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Somalia

Somalia
[2009]
Nell'album "Troubadour"
Testo trovato su Genius

In realtà Soomaaliya, che Somalia è italianizzazione coloniale...
La la la la la
(Continues)
Contributed by Bernart Bartleby 2021/11/16 - 20:26
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Before the Deluge

Before the Deluge
1974
Album: Late For The Sky

La fine dell'utopia hippie? Il mondo sull'orlo dell'apocalisse nucleare o ecologica? Una metafora della perdita dell'idealismo nel diventare vecchi? In ogni caso una bellissima canzone.
Some of them were dreamers and some of them were fools
(Continues)
Contributed by Pluck 2021/11/15 - 09:28
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Peace and Love

Peace and Love
(1968)
Single
The Jamaicans With Tommy McCook – Peace And Love

The song "Peace and Love" (Treasure Isle Records # TI-7037) is a collaboration between The Jamaicans (a rocksteady group formed in 1966 in Jamaica) and Tommy McCook (reggae artist, born 3 March 1927, La Habana, Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba, died 5 May 1998, Atlanta, Georgia, USA).

It took a strong anti-war position, saying that the leaders were focused on war, but that the "people of the world" want "love peace and love". It pleaded with the government: "don't send my brothers to Vietnam", and looked at the impact on families: "don't let...mothers mourn, don't let my father know the pain". Released in Kingston, Jamaica.

Vietnam War Song Project
The leaders of the war study war,
(Continues)
2021/11/14 - 15:50
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I’m an Australian – 20 Years Old

I’m an Australian – 20 Years Old
The song "I'm an Australian – 20 Years Old" also featured in The Vietnam Songbook, although no recording from the time has been found yet. The song took a comedic approach to a 21 year old caught-up in major court case for resisting the draft. It started out with the man going down to the barracks, lighting a cigarette, and his "call-up papers accidently caught on fire". Misinterpreted as a deliberate act, the "C.N.D. embraced me" - a reference to the protest group the Committee for Nuclear Disarmament, while the other side "called me a traitor".

Vietnam War Song Project
I am an Australian. I am twenty years old,
(Continues)
2021/11/14 - 15:37

Kevin Conway

Kevin Conway
(1966)

Clem Parkinson, contemporary folk artist, born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He wrote the song "Kevin Conway", about the first Australian casualty in the Vietnam War.

Conway, born 11 December 1928, in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, was a Warrant Officer Class 2, with the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam. He was killed in action (K.I.A.), in the Battle of Nam Dong, South Vietnam on 6 July 1964, aged 35 years, buried at Kranji War Cemetery in Singapore. His remains were repatriated to Australia 2nd June 2016.

Vietnam War Song Project
Kevin Conway was a soldier who left his native shore
(Continues)
2021/11/14 - 12:45

The Massacres of My Lai (Song My) and Truong An

The Massacres of My Lai (Song My) and Truong An
from Broadside Magazine #103 (Dec. 1969)

Sul massacro di My Lay vedi Everybody's Got A Right To Live
We went out on a mission, we were told search and destroy
(Continues)
2021/11/13 - 23:06
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Keep Your Mind Open

Keep Your Mind Open
Album: Side Trips
1967
Written By – C. Darrow
Flowers wilt and there is day and wind and trees and tides
(Continues)
2021/11/13 - 22:53
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21st Birthday

21st Birthday
Tex Morton, a country artist born Robert William Lane on 30 August 1916 in Nelson, New Zealand. He died 23 July 1983 in Sydney, NSW, Australia. He released several records under the nickname The Yodelling Boundary Rider.

The song "21st Birthday" dealt with the Vietnam War, looking at the home front perspective, of the parents of a soldier killed in action (K.I.A.). The song was released in 1967 on single: 21st Birthday (Columbia (EMI) # DO-4785).

The song told of the soldier's friends arriving at his parents house to celebrate his 21st birthday, unaware of what had happened. A closer look at the shelf with letters and "you'll see a draft card... the nice letter and the medal they sent". The father concluded that: "our boy full of love has died now of hate" - which perhaps leans towards the anti-war side of the debate.

Vietnam War Song Project
You'd thought you'd surprise him
(Continues)
2021/11/13 - 22:41
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Vietnam Cries U.S.A.

Vietnam Cries U.S.A.
1966
Single: Vietnam Cries U.S.A

A British ska anti-war song from 1966 called "Vietnam Cries U.S.A." (Halagala # HG 30) which pleaded with President Johnson to stop the war: "we don't want no war in this world Mr. Johnson...stop bombing Vietnam". Released on the rare, obscure British reggae label Halagala, formed by Terry Nelson in the 1960s - born in Guyana, he moved to London and wrote this song

Vietnam War Song Project
We don't want no war in this world Mr. Johnson
(Continues)
2021/11/13 - 22:24
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I Don't Wanna

I Don't Wanna
(1966)
Testo trovato su Vietnam War Song Project

Un blues un po' straniante ma estremamente chiaro. Non voglio andare nel Vietnam del sud, non voglio ammazzare i vietnamiti, datemi un lavoro qua a casa mia.
I don't wanna go to South of Vietnam
(Continues)
2021/11/12 - 23:04
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Complication

Complication
(1966)

Band di garage rock formata da cinque soldati americani spediti in una qualche base militare in Germania Ovest. Dal loro unico LP, Black Monk Time, proviene questa Complication che al ritmo di una marcia militare accusa il governo di madare la gente a morire in guerra. Fedeli al nome del gruppo, i cinque si presentavano in scena vestiti da monaci.

Firstly, the song "Complication" contained anti-war lyrics, presented almost as a military march, as the band sung in unison, damning the government and military for sending people to war: "people cry, people die for you, people kill...people go to their deaths".

Vietnam War Song Project
Complication!
(Continues)
2021/11/12 - 22:53
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What The... (Is a Going on in Washington)

What The... (Is a Going on in Washington)
1966

The country song "What the..." (Is a Going on in Washington)" (Nugget Records # NR 247), by Bob Withers, is narrated from the position of a soldier in the war zone, who feared for his life: "here I sit in Vietnam...sent half around this world to die". Is this song criticising US politicians over the Vietnam War, or is it an attack on the protest movement? It included the line: "All these people were our friends not long ago, they fought Hitler, Mussolini, and Tōjō" - this could be a reference to the Vietnamese - a former World War Two ally, who had helped the US against Adolf Hitler (Germany), Benito Mussolini (Italy), and Tōjō (Japan)? Or perhaps it is an attack on the draft card burners and protester in Washington (as it included the line: "some guys have burnt their draft cards up at home, don't send them here") - who may have backed or agreed with the cause of the Second World War,... (Continues)
What the....Is a going on in Washington...
(Continues)
2021/11/12 - 22:38
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The Dunes

The Dunes
1995
Dirty Rotten Shame


What happened when Shane MacGowan met Ronnie Drew back in the ’90s? Well, a few things happened, but here’s one thing ye might not know about. Let’s take a trip back through time, but not one that will bore you.

Back in the day, Ronnie Drew was makin’ a solo record called Dirty Rotten Shame. He was short of a few songs, so he contacted the ol’ legend himself, Shane MacGowan. Shane sent him a song he’d written, called The Dunes.

Like most of MacGowan’s work, it’s a beautiful piece of music, and it shines a light on the ugly side of life. On one of Ireland’s toughest times. The Famine of 1845-52.

The Great Hunger
I walked today on the cold grey shore
Where I watched when I was much younger
Where they built the dunes upon the sand
For the dead from The Great Hunger.

Those are the first lines Ronnie sings in the song. It sets the scene of the terrible famine... (Continues)
I walked today on the cold grey shore
(Continues)
Contributed by Dq82 2021/11/12 - 18:22
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سرزمین من

سرزمین من
Englanninkielinen käännös :
ahmad aziz
MY LAND
(Continues)
Contributed by Riccardo Gullotta 2021/11/11 - 22:14

The S.S. Vancouver

The S.S. Vancouver
Mansell composed the song "The S.S. Vancouver", although no recording has been identified at the moment. The lyrics of this song featured in The Vietnam Songbook published in 1969, and compiled by Barbara Dane and Irwin Silber (founders of Paredon Records) - containing 100+ Vietnam War protest songs, 9 of which came from Australia & New Zealand.



According to the notes in the book:

"this song was written in 1965 on the arrival of the U.S.S. Vancouver in Australia".

The title dropped the "U", leaving just the "S.S.", a reference to the infamous Nazi paramilitary group. The U.S.S. Vancouver (LPD-2) was an amphibious transport dock, commissioned on 11 May 1963, and deployed at various point in the Vietnam War. In April, 1965, it departed Huế, South Vietnam, having off-loaded marines there. It arrived in Sydney on 1 May 1965, taking part in the The Battle of the Coral Sea commemoration,... (Continues)
There's commotion at the wharf
(Continues)
2021/11/11 - 22:05
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The Quarantine Song

The Quarantine Song
I wash my hands, I don't touch my face
(Continues)
2021/11/11 - 03:00
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It's On

It's On
(1964)
Incisa da Gary Shearston e da Trevor Lucas

On this single, featured the anti-war song "It's On" (CBS # BA-221124), composed by Don Henderson, who wrote many Vietnam War-related songs, discussed below.

While the Vietnam conflict was well underway in 1964, very few Australians participated until the Menzies government upgraded its commitment in April 1965 - so this is more of a Vietnam-era protest song, not specifically mentioning the conflict, but a representation of the early 60s anti-war movement in Australia. The lyrics revolved around the absurdity of conflict as two people get into a fight: "reason and logic are gone, winning the fight won't prove that you're right". The final verse criticised governments / politicians that "save on education and spend on defence".

Melbourne artist Trevor Lucas also recorded a version, on his 1966 album Overlander, and Raymond Crooke, on his YouTube channel.

Vietnam War Song Project (#12)
A sad story you'll hear if you listen to me
(Continues)
2021/11/10 - 23:44
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The Lost Soldier

The Lost Soldier
1966
Album: Gary Shearston - Sings His Songs


THE LOST SOLDIER was written from a newspaper report of the death of an Australian soldier in Vietnam. The song finishes with some of the statements made by his young wife about his participation in the Vietnam war. The tune for this song is adapted from a traditional song known as "Lord Franklin".

Gary Shearston Sings His Songs Album Notes


lyrics from Vietnam War Song Project (#19)
In December 1964
(Continues)
2021/11/10 - 23:28
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Twenty Summers

Twenty Summers
(1965)
Album: Australian Broadside
Lyrics by Mona Brand
Music by Gary Shearston

According to the album notes, written by Edgar Walter (1965), the first song "Twenty Summers" was composed by Mona Brand: "Twenty Summers: Mona Brand's words were written as a comment on the recent decision to conscript young Australians for military service overseas. But they are a protest not so much against that decision in itself, as against all warfare.
The melody is by Gary Shearston".

Mona Brand was a theatre playwright, who taught English in Hanoi with her husband Len Fox in the 1950s.

It told the story of a young man, 20 years old, drafted to war: "Johnny is called for a soldier today". His father died in a previous war: "rain in the jungle when Johnny was born, the day that his father lay dying at dawn".

Vietnam War Song Project - #17
Twenty summers passing away
(Continues)
2021/11/10 - 23:17
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Cesspools in Eden

Cesspools in Eden
Poison is bubblng beneath your dream home
(Continues)
2021/11/10 - 19:26
Song Itineraries: War on Earth
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Love Canal

Love Canal
[1984]
Bruce Calderwood / Lawrence Falconi / Russell Wilkinson / Stephen Depace
Album / Albumi: Blow'n Chunks


Il "Canale dell'Amore"
Copiaincolla attivo da it.wikipedia
Here in English
Ici en français

Love Canal è un quartiere della città di Niagara Falls sorto su di un canale artificiale (il Love Canal, costruito nel 1890 dall'imprenditore William T. Love) adibito dal 1920 a discarica di rifiuti urbani ed industriali, definitivamente interrato nel 1953. Nel 1954 iniziò la lottizzazione con la costruzione delle scuole e del quartiere; solo alla fine degli anni settanta venne resa pubblica la contaminazione a cui erano esposti i residenti e dal 1978 iniziò l'evacuazione dell'area, che fu definitivamente chiusa nel 2004 in seguito ad un'opera di confinamento e bonifica.

Il canale artificiale Love Canal

Il Love Canal deve il suo nome a William T. Love che nel 1890 avviò un'impresa... (Continues)
We set sailing
(Continues)
2021/11/9 - 22:38
Song Itineraries: War on Earth
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W.M.A.

W.M.A.
(1993)
dal secondo album della band di Seattle, Vs.

W.M.A. sta per White American Male (maschio bianco americano), una categoria evidentemente privilegiata negli Stati Uniti. Secondo il censimento del 2013 il reddito medio dei neri è solo il 56% di quello dei bianchi. Inoltre i neri hanno una probabilità sei volte più alta di finire in carcere e un afroamericano maschio su sei è stato in prigione almeno una volta.

Queste differenze si riflettono anche sul trattamento diverso che la polizia riserva agli afroamericani. Vedder racconta l'episodio che ha ispirato il testo: uscendo dallo studio di registrazione vestito male e sporco, si ritrova con un amico nero, che invece era vestito in maniera impeccabile, ma i poliziotti che passano per un controllo ignorano completamente Vedder in quanto bianco, mentre infastidiscono l'amico trattandolo come un criminale.

Nel libretto dell'album,... (Continues)
He won the lottery when he was born
(Continues)
2021/11/8 - 21:11
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Mahtab

Mahtab
Today I saw your picture in a newspaper
(Continues)
2021/11/7 - 16:31
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Pressure

Pressure
(2019)
album: Grey Area
feat. Little Dragon


“Pressure” is a politically charged track about gun violence, wealth disparity, and racial tension. In the track, Simz calls out the “filthy rich” for taking advantage of the youth and planet for selfish gain, while calling her listeners to act against the corruption and “keep applying pressure”

Genius
Oh, let me apply the pressure, ayy
(Continues)
2021/11/5 - 22:35
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Introvert

Introvert
2021
la traccia che apre l'ultimo album della rapper londinese, Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
feat. Cleo Sol (Sault)

«Introvert è un saggio viscerale dedicato alle persone nel mirino della società – dice la nota stampa – con le vite alimentate da paura, esaurimento nervoso, frustrazione e da una specie di infuocato risveglio politico». Il brano testimonia l’obbietto di Simz di osservare «il caos e disordine del mondo con gli occhi pieni di risorse» e denota una grande ambizione; basti ascoltare l’arrangiamento sfarzoso con tanto di fanfara, cavalcate d’archi e coro messianico a contrappuntare un bridge a contrasto dall’eleganza soul.

Diretto da Salomon Ligthelm, il bellissimo videoclip di Introvert alterna bianco e nero, colori, video di repertorio, sequenze di ballo in varie location (storiche e contemporanee) e scorci su quadri neoclassici. La potenza del testo di Little Simz si riversa... (Continues)
[Intro: Cleo Sol]
(Continues)
2021/11/5 - 22:26
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While My Guitar Gently Weeps

While My Guitar Gently Weeps
[1968]
Scritta da George Harrison
Con Eric Clapton alla chitarra solista

The Eastern concept is that whatever happens is all meant to be ... every little item that's going down has a purpose. "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" was a simple study based on that theory ... I picked up a book at random, opened it, saw "gently weeps", then laid the book down again and started the song.

– George Harrison

Harrison registrò il demo originale con chitarra acustica solista e organo; questa versione contiene una strofa in più di quella ufficiale, e può essere ascoltata nell'album Anthology 3. Una versione riarrangiata, con archi scritti da George Martin, è nella raccolta Love. Eric Clapton, buon amico di George Harrison, suonò l'assolo di chitarra nella versione ufficiale con una Gibson Les Paul, mentre al Concert for Bangladesh eseguì l'assolo su una Gibson Byrdland.

La presenza di Eric Clapton... (Continues)
I look at you all
(Continues)
Contributed by Bernart Bartleby 2021/10/31 - 20:52
Song Itineraries: Anti War Love Songs
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Perra

Perra
BITCH
(Continues)
2021/10/31 - 10:54
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Speak Your Mind

Speak Your Mind
(2021)
dalla serie televisiva "We The People"

"We The People" è una serie televisiva sui diritti dei cittadini raccontati attraverso canzoni e video di animazioni. La canzone di Brandi Carlile è dedicata al Primo emendamento della Costituzione degli Stati Uniti che sancisce la libertà di parola e la separazione tra Stato e Religione.

"c'è solo un muro costruito con saggezza / è il muro tra la Chiesa e lo Stato°
There is no greater tool that you have than your voice
(Continues)
2021/10/30 - 15:28
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Hanoi Hannah

Hanoi Hannah
(1973)
Scritta da Roger McGuinn insieme a Jacques Levy

Trịnh Thị Ngọ (1931-2016), soprannominata Hanoi Hannah, era una conduttrice radiofonica vietnamita che durante la guerra del Vietnam trasmetteva dal Nord Vietnam una trasmissione di propaganda per convincere i soldati yankee che la guerra che stavano combattendo era sbagliata. In perfetto inglese commentava le notizie dal fronte, fornendo anche informazioni precisissime sulla posizione delle truppe USA, cosa che colpiva particolarmente i soldati americani. La colonna sonora erano le canzoni contro la guerra americane. Tuttavia non si hanno notizie di diserzioni dovute alle trasmissioni di Hanoi Hannah.

How are you, GI Joe? It seems to me that most of you are poorly informed about the going of the war, to say nothing about a correct explanation of your presence over here. Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what's going on.
Hanoi Hannah averaged 'bout a man a day
(Continues)
2021/10/30 - 12:21
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She Moved Through the Fair

She Moved Through the Fair
[? - 1909? Who knows!]
For further and complete info see here and Cattia Salto's Terre Celtiche

1. Jack Taylor e l'antefatto

Qualche mese fa, in compagnia di un'altra persona, stavo guardando un telefilm poliziesco della serie irlandese Jack Taylor. Bella, ben fatta e appassionante, devo davvero dirlo: Jack Taylor (interpretato da Iain Glen, che non è irlandese, ma scozzese) è un ex ufficiale della Garda Síochána, la polizia della Repubblica d'Irlanda, che, dimessosi dalla suddetta si è messo a fare, a Galway, una specie di investigatore privato imbarcandosi in casi difficili, e sovente strani e umanamente tragici. Nell'episodio in questione, intitolato La resa dei conti (e Shot Down in inglese, ma questo l'ho saputo dopo) e girato nel 2013, Jack Taylor, che girovaga da mesi per l'Irlanda in preda ai sensi di colpa per una certa cosa accaduta negli episodi precedenti, e è stavolta dalle... (Continues)
My young love said to me :
(Continues)
Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2021/10/29 - 21:30
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Killin’ Rats

Killin’ Rats
[1988]
Scritta da José-Manuel Thomas Arthur Chao Ortega, in arte Manu Chao
In "Patchanka", album d'esordio della band francese
You're ready?
(Continues)
Contributed by Bernart Bartleby 2021/10/27 - 20:59
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Lekcja historii klasycznej

Lekcja historii klasycznej
Staszek Krawczyk, recorded by Piotr Piotr Migdał

A Lesson in Classical History
(Continues)
Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2021/10/26 - 20:15
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Marcin Luter

Marcin Luter
Staszek Krawczyk, recorded by Piotr Migdał, July 16, 2017

Martin Luther
(Continues)
Contributed by L'Anonimo Toscano del XXI Secolo 2021/10/24 - 06:47
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Belmont and 6th

Belmont and 6th
(2017)
dall'album " For You To See The Stars"
At the corner at Belmont and 6th
(Continues)
2021/10/22 - 22:47
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L'Internationale

L'Internationale
INGLESE / ENGLISH 10
La versione cantata durante il People's Revolutionary Government di Grenada (1979-1983)
The version sung during the People's Revolutionary Government of Grenada (1979-1983)

13 marzo 1979: Il New Jewel Movement di Maurice Bishop rovescia, con un'azione incruenta, il governo dittatoriale di Eric Gairy e instaura il People's Revolutionary Government (Governo Rivoluzionario Popolare). Durerà fino al 25 ottobre 1983, quando il governo verrà rovesciato con un intervento armato USA voluto direttamente da Ronald Reagan. Maurice Bishop era già stato arrestato e fucilato il 19 ottobre precedente; il suo corpo non venne mai ritrovato. E' la cosiddetta "Operazione Urgent Fury", condotta dagli USA assieme a sei altre nazioni caraibiche (tra le quali anche Saint Lucia e l Giamaica). Durante il PRG, secondo The Grenada Revolution Online (sito interamente dedicato alla rivoluzione grenadina),... (Continues)
The Internationale
(Continues)
Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2021/10/20 - 18:06
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The Beast

The Beast
(1996)
da "The Score", il secondo e ultimo album dei Fugees di cui ricorrono quest'anno i 25 anni.


The Beast
è un lungo rap sulle violenze della polizia nei confronti della comunità afroamericana. Per i numerosi riferimenti rimandiamo a Genius
[Intro]
(Continues)
2021/10/17 - 21:46

Angst packt mich an

Angst packt mich an
I am afraid, I’m gripped by fear.
(Continues)
Contributed by Timothy Adès 2021/10/17 - 12:59
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Ignoreland

Ignoreland
(1992)
Album: Automatic For The People

Dall'ormai lontano 1992 una canzone contro la nuova stirpe di conservatori made in USA, iniziata con la presidenza Reagan e continuata con Bush padre. Ci sono molti riferimenti alla politica economica (la famosa trickle-down theory secondo cui regalando soldi ai ricchi sotto forma di sconti fiscali, tutta la società ne avrebbe beneficiato... molto divertente) ma anche estera (quel minaccioso "defense defense defense...").

Il testo potrebbe adattarsi benissimo anche ai nuovi repubblicani, a partire da Trump, che governano con menzogne e cavalcando le paure.
These bastards stole their power from
(Continues)
2021/10/15 - 20:59
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L'Internationale

L'Internationale
Traduzione inglese della precedente versione russa
English translation of the foregoing Russian version

--> en.wikipedia
The Internationale
(Continues)
Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2021/10/15 - 19:23
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فوق إلنا خل

فوق إلنا خل
Mix from Shira and souda, minor contributions by Riccardo Gullotta
UP THERE I HAVE A LOVER
(Continues)
Contributed by Riccardo Gullotta 2021/10/15 - 11:10
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White Privilege

White Privilege
Hypersonic Missiles (2019)
Start up my motor, eat, drink some burgers and cola
(Continues)
Contributed by Dq82 2021/10/13 - 19:49
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L'Internationale

L'Internationale
Traduzione inglese della Prima versione originale
English translation of the First original version

--> en.wikipedia
THE INTERNATIONALE
(Continues)
Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2021/10/13 - 11:12
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My God's Bigger Than Your God

My God's Bigger Than Your God
Trovata per puro caso. Per errore era stato inserito il video nell'omonima My God's Bigger Than Your God dei Vaselines. Anche questa non è niente male!
THOU SHALT HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE ME!
(Continues)
Contributed by Lorenzo 2021/10/10 - 21:44
Song Itineraries: Antiwar Anticlerical
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Who

Who
(2021)
Album: Pain and Power

Georgia English is a Nashville-based singer-songwriter who recently released the poignant album Pain and Power. This collection of tunes could be considered a musical journal that chronicles English’s experiences of overcoming trauma. It also includes a companion illustrative book that is meant to complement the tunes’ weighty messages. This collection of songs is a prime example of how the personal often intersects with the political.

Along with the individual experiences, English also includes insights on collective healing and pointed social commentary. This includes the tracks “America,” “Who” and “Statue of Jesus” which examine America’s systemic ills.

On “Who” it bemoans modern-day issues such as disunity, fake news, babies in cages, and “all lives matter”, but reminds the listener that none of this is new.

The lyrics include the timely inquiry “Could... (Continues)
Ooh
(Continues)
2021/10/9 - 23:11
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This Stolen Land

This Stolen Land
(2020)
Album: Wonderful Hell
This land is your land. This land is my land
(Continues)
2021/10/9 - 22:56
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Blurred Lines + Rape Me Mashup

Blurred Lines + Rape Me Mashup
(2021)
Un incredibile mash-up ottenuto mescolando due canzoni diversissime: la controversa Blurred Lines di Robin Thicke (featuring un re del pop come Pharrell Williams) e la storica Rape Me dei Nirvana.

Dai tempi di Douce France interpretata dai Carte de séjour non ricordo un détournément di una canzone così riuscito e soprattutto ottenuto senza cambiare una parola. In questo caso solo accostandola ad un'altra canzone.

Blurred Lines è una canzone pop, grande successo del 2013 del canadese Robin Thicke. Sin dalla sua pubblicazione la canzone è stata fortemente criticata, accusata di essere una esaltazione della cultura dello stupro. I "confini sfumati" del titolo sono infatti quelli tra il consenso e il non consenso, e l'intera canzone è un tentativo di convincere la ragazza a lasciarsi andare a quelli che secondo il cantante sono i suoi veri "istinti animali", piantando il suo attuale... (Continues)
(Everybody get up)
(Continues)
Contributed by Lorenzo Masetti 2021/10/9 - 18:35
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Polly

Polly
(1988 o 1989)
naturalmente pubblicata nel secondo album dei Nirvana, Nevermind del 1991

Nella sua crudezza, e pur essendo narrata dal punto di vista del carnefice, Polly è sicuramente una bellissima canzone contro lo stupro.

La canzone è ispirata al rapimento avvenuto nel 1987 di una ragazzina di 14 anni che al ritorno da un concerto a Tacoma, nello stato di Washington, venne sequestrata da un uomo di nome Gerald Friend. Con la scusa di darle un passaggio la portò nel suo camper, la violentò ripetutamente e la torturò con una frusta e con un bruciatore. Finalmente la ragazza riuscì a fuggire quando il suo aguzzino si fermò a fare benzina. L'uomo, che aveva già scontato vari anni di carcere per un delitto simile commesso anni prima, fu arrestato e sta ancora scontando la sua pena.

I Nirvana la suonarono a vari concerti per aiutare le vittime di violenza, fra cui il "Rock against Rape"... (Continues)
Polly wants a cracker
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Contributed by Lorenzo 2021/10/9 - 15:54
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Sinners, Saints and Fools

Sinners, Saints and Fools
(2021)
dall'album "In These Silent Days"

C'era una volta un uomo timorato di Dio, che non perdeva occasione per dichiararsi cristiano e predicare la sua morale. Verso chi arrivava disperato nel suo paese fuggendo dalla fame e dalle guerre, questo "buon cristiano" non provava alcuna pietà. Non hai i documenti. Ci sono regole e leggi da seguire. Non si fanno eccezioni. Non possiamo accoglierli tutti qui da noi.

Ma un giorno, come tutti, anche quest'uomo morì. Proprio come diceva la sua religione, si ritrovò davanti alle Porte del Cielo. Ma le porte erano chiuse e il Paradiso era circondato da un alto muro. Chi di dovere parlò severamente: "Non hai seguito le regole, non è che possiamo far entrare tutti qui da noi", gli disse, indicando giù, verso l'inferno. Non si fanno eccezioni.


To me, there’s nothing on planet Earth more maddening than the religious right’s rejection of displaced people.... (Continues)
Where the winds of change were blowin', there lived a God-fearing man
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2021/10/6 - 21:34
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Mandela

Mandela
Lyrics Translate

“The gas stations in Rome close at 20:00. In some there is self-service, but in most they are taken over by Indian and Pakistani workers. This song is born from this type of meeting. Me having only a Moped, I mostly get gas at night and I always meet these guys. I liked sharing that some of them are sympathetic, nice. Seeing that now there's always the tale of invasion and of the fact that they're stealing our jobs, I made a song about one who is very kind and who woos me in his own way. He doesn't bother me, but rather he tells me: “How cute you are, I would throw you in a pan because you seem to me like an apple” and one remembers his flavours/scents of curry and cinnamon.”
MANDELA
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2021/10/5 - 21:34
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Gangsters Are Running This World

Gangsters Are Running This World
Pubblicata il 1 aprile 2019
dall'album Tides del 2021
There's blood on the streets
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2021/10/4 - 19:28
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South Gotta Change

South Gotta Change
(2020)

Adia Victoria challenges America to confront its racist past and root out the white supremacy that undoubtedly remains. The South (the birthplace of American chattel slavery), is clearly a beloved place for Victoria (“I love you, I won’t leave you”) but it needs to unshackle itself from confederate monuments and all the other relics of hate and oppression that exist there (horrible inequality, voter suppression, etc.) With undeniable moral clarity, Victoria beseeches us to acknowledge that things still aren’t okay for BIPOC folks even though slavery was abolished in 1865 and Jim Crow laws were legally abolished in 1965.

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Aida Victoria sfida l'America a confrontarsi con il suo passato razzista e a sradicare la supremazia bianca che senza dubbio è ancora presente. Il Sud (dove è nata la tratta degli schiavi) è sicuramente un posto del cuore per Victoria, ma deve liberarsi dai monumenti... (Continues)
You've been running from the ghost
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2021/10/3 - 11:29
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Capital

Capital
(2021)
album: Comfort To Me

She is also developing her political consciousness, turning to books by the likes of Malcolm Gladwell to help her process the pandemic. “I never saw value in reading, and then I realised that I could be an intellectual weapon if I read.” Yuval Noah Harari’s ‌Sapiens influenced the song Capital, in which Taylor confronts the failings of the Australian government in the face of mounting crises such as the devastating bushfires, farmers affected by prolonged drought and the treatment of Indigenous Australians.

“Where I come in from, I don’t know much about this shit,” she says. “Nobody gets taught Indigenous history in school. You have to search for it if you want to learn about it. A big chunk of me is a straight-up, motherfucking bogan and I’m proud of that part, but I want to listen to other people. There’s probably heaps of people who feel the same way we do, but they get lumped in [as ignorant] because they like cars and ciggies.”


The Guardian
Comfort to me, what does that even mean? One reason, do we persevere?
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2021/10/2 - 16:43
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This Is Radio Peace

This Is Radio Peace
1969-70

Il brano è poco più che un jingle, ma visto che si tratta di un inedito di John Lennon...

Karsten Højen mostra fiero quella "cassetta" che rappresenta un pezzo di storia della musica mondiale. Dentro l'inedito "Radio Peace" cantato da John Lennon di fronte ad alcuni adolescenti danesi nel gennaio del 1970. Un pezzo mai inciso che è rimasto però in questa audio cassetta che andrà all'asta in Danimarca. Dopo 51 anni quel gruppo di adolescenti, oggi in pensione, ha deciso di mettere in vendita questa registrazione effettuata durante un incontro con il cantante dei Beatles e Yoko Ono. Durante quell'inverno, John Lennon aveva deciso di passare nello Jutland alcune settimane di vacanza insieme a Yoko Ono e alla figlia Kyoko.

John Lennon, cassetta all'asta per 32 mila dollari
«Eravamo un gruppo di hippy di 16 anni», racconta Karsten Høejen, uno dei ragazzi che nel 1970 chiesero a Lennon... (Continues)
This is radio peace
Contributed by Dq82 2021/9/30 - 09:14
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Let’s Change the World

Let’s Change the World
(2021)
EP Change The World
Written By Joseph Williams & Steve Lukather


“I wanted to make this video with kids because they are our future and this is for them,” Starr said in a statement. “They deserve clean water and fresh air. I believe we should leave this planet in better shape than we found it for our kids, and right now we are not doing that. Half the world is on fire and the other half is under water. We have got to change, and I believe we can.”

Ringo Starr Teams With Aspiring Filmmakers in Foster Care for 'Let's Change the World' Video
Every night I dream of words in a half unfinished song
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2021/9/28 - 23:04
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(Waiting for) the Ghost Train

(Waiting for) the Ghost Train
1986
(Waiting For) The Ghost Train

The song was written by Suggs about apartheid in South Africa, with its chorus "It's black and white, don't try to hide it" and the line "The station master's writing with a piece of orange chalk / One hundred cancellations, still no one wants to walk" (in reference to the South African flag). Mike Barson reunited with the other members of the band to record this song, although he did not appear in the music video.

A Christmas flexi-disc record containing the 'band demo' of the song was sent out to Madness fan club (M.I.S.) members, featuring farewells and thanks from each member of the band (except Barson).
A straw headed woman
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Contributed by Dq82 2021/9/28 - 09:42




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