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Purtroppo attualissima questa canzone in quest'epoca di controriforme scolastiche e tagli alla ricerca. Qui Robert Smith denuncia l'appiattimento e l'omologazione culturale subito dagli alunni e la conseguente oppressività del sistema scolastico inglese ai tempi della Thatcher. The Cure forever!
The innocence of sleeping children
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inviata da Jack SSSR 6/2/2010 - 23:50
Su in collina
Grazie Francesco per le emozioni che mi regali attraverso le tue canzoni.
Daniele Farzetti (Agliana -Pistoia) 6/2/2010 - 22:49
La misère d'en face
[1998]
Album "Mamagubida"
Album "Mamagubida"
Face aux favellas des gens se prélassent
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inviata da Alessandro 6/2/2010 - 22:39
Yo pisaré las calles nuevamente
dall'edizione francese dell'LP "La vida no vale nada" di Pablo Milanés
JE REMARCHERAI DANS LES RUES DE SANTIAGO
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6/2/2010 - 20:10
Amériques
Amériques
Canzone léviane – Amériques – Marco Valdo M.I. – 2010
Cycle du Cahier ligné – 86
Amériques est la huitante-sixième chanson du Cycle du Cahier ligné, constitué d'éléments tirés du Quaderno a Cancelli de Carlo Levi.
Salut, Lucien l'âne mon ami, je suis bien content de te voir. En fait même, il me tardait de te voir, car je suis impatient de te faire connaître ma nouvelle canzone. Quand je l'ai découverte, j'ai été fort surpris de tout ce qu'elle signifie.... Ne me regarde pas avec des yeux aussi ahuris... Je te l'ai déjà dit pourtant que j'étais le premier lecteur de mes canzones et leur premier découvreur. Je t'ai déjà dit que quand je commence une canzone, je ne sais ni comment elle sera, ni ce qu'elle pourra bien en finale raconter. En quelque sorte, elle se fait au travers de moi et je t'avouerai aussi qu'il m'arrive de batailler contre elle pour la mener où j'aimerais qu'elle... (continua)
Canzone léviane – Amériques – Marco Valdo M.I. – 2010
Cycle du Cahier ligné – 86
Amériques est la huitante-sixième chanson du Cycle du Cahier ligné, constitué d'éléments tirés du Quaderno a Cancelli de Carlo Levi.
Salut, Lucien l'âne mon ami, je suis bien content de te voir. En fait même, il me tardait de te voir, car je suis impatient de te faire connaître ma nouvelle canzone. Quand je l'ai découverte, j'ai été fort surpris de tout ce qu'elle signifie.... Ne me regarde pas avec des yeux aussi ahuris... Je te l'ai déjà dit pourtant que j'étais le premier lecteur de mes canzones et leur premier découvreur. Je t'ai déjà dit que quand je commence une canzone, je ne sais ni comment elle sera, ni ce qu'elle pourra bien en finale raconter. En quelque sorte, elle se fait au travers de moi et je t'avouerai aussi qu'il m'arrive de batailler contre elle pour la mener où j'aimerais qu'elle... (continua)
Un cheval court dans la prairie
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inviata da Marco Valdo M.I. 6/2/2010 - 18:05
Natale '44
Version française – NOËL 1944 – Marco Valdo M.I. – 2010
Chanson italienne – Natale '44 – Andrea Sigona
Il est difficile d'imaginer la Milan différente telle qu'elle était en 1944, l'année la plus dure, celle de la répression et du lynchage. Mais aussi l'année de la Résistance et des hommes qui ensemble conquirent leur liberté à pleines mains. Certains revinrent, d'autres non. Comme cet amour né fortuitement en hiver ne vit jamais le printemps, mais qui valait la peine d'être vécu jusqu'à la fin.
Voilà pour toi, Lucien l'âne mon ami qui aime les fleurs bleues, dit Marco Valdo M.I., une histoire d'amour, çà te changera... En plus, elle bien jolie... Même, si funeste télégramme, triste béret... elle finit bien mal.
Je l'aime beaucoup et elle fend mon cœur d'âne pourtant solide comme le diamant... J'espère quand même, dit Lucien l'âne en souriant comme un bienheureux, que cette fois aussi, ta traduction plaira à l'auteur...
Moi aussi, dit Marco Valdo M.I.
Ainsi Parlaient Marco Valdo M.I. et Lucien Lane
Chanson italienne – Natale '44 – Andrea Sigona
Il est difficile d'imaginer la Milan différente telle qu'elle était en 1944, l'année la plus dure, celle de la répression et du lynchage. Mais aussi l'année de la Résistance et des hommes qui ensemble conquirent leur liberté à pleines mains. Certains revinrent, d'autres non. Comme cet amour né fortuitement en hiver ne vit jamais le printemps, mais qui valait la peine d'être vécu jusqu'à la fin.
Voilà pour toi, Lucien l'âne mon ami qui aime les fleurs bleues, dit Marco Valdo M.I., une histoire d'amour, çà te changera... En plus, elle bien jolie... Même, si funeste télégramme, triste béret... elle finit bien mal.
Je l'aime beaucoup et elle fend mon cœur d'âne pourtant solide comme le diamant... J'espère quand même, dit Lucien l'âne en souriant comme un bienheureux, que cette fois aussi, ta traduction plaira à l'auteur...
Moi aussi, dit Marco Valdo M.I.
Ainsi Parlaient Marco Valdo M.I. et Lucien Lane
NOËL 1944
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inviata da Marco Valdo M.I. 6/2/2010 - 14:59
A Song for Santiago Cruz
[2007]
Lyrics & Music by Anne Feeney
Album: Dump The Bosses Off Your Back
We learned of FLOC organizer Santiago Cruz’s murder while studying migrant workers’ strategies at the Regina Polk Leadership Institute for Labor Union Women, held annually in Chicago with the inspiration of Helena Harlow Worthen. I wrote this song at the Institute.
Lyrics & Music by Anne Feeney
Album: Dump The Bosses Off Your Back
We learned of FLOC organizer Santiago Cruz’s murder while studying migrant workers’ strategies at the Regina Polk Leadership Institute for Labor Union Women, held annually in Chicago with the inspiration of Helena Harlow Worthen. I wrote this song at the Institute.
On April 9th they found him - He'd been beaten, bound and gagged
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inviata da giorgio 6/2/2010 - 09:12
You Can't Blame the Youth
You can't blame the youth
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inviata da Alessandro 6/2/2010 - 01:05
Slave Driver
[1973]
Album "Catch a Fire"
Album "Catch a Fire"
Ooh-ooh-oo-ooh. Oo-oo-ooh! Oo-oo-ooh.
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inviata da Alessandro 6/2/2010 - 00:39
My Name Is Sylvio
Alcuni mesi fa mi è capitato di scortare un'amica in un'agenzia della Mediolanum a Mediolano. Voleva sapere se convenisse metterci i suoi soldini. Il promotore spiega la rava e la fava. A un certo punto gli domando: ma come li impiegate i quattrini dei clienti per dare il rendimento promesso? Risposta: nessun problema, gli utili dei conti correnti bancari sono tassati col 27%; gli altri investimenti col 12,5%. Da questa differenza dell'imposta, noi ricaviamo l'utile, il nostro e quello del cliente. Basta mostrare che il cliente tiene una certa cifra stabile in conto corrente (senza utile); mentre il resto lo prendiamo noi, lo facciamo girare, e, dell'utile che realizziamo, riconosciamo al cliente una parte del risparmio d'imposta. Anche se non ci capisco quasi niente, ridomando: sarebbe a dire che il cliente mette i soldi in un conto corrente, ma che poi la maggior parte non figura come... (continua)
Gian Piero Testa 5/2/2010 - 22:12
Sidùn
Un consiglio, da vecchio prof., per la Gelmini che, chissà perché, mi sono messo in testa che sia una che a scuola - e di scuola - non ci ha mai capito una minchia, ma che ogni sabato va dal parrucchiere, ascolta le comari quel che dicono da sotto il casco, e il dì dopo ti sbologna le riforme. Allora, la Gelmini faccia conto che nell'arco di un liceo, i libri da somministrare saranno una pila di almeno due metri e mezzo. Troppi, c'è da rincoglionire. Però, se togliamo quelli scritti da autori con "devianze" sessuali, da Saffo a Shakespeare a Proust e via; da quelli che non risulterebbero puliti all'antidoping (oppiacei e vino inclusi), diciamo Poe, Baudelaire, ma anche il Carducci che i fiaschi non li contava; dai laicisti senzadio, dagli ebrei e dai comunisti, la pila si ridurrebbe giustappunto all'altezza di una minchia, alla perfetta portata della Ministra. E dei suoi studenti. Ai... (continua)
Gian Piero Testa 5/2/2010 - 21:35
Il Passo del Caciurdo
2006
Combat Circus
"Brano che abbiamo molto a cuore, in quanto riflette la vergognosa ambiguità della società e delle istituzioni nei confronti del riaffiorare di una pericolosissima ondata xenofoba. Con lo sdoganamento del fascismo da parte del governo Berlusconi, non solo le strade sono infestate da questa nuova ondata xenofoba, ma anche le istituzioni, specie in partiti come la Lega Nord. Abbiamo preso d’esempio le dichiarazioni razziste del ministro leghista Calderoli e le reazioni a quelle “battute”vergognose per scrivere il brano “Il Passo del Caciurdo”. Il caciurdo è una parola non usata più che signifca “sordo”. Noi l’abbiamo utilizzata per il signifcato onomatopeico che rimanda ad un immaginario infantile. Andare a toccare l’immaginario di un qualcosa di infantile, ridicolo, era per noi necessario per dare l’idea della voluta ambieguità della figura di questo partito. Dalle dichiarazioni... (continua)
Combat Circus
"Brano che abbiamo molto a cuore, in quanto riflette la vergognosa ambiguità della società e delle istituzioni nei confronti del riaffiorare di una pericolosissima ondata xenofoba. Con lo sdoganamento del fascismo da parte del governo Berlusconi, non solo le strade sono infestate da questa nuova ondata xenofoba, ma anche le istituzioni, specie in partiti come la Lega Nord. Abbiamo preso d’esempio le dichiarazioni razziste del ministro leghista Calderoli e le reazioni a quelle “battute”vergognose per scrivere il brano “Il Passo del Caciurdo”. Il caciurdo è una parola non usata più che signifca “sordo”. Noi l’abbiamo utilizzata per il signifcato onomatopeico che rimanda ad un immaginario infantile. Andare a toccare l’immaginario di un qualcosa di infantile, ridicolo, era per noi necessario per dare l’idea della voluta ambieguità della figura di questo partito. Dalle dichiarazioni... (continua)
Là nelle latrine di giorni senza gloria
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inviata da Marco Valdo M.I. 5/2/2010 - 20:54
Σωματική ανάγκη (Μια στιγμή ειρήνης)
[1988]
Στίχοι: Διονύσης Σαββόπουλος
Μουσική: Διονύσης Σαββόπουλος
Πρώτη εκτέλεση: Διονύσης Σαββόπουλος
Απó: "Ο κ. Σαββόπουλος ευχαριστεί τον κ. Χατζιδάκι και θα'ρθη οπωσδήποτε"
Testo di Dionysis Savvopoulos
Musica di Dionysis Savvopoulos
Primo interprete: Dionysis Savvopoulos
Da: "Ο κ. Σαββόπουλος ευχαριστεί τον κ. Χατζιδάκι και θα'ρθη οπωσδήποτε"
("Il sig. Savvopoulos ringrazia il sig. Hatzidakis e verrà senz'altro")
"Per caso mi sono imbattuto in questa canzone di Savvopoulos. E' un musicista che non conosco bene; né sapevo molto di un suo conflitto con Manos Hatzidakis (del quale però canta una canzone, il "Cavallo di Omer Vrionis" in "Ta Paraloga"). Vagamente so che era sempre incavolato con gli altri musicisti, che lo sovrastavano in fortuna popolare.
Ma mi diverte vedere qui come descrive lo scoppio della pace: le cui vie evidentemente sono infinite. Sembrerà una cosa un... (continua)
Στίχοι: Διονύσης Σαββόπουλος
Μουσική: Διονύσης Σαββόπουλος
Πρώτη εκτέλεση: Διονύσης Σαββόπουλος
Απó: "Ο κ. Σαββόπουλος ευχαριστεί τον κ. Χατζιδάκι και θα'ρθη οπωσδήποτε"
Testo di Dionysis Savvopoulos
Musica di Dionysis Savvopoulos
Primo interprete: Dionysis Savvopoulos
Da: "Ο κ. Σαββόπουλος ευχαριστεί τον κ. Χατζιδάκι και θα'ρθη οπωσδήποτε"
("Il sig. Savvopoulos ringrazia il sig. Hatzidakis e verrà senz'altro")
"Per caso mi sono imbattuto in questa canzone di Savvopoulos. E' un musicista che non conosco bene; né sapevo molto di un suo conflitto con Manos Hatzidakis (del quale però canta una canzone, il "Cavallo di Omer Vrionis" in "Ta Paraloga"). Vagamente so che era sempre incavolato con gli altri musicisti, che lo sovrastavano in fortuna popolare.
Ma mi diverte vedere qui come descrive lo scoppio della pace: le cui vie evidentemente sono infinite. Sembrerà una cosa un... (continua)
Πολεμούσαμε απ' το βράδυ ως το πρωί - τατζούμ παπατζούμ
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inviata da CCG/AWS Staff - Ελληνικό Τμήμα 5/2/2010 - 20:25
Percorsi:
Nostra sorella la merda
Versione italiana di Gian Piero Testa [2010]
BISOGNO CORPORALE (UN ATTIMO DI PACE)
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60 anni
Version française – 60 ANS – Marco Valdo M.I. – 2010
Chanson italienne – 60 Anni – Talco
Ah, Lucien l'âne mon ami, voici une chanson à clefs ou à tout le moins, une chanson pour laquelle il faut deux ou trois compléments d'explication... Je te dis tout de suite qu'à mon sens, le personnage qui parle n'est autre que le peuple italien lui-même...
J'imagine bien, dit Lucien l'âne, et j'aimerais au moins que tu me dises le sens de certains mots que je ne trouve pas au dictionnaire courant... Je ne parle pas des allusions à des personnages politiques précis... Mais de ces mots qui ont l'air tout à fait communs... comme piduiste, lupara, ou qualunquiste... qu'à mes yeux, tu n'as pas véritablement traduits comme tu l'aurais dû.
Tu as raison, Lucien mon ami l'âne, d'abord dans ta distinction entre les allusions à tel ou tel personnage et les noms communs. Pour ces derniers, je ne les ai pas... (continua)
Chanson italienne – 60 Anni – Talco
Ah, Lucien l'âne mon ami, voici une chanson à clefs ou à tout le moins, une chanson pour laquelle il faut deux ou trois compléments d'explication... Je te dis tout de suite qu'à mon sens, le personnage qui parle n'est autre que le peuple italien lui-même...
J'imagine bien, dit Lucien l'âne, et j'aimerais au moins que tu me dises le sens de certains mots que je ne trouve pas au dictionnaire courant... Je ne parle pas des allusions à des personnages politiques précis... Mais de ces mots qui ont l'air tout à fait communs... comme piduiste, lupara, ou qualunquiste... qu'à mes yeux, tu n'as pas véritablement traduits comme tu l'aurais dû.
Tu as raison, Lucien mon ami l'âne, d'abord dans ta distinction entre les allusions à tel ou tel personnage et les noms communs. Pour ces derniers, je ne les ai pas... (continua)
60 ANS
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inviata da Marco Valdo M.I. 5/2/2010 - 16:05
Les châteaux de sable
carissimo,il castello di sabbia è stato scolpito da me a Tortoreto Te nel 2006.sarei felice se un link riconducesse al mio sito www.uncastellodisabbia.it dove potrai trovare altre immagini.Grazie Egisto Morelli
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Senz'altro. E complimenti per la tua opera! [CCG/AWS Staff]
5/2/2010 - 15:52
Am I Black Enough For You?
[1972]
Album "360 Degrees of Billy Paul"
Album "360 Degrees of Billy Paul"
Am I black enough for you?
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inviata da Alessandro 5/2/2010 - 13:23
The Boiler
[1982]
Con Rhoda Dakar del gruppo The Bodysnatchers.
Con Rhoda Dakar del gruppo The Bodysnatchers.
I went out shopping last saturday
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inviata da Alessandro 5/2/2010 - 13:12
Democracy (Or Lack Thereof)
(a.k.a. "A Day In The Life Of My Mind For Five Minutes, Five Minutes Ago")
[2007]
Lyrics and Music Written and Performed by Lisa Rein.
"I wrote this song after having a conversation with a friend of mind about the crazy dichotomy that has become our existence living as Americans.
We talk about bringing democracy to the middle east, and are killing people over it, yet we work with non-democratic governments to keep democracy from the people of another country, if the price is right.
In the song, I start out with China, but I end up here at home. What kind of a democracy is so greedy its government cuts emergency relief efforts out of the budget, while spending billions of dollars overseas to kill the people of Iraq in the very name of democracy? Our current "democracy," that's what kind.
I'm not trying to pick on Google either. This is about all of us, and what we've all been tolerating,... (continua)
[2007]
Lyrics and Music Written and Performed by Lisa Rein.
"I wrote this song after having a conversation with a friend of mind about the crazy dichotomy that has become our existence living as Americans.
We talk about bringing democracy to the middle east, and are killing people over it, yet we work with non-democratic governments to keep democracy from the people of another country, if the price is right.
In the song, I start out with China, but I end up here at home. What kind of a democracy is so greedy its government cuts emergency relief efforts out of the budget, while spending billions of dollars overseas to kill the people of Iraq in the very name of democracy? Our current "democracy," that's what kind.
I'm not trying to pick on Google either. This is about all of us, and what we've all been tolerating,... (continua)
China, China
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inviata da giorgio 5/2/2010 - 12:33
Fuel Funeral
[2007]
Lyrics by Lisa Rein and Gregory Howe
Music by Gregory Howe
This song is about war profiteers who knowingly exchange the blood of Iraqis and US Troops for profit, in that they fund the destruction of the country so they can profit on its reconstruction.
It's also about how we all line up behind these scumbags and keep driving our SUV's – and are effectively trading in the future of our children for convenience in the short term.
This song was inspired by the Bill Moyer's NOW program from November 14, 2003, Cash and Carry, which detailed the direct connections between the Shrub Administration and the main two or three companies that are profiting directly from the Iraqi reconstruction.
Lyrics by Lisa Rein and Gregory Howe
Music by Gregory Howe
This song is about war profiteers who knowingly exchange the blood of Iraqis and US Troops for profit, in that they fund the destruction of the country so they can profit on its reconstruction.
It's also about how we all line up behind these scumbags and keep driving our SUV's – and are effectively trading in the future of our children for convenience in the short term.
This song was inspired by the Bill Moyer's NOW program from November 14, 2003, Cash and Carry, which detailed the direct connections between the Shrub Administration and the main two or three companies that are profiting directly from the Iraqi reconstruction.
We go anywhere we wanna go
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inviata da giorgio 5/2/2010 - 12:29
Improving
[2007]
Lyrics and Music by Lisa Rein
This song is about the crazy idea that any kind of "democracy" the U.S. brought to Iraq could be worth the death of a single Iraqi person.
It's like someone saying: « Ok here's the plan:
– First, we bomb all your public water and power systems, then we don't actually rebuild them, so a lot of you are going to die off from that.
– Next, your brother and aunt die when us or the insurgents bomb them by mistake.
– Next, you get democracy! »
See!? It's a bargain!."
Lyrics and Music by Lisa Rein
This song is about the crazy idea that any kind of "democracy" the U.S. brought to Iraq could be worth the death of a single Iraqi person.
It's like someone saying: « Ok here's the plan:
– First, we bomb all your public water and power systems, then we don't actually rebuild them, so a lot of you are going to die off from that.
– Next, your brother and aunt die when us or the insurgents bomb them by mistake.
– Next, you get democracy! »
See!? It's a bargain!."
Cut off the power lines, my friend
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inviata da giorgio 5/2/2010 - 12:26
All Gone Away
[1985]
Album "Our Favourite Shop"
"Vieni a farti un giro tra queste colline, e guarda come il neoliberismo uccide, intere comunità, intere famiglie... Non è rimasto nulla, tutto è stato spazzato via"
Album "Our Favourite Shop"
"Vieni a farti un giro tra queste colline, e guarda come il neoliberismo uccide, intere comunità, intere famiglie... Non è rimasto nulla, tutto è stato spazzato via"
The wind blows whispers down the street,
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inviata da Alessandro 5/2/2010 - 11:58
Living For The City
[1973]
Album "Innervisions"
Album "Innervisions"
A boy is born in hard time Mississippi
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inviata da Alessandro 5/2/2010 - 09:03
Living In America
[2004]
Album "Don't Tell A Soul"
Una canzone contro la violenza e la discriminazione di cui le persone omosessuali sono ancora oggi vittime in America, così come le transessuali.
E transgender sono tutte le componenti di questa rock band di San Francisco,
Album "Don't Tell A Soul"
Una canzone contro la violenza e la discriminazione di cui le persone omosessuali sono ancora oggi vittime in America, così come le transessuali.
E transgender sono tutte le componenti di questa rock band di San Francisco,
All along this great big land
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inviata da Alessandro 5/2/2010 - 08:49
La crociata del dittatore bianco
Il 2000 è il nuovo millennio
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inviata da Marco Valdo M.I. 4/2/2010 - 22:15
Percorsi:
Antiwar Anticlericale
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Hassan Mousa and Jody McIntyre writing from Nilin, occupied West Bank, Live from Palestine, 18 December 2009.
Situated just west of Ramallah, the Palestinian village of Nilin has lost huge swathes of land to Israel's settlements and its wall in the occupied West Bank. In a year and a half of resisting construction of the wall, five villagers have been murdered by the Israeli military while demonstrating. Hassan Mousa is a coordinator of the Nilin Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements and the uncle of Ahmed Mousa, an 11-year-old boy who was the first villager from Nilin to be killed by the Israeli army.
Hassan Mousa being arrested during a demonstration at the wall.
Human Rights Life under Occupation
Situated just west of Ramallah, the Palestinian village of Nilin has lost huge swathes of land to Israel's settlements and its wall in the occupied West Bank. In a year and a half of resisting construction of the wall, five villagers have been murdered by the Israeli military while demonstrating. Hassan Mousa is a coordinator of the Nilin Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements and the uncle of Ahmed Mousa, an 11-year-old boy who was the first villager from Nilin to be killed by the Israeli army.
Hassan Mousa being arrested during a demonstration at the wall.
Human Rights Life under Occupation
4/2/2010 - 20:27
Παράγκα
[1975]
Στίχοι και μουσική του Διονύση Σαββόπουλου
Testo e musica di Dionysis Savvopoulos
Lyrics and music by Dionysis Savvopoulos
"Τότε,η Γερμανία ήταν μια διέξοδος για την ανεργία που μάστιζε τους Ελληνες.Σήμερα όχι μόνο δεν υπάρχει κανένας δρόμος μετανάστευσης για τους ντόπιους, αλλά θα πρέπει να δίνουν καθημερινά μια άνιση μάχη για τη διεκδίκηση μια θέσης εργασίας απο τους αλλοδαπούς οικονομικούς μετανάστες,μια κι οι τελευταίοι αποτελούν φτηνά εργατικά χέρια για κάθε άπληστο επιχειρηματία.Οι στίχοι του τραγουδιού που περιγράφουν εκείνη την εποχή." - Paramagazo
Una canzone cruda e terribile.
La Grecia degli anni '60 e '70, tra una fragile democrazia segnata dal "Parastato" fascista, la dittatura settennale dei colonnelli e il ritorno a una democrazia che mantenne però pressoché immutati i centri del potere economico. Con un denominatore comune: la povertà infinita di gran parte... (continua)
Στίχοι και μουσική του Διονύση Σαββόπουλου
Testo e musica di Dionysis Savvopoulos
Lyrics and music by Dionysis Savvopoulos
"Τότε,η Γερμανία ήταν μια διέξοδος για την ανεργία που μάστιζε τους Ελληνες.Σήμερα όχι μόνο δεν υπάρχει κανένας δρόμος μετανάστευσης για τους ντόπιους, αλλά θα πρέπει να δίνουν καθημερινά μια άνιση μάχη για τη διεκδίκηση μια θέσης εργασίας απο τους αλλοδαπούς οικονομικούς μετανάστες,μια κι οι τελευταίοι αποτελούν φτηνά εργατικά χέρια για κάθε άπληστο επιχειρηματία.Οι στίχοι του τραγουδιού που περιγράφουν εκείνη την εποχή." - Paramagazo
Una canzone cruda e terribile.
La Grecia degli anni '60 e '70, tra una fragile democrazia segnata dal "Parastato" fascista, la dittatura settennale dei colonnelli e il ritorno a una democrazia che mantenne però pressoché immutati i centri del potere economico. Con un denominatore comune: la povertà infinita di gran parte... (continua)
Όπου κοιτάζω να κοιτάζεις
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inviata da Riccardo Venturi 4/2/2010 - 01:12
La Pierina voleva pisciare
[2010]
Testo e musica di Lello Vitello
Lyrics and music by Lello Vitello
Ispirata da "Effetto Domino" di Riccardo Venturi
Inspired by "Effetto Domino" by Riccardo Venturi
"Non fatevi ingannare dal titolo apparentemente faceto: questa canzone parla nientemeno che della fine del mondo!
Tanto per ricordare l'esilità della nostra esistenza, e che possiamo sparire all'istante solo per una pisciata, l'ispirazione per questa storia viene da un'avventura vissuta in prima persona dal mio amico fraterno Riccardo Venturi.
Quando me la raccontò, ne elaborammo una drammatizzazione estrema, che lui trascrisse nel post "Effetto Domino" , mentre io promisi di tirarci fuori una canzone. Eccola qua, mi sono permesso di inserirci due citazioni, facilmente riconoscibili, di persone che scrivevano molto meglio di me." (Lello Vitello, dal suo sito ufficiale)
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Testo e musica di Lello Vitello
Lyrics and music by Lello Vitello
Ispirata da "Effetto Domino" di Riccardo Venturi
Inspired by "Effetto Domino" by Riccardo Venturi
"Non fatevi ingannare dal titolo apparentemente faceto: questa canzone parla nientemeno che della fine del mondo!
Tanto per ricordare l'esilità della nostra esistenza, e che possiamo sparire all'istante solo per una pisciata, l'ispirazione per questa storia viene da un'avventura vissuta in prima persona dal mio amico fraterno Riccardo Venturi.
Quando me la raccontò, ne elaborammo una drammatizzazione estrema, che lui trascrisse nel post "Effetto Domino" , mentre io promisi di tirarci fuori una canzone. Eccola qua, mi sono permesso di inserirci due citazioni, facilmente riconoscibili, di persone che scrivevano molto meglio di me." (Lello Vitello, dal suo sito ufficiale)
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La Pierina voleva pisciare,
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inviata da Il Venturi, Lello e la Pierina 3/2/2010 - 15:50
Dopo un lunghissimo "parto", la pagina relativa all'opera capitale di Mikis Theodorakis, l' Ἄξιον Ἐστί su versi del premio Nobel per la Letteratura Odysseas Elytis raggiunge finalmente la sua veste definitiva, con l'aggiunta del testo completo e dell'esteso saggio di Gian Piero Testa, scritto appositamente per questo sito.
Riccardo Venturi 4/2/2010 - 00:03
Τò Ἄξιόν Ἐστι
NOTE E BIBLIOGRAFIA
di Gian Piero Testa
[1] Una versione italiana completa dell' 'Αξιον Εστί, quella di Mario Vitti, è agevolmente reperibile tra i Nobel delle edizioni UTET.
[2] Elytis si prestò tre volte ad assumere la direzione dei programmi radiofonici nazionali, ma li lasciò sempre dopo pochi mesi, infastidito dal ruolo di dirigente e dalle conseguenti beghe. Si impegnò invece nella Associazione degli scrittori.
[3] Le sette scuri rappresentavano i sette reparti militari che avevano strappato Candia ai Veneziani.
[4] Αλεπούς, plurale αλεπούδες, è in greco moderno la volpe (per il classsico ἄλωπηξ
[5]V. nota bibliografica. Ampi frammenti del componimento di Gatsos furono musicati da Manos Hatzikakis, ed. Syrios.
[6] Si calcola che i morti per fame e stenti durante l’occupazione siano stati 300.000; piu di 100.000 i giustiziati o periti nelle rappresaglie; circa... (continua)
CCG/AWS Staff - Ελληνικό Τμήμα 3/2/2010 - 23:14
Il mercenario di Lucera
La " beata ignoranza" a cui facevo riferimento non riguarda coloro che portano avanti questo sito, ma quelli che comunicano notizie. Non ho questo tipo di atteggiamento. Dunque: per quanto riguarda questa canzone. Avvenne che, quando eravamo al Bagaglino di Via Panico, il Barone De Boccard portò un suo amico a vedere lo spettacolo. Si trattennero fino a notte tarda e .. quell'ospite era, appunto, IL MERCENARIO. Dai suoi racconti, Nini Pingitore trasse la sua canzone, che fu, poi, interpretata da Pino Caruso. Conoscendo Pingitore (autore, tra l'altro, di una canzone sul CHE Guevara) non credo che ci fosse altra intenzione, oltre quella di cantare una storia "anticonformista" ... in un mondo di "grigi". Può fare dispiacere a "qualcuno" ma erano questi gli "anarchici di destra". Peccato che, oltre Pingitore, siano tutti morti!
Leo Valeriano 3/2/2010 - 15:47
G.I. Blues
[2009]
Album "The Drum Machine Years" (live recordings)
Album "The Drum Machine Years" (live recordings)
Both my arms and legs
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inviata da Alessandro 3/2/2010 - 15:17
Bloodsport For All
[1995]
Album "Straw Donkey... The Singles 1988 - 1995"
"A.W.O.L." è l'acronimo che sta per l'espressione militare "Absent WithOut Leave", cioè "diserzione".
Album "Straw Donkey... The Singles 1988 - 1995"
"A.W.O.L." è l'acronimo che sta per l'espressione militare "Absent WithOut Leave", cioè "diserzione".
Bloodsport for all said Corporal Flash
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inviata da Alessandro 3/2/2010 - 15:11
Percorsi:
Disertori
The Undertaker And The Hippy Protest Singer
[1997]
Album "I Blame the Government"
Album "I Blame the Government"
Peace keeping forces
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inviata da Alessandro 3/2/2010 - 15:04
Friendly Fascism
[1991]
Album "Friendly Fa$cism"
Una canzone ispirata al libro dello statunitense Bertram Gross, intitolato "Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America" ed edito nel 1980.
Traggo da quel libro la citazione che segue:
"Don't think that modern fascists are like Hitler or Mussolini. Today's Big Government-Big Business tyrants are just as willing to use violence. But they do it more efficiently than the old-time fascists-- with higher tech and lower costs to them. They have the best looks, politicians, celebrities, and control mechanisms that money can buy. Yes, their own conscience tells them that true democracy would be nice. But suppressing their conscience, they undermine the rights of the working and middle classes. Their operating principle is "Might, Money, Male, Murder-- and also White--Make Right." They wreck the environment. They fool you, rule you, use you, abuse you--and... (continua)
Album "Friendly Fa$cism"
Una canzone ispirata al libro dello statunitense Bertram Gross, intitolato "Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America" ed edito nel 1980.
Traggo da quel libro la citazione che segue:
"Don't think that modern fascists are like Hitler or Mussolini. Today's Big Government-Big Business tyrants are just as willing to use violence. But they do it more efficiently than the old-time fascists-- with higher tech and lower costs to them. They have the best looks, politicians, celebrities, and control mechanisms that money can buy. Yes, their own conscience tells them that true democracy would be nice. But suppressing their conscience, they undermine the rights of the working and middle classes. Their operating principle is "Might, Money, Male, Murder-- and also White--Make Right." They wreck the environment. They fool you, rule you, use you, abuse you--and... (continua)
Welcome ladies and gentlemen to the end of the twentieth century and the arrival of friendly fascism. Regrettably, millions will die as before. But just think of the tremendous selection and savings you’ll gain. Of course the loss of freedom and democracy are tragedies, I know, but consider the entertainment value contained within. And to remind you, it is you, the people, who have mandated this course of our fate so please come with me….
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inviata da Alessandro 3/2/2010 - 13:54
Free Satpal Ram
[1998]
Satpal Ram è un cittadino britannico di origine bengalese che nel 1987 fu condannato per l'omicidio di tal Clarke Pearce, britannico di origine britannica, avvenuto l'anno precedente a Birmingham, quando una discussione fra due gruppi, asiatici da una parte e bianchi dall'altra, era degenerata in una rissa.
Dettaglio non irrilevante; il ristorante dove avvenne lo scontro si chiamava Sky Blue Indian e furono gli avventori bianchi a provocare Satpal e i suoi amici perchè, a detta loro, la musica proposta, giustamente indiana, faceva schifo (e allora andate a sentire Samantha Fox al pub, stronzi! ndr)
L'arresto ed il processo a Satpal Ram furono da più parti considerati brutali, razzisti ed iniqui. Satpal Ram fu picchiato, affamato, privato del sonno, subì continue perquisizioni corporali e le testimonianze a suo carico furono contraddittorie, condotte in modo non esauriente e gli... (continua)
Satpal Ram è un cittadino britannico di origine bengalese che nel 1987 fu condannato per l'omicidio di tal Clarke Pearce, britannico di origine britannica, avvenuto l'anno precedente a Birmingham, quando una discussione fra due gruppi, asiatici da una parte e bianchi dall'altra, era degenerata in una rissa.
Dettaglio non irrilevante; il ristorante dove avvenne lo scontro si chiamava Sky Blue Indian e furono gli avventori bianchi a provocare Satpal e i suoi amici perchè, a detta loro, la musica proposta, giustamente indiana, faceva schifo (e allora andate a sentire Samantha Fox al pub, stronzi! ndr)
L'arresto ed il processo a Satpal Ram furono da più parti considerati brutali, razzisti ed iniqui. Satpal Ram fu picchiato, affamato, privato del sonno, subì continue perquisizioni corporali e le testimonianze a suo carico furono contraddittorie, condotte in modo non esauriente e gli... (continua)
And we say back way to all the trouble makers
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inviata da Alessandro 3/2/2010 - 13:20
Song Against Robots
[2003]
Album "Cold Water Songs"
Album "Cold Water Songs"
There is no food I can't eat
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inviata da Alessandro 3/2/2010 - 11:56
Let Robeson Sing
[2001]
Album "Know Your Enemy"
Scritta da James Dean Bradfield, Sean Moore e Nicky Wire.
Brano dedicato a Paul Robeson, il grande baritono-basso, attore ed attivista per i diritti civili afromaericano.
Album "Know Your Enemy"
Scritta da James Dean Bradfield, Sean Moore e Nicky Wire.
Brano dedicato a Paul Robeson, il grande baritono-basso, attore ed attivista per i diritti civili afromaericano.
Where are you now
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inviata da Alessandro 3/2/2010 - 11:36
No Clause 28
[1988]
Protest song against the governing UK Conservative Party's legal restrictions on anyone working for a local authority "promoting" homosexuality,
Section 28 (commonly "Clause 28") of the Local Government Act 1988 was a controversial amendment to the United Kingdom's Local Government Act 1986, enacted on 24 May 1988 and repealed on 21 June 2000 in Scotland, and on 18 November 2003 in the rest of the UK by section 122 of the Local Government Act 2003. The amendment stated that a local authority "shall not intentionally promote homosexuality or publish material with the intention of promoting homosexuality" or "promote the teaching in any maintained school of the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship".
Some people believed that Section 28 prohibited local councils from distributing any material, whether plays, leaflets, books, etc, that portrayed gay relationships... (continua)
Protest song against the governing UK Conservative Party's legal restrictions on anyone working for a local authority "promoting" homosexuality,
Section 28 (commonly "Clause 28") of the Local Government Act 1988 was a controversial amendment to the United Kingdom's Local Government Act 1986, enacted on 24 May 1988 and repealed on 21 June 2000 in Scotland, and on 18 November 2003 in the rest of the UK by section 122 of the Local Government Act 2003. The amendment stated that a local authority "shall not intentionally promote homosexuality or publish material with the intention of promoting homosexuality" or "promote the teaching in any maintained school of the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship".
Some people believed that Section 28 prohibited local councils from distributing any material, whether plays, leaflets, books, etc, that portrayed gay relationships... (continua)
"The aim of this government is to make every one as miserable as possible!"
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inviata da Alessandro 3/2/2010 - 11:21
Exhuming McCarthy
[1987]
Album "Document"
Scritta da Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills e Michael Stipe.
"Exhuming McCarthy" makes an explicit parallel between the red-baiting of Joe McCarthy's time and the strengthening of the sense of American exceptionalism during the Reagan era, especially the Iran-Contra affair. Starting with the click-clack of a typewriter, it also includes a sound clip of Joseph Welch's rebuke of McCarthy from the Army-McCarthy Hearings: "Let us not assassinate this lad further, Senator.... You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?"
Album "Document"
Scritta da Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills e Michael Stipe.
"Exhuming McCarthy" makes an explicit parallel between the red-baiting of Joe McCarthy's time and the strengthening of the sense of American exceptionalism during the Reagan era, especially the Iran-Contra affair. Starting with the click-clack of a typewriter, it also includes a sound clip of Joseph Welch's rebuke of McCarthy from the Army-McCarthy Hearings: "Let us not assassinate this lad further, Senator.... You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?"
You're beautiful more beautiful than me
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inviata da Alessandro 3/2/2010 - 10:55
Phil Ochs
[1993]
Album "Long Pig"
Scritta da Steve Skaith e Mike Jones
Album "Long Pig"
Scritta da Steve Skaith e Mike Jones
A look at the death of a protest singer of the 1960's and of that which died with him.
Phil Ochs was a talented singer-songwriter of the 1960s who addressed all manner of anti-war, civil rights, labour, and social justice issues in America. To Ochs, music was a means to carry a message and with unending optimism claimed young men and women could change the world for the better if only they were willing. By the late 60s, increasing weariness and disenchantment with idealism began to seep into both his compositions and his singing. Phil Ochs took his own life in 1976.
Phil Ochs was a talented singer-songwriter of the 1960s who addressed all manner of anti-war, civil rights, labour, and social justice issues in America. To Ochs, music was a means to carry a message and with unending optimism claimed young men and women could change the world for the better if only they were willing. By the late 60s, increasing weariness and disenchantment with idealism began to seep into both his compositions and his singing. Phil Ochs took his own life in 1976.
Here comes Phil Ochs shovel on his shoulder
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inviata da Alessandro 3/2/2010 - 10:31
King For A Day
[1993]
Album "Long Pig"
Scritta da Steve Skaith e Mike Jones
"The gulf war from the perspective of an ordinary soldier, who was first used and then discarded."
Album "Long Pig"
Scritta da Steve Skaith e Mike Jones
"The gulf war from the perspective of an ordinary soldier, who was first used and then discarded."
The cross of St. George
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inviata da Alessandro 3/2/2010 - 10:24
Dominion
[1989]
Album "Swimming Against The Stream"
Scritta da Steve Skaith e Mike Jones
Album "Swimming Against The Stream"
Scritta da Steve Skaith e Mike Jones
"Dominion" was recorded for the T.V. documentary series "Animal Traffic", directed by Arpad Bondy & Ron Orders.
Out of greed for profits animals are hunted and exterminated wholesale. They are used as exotic delicacies and as exclusive fashion items. Some species, like the Lemur (a rare species of primate) and the rhinoceros are in danger of extinction. The felling of the tropical rainforests means that the habitat of those who survive the hunters is drastically reduced. The hunters aren't to blame - they need the work to survive - but rather the dealers and end consumers. Scientific studies remain without practical consequences.
Out of greed for profits animals are hunted and exterminated wholesale. They are used as exotic delicacies and as exclusive fashion items. Some species, like the Lemur (a rare species of primate) and the rhinoceros are in danger of extinction. The felling of the tropical rainforests means that the habitat of those who survive the hunters is drastically reduced. The hunters aren't to blame - they need the work to survive - but rather the dealers and end consumers. Scientific studies remain without practical consequences.
From Ramadan to Ramadan, thirty one tigers
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inviata da Alessandro 3/2/2010 - 10:00
Percorsi:
Guerra agli animali
A Slow Waltz For Chile
[1989]
Album "Swimming Against The Stream"
Scritta da Steve Skaith e Mike Jones
Album "Swimming Against The Stream"
Scritta da Steve Skaith e Mike Jones
Last night I heard of the death of a stranger to me
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inviata da Alessandro 3/2/2010 - 10:10
After Maralinga
[1989]
Album "Swimming Against The Stream"
Scritta da Steve Skaith, Mike Jones e Tony Waerea.
Album "Swimming Against The Stream"
Scritta da Steve Skaith, Mike Jones e Tony Waerea.
In the 1950's in Maralinga, in Australia, the British Government carried out nuclear tests. The safety precautions for the soldiers involved and the local population (in this part of the country mostly Aborigines) was grotesquely inadequate. 130 cases of severe health effects on British soldiers are recorded. This song was written before the Government had declared itself prepared to pay them compensation. In the language of the Aborigines 'Maralinga' means 'thunder'. At the end of the song a Didgeridoo, a wind instrument of the Aborigines, is played.
The affairs of a handful of natives
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inviata da Alessandro 3/2/2010 - 09:41
Swimming Against The Stream
[1989]
Album "Swimming Against The Stream"
Scritta da Steve Skaith e Mike Jones
The civil rights movement that started in the 1950's in the USA, fought for the economic and political equality of African Americans, especially in the Southern States. There the discrimination was legal and institutionalised. This changed in the 1960's. The Congress, the legislative body of the USA, passed legislation that outlawed formal discrimination. But in truth it still continued. The reforms that the civil rights movement had achieved were undermined in the 1970's and, especially under the presidency of Ronald Reagans, to a large extent clawed back. Today African Americans are economically and socially even more disadvantaged than they were 25 years ago. Before they harvested (in the Southern States) cotton, today they have to work to get their food stamps (a form of social welfare).
The high point... (continua)
Album "Swimming Against The Stream"
Scritta da Steve Skaith e Mike Jones
The civil rights movement that started in the 1950's in the USA, fought for the economic and political equality of African Americans, especially in the Southern States. There the discrimination was legal and institutionalised. This changed in the 1960's. The Congress, the legislative body of the USA, passed legislation that outlawed formal discrimination. But in truth it still continued. The reforms that the civil rights movement had achieved were undermined in the 1970's and, especially under the presidency of Ronald Reagans, to a large extent clawed back. Today African Americans are economically and socially even more disadvantaged than they were 25 years ago. Before they harvested (in the Southern States) cotton, today they have to work to get their food stamps (a form of social welfare).
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They're growing pines now in cotton soil
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inviata da Alessandro 3/2/2010 - 09:32
Burn Again
[1987]
Album "Mick and Caroline"
Scritta da Steve Skaith e Mike Jones
Album "Mick and Caroline"
Scritta da Steve Skaith e Mike Jones
Anastasio Somoza reigned over Nicaragua as if it was a family possession. The National Guard might just as well have worn the family crest of the Somozas. The country was a family business, economically dependant on the West, but those who overthrew Somoza wanted to end the serfdom and share the land with everyone. We should be ashamed that the West wants to undermine the newly won freedom. Must Nicaragua burn again, because the USA has the need to be born again? The USA itself started in a war of independence, when the word 'freedom' was written large in the constitution. But now the torch (of freedom) casts a giant shadow - when the Congress sends the Contras out to hunt the Nicaraguans in the hospitals and classrooms, in order to make a free election impossible. The USA plays with Central America as if it was a fruit machine. She takes the coffee beans and pays the bill with bullets and marines.
When Anastasio fell he was by then the first Somoza
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inviata da Alessandro 3/2/2010 - 09:18
Freight Elevator
[1987]
Album "Mick and Caroline"
Scritta da Steve Skaith e Mike Jones.
Up until after World War Two, black and white musicians in the USA could perform on stage together, but often weren't allowed to stay in the same hotel. This song tells a true story about the Jazz singer Billie Holiday, who appeared night after night in the Artie Shaw orchestra on 52nd Street, the centre of New York's nightlife. There she enchanted the public with her voice - like velvet stretched over barbed wire. The crowd is so big, that they've had to hire extra waiting staff. But Billie Holiday wasn't allowed to use the main elevator which the other guests and performers used. Instead the hotel management forced her to use the freight elevator at the back of the building - just because she was black! The freight elevator, crammed in between fresh sheets, a case of grapefruit juice in tins, and the shoes that a... (continua)
Album "Mick and Caroline"
Scritta da Steve Skaith e Mike Jones.
Up until after World War Two, black and white musicians in the USA could perform on stage together, but often weren't allowed to stay in the same hotel. This song tells a true story about the Jazz singer Billie Holiday, who appeared night after night in the Artie Shaw orchestra on 52nd Street, the centre of New York's nightlife. There she enchanted the public with her voice - like velvet stretched over barbed wire. The crowd is so big, that they've had to hire extra waiting staff. But Billie Holiday wasn't allowed to use the main elevator which the other guests and performers used. Instead the hotel management forced her to use the freight elevator at the back of the building - just because she was black! The freight elevator, crammed in between fresh sheets, a case of grapefruit juice in tins, and the shoes that a... (continua)
It's a mighty long day, in the freight elevator,
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inviata da Alessandro 3/2/2010 - 09:09
Remember
[1987]
Album "Mick and Caroline"
Scritta da Steve Skaith
All shall come to the house of the Almighty, big and small, rich and poor - a memorial service for a soldier, who was killed far from home, maybe in the Falklands war. The priest says a sorrowful prayer and blesses the cause for which the soldier died. But would the veteran from the battle of Verdun (in World War One) speak of glory when he lays a wreath on Armistice Day? Would he offer himself up to defend the British Empire once again? And who thinks of the members of the International Brigade, who defended Madrid against the fascists during the Spanish civil war, while President Roosevelt preached about preserving the status quo and England stood idly by? Or of the Greek partisans, who held the Athens bridge, and who were betrayed by the English at the end of World War Two, who let the Monarchy back into power instead? Did Jesus... (continua)
Album "Mick and Caroline"
Scritta da Steve Skaith
All shall come to the house of the Almighty, big and small, rich and poor - a memorial service for a soldier, who was killed far from home, maybe in the Falklands war. The priest says a sorrowful prayer and blesses the cause for which the soldier died. But would the veteran from the battle of Verdun (in World War One) speak of glory when he lays a wreath on Armistice Day? Would he offer himself up to defend the British Empire once again? And who thinks of the members of the International Brigade, who defended Madrid against the fascists during the Spanish civil war, while President Roosevelt preached about preserving the status quo and England stood idly by? Or of the Greek partisans, who held the Athens bridge, and who were betrayed by the English at the end of World War Two, who let the Monarchy back into power instead? Did Jesus... (continua)
In the house of the almighty lord
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inviata da Alessandro 3/2/2010 - 08:57
America For Beginners
[1985]
Album "Modern Times"
Scritta da Steve Skaith e Mike Jones.
The election of Ronald Reagan to President of the USA and subsequent swing to the political right horrified many people. "Bed-Time for Bonzo": One of Reagan's last movies in which his co-star, a chimpanzee named Bonzo, was the better actor. Great Britain under the leadership of Margaret Thatcher became little more than just another State of America.
The paranoia of the McCarthy era surfaced again with the administration's determination to rid the world of the red menace aboard. The origins of crack cocaine in California was traced back to the Contras, a guerrilla force backed by the Reagan administration that attacked Nicaragua's Sandinista government during the 1980s. Payment were made to drug traffickers by the U.S. State Department from funds authorised by the Congress for "humanitarian assistance" to the Contras. In... (continua)
Album "Modern Times"
Scritta da Steve Skaith e Mike Jones.
The election of Ronald Reagan to President of the USA and subsequent swing to the political right horrified many people. "Bed-Time for Bonzo": One of Reagan's last movies in which his co-star, a chimpanzee named Bonzo, was the better actor. Great Britain under the leadership of Margaret Thatcher became little more than just another State of America.
The paranoia of the McCarthy era surfaced again with the administration's determination to rid the world of the red menace aboard. The origins of crack cocaine in California was traced back to the Contras, a guerrilla force backed by the Reagan administration that attacked Nicaragua's Sandinista government during the 1980s. Payment were made to drug traffickers by the U.S. State Department from funds authorised by the Congress for "humanitarian assistance" to the Contras. In... (continua)
What's keeping the White House white
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inviata da Alessandro 3/2/2010 - 08:47
Radio Africa
[1985]
Album "Modern Times"
Scritta da Steve Skaith, Mike Jones e Ron Keefe.
Album "Modern Times"
Scritta da Steve Skaith, Mike Jones e Ron Keefe.
There's only bad news from Radio Africa. In 1985 South Africa was still governed by the monster apartheid. The West complains about the foreign aid, but in the trade with the industrial nations, it's the African countries who are at a disadvantage: They exchange cheap raw materials for expensive finished products. With the war in the Ogaden 1977/78 Moscow first supported the socialist government of Somalia, but then supplied weapons to the Ethiopian dictatorship. There is still hope for Mozambique and Zimbabwe, but for Tanzania progress has had to stop -- the oil imports devoured too much foreign exchange. " Exchange ", "Credit", " Interest ": technical terms that all add up to only one thing: Everything gets even harder. Independence is an expensive commodity when the finances lie in white hands.
I'm hearing only bad news from Radio Africa.
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inviata da Alessandro 3/2/2010 - 08:38
No Rope As Long As Time
[1985]
Album "Modern Times"
Scritta da Steve Skaith
"An old Afrikaner, a descendant of the Dutchmen who colonialised the country, sits on his farm and swears that nothing will change. The compatriots of his black servant live in the Townships, ghettos of dense populations , such as Cape City or Johannesburg, or in the Homelands, pseudo-independent vassal states, which serve as reservoirs of cheap labour. In order to be able to live in the Townships, they need a residence permit, so say the "pass laws". In 1960 a peaceful protest against the pass laws in Sharpeville ended in a massacre, 67 black people were killed. Nelson Mandela, leader of the liberation movement ANC (African National Congress), sat in prison for over 20 years. When in 1976 Afrikaans was introduced as compulsory in the schools, the pupils of Soweto started an uprising, that turned into a mass strike. In 1983 the President,... (continua)
Album "Modern Times"
Scritta da Steve Skaith
"An old Afrikaner, a descendant of the Dutchmen who colonialised the country, sits on his farm and swears that nothing will change. The compatriots of his black servant live in the Townships, ghettos of dense populations , such as Cape City or Johannesburg, or in the Homelands, pseudo-independent vassal states, which serve as reservoirs of cheap labour. In order to be able to live in the Townships, they need a residence permit, so say the "pass laws". In 1960 a peaceful protest against the pass laws in Sharpeville ended in a massacre, 67 black people were killed. Nelson Mandela, leader of the liberation movement ANC (African National Congress), sat in prison for over 20 years. When in 1976 Afrikaans was introduced as compulsory in the schools, the pupils of Soweto started an uprising, that turned into a mass strike. In 1983 the President,... (continua)
Old Afrikaner farmer on the terrace of his home
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inviata da Alessandro 3/2/2010 - 08:32
Lili Marleen [Lied eines jungen Wachtpostens]
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ITALIANO / ITALIAN [5] - Antonio Pelizzari
Navigando in INTERNET ho inciampato nella vecchia canzone “Lilì Marleen”, cantata da Marlene Dietrich: un tuffo nella mia lontanissima infanzia, tanti ricordi suscitati, la guerra ormai lontana. Ho cercato il testo tedesco, che non conoscevo, e ho scoperto che la versione italiana (probabilmente per il solo rispetto della metrica) racconta una storia un po' diversa, anche se è coerente con il tema del soldato che ha nostalgia della sua ragazza. Le due traduzioni che ho trovato, vogliono essere soltanto letterali e per tale motivo hanno un passaggio ingarbugliato e allora, con due piccolissime varianti [in tedesco “sie” può riferirsi tanto al lampione (die Laterne), quanto a lei (Lilì Marleen)] ho buttato giù la mia versione, che racconta due vicende tristi e parallele.
Le parole tra parentesi non si trovano nel testo, le ho messe per rendere più scorrevole la frase.
A. Pelizzari (28.01.2010)
Le parole tra parentesi non si trovano nel testo, le ho messe per rendere più scorrevole la frase.
A. Pelizzari (28.01.2010)
LILI' MARLEEN
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inviata da atonio pelizzari 3/2/2010 - 08:23
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