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Do you like 'Little Boxes'?

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BURY ME IN MY OVERALLS
FROM WAY UP HERE
IF YOU LOVE ME
JUST A LITTLE RAIN
LITTLE BOXES
LITTLE BOXES RE-VISITED
MAGIC PENNY
MAGIC PENNY
ROSIE JANE
THE ALBATROSS
THE BANKERS AND THE DIPLOMATS
THE BOY SALUTES
THE MONEY CROP
TURN AROUND


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glueman 08 Sep 09 - 05:41 AM
MGM·Lion 08 Sep 09 - 05:36 AM
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Subject: RE: Do you like 'Little Boxes'?
From: glueman
Date: 08 Sep 09 - 05:41 AM

I agree MtheGM, but Little Boxes has always been a perfect model for the inverted snobbery / sneery middle class condescension that haunts 'folk' and as such, a good reminder of the mindset we're dealing with.


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Subject: Do you like 'Little Boxes'?
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 08 Sep 09 - 05:36 AM

I have just started another thread about tune of this song [Folk Borrowing From Pop]. There is more to say about the words of the song, however; so rather than introduce 'drift' so soon into my own thread I am starting another.

I have never liked it [& was once fortunate enough at a London party to meet Malvina Reynolds & have the opportunity to tell her why]. It seems to me to be an ill-natured and unwarranted attack on the legitimate aspirations and lifestyles of a perfectly respectable and hardworking segment of the community who have not, so far as I can see, done anything to deserve such contempt and obloquy — wtf should 'doctors and lawyers and business executives' be expected to put up with being denounced as being 'all made out of ticky-tacky and all look[ing] just the same'?]

I know I am viewing the matter from 3000+ miles away; but our communities, and our housing-estates, over here are not that much different. Why this attack on these ordinary hardworking citizens and their chosen lifestyles?


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