What are you listening to?

[NOVA Green]

Dead Prez - Police State

I get more radicalized every time I listen to Dead Prez or Immortal Technique

Cool--- wow didn't realize there were any others out there on Atlas / TE familiar with some of "classic" or edgier political Hip-Hop from back in the dayz...

[NOVA Green]

Inspired by MB....   was a song I've been trying to track down for a few weeks now.

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

Gang Starr: "Conspiracy"

[OSR stands with Israel]

[HillGoose]

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deadass came in this thread just to post this, what an absolute banger

[NOVA Green]

Naturally listening to Linton Kwesi Johnson's song" Five Nights of Bleeding"....

(UK Dub Raggae super-star singing about a riot in Brixton, South London.)

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

[T'Chenka]

This song is the best COVID quarantine meme song and music video I've seen yet. Just incredible.

Doug Ford = Premier (governor) of Ontario

[Deep Dixieland Senator, Muad'dib (OSR MSR)]

LANGUAGE WARNING!!!

S019 you should not click play!!!

[afleitch]

Late 70's funk. For some reason.

[NOVA Green]

Considering that within the current climate, we are experiencing levels of growing unrest against local police departments throughout the United States, at a point not seen since the Rodney King uprising of '92, where some (16) Years later we had the first election of a Black President of the United States of America...

Naturally, we need to look at some historical music from our English Neighbors from across the Pond...

This was a classic "Peace Punk Anthem" from back in the days, saw them play it live a few times, and again although they would likely consider themselves Anarchist Punk Rock musicians, the song represents righteous rage, while at the same time not promoting violence at a time in the history of the UK, where massive uprisings were breaking across the streets, housing estates, and neighborhoods of much of England, not to mention similar style activism in places such as Scotland & Wales....

Politicians kept changing their cloths and parties and tried to control what was a burning ember, which ended up exploding later on at the time of the Poll Tax Rebellion of the early '90s....

Subhumans: Subvert City:

"And it all went quiet in the city
And the wind blew down the road
Someone cried out "Subvert"
And the people all went cold

Subvert, subvert, subvert, SUBVERT

Meanwhile back in Subvert City
Someone's writing on the wall
" the government" spray-paint hero
Someone wants the state to fall
Religious dogma crucified
Ritual slaughter, no one lied
Living standards were dying morals
A state-controlled mass suicide

And it all went quiet in the city
And the wind blew down the road
Someone cried out "Subvert"
And the people all went cold

Subvert, subvert, subvert, SUBVERT

The dying breed of Subvert City
Crept into the underground
The state police just left them there
Blocked the holes, and gassed them down
Ten years later they emerged
Mutated minds so full of hate
Tried again to change the system
But this time round it was too late
There was no system left to change
The people ran the entire land
The subverts became politicians
And finally got the upper hand

Meanwhile back in Subvert City
Someone's writing on the wall
" the government" spray-paint hero
But in Subvert City, it's subvert rule

Subvert, subvert, subvert, subvert"

   

[President of the great nation of 🏳️‍⚧️]

Pandora's Box - Original Sin (1989)

The album; though the song was also included in the album. Jim Steinman is a genius.

[NOVA Green]

Dead Prez - Police State

I get more radicalized every time I listen to Dead Prez or Immortal Technique

Dead Prez: Police State

Hits the nerve... thx MB for reminding me again of this song at these most disturbing times

[Orwell]

I have been listening to a lot of John Denver, my few favorite songs are Thank God Im a Country boy, Homegrown Tomatoes, I'm Sorry, and Working on the Railroad.

I've also been listening to some more rap, and there's Maskoff by Future, Toosie Slide by Drake, The Box by Roddy Ricch, 20/20 by Lil Tjay

[GM Team Member and Senator WB]

Dragonforce-The Flame of Youth

Through the fire, through the flames
Like the sun we'll rise again

[NOVA Green]

Journey: When the Lights go Down in the City

One of my favorite Bay Area California Bands....

[NOVA Green]

Bob Dylan: Subterranean Homesick Blues

Somehow topical...

"Johnny's in the basement
Mixing up the medicine
I'm on the pavement
Thinking about the government
The man in the trench coat
Badge out, laid off
Says he's got a bad cough
Wants to get it paid off
Look out kid
It's somethin' you did
God knows when
But you're doing it again
You better duck down the alley way
Lookin' for a new friend
A man in the coonskin cap, in the pig pen
Wants eleven dollar bills, you only got ten
Maggie comes fleet foot
Face full of black soot
Talkin' that the heat put
Plants in the bed but
The phone's tapped anyway
Maggie says that many say
They must bust in early May
Orders from the D.A. Look out kid
Don't matter what you did
Walk on your tip toes
Don't tie no bows
Better stay away from those
That carry around a fire hose
Keep a clean nose
Watch the plain clothes
You don't need a weather man
To know which way the wind blows
Oh, get sick, get well
Hang around a ink well
Hang bail, hard to tell
If anything is goin' to sell
Try hard, get barred
Get back, write braille
Get jailed, jump bail
Join the army, if you fail
Look out kid
You're gonna get hit
But losers, cheaters
Six-time users
Hang around the theaters
Girl by the whirlpool
Lookin' for a new fool
Don't follow leaders, watch the parkin' meters
Oh, get born, keep warm
Short pants, romance
Learn to dance, get dressed, get blessed
Try to be a success
Please her, please him, buy gifts
Don't steal, don't lift
Twenty years of schoolin'
And they put you on the day shift
Look out kid
They keep it all hid
Better jump down a manhole
Light yourself a candle
Don't wear sandals
Try to avoid the scandals
Don't want to be a bum
You better chew gum
The pump don't work
'Cause the vandals took the handles"

[Gracile]

Yesterday's New Quintet - "Sun Goddess"

[NOVA Green]

Phil Ochs: "Links on the Chain"

Folk singer from the '60s... have this song on vinyl, although need a new needle, so YouTube it is   

Lyrics & chord structure for anyone practicing guitar during the shutdown

"A C D A
Come you ranks of labor, come you union core,
C D A
And see if you remember the struggles of before,
F#m D E
When you were standing helpless on the outside of the door
Bm E A
And you started building links on the Chain.
Bm D E A
On the Chain, you started building links on the Chain.
When the police on the horses were waitin' on demand,
ridin' through the strike with the pistols in their hands,
Swingin' at the skulls of many a union man,
As you built one more link on the chain, on the chain,
As you built one more link on the chain.
Then the army of the fascists tried to put you on the run,
but the army of the union, they did what could be done,
Oh, the power of the factory was greater than the gun,
As you built one more link on the chain, on the chain,
As you built one more link on the chain.
And then in 1954, decisions finally made,
The black man was a-risin' fast and racin' from the shade,
And your union took no stand and your union was betrayed,
As you lost yourself a link on the chain, on the chain,
As you lost yourslef a link on the chain.
And then there came the boycotts and then the freedom rides,
And forgetting what you stood for, you tried to block the tide,
Oh, the automation bosses werre laughin' on the side,
As they watched you lose your link on the chain, on the chain,
As they watched you lose your link on the chain.
You know when they block your trucks boys, by layin' on the road,
All that they are doin' is all that you have showed,
That you gotta strike, you gotta fight to get what you are owed,
When you're building all your links on the chain, on the chain,
When you're building all your links on the chain.
Amd the man who tries to tell you that they'll take your job away,
He's the same man who was scabbin' hard just the other day,
And your union's not a union till he's thrown out of the way,
And he's chokin' on your links of the chain, of the chain,
And he's chokin' on your links of the chain.
For now the times are tellin' you the times are rollin' on,
And you're fighting for the same thing, the jobs that will be gone,
Now it's only fair to ask you boys, which side are you on?
As you're buildin' all your links on the chain, on the chain,
As you're buildin' all your links on the chain.
Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Phil Ochs
Links On The Chain lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group"

Here is one place you can buy the CD:

https://www.amazon.com/News-Thats-Sing-Aint-Marching/dp/B00005OKOS/ref=sr_1_2?crid=1Z50RSKK4HPNT&dchild=1&keywords=phil+ochs+i+ain%27t+marching&qid=1591232401&sprefix=phil+ochs+i+ain%2Caps%2C271&sr=8-2

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

And with that...

...we say goodbye.