Posts Tagged ‘Progressive Rock’
Pinback – "Fortress" (2004)
2011/02/03
To long to fall
Sat shiver in bed
You and a test of will
Too many fallen, too many failed
Nobody move, nobody move
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Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush – "Don't Give Up" (1986)
2010/12/08
Sometimes… sometimes you just need to listen to this song to find the strength to push on…
In this proud land we grew up strong
We were wanted all along
I was taught to fight, taught to win
I never thought I could fail
No fight left or so it seems
I am a man whose dreams have all deserted
I've changed my face, I've changed my name
But no one wants you when you lose
Don't give up
'cos you have friends
Don't give up
You're not beaten yet
Don't give up
I know you can make it good
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Yes – "Roundabout" (1971)
2010/04/26
I took a generic antihistamine. That was last night. I am still out of it, but this song seems all the more brilliant. Hopefully I'll be a little less "psychedelic" before I hop in the car to go to work.
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The Decemberists – "Shankill Butchers" (2006)
2009/10/27Audio Stream: http://www.last.fm/music/The+Decemberists/_/Shankill+Butchers?autostart
Oh, they're real! And the Shankill Butchers were "most notorious for (their) late-night abduction, torture and murder (by throat slashing) of random Catholic civilians". The Decemberists lead singer, Colin Meloy, had much to say about it in his 2007 interview with Terry Gross on NPR (read the full script here):
…in the 1970s, there was a group of Protestants in Belfast who targeted the Catholics in the city, actually chose to use, as weapons, butcher knives and cleavers. Really, they weren't necessarily, you know, obviously, political or religious activists. They were really, you know, cold-blooded murders, really. And they would go out at night killing Catholics essentially and, you know, gruesomely filet them alive and things like that.
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The parents at the time would actually use it as a cautionary tale and would tell children, you know, if they didn't do what they were told, the Shankill butchers would come and get them. And it just seemed so bizarre and so horrific to me that it almost – it's one of those moments in history when, you know, human events actually take on the scope of fairytale, and I thought it would – so the song is essentially me imagining what sort of dialogue that would be, the mother telling the child to go to sleep or the Shankill butchers would come and get them.
A gruesome tale indeed, wrought with horror and perhaps one to many "you know"s (Oh I kid Colin… I only noticed it when I saw it in writing. Also, for the record, I love The Decemberists or else I would not have driven hours to see them in concert last year!). Seriously though, an excellent song for the Halloween song list. I wonder if my Catholic Irish mother knows the tale and if perhaps she might have had more control over my siblings and me if she had told the tale.
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Joeyess – "DFH (Dirty Fucking Hippies)" (2009)
2009/09/27
Hats off to my friend PK for passing this one on to me. I've been avoiding politics and political themed songs for a while now, but this one is good! A must listen for all you United States of America Citizens out there.
After Obama was elected I gave out a sigh of relief. I trust the Democrats a lot more than the obviously selfish, obviously hypocritical, obviously untrustworthy, and probably evil Republican Party (some are obviously evil, some are just probably). I am however vastly disappointed in both parties and politicians in general. So many problems seem preventable or solvable if we can control peoples' greed and fear. But politicians are generally a fearful and greedy group. My grandmother always referred to them all as crooks and liars, and I agree with her. Even though we "elect" them they are not to be trusted. Too easily they seem to forget about The United States Constitution's first sentence, and particular the part that says "promote the general Welfare". The word is PROMOTE. Look it up!
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Our politicians have sold out to corporations and Wall Street. We, the people, are only involved once every few years to decide which crooks will be elected. Crook A or Crook B. That is the choice we get. Watch "The Corporation".
I'm with Joeyess. "The dirty fucking hippies were right." Are right. And probably will continue to be right, until we replace the criminals running the country!!!
PS: I'm not 100% sure how to classify this, but Spoken Word meets Progressive Rock seems about right.
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