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White Feather

White Feather
(2018)
Words and music by Amanda Shires
Album: To the Sunset

The idea struck when she experienced “cat calling that’s become okay again,” then expanded to include her thoughts on climate change and capitalism, “but it’s bigger than that,” Shires clarifies. “The song deals with fear and all the ways it discourages the expression of our individual identities. It’s about the walls we put up to protect ourselves and the way those walls become prisons.”

Amanda Shires Archives - The Kessler Theater
In a field in Ohio I change into a scarecrow's clothes
(Continues)
Contributed by Lorenzo Masetti 2020/6/2 - 22:42
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Since I've Laid My Burden Down

Since I've Laid My Burden Down
Glory glory, hallelujah, since I've laid my burden down.
(Continues)
Contributed by L. E. 2020/6/2 - 22:04
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Le pays va mal

Le pays va mal
[ 2000 ]
Paroles et musique /Dɔ̀nkili / Testo e musica / Lyrics and music / Sanat ja sävel :
Tiken Jah Fakoly

Album: Le Caméléon
Mon pays va mal
(Continues)
Contributed by Riccardo Gullotta 2020/6/2 - 20:11
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The War Is Over

The War Is Over
1970
Single The War Is Over / You Ain't Goin' Nowhere

Anti Vietnam war song "The War Is Over" (RCA Victor # 74-0309) referenced Richard Nixon, criticizing him for ignoring the protesters and prolonging the war. It also noted a protester being killed, which in the case of Michael James Brody Jr. won't make any difference because he will be reborn.
I just want to thank everybody for letting me record now. All the money that I record off this record goes to peace.
(Continues)
2020/6/2 - 17:04
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Teach Peace

Teach Peace
[2000]
Lyrics & music by Jamie Fota
Album: Just Earth: One Planet, One Peole, One Future [2017]

“When I was commissioned to write a song for the annual Westheimer Peace Symposium in Wilmington, Ohio, I wanted to address the root causes of violence, both global and interpersonal. This song is my cry for a world based on justice and peaceful conflict resolution”. — Jamie.
Teach peace, unlearn the violence,
(Continues)
Contributed by giorgio 2020/6/2 - 12:40
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New World Order

New World Order
(1996)
Title track dell'ultimo album di Curtis Mayfield
Scritta da Curtis Mayfield, Raimundo Thomas & Brian Fleming

Il 13 agosto 1990 Curtis Mayfield fu vittima di un gravissimo incidente. Durante un concerto a Brooklin l'impianto di illuminazione cadde sul palco colpendo il cantante e fratturandogli la colonna vertebrale. In seguito all'incidente Mayfield rimase paralizzato dal collo in giù. Nove anni dopo, a soli 57 anni, Mayfield se ne andava per le complicazioni dell'incidente e per il diabete di cui soffriva.

Ma nel 1996 era riuscito a incidere, pur con mille difficoltà, il suo ultimo album, che si apriva con questa canzone di speranza che rovesciava il significato del termine impiegato da Bush fin dal 1990 per indicare la Pax Americana, una pace che puzzava fin troppo di guerra. Nella canzone invece il nuovo ordine mondiale è un sinonimo di speranza dei milioni di persone... (Continues)
Darkness no longer, a child is born
(Continues)
Contributed by Lorenzo Masetti (grazie alle fantastiche farfalle di Benedetto Ferrara) 2020/6/2 - 01:19
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Weep No More

Weep No More
1964

Nathan McKinney recorded the doo-wop track "Weep No More", composed by the blues man Len Johnson. The song, released on the Los Angeles based label Rayco Records (R-526), founded by Floyd Ray, contained themes of the Vietnam War. It is narrated from the soldier's perspective, who tells us that "Uncle Sam is calling for me", and that he is resigned to leaving those he loves: "So I guess I'll have to go".

Vietnam War Songs
Weep no more, my baby for me
(Continues)
2020/6/1 - 22:54
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McGreggor

McGreggor
[1968]
Lyrics & Music by Gary Brooker and Keith Reid
Album: Salty Dog [1999 reissue bonus track]

Produced by Denny Cordell and recorded 10/07/68, this is an unreleased performance mixed down from the original four-track tape, that was originally intended to be included on the Shine On Brightly album. Brooker's vocal on this track is merely there to guide the group as they work out the song in the studio, and is obviously not representative of how any finished version of this track would have sounded. It is, however, the only surviving take of McGreggor to feature any kind of vocal performance, and as such the historical importance of the whole outweighs the technical imperfections of any of its parts!
McGreggor was a soldier brave
(Continues)
Contributed by giorgio 2020/6/1 - 22:30
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Bring 'Em on Home

Bring 'Em on Home
(1969)
Musica un po' copiata da You Ain't Go Nowhere (da The Basement Tapes di Bob Dylan & The Band interpretata anche da The Byrds)



Double-sided Vietnam War single by Chicano soul group Six Pak, released on the Californian label Gordo (# 704), founded by Eddie Davis (a sub-label of his Rampart Records). Both tracks had a Latin Soul feel to it - of course, the label focused on Mexican Americans.

This formed part of the West Coast 'Eastside Sound' music scene. According to the president of Rampart Steven Chavez: "almost 50% of the artists from the East Side Sound era served in combat roles in Viet Nam, losing their innocence to a war in the prime of their youth, and returned to a changed American music scene that pretty much turned their back on them with the advent of new genres like hard rock, heavy metal, punk, disco and the like".

Firstly, the group covered the song "Weep... (Continues)
One by one, numbers are called
(Continues)
2020/6/1 - 22:25

La Terreur blanche

La Terreur blanche
La Terreur blanche

Chanson française – La Terreur blanche – Marco Valdo M.I. – 2020

Quelques histoires albanaises, tirées de nouvelles d’Ismaïl Kadaré, traduites par Christian GUT et publiées en langue française en 1985 sous le titre La Ville du Sud.(6)


Dialogue Maïeutique

« La Terreur blanche », Lucien l’âne mon ami, voilà qui me rappelle quelque chose. La terreur est un mal qui se répand par toute la Terre : on en a vu des noires, des brunes, des rouges, des bleues, des vertes, des safrans et bien sûr, des blanches. De façon générale, il s’agit de massacrer ceux avec qui on n’est pas d’accord et de préférence, des civils désarmés et sans défense. Au fait, les Vaudois ont connu ça.

Oui, Lucien l’âne mon ami, dit Marco Valdo M.I. ; mais avant d’aller plus avant, je voudrais faire une petite précision : quand il s’agit de se massacrer entre militaires, on appelle ça la guerre. Pour en... (Continues)
Terreur blanche ! Terreur ! Terreur !,
(Continues)
Contributed by Marco Valdo M.I. 2020/6/1 - 21:51
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Soldier

Soldier
[2017]
Lyrics by Gary Brooker
Music by Gary Brooker and Josh Phillips
Album: Novum

“Soldier” starts pensive and it’s a solid Procol Harum old fashion melody. Everything is as it was during “Shine on Brightly”, – powerful, melodic, haunting, and Whitehorn once again slips into a perfect lead guitar role with that signature Hammond-organ riding the finale with beautiful horns. Pete Brown takes a respectable lyrical page from Keith Reid with political-sturdy verses. No pomposity. This one has an emotional melody that is relevant and time and care to this music: applied. No one in rock music since 1967 has ever approached the literate rock of this band and how it marries their intense music and arrangement to the presentation. Some come close, Van der Graaf Generator, King Crimson, PFM (but what they lack is a solid foundation in the blues - that which Procol Harum possesses and understands). Potency…that’s the word that best describes Procol Harum yesterday…and today as well !
The sky has no end tonight
(Continues)
Contributed by giorgio 2020/6/1 - 16:36
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Peace

Peace
1971
Super Bad


The song "Peace" (Astroscope # AS-110) from 1972 took a general anti-war perspective, rather than specifically targeting Vietnam. The narrator commented that "I hear the people asking when will it end?" - probably a reference to the early 70s protest movement. It then made several religious / biblical references: "there was no evil in the garden" - the narrator suggested that the world needed to turn to love and peace. It featured on their 1971 album Super Bad (Trip Records # TLP-9510). Note that the group also released the Vietnam-related single There's Someone Waiting (Back Home) in 1969.

Vietnam War Songs


Come al solito ho cercato di integrare all'ascolto il testo parziale pubblicato su Vietnam War Songs, in questo caso con scarso successo...
I hear the people asking when will it end?
(Continues)
Contributed by Lorenzo 2020/6/1 - 16:19
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When the World’s at Peace

When the World’s at Peace
(1972)
dall'album Back Stabbers
(when the world is at peace)
(Continues)
2020/6/1 - 16:08
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When I Come Home

When I Come Home
(1971?)

Double-sided anti-Vietnam War single, with the tracks "Why Is It?" and "When I Come Home"

The second track "When I Come Home" was narrated from the perspective of "a soldier serving my country". He wondered why he had to kill other people. He hoped that when he returned to the US there would be a "lasting peace" in honour of those that had died.

Vietnam War: Soul, Gospel, & Funk Records
A soldier serving my country
(Continues)
2020/6/1 - 15:46
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Why Is It?

Why Is It?
(1971?)

Double-sided anti-Vietnam War single, with the tracks "Why Is It?" and "When I Come Home" (A & G Records # AG 2041) - this label was almost certainly based in New York, with A & G standing for Al Grannum, a radio DJ for WLIB. His program in the late 1960s and early 1970s focused on R&B groups. This record was released under the name "Al Grannum & the Granulated Souls". There is a picture of Grannum in a 1971 article from the The Daily Register, based in Red Bank, New Jersey, in which Grannum was helping out at a community party. Is there a connection to Hugh Grannum, the Detroit based photographer? The record was also released in Jamaica - Why Is It? / When I Come Home (Dynamic Sounds # AG 2041).

So in the first track, "Why Is It?", the narrator, in spoken-word, said that he was "sick and tired" of hearing about children starving and "soldiers dying". He wanted to... (Continues)
The way things are today is bad
(Continues)
2020/6/1 - 15:10
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Yuri

Yuri
(1989)
Album: Il bambino che baciava... e marameo alla morte
Yuri stava sulla neve come me
(Continues)
Contributed by Alberto Scotti 2020/6/1 - 15:10
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Bugün pazar

Bugün pazar
È DOMENICA OGGI
(Continues)
2020/5/31 - 12:46
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Acà toro

Acà toro
2020
XXX

feat. Ska-P
Video disegnato da Davide Toffolo

Dq82 2020/5/31 - 12:40
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Monday in May (the Kent State Tragedy)

Monday in May (the Kent State Tragedy)
Ho cercato di completare il testo a partire da quello parziale presente sotto il video, ma ci sono alcune parti che proprio non riesco a capire. Se qualcuno vuole aiutare...
Lorenzo 2020/5/30 - 13:20
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Joan of Arc

Joan of Arc
30/5/1431: La Contessa del Giglio

A Rouen, in Alta Normandia, ogni pietra sembra parlarti di lei. Nella città di Flaubert e di Madame Bovary, dei cento campanili, della cattedrale che spinse Monet a rincorrere le variazioni della luce del giorno, le strade sono lastricate e tutto intorno c’è pieno di “case a graticcio” cariche di fiori, le chiamano anche “Maison à colombages” o “Maison a Pans de bois”. Ovvio che Leonard Cohen sia rimasto affascinato dalla figura di Giovanna d’Arco, come è assolutamente credibile, per chi ne conosce e ama l’opera poetica, che l’abbia voluta immaginare in quell’ultimo pensiero, intenta a sublimare il dramma trasformandolo nel corteggiamento, nella lusinga di matrimonio da parte del fuoco. Ulteriore fortuna per noi che Fabrizio de André l’abbia poi ripresa e tradotta* in italiano rispettandone anche la veste musicale originale. Giovanna d’Arco è l’evidenza... (Continues)
Flavio Poltronieri 2020/5/30 - 09:01
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I Can't Breathe

I Can't Breathe
Riccardo Gullotta
NON POSSO RESPIRARE
(Continues)
Contributed by Riccardo Gullotta 2020/5/29 - 23:24
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Pastures of Plenty

Pastures of Plenty
Ciao, devo segnalare un altro errore:

"La versione italiana del brano di Franco Migliacci cantata da Peter Tevis in Un pugno di Dollari (come si nota, come abitudine all'epoca, la traduzione non c'entra niente con il testo originale)" "NOTTE INFINITA"

NOTTE INFINITA, oltre a non essere stata cantata da Peter Tevis nel film "Per un pugno di dollari" – come già specificato da Cristian Veronesi nel commento precedente – NON É nemmeno la versione italiana di Pastures of Plenty di Woody Guthrie, ma molto più prosaicamente e commercialmente, non è altro che un'altra canzone inserita come LATO B del 45 giri di Peter Tavis che al LATO A aveva Pastrures of Plenty, di Woody Guthrie, cantata da Tavis in Inglese ed arrangiata da Morricone.

NOTTE INFINITA, la cui musica è diversa da Pastures of Plenty, anche se vagamente somiglia, ha come autori: musica dello stesso Tavis e di un certo Cravero (forse... (Continues)
Roberto Romano 2020/5/29 - 19:45
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La Salvineide

La Salvineide
Vali molto di più di quel 30% che si riconosce in quel Xenofobo, razzista, voltagabbana, fascista del capitano!!!
Brava!
Resistere, resistere, resistere
Roberto Lino 2020/5/29 - 11:00
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No More War

No More War
PLUS JAMAIS DE GUERRE
(Continues)
Contributed by Hurlelune 2020/5/28 - 10:42
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Bu mahalle bizim

Bu mahalle bizim
Caro Riccardo, Ο Πρώτος dei linguisti,
le tue osservazioni sono sempre centrate ed interessanti, d’altronde quando si tratta di linguistica e glottologia la tua competenza è ben nota e si può solo apprendere.

Da profano avevo percepito che c’era qualcosa di non ben definito nella famiglia “altaica”. Ora so che mentre sono assodate la consistenza delle famiglia di lingue turciche, mongoliche e tunguse, rimane aperto il dibattito se tali famiglie fanno parte di un ceppo comune, cioè di un gruppo altaico. Da una lettura frettolosa ho appreso che tale tesi fu sostenuta da Poppe e Sergei Starostin e , tra i viventi, da Ramer ; tra i contestatori figurano il finlandese Janhunen e Stefan George. Ciò che mi è sembrato curioso (sempre da profano) è che il prof. George è coautore con altri studiosi, compreso il citato Ramer, di una memoria per il Journal of Linguistic in cui si sostiene invece... (Continues)
Riccardo Gullotta 2020/5/27 - 19:47




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