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The 10 Most Leftist Albums Ever Made
David Horowitz's NewsReal Blog ^ | James Miles and David Swindle

Posted on 10/30/2010 5:34:05 AM PDT by Michael van der Galien

What albums might Leon Trotsky have done some head-banging to if Josef Stalin hadn’t sent an assassin to shove an icepick through his skull?

Answer: the 10 Neo-Communist (and some flat-out communist) titles on our list. We count them down from the more benign Democrat-supporters to outright totalitarian radicals.

Included in this collection are alternative, rock, rap, folk, and hip-hop titles. We’ve also done our best not to be too obvious with our choices — you won’t find Greenday’s “American Idiot” on this list, for example. We also made the choice to select albums that despite being nauseating in their politics can actually be enjoyable to listen to — hence the decision to include a video with each. That’s your cookie for having to endure the next ten pages of anti-Americanism as we expose some of music’s most politicized albums.

10.“Hail to the Thief” by Radiohead

Considered by music critics and fans alike as the 20th century’s most important rock band, Radiohead took over the alternative music world in the mid ’90s with “OK Computer,” a brilliant album about the alienation we feel because of technology and the ways it makes us a little less human each day. (Certainly an accurate prediction of our Facebook-Twitterverse world of today.) They then turned themselves inside out in 2000 with the release of “Kid A” an almost completely electronic album that is considered by many to be the most important record of the past ten years. Lead singer Thom Yorke, never one to shy away from slamming George Bush and the administration’s stance on environmental issues, decided to use the band’s 2003 album title as a soundboard on the 2000 US presidential elections. Apparently “Impeach George Bush” was already taken as an album title.

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To: MichaelP
American Woman, the Guess Who: The Machine, Pink Floyd: Anthing at all by Joan Baez...

Good examples. I make a distiction in my mind between those musicians who criticize our culture, but realize their own frailities, as with Joan Baez, and those who revel in a hatred for everything American which is rooted in a self-loathing I cannot understand. For example, Frank Zappa, who saw America as some kind of diabolical materialistic prison, and seeming to hate most of all those things closest to himself -- his groupies, the R&B music he cut his teeth on, and of course his own self, without mention or apparent awareness that he really, really was full of self-loathing.

The self-loathing Leftist is the most dangerous kind. Joan Baez and Buffy St. Marie, otoh, I would give a hug to if I were to meet them. They are sincere and live what they preach and do it without hating.

21 posted on 10/30/2010 6:40:12 AM PDT by ARepublicanForAllReasons (Darn, lost my tagline... something about boarders, in-laws and bad language.)
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To: Michael van der Galien
That last band were total commie hypocrites.

From the lyrics:
There is not enough black in the Union Jack
and to much white in the Stars and Stripes?

The irony is that the entire audience is white and there is not a single black person in the band.

22 posted on 10/30/2010 6:41:50 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus
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To: Michael van der Galien
I have to admit that one of my guilty pleasures is Neil Young, even though he is left of leftest. His "Living with War" made me sick, and was what I thought would be #1.

I sure used to like NY when he rocked, rather than whined....

23 posted on 10/30/2010 6:48:53 AM PDT by catfish1957 (Hey algore...You'll have to pry the steering wheel of my 317 HP V8 truck from my cold dead hands)
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To: Michael van der Galien

The irony is that they demonize the same system that makes them rich. Fat cat executives suck but give me my millions for saying it. Hypocrisy is a trait of liberalism.


24 posted on 10/30/2010 6:58:19 AM PDT by TheRevolution1776 (2nd Amendment applies also to religous threats. I don't call 911 even after your down.)
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To: Michael van der Galien

The irony is that they demonize the same system that makes them rich. Fat cat executives suck but give me my millions for saying it. Hypocrisy is a trait of liberalism.


25 posted on 10/30/2010 6:58:22 AM PDT by TheRevolution1776 (2nd Amendment applies also to religous threats. I don't call 911 even after your down.)
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To: Michael van der Galien

I’ve always considered Rage Against the Machine to be a bad joke. If your lead singer has to wear a beret with the word “guerrilla” embroidered on it, chances are he’s not *really* a guerrilla. (grin)

Or, as a friend of mine who grew up in Peru during the 1980s once said about RATM: “If you guys think The Shining Path is so f-—ing great, come ride a bus in Lima the next time they’re in town!”


26 posted on 10/30/2010 7:04:32 AM PDT by DemforBush (You might think that, *I* could not possibly comment.)
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To: Michael van der Galien

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPa5hqr8Dqo


27 posted on 10/30/2010 7:34:31 AM PDT by Charlespg
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To: Michael van der Galien

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPa5hqr8Dqo


28 posted on 10/30/2010 7:34:43 AM PDT by Charlespg
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To: Michael van der Galien

This list is a bunch of baloney. The Jefferson Airplane’s “Volunteers” is not even mentioned. The author suffers the state of believing the world began about ten years ago.


29 posted on 10/30/2010 7:35:02 AM PDT by driftless2 (For long-term happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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To: Flavious_Maximus

If you want affirmative action in music, then you’ll love the Black Eyed Peas. A pack of clowns jumping around and circles yelling and grunting to a heavy beat. But hey, they’re diverse! The perfect Obama generation house band.


30 posted on 10/30/2010 7:53:41 AM PDT by sbMKE
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To: humblegunner

Of course he knew.

He and HorowitzianConservative are one and the same:

Blogpimps


31 posted on 10/30/2010 9:13:30 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Yes, as a matter of fact, what you do in your bedroom IS my business.)
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To: Daveinyork
Neil sung the most mind-numbingly pro-American, ultra-conservative song I've ever heard from a rock star; & at Live Aid no less
32 posted on 10/30/2010 9:43:21 AM PDT by Tribune7 (The Democrat Party is not a political organization but a religious cult.)
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To: Michael van der Galien

He left out The Clash...anything by the Clash.

BTW, the Beatles are a 60s boy band - the baby boomer version of nsync.


33 posted on 10/30/2010 9:52:15 AM PDT by Salo
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