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Thread #128311   Message #2871436
Posted By: NormanD
25-Mar-10 - 07:55 AM
Thread Name: Tom Lehrer?
Subject: RE: Tom Lehrer?
His topical songs of forty / fifty plus years back are still relevant, and as humourous today. "Send The Marines" is a musical backdrop to any US military intervention / invasion; "Pollution" may have been one of the first eco-songs; "The Masochism Tango" - who knew what it meant, back then, let alone sang about it?

I bet "The Folk Song Army" might get up a few noses around these parts too.

I like this bit from Wikipedia:

'In 2003 he commented that his particular brand of political satire is more difficult in the modern world: "The real issues I don't think most people touch. The Clinton jokes are all about Monica Lewinsky and all that stuff and not about the important things, like the fact that he wouldn't ban land mines... I'm not tempted to write a song about George W. Bush. I couldn't figure out what sort of song I would write. That's the problem: I don't want to satirise George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporize them." '