Posted on 10/30/2010 5:34:05 AM PDT by Michael van der Galien
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.
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.
I sure used to like NY when he rocked, rather than whined....
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.
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.
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!”
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.
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.
Of course he knew.
He and HorowitzianConservative are one and the same:
Blogpimps
He left out The Clash...anything by the Clash.
BTW, the Beatles are a 60s boy band - the baby boomer version of nsync.
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