ubject: RE: BS: Should you alienate Fascists?
From: Amergin - PM
Date: 24 Feb 10 - 10:21 PM

So you must like the song lyrics I posted above. lyrics like "Sharpen the long knives/let the knives stab into the Jew's body."

Those are English translations of Nazi propaganda. Like stated before you bigotry does not surprise me.

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Some of the most beautiful songs in the gaelic language contain wondrous tunes - treasures combined with words that are crafted into grand works of art- it is only when you translate them that there is a political view- the politics in a song is only a very small bit small enough to be vastly overshadowed by the crafting of notes and sounds. Famous poets write on a lot of subjects their poetry is still recognized as great not based upon content or literal meaning but by a host of other factors.
Get the record the Blue and the Grey- one side civil war songs of the north the other of the south- they can exist as flip sides and played and enjoyed. I could see a similar record of rabid zionist songs on one side and Nazi or rabid Palestinian songs on the other. For our purposes a song must be primairly a song.

Somewhere I remember reading of a songwriter recently who was paid to write songs for two vastly opposing political groups. His songs were praised as excelent even though content was not at all compatable.
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Subject: RE: BS: Should you alienate Fascists?
From: mousethief - PM
Date: 24 Feb 10 - 10:24 PM

How do you know you disagree with the politics, if you don't understand the language?

Because songs are wondrous things you need not listen to or appreciate the political statements while still benefiting from the song and the crafting of the words viewed abstractly. If you only listen to the literal meaning of songs you are missing way too much.

Conrad