So, what music are you listening to now?

[Mark B]

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[Dondilion]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

Songs are culturally important. They are a chief way people learn values, the values of their culture. Here's an old song, but used to be everyone in the South knew it. I expect they mostly still do. There are modern variants, like an anti-Obama parody. But here's the original:

O I'm a good old rebel,
Now that's just what I am.
For this "fair land of freedom"
I do not care a damn.
I'm glad I fought against it,
I only wish we'd won,
And I don't want no pardon
For anything I done.

I hates the Constitution,
This great republic too,
I hates the Freedmans' Buro,
In uniforms of blue.
I hates the nasty eagle,
With all his braggs and fuss,
The lyin' thievin' Yankees,
I hates 'em wuss and wuss.

I hates the Yankees nation
And everything they do,
I hates the Declaration,
Of Independence, too.
I hates the glorious Union-
'Tis dripping with our blood-
I hates their striped banner,
I fought it all I could

I rode with Robert E. Lee,
For three year near about,
Got wounded in four places
And starved at Point Lookout
I caught the rheumatism
A' campin' in the snow,
But I killed a chance o' Yankees
I'd like to kill some mo'.

Three hundred thousand Yankees
Is stiff in Southern dust,
We got three hundred thousand
Before they conquered us.
They died of Southern fever
And Southern steel and shot,
I wish they was three million
Instead of what we got.

I can't take up my musket
And fight 'em now no more,
But I ain't going to love 'em,
Now that is sarten sure,
And I don't want no pardon
For what I was and am.
I won't be reconstructed,
And I don't care a damn.

Transmits and preserves cultural attitudes. They used to sing this in school assemblies in Tennessee, I hear. Rural schools anyway....

Ironically, a lot of the people who sang this became the salt of the US military.

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by Dondilion

Ironically, a lot of the people who sang this became the salt of the US military.

Doublethink, Orwell called it.

[bobabode]

Thick As A Brick - Tull

[bobabode]

Who's Next - The Who

I'm going to sing out

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by Mark B

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Check. This is the thread for album covers that no one hardly reacts to at all.

[init4fun]

Here's an album cover that got some reactions back in the day......

[bobabode]

This thread is meant to be a place where members can share overlapping interests rather than for taking potshots at the disloyal opposition. A 'safe place' if you will where we can explore musical interests without rancor.
Just my thruppence... Carry on

[bobabode]

Abraxas - Santana

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by bobabode

This thread is meant to be a place where members can share overlapping interests rather than for taking potshots at the disloyal opposition. A 'safe place' if you will where we can explore musical interests without rancor.
Just my thruppence... Carry on

See your point. Will not sound any further sour notes.