Recently I’ve noticed that many protest songs from the 70′s sound remarkably in step with what’s going on in the world today. This doesn’t make me particularly happy (in fact it kind of pisses me off) but it did provide the inspiration for a double album mix of ‘protest’ music from both eras.
Here’s the front cover:
Inside gatefold:
Inside copy reads:
LET’S TAKE A QUIZ!
See if you can match the song lyrics to the era from which they came (70′s or 00′s):
1 – “Fears are getting stronger/You can feel them on the rise
Hopelessness got some by the throat/You can see it in their eyes”
2 – “The president’s flag is the kind of rag
That a sane man wipes his ass on”
3 – “With the over-population and inflation and starvation
And the crazy politicians/I don’t feel safe in this world no more”
4 – “Violence brings one thing/More more of the same
Military madness/The smell of flesh and burning pain
So I sing out to the masses/Stand up if you’re still sane”
5 – “NBC will not be able to predict the winner at 8:32 or report from 29 districts”
6 – “You say you don’t like what your country’s about
Yeah ain’t you deep/In your semi-first class seat”
7 – “Left behind a pretty young wife and a baby girl
A stack of overdue bills and went off to save the world
Been a year now and he’s still there/Chasin’ ghosts in the thin dry air”
8 – “The global poverty that we accept so commonly
Turns people into property one step away from hell”
9 – “Tell me people, how do you feel/When the president and secretaries ain’t real”
10 – “Gun Sales are soaring/Housewives find life boring
Divorce the only answer/Smoking causes cancer
This system’s gonna fall soon/To an angry young tune”
11 – “Our motherlands and motherseas/Here’s what we believe
It’s simple/We dont want to kill”
12 – “We are amazed but not amused
By all the things you say that you’ll do
Though much concerned but not involved
With decisions that are made by you”
13 – “Environmental destruction and the national debt
But plenty dollars left in the fat war chest”
14 – “Bills pile up sky high/Send that boy off to die
Make me wanna holler/The way they do my life”
15 – “I’m anti-Republican and Democratic
If they self-destruct/That’s anti-climactic
Tired of being hunted like an antelope
Take the system by the throat/That’s the antidote”
16 – “We are men who stay alive
Who send your children away now
We are calling from a tower
Expressing what must be everyone’s opinion”
17 – “I can’t understand why the price of gas suddenly rises when oil goes up/But takes months to go down long after oil falls”
18 – “I’ll always be tough but I’ll never be scary
I want to shoot guns or butter my bread
I’ll work in the towns and conservate the prairies
And you can believe the future’s ahead”
19 – “The revolution will be a teacup in a storm
Or a bottle in a message, or a door to a key
The revolution will always come with fries”
20 – “News guy wept and told us, earth was really dying
Cried so much his face was wet, then I knew he was not lying”
21 – “Why don’t the newscasters cry when they read about people who die/At least they could be decent enough to put just a tear in their eyes”
22 – “But your flag decal won’t get you/Into heaven anymore
They’re already overcrowded/From your dirty little war”
23 – “Some folks are born made to wave the flag
Ooh, they’re red, white and blue
And when the band plays Hail To The Chief
They point the cannon right at you”
24 – “So, round and around and around we go
Where the world’s headed, nobody knows”
***See bottom of this post for quiz answers!***
Inside back cover:
Copy on inside back cover reads:
dk presents… If 70′s were 00′s: Confusion, Corruption, & Casualties
“Whoever forgets the past is doomed to relive it it.” – George Santayana
A prolonged, unpopular, and unwinnable war. Looming energy shortages. Decaying trust in government. Wiretapping in the White House. Fierce battles over abortion. Instability in the Middle East. The headlines of 2000-05 often seem to have been recycled from 1970-75. The songs from these eras also share many unhappy themes – from confusion over war to concern about the environment to outrage at an inept and corrupt government that’s run off the rails of common sense.
[The fine print: 'Fortunate Son was released 11/69, and 'Masters Of War' is - of course - a Bob Dylan tune]
Back cover:
Here’s the track listing:
If 70′s Were 00′s
1 – Funkadelic * If You Don’t Like The Effects, Don’t Produce The Cause
2 – Stevie Wonder * You Haven’t Done Nothin’
3 – War * Get Down
4 – The Temptations * Ball Of Confusion
5 – Creedence Clearwater Revival * Fortunate Son
6 – MC5 – The American Ruse
7 – Rodriguez * Establishment Blues
8 – Gil Scott-Heron * Whitey On The Moon
9 – Marvin Gaye * Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
10 – The Meters * (Doodle Loop) The World Is A Little Bit Under The Weather
11 – Tower Of Power * Only So Much Oil In The Ground
12 – The Kinks * Apeman
13 – Joni Mitchell * Big Yellow Taxi
14 – John Prine * Your Flag Decal Won’t Get You Into Heaven Anymore
15 – Patrick Sky * Under All Flags
16 – The Byrds * I Wanna Grow Up To Be A Politician
17 – Neil Young * Vampire Blues
18 – David Bowie * Five Years
19 – James Luther Dickinson * John Brown
20 – Gil Scott-Heron * The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
If 00′s Were 70′s
1 – Ray Lamontagne * How Come
2 – Spearhead * Bomb The World
3 – Steve Earle * Rich Man’s War
4 – Bright Eyes * When The President Talks To God
5 – Rilo Kiley * It’s A Hit
6 – Jack Johnson * The News
7 – Beastie Boys * Time To Build
8 – Pearl Jam * Masters Of War
9 – The National * Looking For Astronauts
10 – Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! * Upon This Tidal Wave Of Young Blood
11 – Lyrics Born (featuring Lateef The Truth Speaker) * The Last Trumpet
12 – William Shatner (featuring Henry Rollins) * I Can’t Get Behind That
13 – The Coup * Ride The Fence
14 – Marc Shaiman * America, Fuck Yeah
15 – A Perfect Circle * Counting Bodies Like Sheep To The Rhythm Of War Drums
16 – The Hives * Abra Cadaver
17 – The Rolling Stones * Sweet Neo Con
18 – Gomez * Revolutionary Kind
19 – Devendra Banhart * Heard Somebody Say
20 – The Kleptones * Revolverlution
Quiz answers: 2, 3, 5, 6, 9, 10, 12, 14, 18, 20, 22, 23, and 24 are 70′s. All others are 00′s.
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