagan admin did in the '80's in Central America and wrote songs like "I am a Patriot" and "Lives in the Balance" which cut right to the heart of the evil in the Bush administration today.

Also I'd say Green Day, and John Mellencamp also come to mind. Wake me up when September ends was originally an anti war themed video and it turned out to be a very prescient description for September 2005 with Katrina and all. Mellencamp's "Walk Tall" was a pretty direct dig at the Republican wing-nut crowd.

and of course the Dixie Chicks with their songs Travelin' Soldier and Truth Number 2 were both antiwar songs and they both spoke out against the war and paid a tremendous price for doing so in the Country Music business.

Willie Nelson wrote "Whatever happened to Peace on Earth?" in protest of the Iraq War.

and there's also Cheryl Crow who has been very vocal in her anti war anti Bush stance.

Kenye West came right out and said on that Hurricane relief special, "we all know that George Bush don't care 'bout black people" or something to that effect and really freaked out all the producers. They actually cut it from the West Coast taped replay. I really thought that was awesome.

Chris Rock has said similar things but not on a charity special, about how black people can't afford to hop in their SUV's and stay in a nice hotel somewhere because some of them are working in the hotel or something to that effect.

Bush clearly made a lot of black people mad over his half-*ss response to Hurricane Katrina.

Also not a singer but lately David Letterman has really been taking it to Bush and the righties (he took Bill O'Reilly down hard the other night.)

Hope that helps,

Doug De Clue
Orlando, FL

Finally there are always the old classic antiwar songs from the Vietnam War that still are very powerful today:

For What It's Worth - Steven Stills, Buffalo Springfield (Willie Nelson has a recent live version)
Fortunate Son - Creedence Clearwater Revival
War - Edwin Starr (also remade by Bruce Springsteen in the 80's)
Blowin' in the Wind - originally Bob Dylan, also covered by Peter Paul and Mary, Neil Young, Joan Baez and many others.

The Times They Are a Changin' -originally Bob Dylan, also covered by others including the Byrds.
Masters of War - Bob Dylan (Dylan is truly the master.. "Come you masters of war, you that build the big guns, you that build all the planes, you that build all the bombs..."

Where Have All the Flowers Gone - Peter Paul and Mary
Imagine - John Lennon (post Vietnam war)
War Is Over = John Lennon (post Vietnam war)
Give Peace a Chance - John Lennon
All You Need is Love - the Beatles

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125. Henley / Frey 2008

http://eaglesfans.typepad.com/henleytour/2004/08/austin_tx.html

Posted by: L&M | September 14, 2004 06:31 AM

I’ll add a couple more comments to what L&M reported. The show was awesome (I saw him last in Tunica), and the set list the same as posted for the last couple of shows, with the very pleasant surprise of Talking to the Moon. You could really notice the roughness of Don’s voice when he talked, and sang low (like in the Last Worthless Evening) but it was normal when he got going in the songs. To me, the crowd was a little reserved, but I guess that could be expected when the show was mostly a fund raiser. A lot of people left at the end of the set and missed the 6 song encores. He really seems to like telling the velveeta cheese story, and you had the usually fan yell to sing the song. His response was something like, “I’ll sing the song when I ready too. I feel like talking, which I don’t feel like very often”. He was in a very chatting mood. Some highlights:
Where can I get a bumper sticker?

• He made the usually reference to an interactive concert so shout out what is ever on your mind. Someone around me yelled “vote Bush/Cheney” which he promptly responded “…and we’ll ignore that comment.”
• Someone up front yelled “Miami Vice” which made Don crack up pretty good. He said “you would think after 32 years or so that people would be able to finally tell the two of us a part.”
• He has added his buddy Glenn and his two cardboard boxes moving in with him to the story of Witchy Women.
• When introducing the band he mentioned that you can’t be crazy to tour with him, although in his “other” job there was one very crazy individual – to which I heard a few yells of “Joe!”
• The changing of the lyrics in End of the Innocence – “brash young man we elected king...” and “since Cheney had to lie…”
• He was saying how he had trouble understanding the vast differences in meaning between “conservative” and “conservation” especially when they come from the same root word.

There were several other comments he made throughout – Don was quite chatty. I also was fortunate to chat briefly with Scott Crago before the show (I had met him at the m&g in Tunica). Tulsa m&g, and OKC are up next!


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127. More on Henley..

http://eaglesfans.typepad.com/henleytour/2005/04/strong_words.html

As Don Henley sees it, the world's going to hell, with wars and dictatorships, conspiracies and trampled human rights, and all she wants to do is dance. And when it comes to music, movies, newspapers, television, radio, "crap is king," with the masses still clamoring for more dirty laundry.

Henley doesn't like what he sees, and he's not shy about telling you.

"The whole world is insane, as far as I'm concerned," he says.

The singer/songwriter — after his run with '70s mega-group the Eagles — has had a successful solo career, including hits such as "All She Wants to Do Is Dance," "The Boys of Summer" and "Heart of the Matter."


"A lot of songs today seem to be about sex or bling bling," Henley says. "The whole culture has changed ... popular culture is my favorite oxymoron. Everything has been trivialized. I think I said that in one of my songs on the last album. Back in the '60s and '70s, music had a lot more to do with what was going on in the world, in terms of the environment and politics and civil rights and various movements, than it does now. These days, it's either about very light entertainment, or it's just rage. One or the other. There doesn't seem to be anything in-between. There doesn't seem to be any voice of reason in music these days, and that's too bad."

American culture is changing, he says, and radio is partially responsible for the poor quality of music played on the airwaves today.

"Radio is certainly responsible for the dumbing down of the content," he says. "I know there are good songwriters out there, people writing meaningful songs with interesting lyrics and chord changes, but they're not being played on the radio. Radio is all about marketing and selling advertising. Rock 'n' roll is all about choreography and clothes and belly buttons and who can yell the loudest. And it's sad.

"Hopefully this will all pass," he says. "It doesn't speak well of our culture, of the current generation of radio programmers and consumers. I'm afraid it paints a picture of an incredible shallowness and triviality in our culture. I can see where our schools have failed, I can see where parents have failed, I can hear it in the music on the radio. The government has certainly failed. The music is directionless, it's incoherent. And it's very simple-minded. It's very selfish and self-directed. It's incredibly narcissistic. A lot of it is just whining and complaining ... and the rest of it is just too trite, too shallow to listen to. It's riddled with cliches and rhymes that my five-year-old could beat. That's not poetry, that's not songwriting. It's kindergarten stuff and it's just dumb, dumb, dumb."


Though his words are strong, Henley isn't yelling or ranting. He speaks thoughtfully, carefully choosing his words, sometimes pausing to pick exactly the right one he's searching for.

He points out that computers and equipment are so sophisticated now, that talent is no longer a necessity for a singer or a musician.

"That's why so many acts die on the road," he says, "because everything is done for them in the studio, but they can't reproduce it live onstage."

Besides what's happening to American culture, Henley's also concerned about damage to the environment.

"I read things about Florida and coastal development and things about the Everglades, about the loss of certain kinds of habitat, and certain kinds of riparian areas, and it concerns me. I have my hands full here in Texas," he says.

And the musician backs his words up with action.

In 1990 he founded the Walden Woods Project and has been influential in raising millions of dollars for it to purchase environmentally sensitive and historically significant acreage. Henley also founded the Caddo Lake Institute in East Texas, which sponsors local wetland and conservation research and monitoring.

Henley's strong opinions sometimes work their way into his song lyrics as well.

He railed against media sensationalism in his song "Dirty Laundry," which hit the airwaves 23 years ago but is still relevant today. Lisa Marie Presley has recorded a cover of it for her new album, "Now What."

"Given who she is and what's happened to her, I can understand why she might be able to relate to the song," he says.

When he performs it in concert, Henley often dedicates "Dirty Laundry" to tabloid mogul Rupert Murdoch, he says, calling him "a little weasel."

Though he criticizes what he sees wrong with the world, Henley seems to appreciate life, with all its ups and downs. His most recent CD, "Inside Job," ends with a song called "My Thanksgiving," in which he sings:



For every moment of joy/Every hour of fear/For every winding road that brought me here/For every breath, for every day of living/This is my Thanksgiving/For everyone who helped me start/And for everything that broke my heart/For every breath, every day of living/This is my Thanksgiving.



He's just come off a 24-city tour with the Eagles, which ended at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

Reaction to the Eagles concerts have been very positive, he says. They're seeing younger people attend, often with their parents, who are in their 30s and 40s.

The reviewers are getting younger too. Henley says that during their most recent tour, a couple of reviewers didn't know the difference between himself and fellow lead singer Glenn Frey.

"Even people in third world countries know who we are," Henley says. "A reviewer might not like the band, if they're a younger person. But to send a person who is so clueless and uninterested to know the difference. You need to do your job. After 34 years (as a band)! That happened twice in the last month."

After Henley plays a few solo dates in Florida, he'll start rehearsals with Stevie Nicks and will tour with her. Then the Eagles will resume touring in August. They're considering calling it quits for good, this time, he says.

"Touring has been great. It's very hard work. We employ about 100 people on the road," Henley says.

"People talk about the Eagles and how many records we sold, and rarely talk about how hard we work. We work harder than any band we know. We rehearse a lot, do a sound check every day and polish the rough edges. We take care of business."

"I want to be remembered as a guy who worked hard and earned his keep," he says. "I'd like to be remembered as a guy who really cared about his craft and didn't want to sell people garbage. No tricks, no phony stuff."

EAGLES FACTS

The Eagles's "Greatest Hits 1971-1975" album, released in 1976, is the best-selling hits album of all time, selling over 28 million copies.
Henley co-wrote such Eagles classics as "Hotel California," "Desperado," "Lyin' Eyes," and "Life in the Fast Lane."

The group recently released a two-CD compilation album called "The Very Best Of," which includes a jacket with commentary on each of the songs. The CD includes the Henley-Frey song "Hole in the World," written in response to 9/11.

The group was supposed to record in a studio the morning of the terrorist attack, but didn't. But that night, Henley began composing "Hole in the World," which begins,

"There's a hole in the world tonight/There's a cloud of fear and sorrow/There's a hole in the world tonight/Don't let there be a hole in the world tomorrow/They say that anger is just love disappointed/They say that love is just a state of mind/But all this fighting over who is anointed/Oh how can people be so blind?"

The group also released a concert DVD last year, called, tongue-in-cheek, "Farewell 1 Tour." It was recorded in Melbourne, Australia, and includes three new Eagles songs.

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128. Texas LCV Benefit

[cascadiance]

114. Charlotte Church, Sparta, Joan Baez, David Rovics

Compassionate Conservatives

Opera singer Charlotte Church might not be expected to be anti-Bush, but she's quoted here that doesn't leave much doubt...

http://archives.tcm.ie/breakingnews/2005/06/03/story205589.asp

Joan Baez was singing at Camp Casey with Steve Earle

Dave Rovics has a lot of anti-Bush stuff out.

Keb Mo has an album out that brings back a lot of anti-war songs from the Vietnam era.

Edwin Starr (War, what is it Good for?) had a heart attack and died right as the Iraq war was starting. Any coincidence there? R.I.P!

Chumbawumba has some anti-Bush stuff

Sparta sang some pretty good anti-Bush stuff at Coachella two years ago.

Cat Power
Jonatha Brooke

[fishwax]

115. Here's a song called "Camilo" by State Radio

It's about Sgt., Castillo, who refused to return to duty in Iraq:

woke him up with a barrel to his head
his eyes shut tight bracing for the blow
resigning his life to be
metal held in another man's hand

twenty days in a concrete fallout
what live have I to take your own
oh my country, won't you call out
doorbells are ringing with boxes of bones
from another land's war torn corners
to a prison cell in my own
punish me for not taking your orders
but don't look me up for not leavin' my home

your words just a bloody fallacy
a house of cards you painted white
you tried to recreate normandy
but you made up the reason to fight
and now red oil is spillin' down on the street
and your eyes too big for the belly is weak
will you not refuse this currency
or is blood money just money to you
is blood money just money to you

twenty days in a concrete fallout
what life have I to take your own
oh my country, won't you call out
doorbells are rining with boxes of bones
from another land's war torn corners
to a prison cell in my own
punish me for not taking your orders
but don't lock me up for not leavin' my home

camilo
camilo
leavin' my home
camilo

YOu can download it free from their web site: http://www.stateradio.com/camilo.html

[semillama]

116. Killing Joke

check out their last album.
The tune "Total Invasion" is all about Bush and the Iraq War.

They ream Blair with the tune "Seeing Red" which also is critical of the war: "Kiss the arse of Uncle Sam, oh to be an Englishman!"

[semillama]

117. Buckethead and Viggo Mortensen, and also:

The Bad Plus (have a tune called "Cheney Pinata", described as imagining if the VP was full of candy instead of oil contracts).

[dusty64]

118. A Perfect Circle!

This is my homepage, lots of free music........ Check it out.
http://www.aperfectcircle.com/
Pet
A Perfect Circle

Don't fret precious I'm here, step away from the window
Go back to sleep

Lay your head down child
I won't let the boogeyman come

Counting bodies like sheep
To the rhythm of the war drums

Pay no mind to the rabble
Pay no mind to the rabble

Head down, go to sleep
To the rhythm of the war drums

Pay no mind what other voices say
They don't care about you, like I do, like I do
Safe from pain and truth and choice and other poison devils,
See, they don't give a fuck about you, like I do.

Just stay with me, safe and ignorant,
Go back to sleep
Go back to sleep

Lay your head down child
I won't let the boogeyman come
Count the bodies like sheep
To the rhythm of the war drums

Pay no mind to the rabble
Pay no mind to the rabble

Head down, go to sleep to the rhythm of the war drums

I'll be the one to protect you from
Your enemies and all your demons

I'll be the one to protect you from
A will to survive and a voice of reason

I'll be the one to protect you from
Your enemies and your choices son
They're one in the same
I must isolate you
Isolate and save you from yourself

Swayin to the rhythm of the new world order and
Count the bodies like sheep to the rhythm of the war drums

The boogeymen are coming
The boogeymen are coming

Keep your head down, go to sleep, to the rhythm of a war drums

Stay with me
Safe and ignorant
Just stay with me
Hold you and protect you from the other ones
The evil ones
Don't love you son,
Go back to sleep

[talkinghand]

119. Devo's Bob 1

Bob Casale has been an outspoken anti-conservative for years...

He has postings on their website and speaks up at the few concerts they still play -- I just saw them last August and he dissed Bush pretty good...

[Bluerthanblue]

120. John McCutcheon GREAT ALBUM "Hail to the Chief"- tinky winky-ashcroft-bush

Hail to the Chief (2001)
words and music by John McCutcheon

The election of George W. Bush made us realize that Dan Quayle was a man way ahead of his time. Based entirely on W’s speeches.

I was born in West Texas, pretty near California
Far away from Dad’s home in DC
When I’m talkin’ ‘bout myself and
They’re talking ‘bout myself
All of us are talkin’ about me
Now some may retort to personal attacks
Take the high horse then claim the low road
But I’m not revengeful person
I’ll simply respond with this ode

When I delivered the State of the Budget Address
I offered a question or two
How can a man still put food on his family
Will the tollbooth to the middleclass become more few?
It’s time to make the pie higher
This idea’s sure to resignate
This is no time to be subliminable
It’s a time to unificate

If there’s more trade, there’s more commerce
And we’ll bring this solution to an end
Even if your business is Hispanically owned
If you speak French or Mexican
We’re working for a hopefuller country
No longer vulcanized
Where humans and fish can coexist
And each act civilized

I think we agree, the past is over
Still we’re held hostile everywhere
Today we’re not so sure who “they” are
But still, we know that they’re there
No longer inoculated from what is coming
With a foreign-handed foreign policy
Keep good relations w/ Kosovoans and Grecians
And resist emotionality


We know reading is the basics of learning
And learning…well…I forget the rest
But teach a child to read and he or her
Will sure pass a literacy test
So I ask you, “Is our children learning?”
Will we tolerate failed subsidation
Or will this be where wings finally take dream
Not a cufflink of federalization

So if you’re tired of the politics of polls and of principles
It’s time that you join this campaign
We’re looking for women who while serving our country
Never the house will they stain
Where our priorities is our faith
Where a troop can house his family
We’ll find power to power the power of the power plants
No, you’d best not misunderestimates me

Sung:
With every word and every breath
Our language dies a slow, sad death
Hail to the Chief, let’s give him hail
Part Yogi Berra
Part Dan Quayle

Charlottesville, VA 2001

©2001 John McCutcheon/Appalsongs (ASCAP)

[Dr Fate]

121. Wilco, Sonic Youth & Flaming Lips all did when I saw them. n/t

n/t

[flyarm]

122. edit for dupe n/t

[flyarm]

123. THE JERSEY BOYS..BRUCEEEEEEE AND BON JOVI!!

BRUCE STOOD WITH KERRY.. and BON JOVI is very anti *...and very democratic!!


yeah for our jersey guys!!

fly

[Jamastiene]

124. Chris Stein, guitarist from Blondie

A link to his posts on Blondie's official web site.

http://www.blondie.net/chris_stein.shtml

[garybeck]

126. check this out

http://www.solarbus.org/election/music.shtml

[AngryAmish]

129. Run-DMC

[Nabia2004]

130. HERE'S MY LIST of Musicians, 75 plus

The number of artisans creating and producing socially significant music is staggering, yet we hear near nothing on the radio. Here is what I have discovered so far. (I posted most of this list in thread a while back.)

1,000 Paper Cranes, Reggae Pop - Baghdad Suite
20-20-None, Pop - Anyhow
Ani Difranco, Rock - Self Evident http://www.righteousbabe.com/ani/l_self_evident.asp
Ataris, Punk - CD Rock Against Bush, Vol. 1 Disc 1, Heaven Is Falling
Authority Zero, Punk - Revolution
Away With The Fairys, Rock - You Lied http://signs-of-the-times.org/signs/you_lied.htm
Bad Religion, Punk - Let Them Eat War
Ben Harper - Black Rain http://www.benharper.net /
Bill Jabanoski - A Special Place In Hell
Brian and Joe Haynes, Rock - No War http://www.brianhaynes.com /
Brendan McCloud, Celtic Fusion - Dancing With Armageddon http://www.brendanmccloud.com /
Burt Bacharach - Who Are These People?
Bright Eyes, Indie Rock - When The President Talks To God
Chris Chandler - There is Something in the Air, But It is Not on the Airwaves http://chrischandler.org /
CS Fuqua, Rock - Country, Devil
David Rovics, Folk Artist (very prolific social orator, many CDs) - Hummer, How far is it from here to Nuremberg?, Paul Wolfowitz, Behind the barricades, Boardroom, Evening News, I have Seen the Enemy, Moron, Operation Iraqi Liberation (OIL), Oppositional Defiance Disorder, Outside Agitator, RPG, Who Would Jesus Bomb? http://www.davidrovics.com /
David Wilcox, Pop - A Different Kind Of War http://www.davidwilcox.com/dw/index.php?page=songs&disp...
Disenfranchisedmusic.com, Rock - Nation of Assholes, Fallujah, Genocide for the Holidays, United States of Deception, How Many Lies?
http://www.disenfranchisedmusic.com /
Eddie Vedder, Rock - Power
Michael Franti - Bomb the world http://www.spearheadvibrations.com/michael.htm
FunkSpace.com, Funk - Fight The Corruption, Funk The Military-Industrial Complex http://www.funkspace.com /
Get Up Kids - Lion and the Lamb
Green Day - American Idiot
Inferno Friendship Society - The Expatriate Act
James Blundell, Rock - Back it Up http://www.jamesblundell.com.au /
James McMurtry, Country - We Can't Make it Here http://www.jamesmcmurtry.com /
John Kellerman - New.Pearl.Harbor
John Mellencamp - To Washington
Jyknz - Your War http://www.jynkz.com/index2.html
Lach, Antifolk - Former President Bush http://antifolk.net/artists/lach /
LATO - Not in My Name
Marco Capelli - HaveYouForgotten
MC Immortal Technique, Hip Hop (Poetry Rant) - 911_Freestyle
Sputnik Wizel, Rock - New American Century
Michele Paris, Pop - Justice http://micheleparis.com /
Nancy Lancy - Peace in the World
No Use For a Name, Punk - CD Rock Against Bush Vol 2, Fields Of Agony Acoustic
Operation Ivy, Punk - Unity
Papa Dish, Folk Artist - Who's Gonna Pay the Bill? http://www.papadish.com /
Patti Smith, Rock - CD Trampin', Radio Baghdad, Gandhi
Paula Cole, Country Pop - My Hero Mr President
Mark Foley's Peacesong, Folk Artist - Not So Curious GEORGE, Shout, more http://www.peacesong.com /
Public Enemy, Rap - Hell No We Ain't All Right
REM - The Final Straw, I wanted to be Wrong
Relic - Signs of the Times
Rickie Lee Jones, Rock - CD The Evening Of My Best Day, Ugly Man, Little Mysteries, Tell Somebody (repeal the patriot act now)
R-Three - Something to Believe In, That's Ok http://www.r-three.com /
RX Bandits, Punk Reggae - Overcome (The Recapitulation)
Ryan Harvey, Folk Artist - The Times They Are NOT A-Changin, Open Song to George W. Bush, I'm Gonna Say it Now! http://ryanharvey.cjb.net /
Salem, Rap - Have We Got Room
Simple Fears, Girl Punk Rock - Get Out of Iraq http://www.simplefears.com /
Steven Taylor - Go Down, Congress
Sting - This War
The Known Unknowns, Classic Blues Rock - New World Order, Blinded, Tell the Truth
The Legendary K.O., Rap - George Bush Doesn't Care About Black People
The Rolling Stones - Sweet Neo Con
The Simon, Folk Artists - Newstates
The John Kasper Band, Light Rock - Don't Think Twice, We're the Enemy, Conspiracy of Silence
Willie Nelson - What Ever Happened
Jean Wyclef, Reggae - If I Were President
Yikes McGee, Folk Artist - PNAC, Snake Eyes (Bring it On), The Liar, Propagandy, Bad President http://www.yikesmcgee.org /

Download 200 anti-war mp3 files from
http://www.benfrank.net/nuke/Free_Peace_mp3s.html

Anti-war Downloads
http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/1gmarchive/000628.html


more protest songs
http://www.sealionrecords.com/cd-compilation.htm

[Nabia2004]

132. The Known Unknowns - Who are they?

Anyone know who the antiwar group "The Known Unknowns," are? They have 3 songs out that I know of; New World Order, Blinded, and Tell the Truth. Their music reminds of Robin Trower.

[janx]

131. RadioHead! Hail to the Thief.

For quite some time now.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000092ZYX/104-8319397-1286350?v=glance&n=5174

[name not needed]

134. Rise Against, Flogging Molly, Dropkick Murphys,

KMFDM, The Suicide Machines.

[jhain]

136. Here are some bands

you might already have some of them, but here they are...

Rise against
Bad religion
My chemical romance
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