Sail Away
da Genius
“Sail Away” by Randy Newman appears on his album, Sail Away (1972).
Newman presents “the pitch” of an American slave trader to Africans in Bonny, off the west coast of Nigeria.
The slaver sings a song about the wonderful life to be had in Charleston.
Selling a lie about what life will be was used, but the more common practice was going inland to kidnap and shackle those you found.
“Sail Away” by Randy Newman appears on his album, Sail Away (1972).
Newman presents “the pitch” of an American slave trader to Africans in Bonny, off the west coast of Nigeria.
The slaver sings a song about the wonderful life to be had in Charleston.
Selling a lie about what life will be was used, but the more common practice was going inland to kidnap and shackle those you found.
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inviata da Pluck 24/7/2022 - 22:43
Louisiana 1927
Randy Newman - 1974
Album: Good Old Boys
Louisiana 1927
What makes that ’27 flood so infamous is the fact that, in an effort to save the city where their profits were made, New Orleans’ businessmen spurred on the dynamiting of a levee to divert water to some of the poorer surrounding parishes. These parishes, and the lives of many who resided within them, were effectively destroyed by the ensuing rush of water.
After the damage is done, the final verse features a cameo appearance from President Calvin Coolidge, who surveys the carnage and makes a callous remark that shows little sympathy for all the human suffering around him. Echoes of that same presidential indifference were what many of President Bush’s critics sensed in his reaction to Katrina.
It all leads to one of the most heartbreaking refrains in all of popular music: “Louisiana, Louisiana/They’re tryin’ to wash us away.”... (continua)
Album: Good Old Boys
Louisiana 1927
What makes that ’27 flood so infamous is the fact that, in an effort to save the city where their profits were made, New Orleans’ businessmen spurred on the dynamiting of a levee to divert water to some of the poorer surrounding parishes. These parishes, and the lives of many who resided within them, were effectively destroyed by the ensuing rush of water.
After the damage is done, the final verse features a cameo appearance from President Calvin Coolidge, who surveys the carnage and makes a callous remark that shows little sympathy for all the human suffering around him. Echoes of that same presidential indifference were what many of President Bush’s critics sensed in his reaction to Katrina.
It all leads to one of the most heartbreaking refrains in all of popular music: “Louisiana, Louisiana/They’re tryin’ to wash us away.”... (continua)
What has happened down here is the wind have changed
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inviata da Pluck 24/7/2022 - 17:54
There'll Be No Peace Without All Men as One
[1972]
Lyrics & music by Sadye Shepard
Album: A Message From The People
The contemplative, and questioning, "There’ll Be No Peace Without All Men As One", is a pivotal track from Ray Charles’ 1972 album, "A Message from the People". The album takes stock in a post 1960s civil rights movement America, and features Robert Kennedy, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, and John F. Kennedy on the cover.
The song is a powerful commentary, which still resonates today.
In celebration of Ray Charles’ 90th birthday (2020), Tangerine Records, the label he founded in 1962, was proud to announce the release of “True Genius” the ultimate Ray Charles collection. Featuring 90 of his greatest songs and most important recordings of his legendary career, this newly remastered set includes all of his biggest hits.
Lyrics & music by Sadye Shepard
Album: A Message From The People
The contemplative, and questioning, "There’ll Be No Peace Without All Men As One", is a pivotal track from Ray Charles’ 1972 album, "A Message from the People". The album takes stock in a post 1960s civil rights movement America, and features Robert Kennedy, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, and John F. Kennedy on the cover.
The song is a powerful commentary, which still resonates today.
In celebration of Ray Charles’ 90th birthday (2020), Tangerine Records, the label he founded in 1962, was proud to announce the release of “True Genius” the ultimate Ray Charles collection. Featuring 90 of his greatest songs and most important recordings of his legendary career, this newly remastered set includes all of his biggest hits.
What good is the sun?
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inviata da giorgio 24/7/2022 - 09:01
The Spanish Inquisition
All pay heed! Now enters his holiness Torquemada, the Grand Inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition!
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23/7/2022 - 03:33
Percorsi:
Antiwar Anticlericale
Hannah Arendt Final Speech / Discorso finale di Hannah Arendt
LA CCG NUMERO 35000 / AWS NUMBER 35000
dal film biografico Hannah Arendt di Margarethe von Trotta interpretato da Barbara Sukowa
from the biographical film Hannah Arendt by Margarethe von Trotta starring Barbara Sukowa
La banalita del male
Eichmann tutto era fuorché anormale: era questa la sua dote più spaventosa. Sarebbe stato meno temibile un mostro inumano, perché proprio in quanto tale rendeva difficile identificarvisi. Ma quel che diceva Eichmann e il modo in cui lo diceva, non faceva altro che tracciare il quadro di una persona che avrebbe potuto essere chiunque: chiunque poteva essere Eichmann, sarebbe bastato essere senza idee, come lui. Prima ancora che poco intelligente, egli non aveva idee e non si rendeva conto di quel che stava facendo. Era semplicemente una persona completamente calata nella realtà che aveva davanti: lavorare, cercare una promozione, riordinare numeri sulle statistiche, ecc. Più che l'intelligenza... (continua)
from the biographical film Hannah Arendt by Margarethe von Trotta starring Barbara Sukowa
La banalita del male
Eichmann tutto era fuorché anormale: era questa la sua dote più spaventosa. Sarebbe stato meno temibile un mostro inumano, perché proprio in quanto tale rendeva difficile identificarvisi. Ma quel che diceva Eichmann e il modo in cui lo diceva, non faceva altro che tracciare il quadro di una persona che avrebbe potuto essere chiunque: chiunque poteva essere Eichmann, sarebbe bastato essere senza idee, come lui. Prima ancora che poco intelligente, egli non aveva idee e non si rendeva conto di quel che stava facendo. Era semplicemente una persona completamente calata nella realtà che aveva davanti: lavorare, cercare una promozione, riordinare numeri sulle statistiche, ecc. Più che l'intelligenza... (continua)
Perhaps just for today, you will allow me to smoke –immediately. When the New Yorker sent me to report on the trial of Adolf Eichmann, I assumed that the court room had only one interest, to fulfil the demands of justice. This was not a simple task because the court that tried Eichmann was confronted with a crime that could not found in the law books. The criminal whose call is unknown in any court prior to the Nuremberg Trials. But still the court had to define Eichmann as a man on trial for his deeds. There was no system on trial, no history, no-ism, not even anti-Semitism but only a person. The Treiben with a Nazi criminal like Eichmann was that he insisted on the renouncing on personal qualities as if there was nobody left, either to be punished or forgiven. He protested time and again c... (continua)
17/7/2022 - 16:51
Percorsi:
Le CCG delle migliaia
Abolition
If being radical is grasping from the root, that’s just what I’ll do, that’s just what I’ll do…
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17/7/2022 - 16:20
Reasons to Be Anxious
(2021)
dall'album Process del 2022
Ci sono tante, troppe ragioni, per essere ansiosi nel mondo moderno.
dall'album Process del 2022
Ci sono tante, troppe ragioni, per essere ansiosi nel mondo moderno.
I get anxious
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17/7/2022 - 13:17
Throwing Stones
(2022)
Album: Chuck Wright’s Sheltering Sky
“Throwin’ Stones” è una canzone potente e straordinaria. Come nasce?
Le tracce base di questa canzone sono state registrate qualche tempo fa con il mio defunto amico, Pat Torpey dei Mr. Big e Lanny Cordola che era con me con gli House Of Lords. Abbiamo realizzato un gran numero di album e colonne sonore di film insieme. Ho trovato questo brano e altri due incompiuti. Volevo onorare Pat finendoli: da qui nascono “Army Of Me” e “It Never Fails”.
I testi e le melodie vocali di “Throwin’ Stones” sono stati scritti da Joe Retta (Sweet, TSO, Dio Disciples). È un messaggio contro la guerra scritto ben prima dell’invasione russa dell’Ucraina. La chiamo triste serendipità. Nel realizzare il video, tuttavia, volevo che riflettesse ciò che stava accadendo nel mondo.
Il messaggio nella canzone parla di come, dall’alba dei tempi, fossimo l’uno contro l’altro... (continua)
Album: Chuck Wright’s Sheltering Sky
“Throwin’ Stones” è una canzone potente e straordinaria. Come nasce?
Le tracce base di questa canzone sono state registrate qualche tempo fa con il mio defunto amico, Pat Torpey dei Mr. Big e Lanny Cordola che era con me con gli House Of Lords. Abbiamo realizzato un gran numero di album e colonne sonore di film insieme. Ho trovato questo brano e altri due incompiuti. Volevo onorare Pat finendoli: da qui nascono “Army Of Me” e “It Never Fails”.
I testi e le melodie vocali di “Throwin’ Stones” sono stati scritti da Joe Retta (Sweet, TSO, Dio Disciples). È un messaggio contro la guerra scritto ben prima dell’invasione russa dell’Ucraina. La chiamo triste serendipità. Nel realizzare il video, tuttavia, volevo che riflettesse ciò che stava accadendo nel mondo.
Il messaggio nella canzone parla di come, dall’alba dei tempi, fossimo l’uno contro l’altro... (continua)
You might think I’m crazy
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16/7/2022 - 19:15
Dumai
The song is roughly the same in the Yiddish and English. Note that думать/dumai(t) is Russian, and is the word “to think”. I will provide the direct translation of the Yiddish pieces however as some differences remain
THINK
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inviata da dq82 16/7/2022 - 18:53
Light
(2019)
La bellissima canzone che chiude l'album KIWANUKA del 2019
Forse non esplicita nelle parole, ma accompagnata da un video che la ricollega all'orgoglio nero e al movimento Black Lives Matter.
La bellissima canzone che chiude l'album KIWANUKA del 2019
Forse non esplicita nelle parole, ma accompagnata da un video che la ricollega all'orgoglio nero e al movimento Black Lives Matter.
“The way so much of the world has been designed has often caused me and so many other Black people psychological damage,” Kiwanuka says. “We so often hear that we are lesser than because we are Black. We are a label, a token, a statistic, and we can be dehumanized. I’ve spoken about it in my music but I wanted to declare in words that I’m so proud to be Black. We are so beautiful and have such a wonderful history of strength, overcoming, talent, innovation, creativity, invention and love.”
Michael Kiwanuka's "Light" video celebrates Black life and power - WXPN
Michael Kiwanuka's "Light" video celebrates Black life and power - WXPN
We're miles apart
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14/7/2022 - 22:43
Pure Comedy
(2017)
"Pure Comedy is the story of a species born with a half-formed brain. The species' only hope for survival, finding itself on a cruel, unpredictable rock surrounded by other species who seem far more adept at this whole thing (and to whom they are delicious), is the reliance on other, slightly older, half-formed brains. This reliance takes on a few different names as their story unfolds, like 'love,' 'culture,' 'family,' etc."
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"Pure Comedy è la storia di una specie nata con un cervello formato a metà. La sola speranza di sopravvivenza di questa specie che si ritrova su una roccia crudele e imprevedibile, circondata da altre specie che sembrano molto più abili e adatte a questo ambiente è la dipendenza da altri, leggermente più vecchi, cervelli formati a metà. A questa dipendenza vengono dati alcuni nomi differenti mentre la loro storia si svolge, come 'amore', 'cultura', 'famiglia' eccetera"
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"Pure Comedy è la storia di una specie nata con un cervello formato a metà. La sola speranza di sopravvivenza di questa specie che si ritrova su una roccia crudele e imprevedibile, circondata da altre specie che sembrano molto più abili e adatte a questo ambiente è la dipendenza da altri, leggermente più vecchi, cervelli formati a metà. A questa dipendenza vengono dati alcuni nomi differenti mentre la loro storia si svolge, come 'amore', 'cultura', 'famiglia' eccetera"
At six-
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10/7/2022 - 16:37
Percorsi:
Antiwar Anticlericale
At the End of World War 3
2022
Also recorded by Chet Gardiner
It is abundantly evident that the world is closer to a nuclear holocaust than at any time since 1962.
Also recorded by Chet Gardiner
It is abundantly evident that the world is closer to a nuclear holocaust than at any time since 1962.
At the end of World War 3, amid the lightning and thunder
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9/7/2022 - 18:28
Addis Ababa
A song about two people who have lived through war
I live in Addis Ababa I drive a taxi cab
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6/7/2022 - 20:25
Holy Hell
(2016)
[...] Then, he uploaded new track ‘Holy Hell’ – a politically-charged but sombre piece of piano-led chamber pop in which he laments “damn the future ain’t looking so bright…”, ending with the reassuring lines: “But all my friends, yeah, I’m talking to you/The world won’t end unless we want it to/There’s no one in control/And it’s our life to choose.”
Father John Misty gets political, shares new song 'Holy Hell'
Father John Misty gets political, shares new song 'Holy Hell'
Hell
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5/7/2022 - 23:53
Čekáme kdesi na konci aleje
WAITING AT THE END OF AN ALLEY
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inviata da Stanislava 5/7/2022 - 18:32
No Oxygen in the West
2022
Music and Lyrics by SHAMAN
Actress and Dancer: SIJIA CHRISTINA CHEN
Music and Lyrics by SHAMAN
Actress and Dancer: SIJIA CHRISTINA CHEN
In silence
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3/7/2022 - 22:29
Kam jsme to zašli?
English translations: Lenka Lichtenberg & Alena Jirásek
What is this place?
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2/7/2022 - 19:23
Generation Cancellation
(2022)
Russian punk-pop-rave band returns with anti-war manifesto “Generation Cancellation”. Little Big’s first release in 2022 is accompanied by a music video that criticizing the war, the politics, the propaganda in their signature style through a series of scenes filled with socio-political references and easter eggs. Sonically, the track is a tribute to Ilich favorite bands such as Nirvana and The Prodigy.
Russian punk-pop-rave band returns with anti-war manifesto “Generation Cancellation”. Little Big’s first release in 2022 is accompanied by a music video that criticizing the war, the politics, the propaganda in their signature style through a series of scenes filled with socio-political references and easter eggs. Sonically, the track is a tribute to Ilich favorite bands such as Nirvana and The Prodigy.
My generation
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1/7/2022 - 15:35
Percorsi:
Guerre in Ucraina
We Need to Talk About It
2022
We need to talk about it
Bloodline Maintenance
We need to talk about it
Bloodline Maintenance
Slavery
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inviata da dq82 30/6/2022 - 11:16
Hard Times on Main Street
[2013]
Lyrics, music and performed by Barry David Butler
As Butler will say in his song "Wall Street is flying, but Main Street is dying "..
This song is about the Plight of the Middle Class in America..
Lyrics, music and performed by Barry David Butler
As Butler will say in his song "Wall Street is flying, but Main Street is dying "..
This song is about the Plight of the Middle Class in America..
She has three kids and the bills to pay
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inviata da giorgio 30/6/2022 - 09:46
Death Is a Job
Sarajevo Blues
I'm running across an intersection to avoid the bullet of a sniper from the hill when I walk straight into some photographers:
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inviata da Dq82 28/6/2022 - 11:31
Percorsi:
Guerre nei Balcani negli anni '90
I Want to Go
I Want To Go - J. B. Lenoir - 1966
My name is JB Lenoir
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inviata da Pluck 21/6/2022 - 18:31
Move This Rope
Move This Rope - J.B. Lenoir - 1966
Remove this rope from 'round my neck
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inviata da Pluck 21/6/2022 - 18:05
Alabama March
J.B. Lenoir - Alabama March - Album : Alabama Blues - 1965
Third month, twenty-fifth day of '65, we marched on Alabama hill
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inviata da Pluck 21/6/2022 - 10:59
Anarchy
[1888 ]
A Poem by / Gedicht / Poesia / Poème / Runo:
John Henry Mackay
La poesia di John Henry Mackay fu posta nell’introduzione al saggio Anarchism: what it really stands for di Emma Goldman, del 1911.
Tutte le versioni della poesia qui proposte ci sembrano interessanti per un motivo o per l’altro. Troviamo particolarmente suggestiva la versione tedesca di Christoph Holzhöfer
[Riccardo Gullotta]
A Poem by / Gedicht / Poesia / Poème / Runo:
John Henry Mackay
La poesia di John Henry Mackay fu posta nell’introduzione al saggio Anarchism: what it really stands for di Emma Goldman, del 1911.
Tutte le versioni della poesia qui proposte ci sembrano interessanti per un motivo o per l’altro. Troviamo particolarmente suggestiva la versione tedesca di Christoph Holzhöfer
[Riccardo Gullotta]
Ever reviled, accursed, ne’er understood,
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inviata da Riccardo Gullotta 20/6/2022 - 20:03
War
Album: Ultra Mono
Released: 2020
Idles are a British-Irish punk rock band formed in Bristol in 2009. The band consists of Joe Talbot (vocals), Mark Bowen (guitar), Lee Kiernan (guitar), Adam Devonshire (bass) and Jon Beavis (drums).
Released: 2020
Idles are a British-Irish punk rock band formed in Bristol in 2009. The band consists of Joe Talbot (vocals), Mark Bowen (guitar), Lee Kiernan (guitar), Adam Devonshire (bass) and Jon Beavis (drums).
Wa-ching
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inviata da Timur Kukharets 19/6/2022 - 18:26
Compliance
(2022)
Secondo singolo estratto dall'album di prossima pubblicazione "Will of the People"
Su un ritmo anni 80 i Muse ci parlano delle potenti organizzazioni che ci vorrebbero asserviti e aderenti alla loro visione del mondo, perdendo ogni spirito critico.
“Compliance” is about the promise of safety and reassurance sold to us by powerful entities during times of vulnerability. Gangs, governments, demagogues, social media algorithms and religions seduce us with misleading untruths and comforting fables. They want us to join their narrow worldview in exchange for obedience and turning a blind eye to our own internal voice of reason and compassion. They just need our Compliance.
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“Compliance” parla della promessa di sicurezza e tranquillità vendutaci da entità potenti durante i momenti di vulnerabilità. Le gang criminali, i governi, i demagoghi, gli algoritmi dei social media e le religioni... (continua)
Secondo singolo estratto dall'album di prossima pubblicazione "Will of the People"
Su un ritmo anni 80 i Muse ci parlano delle potenti organizzazioni che ci vorrebbero asserviti e aderenti alla loro visione del mondo, perdendo ogni spirito critico.
“Compliance” is about the promise of safety and reassurance sold to us by powerful entities during times of vulnerability. Gangs, governments, demagogues, social media algorithms and religions seduce us with misleading untruths and comforting fables. They want us to join their narrow worldview in exchange for obedience and turning a blind eye to our own internal voice of reason and compassion. They just need our Compliance.
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“Compliance” parla della promessa di sicurezza e tranquillità vendutaci da entità potenti durante i momenti di vulnerabilità. Le gang criminali, i governi, i demagoghi, gli algoritmi dei social media e le religioni... (continua)
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18/6/2022 - 17:54
Try Better Next Time
(2022)
Album: Never Let Me Go
Ai cori: Cody Molko (il figlio diciassettenne di Brian Molko, già con una carriera come attore nella serie Shadow and Bone)
“Try Better Next Time for me is very much my song about the environment. You know, it’s a disillusioned, disappointed song. It’s very disappointed in humanity. It’s basically saying, good riddance, humanity, try better next time, you know, next time you come back and get a chance to live on this beautiful planet, you know, try better. It’s a story about people who live underground, about growing fins and going back to the water.
It’s a very disillusioned song about the climate disaster presented in a sort of three minute Weezer ish kind of pop punk thing. If you dig deeper, it’s one of the more disturbing songs because it’s talking about an extinction event next, you know, the extinction of human beings, but is presented in in in... (continua)
Album: Never Let Me Go
Ai cori: Cody Molko (il figlio diciassettenne di Brian Molko, già con una carriera come attore nella serie Shadow and Bone)
“Try Better Next Time for me is very much my song about the environment. You know, it’s a disillusioned, disappointed song. It’s very disappointed in humanity. It’s basically saying, good riddance, humanity, try better next time, you know, next time you come back and get a chance to live on this beautiful planet, you know, try better. It’s a story about people who live underground, about growing fins and going back to the water.
It’s a very disillusioned song about the climate disaster presented in a sort of three minute Weezer ish kind of pop punk thing. If you dig deeper, it’s one of the more disturbing songs because it’s talking about an extinction event next, you know, the extinction of human beings, but is presented in in in... (continua)
At the core of the earth it's too hot to breathe
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inviata da Lorenzo Masetti 18/6/2022 - 13:36
Percorsi:
Guerra alla Terra
Six White Horses
[1969]
Lyrics and music / Testo e musica / Paroles et musique / Sanat ja sävel :
Larry Murray
Performed by / Interpreti / Interprétée par / Laulavat:
Johnny Cash
Album: Six White Horses
Il tema dominante di questa canzone country di mezzo secolo fa é il razzismo negli Usa negli anni ’60. Riscosse molto successo, si classificò quarta nella “Billboard Hot Country Singles “statunitense.
Parla degli assassinii di John Kennedy, Martin Luther King e Robert Kennedy. Il tema si riflette nel titolo, ripetuto in ogni strofa: il colore dei cavalli è bianco.
Da notare che il numero dei cavalli coincide con il numero di versi di ciascuna delle tre strofe.
Forse, è un’ipotesi di chi scrive, l’immagine dei sei cavalli si ispira anche alla canzone folk “She'll Be Coming Around The Mountain” pubblicata nel 1927, le cui due strofe iniziali sono riportate a seguire:
She'll be coming 'round the... (continua)
Lyrics and music / Testo e musica / Paroles et musique / Sanat ja sävel :
Larry Murray
Performed by / Interpreti / Interprétée par / Laulavat:
Johnny Cash
Album: Six White Horses
Il tema dominante di questa canzone country di mezzo secolo fa é il razzismo negli Usa negli anni ’60. Riscosse molto successo, si classificò quarta nella “Billboard Hot Country Singles “statunitense.
Parla degli assassinii di John Kennedy, Martin Luther King e Robert Kennedy. Il tema si riflette nel titolo, ripetuto in ogni strofa: il colore dei cavalli è bianco.
Da notare che il numero dei cavalli coincide con il numero di versi di ciascuna delle tre strofe.
Forse, è un’ipotesi di chi scrive, l’immagine dei sei cavalli si ispira anche alla canzone folk “She'll Be Coming Around The Mountain” pubblicata nel 1927, le cui due strofe iniziali sono riportate a seguire:
She'll be coming 'round the... (continua)
Hmmhmmmm
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inviata da Riccardo Gullotta 17/6/2022 - 22:32
Lifestyles of the Poor & the Homeless
[2014]
Lyrics, music & performed by Barry David Butler
"Homelessness in America is a Terrible Tragedy. It can happen to anybody and did to the guy in my song called "Homelessness...Livin' Under A Bridge". Check out my song about Homeless Vets called "Just Another Hero Living on the Streets"..We Can Do Better! I was homeless for just a few days year ago and it was a Life Shattering experience that I stays with me even today.... It has shaped me as a songwriter. I try and tell the stories of Life in America .."
Lyrics, music & performed by Barry David Butler
"Homelessness in America is a Terrible Tragedy. It can happen to anybody and did to the guy in my song called "Homelessness...Livin' Under A Bridge". Check out my song about Homeless Vets called "Just Another Hero Living on the Streets"..We Can Do Better! I was homeless for just a few days year ago and it was a Life Shattering experience that I stays with me even today.... It has shaped me as a songwriter. I try and tell the stories of Life in America .."
Wall Street's flyin', While Mains Street's dyin'
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inviata da giorgio 17/6/2022 - 08:55
Homeless Livin' Under a Bridge
[2012]
Lyrics, music & performed by Barry David Butler
"If you've never been Homeless you can't imagine how bad it is. It can be a life changing experience. I was homeless for only a few days and then had to stay on a friends couch for awhile....I've never been the same. I NEVER feel safe. This song is about ONE man's Journey from Normal to living in the park under a bridge. I got very depressed watching Pictures from Sandy....It doesn't matter how you become homeless, just that you ARE. There are Thousands of people in New York and New Jersey....Kids, Old people and families that have no home and no life. A lot of these people will wind up living under a bridge... PLEASE.... if this song Affects you the way I think it will....Donate to the Red Cross. NOBODY SHOULD EVER BE HOMELESS. Everybody needs a place to lay their heads down at night and to feel Safe!...
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Lyrics, music & performed by Barry David Butler
"If you've never been Homeless you can't imagine how bad it is. It can be a life changing experience. I was homeless for only a few days and then had to stay on a friends couch for awhile....I've never been the same. I NEVER feel safe. This song is about ONE man's Journey from Normal to living in the park under a bridge. I got very depressed watching Pictures from Sandy....It doesn't matter how you become homeless, just that you ARE. There are Thousands of people in New York and New Jersey....Kids, Old people and families that have no home and no life. A lot of these people will wind up living under a bridge... PLEASE.... if this song Affects you the way I think it will....Donate to the Red Cross. NOBODY SHOULD EVER BE HOMELESS. Everybody needs a place to lay their heads down at night and to feel Safe!...
Homelessness in America... (continua)
It all started about two years ago
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inviata da giorgio 13/6/2022 - 12:53
A Flower's All You Need
(1975)
Musica di Ennio Morricone
dalla colonna sonora del film di Aldo Lado
“L’ultimo treno della notte” (Night Train Murders), del 1975, con Dalila Di Lazzaro e Flavio Bucci.
Il tema musicale era stato utilizzato l'anno prima da Morricone per il film d'animazione “Il giro del mondo degli innamorati di Peynet”
Dolce ballata peace & love con una struggente melodia composta da Morricone, inserita - con un evidente contrasto - nella colonna sonora di uno dei film più crudi e violenti mai realizzati in Italia
Musica di Ennio Morricone
dalla colonna sonora del film di Aldo Lado
“L’ultimo treno della notte” (Night Train Murders), del 1975, con Dalila Di Lazzaro e Flavio Bucci.
Il tema musicale era stato utilizzato l'anno prima da Morricone per il film d'animazione “Il giro del mondo degli innamorati di Peynet”
Dolce ballata peace & love con una struggente melodia composta da Morricone, inserita - con un evidente contrasto - nella colonna sonora di uno dei film più crudi e violenti mai realizzati in Italia
Tell the world I saw a man fall in the street and die
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12/6/2022 - 00:43
You Know My Name
[2006]
Lyrics and music / Testo e musica / Paroles et musique / Sanat ja sävel :
Chris Cornell
Album: Chris Cornell-You Know My Name
Percorso : La Guerra dell’ Informazione
nomina sunt consequentia rerum / i nomi sono conseguenti alle cose
ULTIM’ORA
Carta canusciuta
Siamo lieti di annunciare l’identità del Grande Vecchio che si occulta dietro i gruppi eurasiatisti e filorussi animati da influencer e opinionisti con connivenze sovraniste e nazionaliste, reclutati dal Cremlino, comunemente noti come “rete di Putin”. La notizia trapela da Fonti che preferiscono mantenere l’anonimato nel quadro delle trame oscure che gravano sulla Repubblica dalla sua fondazione. È più che comprensibile quindi l’assoluto riserbo e, se si renderà necessario, il legittimo uso del Segreto di Stato.
Sono allo studio tutte le misure atte a contenere le minacce ibride e le derive liberticide della disinformacija... (continua)
Lyrics and music / Testo e musica / Paroles et musique / Sanat ja sävel :
Chris Cornell
Album: Chris Cornell-You Know My Name
Percorso : La Guerra dell’ Informazione
nomina sunt consequentia rerum / i nomi sono conseguenti alle cose
ULTIM’ORA
Carta canusciuta
Siamo lieti di annunciare l’identità del Grande Vecchio che si occulta dietro i gruppi eurasiatisti e filorussi animati da influencer e opinionisti con connivenze sovraniste e nazionaliste, reclutati dal Cremlino, comunemente noti come “rete di Putin”. La notizia trapela da Fonti che preferiscono mantenere l’anonimato nel quadro delle trame oscure che gravano sulla Repubblica dalla sua fondazione. È più che comprensibile quindi l’assoluto riserbo e, se si renderà necessario, il legittimo uso del Segreto di Stato.
Sono allo studio tutte le misure atte a contenere le minacce ibride e le derive liberticide della disinformacija... (continua)
If you take a life do you know what you'll give?
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inviata da Riccardo Gullotta 11/6/2022 - 17:10
Letters From Afghanistan
[2012]
Lyrics by W.Carroll Kiphen
Music & performed by Barry David Butler
Soldier’s letters sent home to his friends and family before he died in War!
The original title was “Letters”
Lyrics by W.Carroll Kiphen
Music & performed by Barry David Butler
Soldier’s letters sent home to his friends and family before he died in War!
The original title was “Letters”
Letters from a husband
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inviata da giorgio 11/6/2022 - 09:20
Місця Щасливих Людей
PLACES OF HAPPY PEOPLE
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inviata da Riccardo Gullotta 9/6/2022 - 18:02
מישע צעררײַסט היטלערס דײַטשלאַנד
Taybl Birman / טײַבל בירמאַן
MISHA TEARS APARTS HITLER'S GERMANY
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inviata da Dq82 9/6/2022 - 17:26
טײַבלס בריוו
Taybl Birman / טײַבל בירמאַן
TAYBL'S LETTER TO HER HUSBAND AT THE FRONT
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inviata da Dq82 9/6/2022 - 17:20
McCarthyism
Parody / Parodia / Parodie :
Timothy Betts
Music / Musica / Musique / Sävel:
Chandelier by Sia
* CorSir News: La rete di Putin in Italia
Looking forward to watching the remake of the movie “The Wild Bunch / Il mucchio selvaggio”
Timothy Betts
Music / Musica / Musique / Sävel:
Chandelier by Sia
* CorSir News: La rete di Putin in Italia
Looking forward to watching the remake of the movie “The Wild Bunch / Il mucchio selvaggio”
Senator from Wisconsin,
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inviata da Riccardo Gullotta 7/6/2022 - 23:03
Percorsi:
Guerre in Ucraina
יאָשקע ון אָדעס
Berta Flaksman / בערטאַ פֿלאַקסמאַן
YOSHKE FROM ODESSA
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inviata da Dq82 6/6/2022 - 14:01
The Ballad of Brian Haw
[2006]
Lyrics by Roger Antony Carter
Music & performed by Barry David Butler
“It seems that dissension
is no longer allowed ..”
The song is dedicated to Brian Haw, a great and indomitable British pacifist, famous for protesting against the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, unfortunately died in Berlin from lung cancer in 2011 ...
Brian William Haw (7 January 1949 – 18 June 2011) was an English protester and peace campaigner who lived for almost ten years in a peace camp in London’s Parliament Square from 2001, in a protest against UK and US foreign policy. He began the Parliament Square Peace Campaign before the 2001 United States attacks, and became a symbol of the anti-war movement over the policies of both the United Kingdom and the United States in Afghanistan and later Iraq. At the 2007 Channel 4 Political Awards he was voted Most Inspiring Political Figure. Haw died of cancer... (continua)
Lyrics by Roger Antony Carter
Music & performed by Barry David Butler
“It seems that dissension
is no longer allowed ..”
The song is dedicated to Brian Haw, a great and indomitable British pacifist, famous for protesting against the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, unfortunately died in Berlin from lung cancer in 2011 ...
Brian William Haw (7 January 1949 – 18 June 2011) was an English protester and peace campaigner who lived for almost ten years in a peace camp in London’s Parliament Square from 2001, in a protest against UK and US foreign policy. He began the Parliament Square Peace Campaign before the 2001 United States attacks, and became a symbol of the anti-war movement over the policies of both the United Kingdom and the United States in Afghanistan and later Iraq. At the 2007 Channel 4 Political Awards he was voted Most Inspiring Political Figure. Haw died of cancer... (continua)
Did you hear about the man
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inviata da giorgio 6/6/2022 - 09:30
Long Haired Hippie Freaks
I used to laugh when older folks
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inviata da giorgio 5/6/2022 - 22:30
Automation Song
[1964]
Lyrics & music by Philip David Ochs
Album: All the News That's Fit to Sing
"We have built everything with our sweat, and now you are throwing us away and replacing us with machines .."
Guitar: Danny Kalb
Producer: Jac Holzman
Guitar, Vocals: Phil Ochs
Writer: Phil Ochs
Lyrics & music by Philip David Ochs
Album: All the News That's Fit to Sing
"We have built everything with our sweat, and now you are throwing us away and replacing us with machines .."
Guitar: Danny Kalb
Producer: Jac Holzman
Guitar, Vocals: Phil Ochs
Writer: Phil Ochs
Oh, I laid down your railroads, every mile of track
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inviata da giorgio 5/6/2022 - 10:00
No Wars Will Stop Us Singing - World Peace Day
[2005]
Lyrics written by Don Black
Music composed by Debbie Wiseman -
“This moving anthem offers hope against the back-drop of continual war throughout the world where children needlessly suffer and die.
This contemporary song has been translated into several different languages and has become a national 'anthem' sung by thousands of young people on World Peace Day -- September 21st.
I hope that you understand the way I feel about ‘No Wars Will Stop Us Singing’.
It is a great song for young people like me to bite back at all the people who think war is right”.
Lyrics written by Don Black
Music composed by Debbie Wiseman -
“This moving anthem offers hope against the back-drop of continual war throughout the world where children needlessly suffer and die.
This contemporary song has been translated into several different languages and has become a national 'anthem' sung by thousands of young people on World Peace Day -- September 21st.
I hope that you understand the way I feel about ‘No Wars Will Stop Us Singing’.
It is a great song for young people like me to bite back at all the people who think war is right”.
Ugly sounds are overhead,
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inviata da giorgio 4/6/2022 - 17:25
Everybody’s Blood Is Red
[2022]
Lyrics by Carroll Kiphen
Lyrics by Carroll Kiphen
For all the progress we have made
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inviata da giorgio 4/6/2022 - 14:14
The Madness of Madmen
[2022]
Lyrics by Carroll Kiphen
Lyrics by Carroll Kiphen
I hear the distant sound of drums
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inviata da giorgio 4/6/2022 - 13:49
The Shores of Normandy
In the cold grey light of the sixth of June,
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inviata da Dq82 2/6/2022 - 18:38
Steelworker's Lament
2022
Roots of Life
Roots of Life
I used to work at steel mill, making 13 hour days
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inviata da Dq82 2/6/2022 - 18:08
Merchants of Death
[2022]
Scritta da Bob A. Feldman
Written by Bob A. Feldman
Un canto contro la guerra del 2022 che protesta contro i profittatori di guerra.
An anti-war folk song from 2022 that protests against those who profit from the 21st-century of "permanent war."
Scritta da Bob A. Feldman
Written by Bob A. Feldman
Un canto contro la guerra del 2022 che protesta contro i profittatori di guerra.
An anti-war folk song from 2022 that protests against those who profit from the 21st-century of "permanent war."
Merchants of Death
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inviata da Bob A. Feldman 31/5/2022 - 03:56
Just Another Hero Living on the Streets
[2012]
Lyrics by Wade L. Smith & Barry D. Butler
Music & performed by Barry D. Butler
Homeless Vet1
Our Soldiers go and fight these Pathetic Wars for GREED and then come home to NOTHING.
This song is dedicated to these Homeless Men and Women. We are going to use a good portion of any money we make to help them!!!
Homeless Vet2
Lyrics by Wade L. Smith & Barry D. Butler
Music & performed by Barry D. Butler
Homeless Vet1
Our Soldiers go and fight these Pathetic Wars for GREED and then come home to NOTHING.
This song is dedicated to these Homeless Men and Women. We are going to use a good portion of any money we make to help them!!!
Homeless Vet2
He's livin' on the streets of America
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inviata da giorgio 30/5/2022 - 12:25
The Murder of Chico Mendes
1998
Vampires, Geeks & Lovers
Vampires, Geeks & Lovers
Chico Mendes was a rubber tapper; a simple man who lived a simple life,
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inviata da Dq82 25/5/2022 - 18:09
Percorsi:
Chico Mendes
Sacred Ground
1995
Pride
Pride
How many times must we tell them
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inviata da Dq82 25/5/2022 - 17:38
Percorsi:
Chico Mendes
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Lyrics & music by Betty Lapcevic
Album: A Message From The People
1972 was an interesting year for Ray Charles. He was profiled in a New Musical Express article with the headlines "The Man Who Beat Drug Addiction And Blindness To Become A Legend". But also, following the lead of Marvin Gaye and Curtis Mayfield, Ray got political with the funky Quincy Jones produced single “Hey Mister”. Written as a letter to a Congressman, Ray points out “we're the richest country in the world and I just can't understand why we got so many hungry people”.
“Hey legislation why don't you try a new route
Listen to the people and hear what they're talking about
You see the poor people know they can't impeach you
They just hoping that they cries will reach you”
The song peaked at #47 on the R & B charts. On shows like Dick Cavett, Carol Burnett and even Bill Cosby, Ray performed his standard... (continua)