I got this idea from an article on the Saker, “The Decline And Fall Of The Western Empire”
Q: What song (or poem) best depicts the current, or future, state of affairs in America?
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Me?
I’m going 100% all in on what the Saker chose.
In “American Pie” Don McLean, prophetically sang about spiritual death, describing how America had lost its faith in the previous decade of the 1960s, …. ‘for ten years we’ve been on our own’ …. and how he saw ‘Satan laughing with delight’, …. and that ‘the church bells all were broken / And the three men I admire most / The Father, Son and the Holy Ghost / They caught the last train for the coast… / Singin’, this’ll be the day that I die’.
.“Vincent” is also appropriate, especially because the whores who rule over us “They would not listen, they’re not listening still Perhaps they never will.” And, after all, aren’t we like “the silver thorn of bloody rose, Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow.”?
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Lastly, and this song needs absolutely no explanation or justification …. THE EVE OF DESTRUCTION ….. cuz we’re, there, baby … we’re there!
LOOKING FORWARD TO YOUR CHOICES!!
THE END
Although all three are great, today, for me, I prefer this one:
PS: American Pie is one of my long time fav.
Reflecting on my age my experiences and my travels I must add this one:
The leftists have made a critical mistake in trying to push through their agenda in a single generation whereas if they had been patient and taken 3 or 4 generations they would have swept the board. We missed a bullet and still have a chance.
The leftists have been pushing their agenda for more than 100 years … I think that qualifies as more than just one generation …
Go back and see just when the CPUSA began … when porn was ‘normalized’ in the US and elsewhere … when anti-American doctrine b became widespread … especially on university campuses …
Cleaning My Gun
Mark Knopfler
I keep a weather eye on the horizon, back to the wall
I like to know who’s coming through the door, that’s all
It’s the old army training kicking in
I’m not complaining, it’s the world we live in
Blarney and Malarkey, they’re a devious firm
Take you to the cleaners and let you burn
The help is breaking dishes in the kitchen, thanks a lot
We hired the worst dishwasher this place ever got
Hidden below the radar
They want to spoil our fun
In the meantime
I’m cleaning my gun
Remember it got so cold ice froze up the tank
We lit a fire beneath her just so she would crank
Keep a weather eye on the horizon
Tap the stone glass now and then
We got a case of old damnation
For when you get here, my friend
We can have ourselves
A party before they come
In the meantime
I’m cleaning my gun
We had women and a mirror ball, we had a DJ
He used to eat pretty much all that came his way
Ever since the goons came in took apart the place
I keep a tire iron in the corner just in case
Hang a little magic bullet on a little chain
Keep me safe from the chilly winds and out of the rain
We’re gonna might need bullets should we get stuck
Any which way, we’re gonna need a little luck
You can still get gas in heaven
And drink in kingdom come
In the meantime
I’m cleaning my gun.
Written by: Knopfler Mark
Album: Get Lucky
Released: 2009
Lyrics provided by Musixmatch
Things happen slowly, then all at once and this one has been slow rolling since early in the 20th century.
Here we are. Square-dancing into the Abyss.
fucken awesome song, Red!! This is how we talk in NJ. Playing it again … for the 3rd time in a row.
An Oldie but Goodie!!!
And I was in New Jersey first time I heard it. Of course.
Georges – That was our unofficial H S senior song.
See above article:
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How about this one?
Or this one.
Also., the Weight….
The Eve of Destruction, Barry McGuire
Gotta be. Wow, there’s a lot of good music on this thread.
And this one. This is the original version of Drift Away and I think it is way better than the Dobie Gray version.
I know it’s British but very relevant.
Saw them life in Paris in 1974 they””rrrre grrrreeeaaaatttt (Still have the orignal LP)
I saw them in Phoenix, 1980.
https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/black-sabbath/1980/phoenix-municipal-stadium-phoenix-az-3bdae4dc.html
Saw them with Ozzy in ’78, but then saw them again on that tour at Summer Jam in Seattle’s Memorial Stadium along with Blue Öyster Cult, Molly Hatchet, and Riot. Absolutely an AWESOME show.
Dio’s performance was LIGHT YEARS ahead of what I saw Ozzy do two years prior, but it didn’t help Sabbath’s cause to have Van Halen as the opening act…..
I saw them also with Molly Hatchet and BOC outdoors. A monsoon storm blew through in the middle of the concert and it was delayed by the lightning storm. Quite the show with lightning and wind.
Yep Stucky..American Pie is a great one, also America by Simon and Garfunkel….Both bring tears to my eyes for the lost America that I grew up in during the ’50s and ’60s, which was wonderful….
The ancient Celts celebrated the autumn Day of the Dead (Samhain). They understood it meant there was a crease in time. BECAUSE TPTB could not have pulled off this deadly COVID scam without the occult magick, you have the season of the witch.
American Tune by Paul Simon
And I don’t know a soul who’s not been battered
I don’t have a friend who feels at ease
I don’t know a dream that’s not been shattered
or driven to its knees
But it’s all right, it’s all right
We’ve lived so well so long
Still, when I think of the road
we’re traveling on
I wonder what went wrong
I can’t help it, I wonder what went wrong
Buffalo Springfield – For What It’s Worth 1967
Good selection.
Hard to argue with this one.
Feel like I’m going to die Rag.
Just substitute Vietnam with you own favorite country.
War is a Racket Major General Smedley D. Butler
https://ia802605.us.archive.org/29/items/WarIsARacket/WarIsARacket.pdf
Thanks for the link.
THE SECRET IS TO TREAT ALL MILITARY BRASS JUST LIKE …. ANWAR SADAT.
Good tune.
Unfortunately, WE will get fooled again. And again.
Like WE have been since long before that was released.
It’s amazing how everyone feeling rich covered all the fissures.
This one isn’t parody.
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I only put that one up because the way our language is going ‘1984’ it’s getting impossible to actually have a conversation with someone without offending them. Most people won’t speak up out of fear.
The original version by Simon and Garfunkel always seemed like a hymn … this one is powerful and haunting … and a favorite equal to the original …
There is definitely a darker tone to it than the Simon and Garfunkel, which to me had hints of hope that this one does not. The Disturbed version is well arranged and performed, but I prefer the original. My wife like them both.
This one too.
Never a hippy, always a freak.
Think right now that “Bobby Brown Goes Down” would be a bit more appropriate…..
Or maybe “Flakes”….
This is the perfect song for these times.
I only recently heard it for the first time, although it’s from 86 or 87. It would have been lost on me back then.
If I knew HOW I’d just put the video up but, being a simple backwoods squirrel I’ll just have to give the link, I reckon.
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HEY!! I DID IT! So you CAN teach an old squirrel new tricks!
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There are a few that come to mind.
Prelude is a brief instrumental on a 12 string guitar by Tommy Shaw, then Suite Madame Blue by Styx laments the demise of the red, white, and blue values and achievements of America.
It remains a favorite that I’ve loved, ever since it was written in 1976.
Even then, the blues about our once great nation were being noticed.
Thank You. Forgot all about it. SO MANY, So Much. Effort.
Stucky,
You made some great choices. Really good ones.
Here’s a metal version of Eve of Destruction called Symphony of Destruction…
I was thinking “Peace Sells”, but this works too…
Simon and Garfunkel-America
This sort of defines our current situation … an absolutely brilliant introduction to a mind-boggling movie …
Kinda partial to the original 11 minute version.
More like ‘Here’. Generations in the making, and it was all good. ’til it’s not.
How it is:
How I want it to be:
Too positive! Really reminds me of the good old days.
Got to do it twice – the late 60’s and the late 90’s.
My anthem for the future:
Of Muzak, Professor Gary Gumpert of Queens College, in a 1990 interview for Britain’s Channel 4, said: “[it’s] a kind of amniotic fluid that surrounds us; and it never startles us, it is never too loud, it is never too silent; it’s always there.”
“Muzak fills the deadly silences,”
https://www.wqxr.org/story/history-muzak-where-did-all-elevator-music-go/
Hello darkness, my old friend…Blaise Pascal got it right … solitude is source, & the outsourcers & scorcerers can’t abide that….
My bad
That’s worth a second, and a few thumbs up!
I thought that might be the 2hr extended mix.
This one features Lost Angels:
It’s what we’re good at
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Right now I would say Highway to Hell.
Bob Dylan
A Hard Rains a-Gonna Fall
Just reading the title, I immediately thought of “American Pie.”
Second song that comes to mind is “Veteran of the Psychic Wars” by Blue Öyster Cult
The Seeds – Pushin’ Too Hard
“Who’ll Stop the Rain”.
I hadn’t heard this before. It was very good and moving. I always like Dire Straits guitar when I hear it.
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Fairly new one compared to many, but nails it.
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