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November 23, 2008
I feel like putting up a music video tonight that captures the mood of America. Get your requests in now...
Here's your winner... Dylan - "A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall"
Now look at them yo-yos thats the way you do it You play the guitar on the mtv That aint workin thats the way you do it Money for nothin and chicks for free Now that aint workin thats the way you do it Lemme tell ya them guys aint dumb Maybe get a blister on your little finger Maybe get a blister on your thumb
We gotta install microwave ovens Custom kitchen deliveries We gotta move these refrigerators We gotta move these colour tvs
"I Hate Banks" by Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper. This one is rare and I don't normally do huge posts but I can't find a site with the lyrics all alone so here goes:
I Hate Banks by Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper
I hate banks... I just can't stand 'em. Gimme a shovel & man I'll plant 'em. Six feet under thats where they belong... I hate banks is the name of this song. I think I'll rob myself one or two... Yeah I hate banks, yeah, how 'bout you?
Well...lend me a nickel & lend me a dime, repossess my house any old time. Financial institutions think they're so high faluting... Just a bunch of fruits in three piece suits, trying to steal all my loot. Things are smelling pretty rank, We must be near a stinking bank. Smells worse than Rockefellars feet, Wall Street can eat my meat.
Yeah throw the moneylenders out of the temple; I hate banks its just that simple. Royal Crown Palm Ade Tin, is a the best thing to keep your money in. Mason jar is okay too, if you see a bank well you know what to do.
Now, lemme tell you people something... The only banks I like, well, I like Ernie Banks alright. And I like the banks of the Mississippi River... Yeah, and I like banks of fender twin reverb... Electric guitar amplifiers behind me, raging on the stages...
Well,when I walk in they treat me like a dog; want to hit them in the head with a doo-doo log. Republicans, one and all... Their talleywhackers are mighty small. Stealing from the poor gonna give to the rich... Wanna make the bank president twitch in a ditch.
Yeah, see that teller with the blue hair, giving me the evil-eye stare. Won't cash my check don't like my ID... got the security guard after me. If I was E. F. Sloane, I'd say the Dow Jones can suck my bone. Yeah.
Everybody say the three magic words! I want you to help me say the words! I want you to repeat after me! I HATE BANKS! Can't stand 'em! I HATE BANKS! Don't Like 'em! I HATE BANKS! Bunch of Foo-Foo's! I HATE BANKS! Contrary like a big zit!
I hate banks... I just can't stand 'em. Gimme a shovel & man I'll plant 'em. Six feet under thats where they belong... I hate banks is the name of this song. I think I'll rob myself one or two... Yeah I hate banks, yeah, how 'bout you?
Now lemme tell you something... I'm not real fond of the PHONE COMPANY either! You know? Yeah, and I don't like the cable TV company. You know why I don't like the cable TV company? Cause they just be sucking that stuff right out the sky! THEY don't have to pay nuttin for it! I just get me one of them bootleg cable boxes, and get me one of them climb the pole and stick the thing in... I ain't gonna pay for it! NOOOOO!!!!"
There's a great my husband told me about- it's a song by Neil Young called "Ordinary People" dont know if there's a music video out yet, but here's part of the lyrics:
Two out of work fashion models and a fashion slave Tried to dance away the Michelob night. The bartender poured herself another drink while two drunks were watching the fight. The champ went down like a light, fighting for the people But his timing wasnt right The high rolling people Taking limos in the neon night Las Vegas people They came to see a Las Vegas fight Fighting for the people.
There There's a man in the window with a big cigar Says everything's for sale Yeah, the house and the boat and the railroad car The owner's gotta go to jail He acquired these things from a life of crime Now he's selling them to make bail He was ripping off the people Selling guns to the underground Living off the people Skimming the top when there's no one around Trying to help the people Lose their ass for a piece of ground Patch of ground people.....
man, you just can't make this sh*t up. from an online article:
" Citigroup Inc is looking at putting risky assets in a government-supported "bad bank" -- a step to reassure investors that the rest of its assets were safe, a person briefed on the matter said on Sunday.
The "bad bank" might take on $100 billion of Citigroup's assets, although that number is still being discussed. Citigroup might bear the initial losses on the assets, and the government might cover losses beyond a particular threshold, the person said."
i have an idea, why doesn't the government just make Citi the "bad bank" and dump all the toxic cr*p there?
When we were young the future was so bright The old neighborhood was so alive And every kid on the whole damn street Was gonna make it big and not be beat
Now the neighborhood's cracked and torn The kids are grown up but their lives are worn How can one little street Swallow so many lives
"Back on the Chain Gang" is appropriate too i think - Pretenders. There are some absolutely great You tube videos of Chrissy Hynde singing this. Just substitute country for lover. Thanks everyone for the interesting music. I had a good time tonight checking it all out.
Owning all of Dylan's albums up to and including Slow Train, I have to admit that my favorite song is 'Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands'. It's an epic poem, and if you have 30 minutes to spare, give it a listen. Joan Baez's version is also nice. keyer soze
As far as this thread, I'd nominate 2525 by Zager and Evans. My old 45 has long since died, but it said something like... 'we took all this old earth could give and we ein't put back nothing'. That's depressing, isn't it? keyser soze
WAR
ReplyDeleteThe world is a ghetto.
1972 recession
what's up keith ! digging the blog again!
ReplyDeleteHow about "you dropped the bomb on me" late 80' music
rich in fl
Try the Transatlantic Sessions version of Stephen Foster's Hard Times Come Again No More. It's not just America that's getting moody, y'know...
ReplyDeletetwisted sister, we're not going to take it.
ReplyDeleteI would go for PULP's music video COMMON PEOPLE.
ReplyDeleteWilliam Shatner and Joe Jackson covered it live on Leno also.
COMMON PEOPLE is the new American Pie.
Nirvana
ReplyDelete"It's the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine)"
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAdUaOdPhe0
This one goes through my head randomly at times these days, lol!
Some mighty cool suggestions so far.
ReplyDeleteSo; You've Had A Bad Day ???
The Night Santa Went Crazy ???
Until We Break ???
Gasoline ???
If there is one - Sex Pistols "Problem"
ReplyDeleteOr Rollins Band "Liar"
It's the End of the World As We Know It.
ReplyDeleteHellbound Train Savoy Brown
ReplyDeleterun dmc's 'hard times'
ReplyDeleteDuke Bootee & Melle Mel 'Message II'
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIESdi6m4s8
'It's called survival, and only the strong can survive...'
"Silver" by the Pixies
ReplyDeletehttp://au.youtube.com/watch?v=G4BIl-3CUZk
"Constant Sorrow", from Brother Where Art Thou
ReplyDeleteDire Straits
ReplyDeleteMoney for Nothin
Now look at them yo-yos thats the way you do it
You play the guitar on the mtv
That aint workin thats the way you do it
Money for nothin and chicks for free
Now that aint workin thats the way you do it
Lemme tell ya them guys aint dumb
Maybe get a blister on your little finger
Maybe get a blister on your thumb
We gotta install microwave ovens
Custom kitchen deliveries
We gotta move these refrigerators
We gotta move these colour tvs
I nominate "The torture never stops" Parts 1 and 2 by Frank Zappa.
ReplyDelete"We Are The Champions" by Queen.
ReplyDeleteHey, I'm not giving up easily.
Or in the spirit of The New Messiah:
ReplyDeletehttp://tinyurl.com/6dv7bn
Little Snoop Dog & Air Force One.
Can't wait for the Inaugural Ball myself.
I have two requests:
ReplyDeleteMegadeth- "Foreclosure of a dream."
Megadeth- "Symphony of destruction."
Both are very fitting for the times we are going through. Thing is, these songs are more real NOW than when they were recorded in the early 1990's.
Timezone
ReplyDeleteWorld Destruction
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuL2kvEaWrw
"Sweating Bullets" By Megadeth Would definetly be fitting
ReplyDeleteLow Budget
ReplyDeleteThe Kinks
How bout All to Blame by Sum 41?
ReplyDeleteOmar and The Howlers - Hard Times in the Land of Plenty (http://tinyurl.com/6z932l)
ReplyDeleteU2 - Silver and Gold (http://tinyurl.com/54tkyx)
Eve of Destruction - Barry McGuire
ReplyDeletedoh!
ReplyDeleteCyress Hill-
ReplyDelete"When the "Ship" Goes Down"
Yah, better be ready!
Puhleeeze Keith, NO MORE RICK!!!
ReplyDelete"Gimme Some Money" - Spinal Tap
ReplyDeleteCarolina in my Mind
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNjLUPqckWY&feature=related
In honor of Stammerin' Hank Paulson's 'conflicted' guidance during these troubled times:
ReplyDeleteLocomotive Breath
Jethro Tull
Journey- Dont Stop Believing!
ReplyDelete"Waiting For the Great Leap Forwards" by Billy Bragg.
ReplyDeletehttp://tinyurl.com/68fpoo
OK that only captures the mood of a small portion of America.
Most Americans are headed toward the "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime."
http://tinyurl.com/3akcvr
Take notice how in the first chorus it is a Railroad Tycoon looking for a handout.
that's manilow covering astley
ReplyDeleteyou got barry rolled
Ball and chain by Social Distortion..
ReplyDeleteI vote for:
ReplyDelete"Sabotage" Beastie Boys as that about sums up our economy. But I also like:
Don Henley==> The End Of The Innocence
Alice In Chains ==> Down in a Hole
The Rolling Stones ==> You Can't Always Get What You Want
Collective Soul ==> The World I Know
-SRI
"Watch them all fall down, domino dancing"
ReplyDeletePet Shop Boys
Anonymous said...
ReplyDelete"Journey- Dont Stop Believing!"
LMFAO!
Burnin' For You; Blue Oyster Cult
"Home in the valley
Home in the city
Home isnt pretty
Aint no home for me..."
Dillon
ReplyDeleteIt's a hard rain...
How about the dancing headless chicken from the movie, "Eraser Head."
ReplyDeleteKMFDM - Dogma
ReplyDeleteThis was from 1996 of of their album XTORT... Had Nicole Blackman doing voiceover.
"We owe so much money we are not broke we're broken... We're so poor we can't even pay attention..."
Sex Drugs God Cash - AMERICA!
perfect anthem for today's markets: "Free Fallin'" (Tom Petty & the Hearbreakers)
ReplyDeleteFrank's Wild Years
ReplyDeleteTom Waits
Either "The Future" by Leonard Cohen or
ReplyDelete"I Hate Banks" by Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper. This one is rare and I don't normally do huge posts but I can't find a site with the lyrics all alone so here goes:
I Hate Banks
by Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper
I hate banks...
I just can't stand 'em.
Gimme a shovel & man I'll plant 'em.
Six feet under thats where they belong...
I hate banks is the name of this song.
I think I'll rob myself one or two...
Yeah I hate banks, yeah, how 'bout you?
Well...lend me a nickel & lend me a dime,
repossess my house any old time.
Financial institutions think they're so high faluting...
Just a bunch of fruits in three piece suits,
trying to steal all my loot.
Things are smelling pretty rank,
We must be near a stinking bank.
Smells worse than Rockefellars feet,
Wall Street can eat my meat.
Yeah throw the moneylenders out of the temple;
I hate banks its just that simple.
Royal Crown Palm Ade Tin,
is a the best thing to keep your money in.
Mason jar is okay too,
if you see a bank well you know what to do.
Now, lemme tell you people something...
The only banks I like, well, I like Ernie Banks alright.
And I like the banks of the Mississippi River...
Yeah, and I like banks of fender twin reverb...
Electric guitar amplifiers behind me, raging on the stages...
Well,when I walk in they treat me like a dog;
want to hit them in the head with a doo-doo log.
Republicans, one and all...
Their talleywhackers are mighty small.
Stealing from the poor gonna give to the rich...
Wanna make the bank president twitch in a ditch.
Yeah, see that teller with the blue hair,
giving me the evil-eye stare.
Won't cash my check don't like my ID...
got the security guard after me.
If I was E. F. Sloane,
I'd say the Dow Jones can suck my bone.
Yeah.
Everybody say the three magic words!
I want you to help me say the words!
I want you to repeat after me!
I HATE BANKS!
Can't stand 'em!
I HATE BANKS!
Don't Like 'em!
I HATE BANKS!
Bunch of Foo-Foo's!
I HATE BANKS!
Contrary like a big zit!
I hate banks...
I just can't stand 'em.
Gimme a shovel & man I'll plant 'em.
Six feet under thats where they belong...
I hate banks is the name of this song.
I think I'll rob myself one or two...
Yeah I hate banks, yeah, how 'bout you?
Now lemme tell you something...
I'm not real fond of the PHONE COMPANY either!
You know?
Yeah, and I don't like the cable TV company.
You know why I don't like the cable TV company?
Cause they just be sucking that stuff right out the sky!
THEY don't have to pay nuttin for it!
I just get me one of them bootleg cable boxes,
and get me one of them climb the pole and stick the thing in...
I ain't gonna pay for it!
NOOOOO!!!!"
These Are the Breaks - Kurtis Blow
ReplyDeleteThere's a great my husband told me about- it's a song by Neil Young called "Ordinary People" dont know if there's a music video out yet, but here's part of the lyrics:
ReplyDeleteTwo out of work fashion models and a fashion slave
Tried to dance away the Michelob night.
The bartender poured herself another drink while two drunks were watching the fight.
The champ went down like a light, fighting for the people
But his timing wasnt right
The high rolling people
Taking limos in the neon night
Las Vegas people
They came to see a Las Vegas fight
Fighting for the people.
There
There's a man in the window with a big cigar
Says everything's for sale
Yeah, the house and the boat and the railroad car
The owner's gotta go to jail
He acquired these things from a life of crime
Now he's selling them to make bail
He was ripping off the people
Selling guns to the underground
Living off the people
Skimming the top when there's no one around
Trying to help the people
Lose their ass for a piece of ground
Patch of ground people.....
man, you just can't make this sh*t up. from an online article:
ReplyDelete" Citigroup Inc is looking at putting risky assets in a government-supported "bad bank" -- a step to reassure investors that the rest of its assets were safe, a person briefed on the matter said on Sunday.
The "bad bank" might take on $100 billion of Citigroup's assets, although that number is still being discussed. Citigroup might bear the initial losses on the assets, and the government might cover losses beyond a particular threshold, the person said."
i have an idea, why doesn't the government just make Citi the "bad bank" and dump all the toxic cr*p there?
The Tubes:"I want it all now"
ReplyDeleteBilly Joel's "Allentown"
ReplyDeleteTotal No-Brainer.
ReplyDelete"Down Payment Blues" AC/DC
"Hiding from the rent man!"
"No Shelter" by Rage Against the Machine
ReplyDeleteoh man, we are going back to the clinton years of slicing and dicing words and meanings.
ReplyDeleteA BO aide has now said that BO's economic plan will "save or create 2.5 million jobs".
Save? Well, i guess that is better than losing....
Well, we are now guaranteeing 300 Billion of Citi's assets.
ReplyDeleteNow, how about Citi addressing the remaining 700 billion that is off balance sheet?
Goin' Up The Country
ReplyDeleteCanned Heat
Fisherman's Blues
ReplyDeleteThe Waterboys
My City Was Gone (OHIO)
ReplyDeleteThe Pretenders
Ball and Chain
ReplyDeleteJanis Joplin
Monterey Pop Festival
(Check it out on You Tube)
The Offspring
ReplyDeleteThe Kids Aren't Alright
When we were young the future was so bright
The old neighborhood was so alive
And every kid on the whole damn street
Was gonna make it big and not be beat
Now the neighborhood's cracked and torn
The kids are grown up but their lives are worn
How can one little street
Swallow so many lives
"Back on the Chain Gang" is appropriate too i think - Pretenders. There are some absolutely great You tube videos of Chrissy Hynde singing this. Just substitute country for lover.
ReplyDeleteThanks everyone for the interesting music. I had a good time tonight checking it all out.
"Union Sundown" by Bob Dylan
ReplyDelete"Living in a box"
ReplyDeleteGreat hits of the 80s. I don't know the artist.
Barry Manilow...that was a truly inspired pick.
ReplyDeleteAlthough it's too late...
The Carpenters
We've Only Just Begun
Where the executioner's face is always well hidden
ReplyDeleteI grew up with this song. Such a prophetic, ominous piece. Scary.
ReplyDeleteGreat video. Thank you Keith.
Barry McGuire - Eve Of Destruction [1965]
ReplyDeletehttp://alternativereel.com/includes/music-videos/display_review.php?id=00302
Those were the days - Mary Hopkin
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNVit7cesj8&feature=related
...and they ain't coming back. Not in our lifetime.
MINISTRY!!!!! (industrial metal)
ReplyDeleteThis bands last album "The Last Sucker" features a drawing of Bush morphed into a reptile.
Rio Grande Blood album artwork is a drawing of Bush in a Oil Drum
Houses of the Mole even has a song called No W
Ministry has been on a anti bush bandwagon since their song from 1992 New World Order featuring Poppy Bush voice in the song
Also check out KMFDM's album WW111
and Skinny Puppy's Greater Wrong of the Right
I really like this thread.
ReplyDeleteRing around the Rosy
Owning all of Dylan's albums up to and including Slow Train, I have to admit that my favorite song is 'Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands'.
ReplyDeleteIt's an epic poem, and if you have 30 minutes to spare, give it a listen. Joan Baez's version is also nice.
keyer soze
As far as this thread, I'd nominate 2525 by Zager and Evans. My old 45 has long since died, but it said something like... 'we took all this old earth could give and we ein't put back nothing'.
ReplyDeleteThat's depressing, isn't it?
keyser soze
Dazed and Confused - Led Zeppelin
ReplyDeleteHowdy Keith and Happy Thanksgiving. Suggestion three part
ReplyDeleteAC/DC "Have a Drink on Me"
followed by
Talking Heads "Road to Nowhere"
followed by Kinks "Where have all the good times gone?"
followed by
Wallflowers "Everybody out of the Water"
Smug Bastard
for some:
ReplyDeleteStones - Gimme Shelter
I crack me up sometimes.
Smug Bastard