What are you listening to?

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We just bought the first Metallica LP Album (Remastered), and received it last Night for a homemade Hubbie & Wife mosh-pit with Vodka for her and Whiskey for him...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJzoBmVPeYw

We have Vinyls of Rider the Lightning and Master of Puppets coming soon in the mail as well...   

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Walked into the 7-11 store (Mini-Mart right across from my apartments an hour or two back) in the South Side of the Factory Town where we have been living for quite a few years.

Spotted a younger dude (Latino 18-21?) about an hour ago while purchasing my cigs and brew.... he was wearing a safety vest and ahead of me on the line.

Instantly spotted the profile from a large FC / DC Warehouse right down the road where I used to work, as well as my spouse and multiple other relatives over the years.

Asked "Do you work at XYZ", brother says yes.... respond used to work over there along wife many other current and former workers not so long back but company XYZ sucks when it comes to worker safety and conditions.... but it is great you are getting paid $15+ / Hr despite lack of safety conditions.

Dude behind me in the 7-11 store starts chatting with me and has a UFCW lapel on his jacket and we start talking Union Shop in line....

Told him I was fired for trying to bring the Union into the Warehouses, gave him my number and as I walked out the door told him the Tech Sector is one of the hardest to Unionize in Oregon.

Moved to Day Shift now so out for now....

Not even trying to post an image at this time.

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Victor Jara: Plegaria a un labrador (Prayer to a Farmer).

Musica from the Andes folk revival and both an artist and activist who was one of the "disappeared" during the "Dirty War" in the Southern Cone countries in the 1970s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%ADctor_Jara#Studio_albums

(Translation):

https://lyricstranslate.com/en/plegaria-un-labrador-prayer-farmer.html

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Feeling like taking a break from the News for a bit and listening to some tunes regarding military interventions:

1.) 4th25: Live From Iraq + The Deployment (Two Songs from the first album ever recorded by US Service Members fighting in an active combat zone). Found it on the internet a year after my buddy Eric died in Iraq and bought it directly.

If you like it please support the artists and Vets directly and purchase it via CD or MP3 per song.

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=4th25+live+from+Iraq&ref=nb_sb_noss

2.) Pete Seeger cover from David Summorford: Waist Deep in the Big Muddy

Topical song written around the time of the Vietnam War, using a metaphor from WW II training camps in the Deep South..

3.) Iron Maiden: Run for the Hills

Iron Maiden: The Writing on the Wall (WOW!!!--- new Maiden song and album and topical!!!)

4.) Alpha Blondy: Superpowers

West African Reggae artists...

5.) Ahmad Shah Massoud- Memories

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Posted on the Happy Labor Day Thread:

https://talkelections.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=462144.msg8238429#msg8238429

If mods have any issues with my (10) songs posted (?) then hopefully they will migrate over here vs deleting...

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MSNBC (Sane)   

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https://twitter.com/URDUVOA/status/1442919860283924481?s=20

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Black Sabbath: War Pigs

From the End Live Video

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Felt in the mood for some Canadian classic punk rock from way back in the dayz.

Still have their first LP on vinyl....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subhumans_(Canadian_band)

Subhumans: "Oh Canaduh"

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Feeling in a bit of a somber mood and felt like listening to an old classic song from the "Ballad Days" from and a pretty classic Anti Nuclear War song from Luke Kelly way back in the '50s and early '60s, when he went to England like so many other Irish Workers and got involved in the CND and were more like Irish Socialists vs Irish Nationalists.

Naturally within Irish Musical History, has a special role with The Dubliners, and although I have occasionally tried to grow a "Ronnie Drew Beard" have yet not been successful.   

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The Wolfe Tones: Sniper's Promise

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wolfe_Tones

Basically their original song with images from the movie "Enemy at the Gates" (2001) (Set during WW II during the Battle of Stalingrad).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemy_at_the_Gates

It's a beautiful song which describes the conflict and torments of the sniper who kills but doesn't want to kill and talking to his mother in his mind.

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As the final days of "St Paddy's Day Weekend" fall upon us, here is a song from The Pogues, and despite the fact that some Australian posters on the Forum might have forgotten the influence of the Irish Diaspora, we will still carry on.

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So, we're thinking of packing our bags and moving down to Southern Oregon, since I've been temp laid off at the factory with another round of temp layoffs likely to come.

My wife can easily get a $2 / Hr raise working in the medical sector once she gets her CNA, but can easily get a job equivalent to her hourly wages now.

Although I have been perhaps wedded to the factory where I still work for some (25) years, maybe time to move further down the road.

So last night, my wife wanted to listen to a few Kate Wolfe songs, despite the fact that she is actually was North Coast Cali singer song-writer from "The Emerald Triangle" region of Northern California.

Here are a few...

Here is a less well known female folk artist Alice Di Micele singing: "Dismantle", who actually grew up and still resides in the Redwood and Old Growth Forests of Southern Oregon...

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Currently me and my spose are listening to a Christy Moore song...

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NOVA GREEN has a couple songs on the queue, keeping it real for Mi Gentes...

Arguably one the first pioneers in Tejano (Mexican-American) Country artists from way back in the 1970s....

Our next door neighbors in the Apartment Blocks are Mexican-American (He went to HS in "The Sac", and she graduated from a  HS in Albany, Oregon.

They got two small kids together and are currently separated.

Ran into her at a nearby convenience store an hour or so back, and she's got a work "tag" on her neck, and asking how things are going.

She's got a good job now with the state and she told me it was a "Union Job"...

As the lines thin out and we're buying our stuff, one of my reg clerks  chimes in: "wow--- Union Jobs are the best"...

Anyways... fast forward to Johnny Rodriguez: "Corpus Christy Bay"

Many fond memories of Corpus, but before we ever went there on vacation from Houston naturally had a certain country song in mind...

Damn can't remember how many times I listened to this album driving back and forth from Tejas to Oregon, when me and my wife were separated for awhile and trying to reconcile...

So my wife got sacked from her Caregiving Job about a month or so back and the employer apparently denied her UI claim on the grounds of "misconduct".

Needless to say that was bunk and she finally got her ruling from the Oregon "Adjudicator" that she was not guilty of misconduct, but we still haven't seen the checks yet from the "Great State of Oregon", which would we roughly half a months rent for us working-class folks.

Naturally she needs to to a personal appearance at the "Unemployment Office" for job retraining and job matching skills and all that crap...

She gets offered minimum wage jobs, well below her experience level, where the nice lady is simply trying to help match people up by the playbook.



Naturally a song jumps to my head when it comes to matching up unemployed people with job opportunities through government agencies:

The Clash: Career Opportunities

Meanwhile... I've been on another two week factory furlough scene, after the last one, plus got another two week coming up in December.

Still haven't gotten my unemployment check for my 2nd furlough week, and just got a letter in the mail from the "Great State of Oregon", courtesy of the "Office of Administrative Hearings" that it will likely take 1-2 months before they review my claim from a temp factory layoff?

Screw that S**t

Johnny Paycheck in the house... "Take This Job and Shove It"

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In memory of the passing of David Crosby, here is a classic song he wrote when he was playing for Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young released in 1970.

The song describes a real-life dilemma faced by many hippies: whether to cut one's hair to a more practical length, or leave it long as a symbol of rebellion.[3] It was written by David Crosby, and features solo vocals by Crosby, with the rest of the band joining in on instruments rather than on vocal harmony, as in many of their other songs. Unlike most of the tracks on Déja Vu, the quartet and their studio musicians, Dallas Taylor (drums) and Greg Reeves (bass), all recorded it at the same place and time.[1] It was one of only two songs from the album that Neil Young joined in on, despite not writing.[4]

Although the notion of long hair as a "freak flag" appeared earlier, notably in a 1967 Jimi Hendrix song "If 6 Was 9", Crosby's song has been credited with popularizing the idea of long hair as a deliberate and visible symbol of the wearer's affiliation with the counterculture, and opposition to establishment values. The song also evokes the singer's "paranoia" at seeing the police; James Perone writes that, "more than any other song of the entire era", it "captures the extent to which the divisiveness in American society ... had boiled over into violence and terror".[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almost_Cut_My_Hair

This song was a bit impactful for me several decades after it was recorded, since although I was more into the "Punk Style" of political protest and resistance, still maintained my "long hair" for my first year or so of college, before I cut my hair....

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In light of recent US College campus protests listening to a classic song from Peggy Seeger (Pete Seeger's daughter) and Ewan MacColl (Scottish folk legend) from the early '70s "Student Edward" which describes a conversation between mother and son about his educational experiences at the University....

Looks like it's not currently out there on "The Tube", but this link should take you there to listen for free...

I already have the album on vinyl.

https://ewanmaccoll.bandcamp.com/track/student-edward

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Obviously "The Boss".

Our Factory still survives despite major manufacturing outsourcing losses over the decades under both Republican and Democratic Presidential Administrations.

I still get letters in the mail advising me how as a displaced factory worker under NAFTA, I supposedly can get all sort of extra benefits.

Bit kinda the scene where Timber Mills got shut down in the PacNW because of systemic overlogging of the Forests of Oregon since the '50s, while the big timber bosses shifted their ops down to the Southern States while meanwhile claiming they needed to harvest the last of the Old Growth.

Still our cleanrooms still survive, since ultimately these cannot be shifted easily overseas, especially when connected with key R&D activities.