I noticed something on my radio a year or two ago. Fortunate Son

[LiberalArkie]

started appearing on stations where the DJ's seemed your normal conservative type, even to making fun of the local pride parade. As happened during the 60's to 80's stations moved from country to more progressive music.

Music shows how people think. An example would be your nice grandmother rocking in her rocking chair, gently rocking to heavy metal. Would not happen would it?.

I keep hearing more stations playing some of the old rebellious music that I grew up with.

I was tuning the AM broadcast band with my ham receiver and expected to find more talk and country, but I was surprised to find myself jamming with the old time rock and roll all over the dial.

Maybe the times are a changing.

[Vexatious Ape]

1. Imagine

CCR doing a video of that song, using clips of the chimp. Damn I love that song.

[elehhhhna]

I'm thinking Foo Fighters

[elehhhhna]

2. I'm thinking Foo Fighters

[MnFats]

3. Heard Edwin Starr's "War! (What is it Good For?)"

...couple of times on a classic rock station this week....usually they're very jingoistic....though in the 1960s they refused to take advertising from the military...
was huge fore a while in the early '70s
anyway, it's a little something that goes like this...Ah-HUH!


War! - huh- yeah-
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing
Uh-huh

War! – huh – yeah-
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing
Say it again y’all

War! – huh – good God
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing
Listen to me…

Ohhh… War! I despise
Because it means destruction’
Of innocent lives

War means tears
to thousands of mothers eyes
When their sons go to fight
and lose their lives

I said - War! Huh – Good God y’all
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing
Say it again

War! Whoa, Lord
What is it good for
Absolutely nothing
Listen to me…

War! It ain’t nothing but a heartbreaker
War! Friend only to the undertaker
War! It’s an enemy to all mankind
The thought of war blows my mind

War has caused unrest in the younger generation
Induction then destruction-
Who wants to die?

Ohhh… War – Good God Y’all
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing
Say it, Say it, Say it

War! Uh-huh – Yeah - Huh!
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing
Listen to me…

War! It ain’t nothing but a heartbreaker
War! It’s got one friend, that’s the undertaker
War has shattered many a young mans dreams
Made him disabled bitter and mean
Life is much to precious to spend fighting wars these days
War can’t give life, it can only take it away

War! Huh – Good God y’all
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing
Say it again

War! Whoa, Lord
What is it good for
Absolutely nothing
Listen to me…

War! It ain’t nothing but a heartbreaker
War! Friend only to the undertaker
Peace Love and Understanding;
tell me, is there no place for them today?
They say we must fight to keep our freedom
But Lord knows there’s got to be a better way

War! Huh – Good God y’all

[Selatius]

4. What sucks is music is so bad today we have to use music from the 60s

Today, it has become corporatized beyond recognition. The music today has become so money driven, so corporate.

[LiberalArkie]

5. I think it is that the youth now don't care, they don't have to care.

I feel if there had been a draft going on for Iraq, there would be protests in the streets. The colleges would have protests every day. We did a very bad thing getting rid of the draft. Sure the draft only affected John Does like myself, but it made a lot of the John Does REALLY PISSED OFF. That is what we don't have now..

[CarbonDate]

6. Not in all cases.

System of a Down: BYOB.

Why do they always send the poor?
My God is of Bible blood with pointed ears
Victorious, victorious steel
Can your spending kneel?
Marching forward hypocritic
And hypnotic computers
You depend on our protection
Yet you feed us lies from the tablecloth
La la la la la la la la la la
Everybody is going to the party
Have a real good time
Dancing in the desert
Blowing up the sunshine
Kneeling roses
Disappearing into Moses' dry mouth
Breaking into Fort Knox
Stealing our intentions
Every city, gripped in oil
Crying freedom!
Handed to obsoletion
Still you feed us lies from the tablecloth
la la la la la la la la la la
Everybody is going to the party
Have a real good time
Dancing in the desert
Blowing up the sunshine
Everybody is going to the party
Have a real good time
Dancing in the desert
Blowing up the sunshine
Blast off, it's party time
And we all live in a fascist nation
Blast off, it's party time
And where the fuck are you?
Where the fuck are you?
Where the fuck are you?
Why don't presidents fight the war?
Why do they always send the poor?
Why don't presidents fight the war?
Why do they always send the poor?
Why do they always send the poor?
Why do they always send the poor?
Why do they always send the poor?
Kneeling roses
Disappearing into Moses' dry mouth
Breaking into Fort Knox
Stealing our intentions
Every city, gripped in oil
Crying freedom!
Handed to a obsoletion
Still you feed us lies from the tablecloth
la la la la la la la la la la
Everybody is going to the party
Have a real good time
Dancing in the desert
Blowing up the sunshine
Everybody is going to the party
Have a real good time
Dancing in the desert
Blowing up the sun
Where the fuck are you?
Where the fuck are you?
Why don't presidents fight the war?
Why do they always send the poor?
Why don't presidents fight the war?
Why do they always send the poor?
Why do they always send the poor?
Why do they always send the poor?
Why do they always send the poor?
Why do they always send the poor?
Why do they always send the poor?
They always send the poor!
They always send the poor!

You've never heard of System of a Down?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmowlYJtnjM

[LiberalArkie]

7. I stand corrected, it seemed so violent, but I guess those are the times

we are in.

[CarbonDate]

8. Yup.

Not all antiwar music is angry as System of a Down (check out Green Day's "American Idiot"), but it captures the feeling of our generation about what's going on right now. As always, though, we're just as divided as every other generation has ever been. So it has always been, so it will always be.

We all feel powerless, though. Baby boomers are running everything right now, so naturally my generation gets a little annoyed when we have to listen to activists from the 60s and 70s gripe about how "these kids today" don't care about the war and the loss of our rights. If you'll recall, Nixon won re-election in a landslide. This time around, Kerry almost won. We were as devestated as anybody else when he didn't.