re: My favorite political moments from rock/pop

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The title of the song is actually, "Rednecks" -and the chorus is:

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We're rednecks, rednecks
And we don't know our arse from a hole in the ground
We're rednecks, we're rednecks
And we're keeping the n*ggers down



I would have suspected you agree with the politics of the first half of that one (it was satire - the use of the word was ironic), particularly the anti-"redneck" message - perhaps the northern hypocrisy is a little off-putting for you, but I believe the message of the song could be embraced by the community at large.

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It's too darn simplistic and upfront. My favorites have symbolism and metaphor and art.

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Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Remember me to one who lives there
She once was a true love of mine

Tell her to make me a cambric shirt
(On the side of a hill in the deep forest green)
Parsely, sage, rosemary and thyme
(Tracing a sparrow on snow-crested ground)
Without no seams nor needlework
(Blankets and bedclothes a child of the mountains)
Then she'll be a true love of mine
(Sleeps unaware of the clarion call)

Tell her to find me an acre of land
(On the side of a hill, a sprinkling of leaves)
Parsely, sage, rosemary, and thyme
(Washed is the ground with so many tears)
Between the salt water and the sea strand
(A soldier cleans and polishes a gun)
Then she'll be a true love of mine

Tell her to reap it in a sickle of leather
(War bellows, blazing in scarlet battalions)
Parsely, sage, rosemary and thyme
(Generals order their soldiers to kill)
And to gather it all in a bunch of heather
(And to fight for a cause they've long ago forgotten)
Then she'll be a true love of mine

Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Remember me to one who lives there
She once was a true love of mine

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Now the high school gymnasium's ready,
full of flowers and old legionnaires.
Nobody showed up to protest,
just to sniffle and stare.
But there's red, white, and blue in the rafters
and there's silent old men from the corps.
What did they say when they shipped you away
to fight somebody's Hollywood war?

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If anyone wants a good chuckle, Rex started a complaint thread on the Help Board this morning.

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3 pages on political songs and no War Pigs? You people disappoint.

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Operation Mindcrime (Queensryche) was a political concept album about the perceived social injustice of the Reagan administration.

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That's a bit of a stretch. It takes place in the Reagan era and features fictional political assassinations but it's much more critical of religion and drug use as a means of mind control.

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I started to, but Rex was queefing about "full episodes" - and just wants "acute" whatever.

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