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Tag Archives: Popular music
A song about building the American Dream, railroads, towers, war, then being tossed aside to beg for change
Most Americans know the lyrics of this depression-era song. Now they know what it was about. They used to tell me I was building a dream, and so I followed the mob, When there was earth to plow, or … Continue reading
Posted in Quotes
Tagged ALF, America, American, Americans, Art, Bear, Bread, depression, DIME, Earth, Great Depression, guns, logging, Lyrics, Music, Peace, PLO, Popular music, Race, Railroads, War, Yip Harburg
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Coppelia and the Viennese Hesitation
If you are hardwired with a cultural affliction like mine, if you find yourself with a compulsive affinity for the waltz, I’ll wager you will also be a sucker for what’s called the Viennese Hesitation. It was just such a … Continue reading
Posted in Culture
Tagged Absolut, Art, Austria, Ballet, Budget, character, children, CIA, comedy, Community, Contras, Coppelia, Crack, Crackers, Cult, Culture, Dance, DIA, Disease, Disney, Easter, Eastern Europe, Empire, Euro, Europe, faith, Farming, Fashion, Film, France, French, Games, Heroin, Hungary, Indigenous, IRS, Leo Delibes, Love, Meat, Media, Munich, Music, Natural, Nature, NBA, Opera, Origin, Paris, Peace, PLO, Poland, Popular music, Prussian, Rap, RAW, reality, rendition, Russia, School, Spanish, students, Technology, testing, The Nation, The The, Travel, Treaty, trial, Ukraine, Wheat, Wine, youtube
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Your father’s Lili Marlene, specifically
On the subject of historical misconceptions, you might say I’m hugely sentimental. So the tale of Lili Marlene catches me up like a honey trap. What does the name conjure for you? A Nazi Mata Hari? A fictional musical persona … Continue reading
Posted in History
Tagged Africa, America, American, Antiwar, ARN, Art, Axis, Banned, BBC, BBC Propaganda, Belgrade, British, BSE, character, Craft, Critical Mass, Cult, Dance, Death, Defense, depression, desertion, Diet, DIME, DOT, Empathy, Euro, Europe, faith, Fame, FEMA, Film, Gender, Germans, Germany, GIs, Goebbels, Good War, History, Hitler, HIV, Hogan's Heroes, Honey, Honeypot, Insecurity, Interest, IRS, Italy, Lale Andersen, Language, Lili Marlene, Love, Lyrics, March, Marlene Dietrich, Military, Music, Nazi, Nazis, NFL, nothing, NPR, Origin, Pagan, PLO, Popular music, Pot, Propaganda, Propagandist, propagandists, Radio, Rap, reason, reform, rendition, Renditions, Russia, Security, soldier, Soldiers, Soul, TB, Transcript, troops, Union, Uprising, USO, Voice, Walker, War, War Machine, World War II, youtube
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Composer Jason Robert Brown wants to protect his unintellectual rights
As a musician and fan of stage musicals, I must proffer this disclaimer about American theater composer Jason Robert Brown: he’s terrible. Brown is a poster child for the music industry’s common mediocrity, of commerce’s habitual triumph over art. Now … Continue reading
Posted in Perspective
Tagged America, American, Argument, Art, artist, Bing, Broadway, Business, CIA, Community, Copyrights, Cult, Department, DIA, DIME, email, EPA, File Sharing, GM, Gold, Golden, High School, Home Depot, IAM, Industry, Intel, Intellectual Property, internet, IOC, IRA, Jason Robert Brown, Levis, Literature, Love, Lyrics, Mail, Money, Monopoly, Music, Musicals, NFL, Parable, PLO, police, poll, Popular music, Pot, Prejudice, proof, publishing, Rap, Rights, Rock, Royalty, School, Songs, students, Sucks, Surge, Taste, Tax, teachers, Teens, Television, Trading, Twilight, War, Wealth, Website
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Life follows art, “99 Luft-Balluns” and Seoul, ROK
This is what we’ve waited for, this is it Boys, this is WAR! The balloons weren’t released from North Korea, but from a Korean version of Elementary School. Do Chiang. Which is also the name of a Tae Kwon Do … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, DIA, Korea, Nine Eleven, North Korea, Panic, Popular music, School, South Korea, Terrorism, Trees
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Rufus, Caccini, Kosma, French Chanson
Rufus Wainright’s GOING TO A TOWN (-THAT’S ALREADY BEEN BURNED DOWN in which he famously sings “I’m so tired of America”) replicates, it’s true, the jazz progression of AUTUMN LEAVES, and websmart-asses have pointed out the piano part is actually … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Anonymous, ARN, Art, artist, Austin, Ave Maria, Blues, children, CIA, Earth, Film, French, Giulio Caccini, Hoax, internet, IRA, Joseph Kosma, Michele Legrand, Music, Natural, Pearl Harbor, Popular music, Rove, Rufus Wainright, Russia, Tribute, War
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Addict, pederast dies, much fanfare
But let’s look past the innuendo and unproven transgressions, to celebrate the man’s contribution to the cannon of Western popular music product. Please! I hear celebrities dismiss the allegations of Michael Jackson’s pedophilia like too much water under the bridge, … Continue reading
Posted in Headlines, Obituaries
Tagged Abuse, Addiction, America, Animal, ARN, Art, BIA, Big Pharma, Bing, Bling, Borat, Celebrities, Childhood, children, CIA, Condi, Corn, Corporate, Crack, Crow, Cult, Culture, Dance, deception, Drug, Drugs, Dubai, Gates, Gold, Golden, helicopter, Heroin, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Hollywood, Humanity, IRS, John Wayne, John Wayne Gacy, Killers, Limbaugh, Love, Masks, Medical, Michael Jackson, Music, narcotics, Natural, Neverland, nothing, NPR, Parade, pedophilia, Perversion, Plastic, Plastic Surgery, Popular Culture, Popular music, Pot, Poverty, Rally, Rove, Rush Limbaugh, sex, Sexuality, Shills, Soa, Soul, Strike, Surge, Tribute, War, Water, Western, White, whores
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The real Sandinistas are fed up with Daniel Ortega’s pathetic regime
There is so little hope in the pathetic Daniel Ortega… that Nicaragua’s foremost Sandinista musician has withdrawn permission for this sad sack cabal around Ortega, the current Nicaraguan President, to continue to represent itself as Sandinista by using his extremely … Continue reading
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Tagged Advertising, America, American, Art, Assembly, Capital, Chinese, CIA, Emos, Evolution, Headlines, Imperialism, IRS, Left, Mejia Godoy, Music, National Assembly, Nicaragua, Ortega, Pathetic, Popular music, President, RAW, Revolution, Sandinistas, Walmart, White, White House
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