Stop Hey what's that sound...

[rustydog]

there's something happinin' here
what it is ain't exactly clear
there's a man with a gun over there
tellin me I got to beware

I think it's time we stop, children
what's that sound
everybody look what's goin down

there's battle lines being drawn
nobody's right if everybody's wrong
young people speakin' their minds
getting so much resistance far behind

it's time we stop,
hey what's that sound
everybody look what's goin down

what a field day for the heat
a thousand people in the street
singing songs that they're carrying signs
mostly say hurray for our side

it's time we stop,
hey what's that sound
everybody look what's goin down

Par-a-noia strikes deep
into your life it will creep
it starts when your always afraid
step out of line the man come and take you away

we better stop
hey what's that sound
everybody look what's going down

we better stop
hey what's that sound
everybody look what's going down

we better stop
hey what's that sound
everybody look what's going down

we better stop
hey what's that sound
everybody look what's going down

Buffalo Springfield

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. There's a reason that song is a classic.

[Tx4obama]

2. Off Topic

Here's a rewrite of the Beverly Hillbillies theme song I saw on the net earlier ...

Come and listen to a story 'bout a shrill named Sarah
Poor mountaineer barely kept her family fed
Then one day she was shooting for some wolves,
And up through the ground come a bubbling crude
(Oil that is, black gold, Teabaggers tea)

Well the first thing you know old Sarah's a millionaire
Kin folk said Sarah move away from there
Said the lower states is the place you oughta be

Well now it's time to say goodbye to Sarah and all her kin
They would like to thank you folks for kindly dropping in
You're all invited back again to this locality
To have a heaping helping of their hospitality
( Wasilla Hillbillies, that's what they call 'em now,
Nice folks Y'all come back now, ya hear?)

[me b zola]

5. Yeah, thats off topic

[Honeycombe8]

9. Yeah, but it's still good. nt

[me b zola]

11. Honestly, i'm beyond tired of smoke and mirrors

and the bullshit that gets passed as needing my attention. Sarah who? Lets move on. My arthritic hips marched over a mile today, I don't give a rats ass about Sarah or her idiocy.

[Honeycombe8]

15. Oh, well, yeah. But it was a good little diddy, is all. And to the tune of the Bev Hillbillies...

come on...that's catchy.

[slipslidingaway]

16. ^^^^^^ n/t

[bighart]

29. Actually the rhym and meter are off and it doesn't flow well.

[highprincipleswork]

3. How about this classic?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM-E2H1ChJM&feature=related

Find this very enjoyable.

[Honeycombe8]

10. Well, it can't be very good, if you don't feel the need to clue the read in. nt

[Fire Walk With Me]

4. ...

:thumbsup:

[madrchsod]

6. that would be.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ox1o6wHodlw&feature=related

[amyrose2712]

20. Hey that Peter Tork, from The Monkees introducing them!

[MannyGoldstein]

7. Been thinking about this song lately

And Marvin Gay's "What's Going On"

[Brigid]

8. Yes, one of the greats.

And so prescient. :hippie:

[Blue_In_AK]

13. It's kind of a shme

that it's as relevant today as it was 45 years ago. Things should have been better by now rather than worse. I don't know how we always let the righties have the upper hand.

[NNN0LHI]

12. "For What It's Worth" is a song about the Sunset Strip riots over the closing of a club in 1966

[Le Taz Hot]

14. I was just thinking about that song the other day

when I was reading about the OWS movement. The great songs are never outdated.

[Kat45]

17. They actually quote the first 2 lines on the NBC news last night for the story on the protests

And the story actually wasn't bad, either.

[TK421]

18. that's nice...that's a good song, a classic for sure, now..WHEN DOES SOMETHING FUCKING HAPPEN?

good song, good message, now people need to fucking ACT

these songs are great, the message is great, but I would like to see something

Kind of like when Obama gives a pretty speech to appease all of us, to assure us that everything is going to be A-OK. I don't know about the rest of you, but I am REALLY fucking SICK of words...

[rustydog]

21. When? NOW!! OWS has spread to over 700 cities in America!

It is happenin' now!
Remember the 60's, the sit-ins protesting segregation? The anti-war peace marches?
They started the same way and we got the Civil Rights Act...
It won't happen tomorrow, or next month...but it is happenin'

[TK421]

23. hey, I was born in 75 so I don't remember the 60's, only read about them and heard

about them,grew up around it kind of with family members,...I respect the message, believe me I do.

Sometimes, when I see these protests I just get the feeling that its a bunch of people getting together to vent in public, but nothing EVER comes of it....ever. And the MSM just tears them apart and makes them out to be a bunch of tree-hugging hippies who are just protesting about something else they don't like about the establishment; they just don't seem to take these types of movements seriously, never have, and never will. This thing on Wall Street, while different, is something that I feel will just die out because I think eventually people will just grow to accept that Wall Street just fucking rules! It does, always has, and nobody has taken up arms against it..it must be A-OK.]

Hey, if it's not horrific, why wouldn't take up arms against it?

[GReedDiamond]

19. "For What It's Worth" was written about the "Sunset Strip...

...Curfew Riots."

Many people think the song was written as an anti-Viet Nam war statement, but it was actually a response to the Los Angeles Police harassment of teens and hippies on the Strip.

A friend of mine was one of the original organizers of what became the riots, thanks, as usual, to the LAPD's brutal response to the protests.

[DianaForRussFeingold]

22. K&R OWS?! Someone please put together a music-video...!

:pals: This song is just as relevant today as it was almost 45 years ago...!:yourock:

:dem:Buffalo Springfield-For What Its Worth (good sound quality!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5M_Ttstbgs&NR=1

(With Jefferson Airplane Pictures)Hmm?!

[slipslidingaway]

24. knr ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjSpO2B6G4s

[progressoid]

26. Playing on the TV show Mannix....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7sAcoXVXvA&t=5m10s

[DianaForRussFeingold]

31. Thank you! That is COOL!!! Here's a video from the Smother's Bros.

:loveya: The anti-war Smothers brothers were against the media crap and way ahead of their time, that's why their show was pulled...

Check out the "visual aids" LOL
'The Smothers Brothers Show 1967'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuGcwa03SQw&feature=share

I will be posting this one~
"Pictures of Occupy Wall Street (Buffalo Springfield "For What It's Worth" with music from Buffalo Springfield."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6eQL_MqhYM

[Hart2008]

25. K & R

[bigwillq]

27. K and R

:bounce:

Great song.

[lunatica]

28. Right on!

[bighart]

30. Great song.

Great message.

Where are all the protest songs for today? I have been thinking about this for some time, we have had 2 wars going and the financial crisis, and killings being done in the name of "public good", possible execution of an innocent man and I don't know of a single good protest song that addresses any of these issues. I truly believe that part of the reason the protest from the 60's were as successful as they were is the fact that there was some music that galvanized and mobilized people. Music is a very powerful force.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

32. I've been having 60's flashbacks lately, too

And no, I never was heavily into drugs. But the protests over Wall Street have got me thinking back to my youth when For What It's Worth was a new hit song on the radio. There was really something in the air back then and there is again now. What we really lack now is the great creative and inspiring music we had back then.