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Posted on 12/31/15 at 1:53 pm to SaintlyTiger88
His mother is from New Orleans. He spent a lot time in N.O. when he was a kid. He has several songs about Louisiana: Dixie Flyer, Kingfish, the Flood of 1927.
Now he mostly does Disney Movies.
Now he mostly does Disney Movies.
Posted on 12/31/15 at 2:00 pm to SaintlyTiger88
he posts here under the name Sophandros
Posted on 12/31/15 at 2:56 pm to SaintlyTiger88
One of my 25 favorite albums. It would not be permitted today. The beauty of that album was that it was a piece of social satire that grilled everybody. He wasn't making fun of LSU imho, he used LSU as a descriptive to do his little character studies on certain Southern archetypes.
Kingfish
Back on my feet
Kingfish
quote:
There's a hundred thousand Frenchmen in New Orleans In New Orleans there are Frenchmen everywhere But your house could fall down Your baby could drown Wouldn't none of those Frenchmen care Everybody gather 'round Loosen up your suspenders Hunker down on the ground I'm a cracker And you are too But don't I take good care of you Who built the highway to Baton Rouge? Who put up the hospital and built you schools? Who looks after shite-kickers like you? The Kingfish do Who gave a party at the Roosevelt Hotel? And invited the whole north half of the state down there for free The people in the city Had their eyes bugging out Cause everyone of you Looked just like me
Back on my feet
quote:
Doctor let me tell you something about myself
I'm a college man and I'm very wealthy
I've got no time to trifle with trash like you
Cause I must be 'bout my business
My brother's a machinist in a textile mill
And he makes more money than you ever will
He just got married to a Polish girl
With a space between her teeth
Posted on 12/31/15 at 3:40 pm to SaintlyTiger88
The song isn't about what he thinks. The whole song is about weak stereotypes about the south. Damn, sons, you can't read satire when it's written in large block letters
Posted on 1/1/16 at 11:34 am to Jester
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. Damn, sons, you can't read satire when it's written in large block letters
Not a strength of the site. Especially the poliboard, btw.
Posted on 1/1/16 at 4:33 pm to SaintlyTiger88
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"Rednecks" is sung from the perspective of a Southern "redneck". In it he expresses his dismay at the way that the North looks down upon The South. In particular the narrator describes his ire at watching a "smart-arse, New York Jew"[1] mock Lester Maddox on a television program. (This is an allusion to Maddox's 1970 appearance on The Dick Cavett Show whose eponymous host is actually a gentile.)[2] In response to his frustration at the television show, the narrator goes on to list, sarcastically, a litany of negative qualities that Southerners are reputed to have. He focuses especially on institutionalized racism, or, as the narrator puts it: "keeping the n-----s down."
As the song ends, the narrator turns the knife on judgmental northerners, calling them out as hypocrites.[3] He achieves this by singing that the "North has set the n----r free" and then sings African-Americans are only "free to be put in a cage," and then lists a number of black ghettos in northern cities (e.g. Roxbury in Boston, East St. Louis and Harlem in New York City) The song's final lyric is: "They [the Northerners] gatherin' 'em up, from miles around/Keeping the n-----s down."
Writing in the Los Angeles Times, Randy Lewis said Newman had "peeled back the curtain on... bigots and hypocrites" with this song.[4]
The song was tongue and cheek. Doesn't hate LSU, he was referring to the perception of idiotic southern people.
Posted on 1/2/16 at 12:44 am to Jester
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The song isn't about what he thinks
A frequent problem for Newman. He is one of the best songwriters of all time, but satire is often lost on the simple minded.
Posted on 1/2/16 at 9:21 am to SEClint
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I've heard of LSU..never heard of Randy Newman till now.
Everyone has heard I Love LA.
Posted on 1/2/16 at 9:58 am to TigerNlc
Beautiful album. "Guilty" gets me every damn time.
Posted on 1/2/16 at 10:15 am to pmacneworleans
I discovered that album sophomore year at LSU. I just got lost in it for weeks. The weird thing is that my kids heard it in my car, and asked me to play it on a recent road trip. I was blown away that my kids would dig it. That album takes me to another time and I recognize all those people and those attitudes (North and South). There is something about it that was very familiar to me,the archetypes, the hypocrites,the language, although that world probably no longer exists.
Posted on 1/2/16 at 11:00 am to Lsupimp
I saw Randy Newman live at the manship maybe 8 years ago or so. Really awesome, intimate show.
He has his name on a brick in the paving outside the Shaw Center. I pointed it out to someone recently and they asked me who that was.
He has his name on a brick in the paving outside the Shaw Center. I pointed it out to someone recently and they asked me who that was.
Posted on 1/2/16 at 4:18 pm to urinetrouble
yeah... there is a whole lot of 
going on in this thread..
going on in this thread..Posted on 1/2/16 at 5:21 pm to TFTC
First saw him in 1977 at The Municipal Auditorium in NO. Opening act was John Prine.
Posted on 1/3/16 at 2:49 am to SaintlyTiger88
Posted on 1/3/16 at 11:36 am to logjamming
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The song was tongue and cheek. Doesn't hate LSU, he was referring to the perception of idiotic southern people.
Yes and no. The song attempts to skewer "both sides" - the south for its outlandish racism and the north for its condescension on the topic despite its own ignorance and shortcomings.
It's one of the greatest songs of all time...which isn't surprising, as Randy Newman is one of the greatest songwriters of all time. The entire album is great.
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