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27 Feb 02 - 01:55 PM (#659200) Subject: Social Conciousness From: GUEST,Bill Kennedy Time mag is taking a poll of people as to 'who is the most socially concious act of the century' with various choices to tick off, including Woody Guthrie. Now as to how the question is phrased, Woody was no act, but if it means who was the most socially concious songwriter, musician of the CENTURY, how can Woody be so far behind BONO, of all people, except of course that you can vote more than once, and Bono has some loyal (but not very up on the history of 20th c. music) fans. here's the link http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101020304/index.html# VOTE EARLY AND VOTE OFTEN! (especially in Chicago) |
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27 Feb 02 - 02:05 PM (#659209) Subject: RE: BS: Social Conciousness From: Steve in Idaho Clik here Steve |
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27 Feb 02 - 02:21 PM (#659224) Subject: RE: BS: Social Conciousness From: Mrrzy The folks who sing them have no social conscience, why they don't even care if Jimmy crack corn... I nominate Tom Lehrer in his heyday! |
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27 Feb 02 - 02:23 PM (#659226) Subject: RE: BS: Social Conciousness From: Bobert So where's Dylan? Or Pete Seeger? Or Sparky Rucker? Or... Or... But Bob Marley? Harry Belafonte? Hmmmm? Or even the MC5, for that matter? Or.... Or.... |
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27 Feb 02 - 02:37 PM (#659234) Subject: RE: BS: Social Conciousness From: catspaw49 I hate these things.......Dumb list, too many variables. They ask for an "act" .......or do they want a "musician?" Says different things in different places. Doesn't matter because it's pretty stupid from the gitgo. Some obvious folks missing so I guess they aren't an act or a musician or socially conscious....... I ain't playin'.......Where's Ochs? (not long enough) Where's the Weavers? (act wasn't all that S.C....THEY were) Matter of fact where are a couple dozen other folks? To quote Bill D..........fooey......... Spaw |
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27 Feb 02 - 02:48 PM (#659243) Subject: RE: BS: Social Conciousness From: M.Ted The MC5, Bobert? "Kick out the Jams, *************! I wanna see a sea of hands!" |
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27 Feb 02 - 03:03 PM (#659256) Subject: RE: BS: Social Conciousness From: GUEST,Harvey the Rabbit Where the hell is TOM JONES???? Think about it...where would we be without Tom Jones? (BTW, He is an excellent, yet unheralded, banjo picker!) HTR |
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27 Feb 02 - 03:20 PM (#659270) Subject: RE: BS: Social Conciousness From: Bobert MTed: Yeah, brother it's time for you to decide... whether you're going be the problem... or you're going to be the solution. It's time to testify, brother... it's time to testify. I give you a testimonial.... The MC5!!! Sorry, got a little carried away. I always love that intro. It's as good as anything on the rest of the album. Incidently, if you or anyone reading this ever gets a chance to hear John Sinclair's blues band, do it. He can tell some stories now and is quite a blues historian... Power to the People (sorry... just had to end it that way...) |
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27 Feb 02 - 07:36 PM (#659517) Subject: RE: BS: Social Conciousness From: InOBU Since my CD came out in the next century, can I have this one? I think two years into 2000 is a good time to get named the social concience of the century...course I will have to off anyone who comes along to challenge my domenence. Larry |
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27 Feb 02 - 07:46 PM (#659526) Subject: RE: BS: Social Conciousness From: Bill D what a "Friendly" thing to say, Larry..*grin* and 'spaw...at least get it right if yer gonna quote!
It's Pooh! ...and yeah, lists like this are only good for starting arguments...... |
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27 Feb 02 - 08:54 PM (#659577) Subject: RE: BS: Social Conciousness From: McGrath of Harlow Joe Hill? Or Victor Jara?
A century is a long time. Logically you'd just ask the people who lived through most of it. Don't trust anyone under sixty, I always say. |
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27 Feb 02 - 09:42 PM (#659608) Subject: RE: BS: Social Conciousness From: M.Ted Bobert, The second album is, at least in my mind, one of the best rock albums ever--As to the intro, the album only barely captured the energy of the live intro, which I saw many, many times--Even then, truth told, we all knew that the politics were just a bit absurd, but it was a hell of a show-- |
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27 Feb 02 - 09:49 PM (#659611) Subject: RE: BS: Social Conciousness From: Dicho (Frank Staplin) WHERE is Lawrence Welk??? These polls are useless. |
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27 Feb 02 - 10:31 PM (#659645) Subject: RE: BS: Social Conciousness From: Bobert M-TED: What was the second album. I obviously have the first album with the pics of the band with the White Panter badges stuck on their bare chests but the only other MC5 is called "High Time",which I haven't played in 30 years or so... I do have an obit in the jacket of my 1st album for Rob Tyner, the lead vocalist, who died many years ago at age 46. I remember driving up to Ann Arbor in the late 60's for a White Panther gathering. I was hoping to see the MC5 but they weren't playin in the area. Did squeeze in Ted Nugent, Booker T and the MG's at an outdoor event, and the Stooges at some big concert hall in Detroit. Met some dudes and we went to cop some smoke in the bad side of town and got my white ass arrested for suspicion of armed robbery I guess for being a white dude in the wrong neighborhood at the wrong time of day. Nevermind... ol bobert can't think of the MC5 without thinkin' of my night in jail in Detroit... |
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27 Feb 02 - 11:29 PM (#659662) Subject: RE: BS: Social Conciousness From: GUEST,Boab Ah---are we just a wee bit narrow in our perspective? The American political outcast, and the finest voice of the twentieth century, Paul Robeson. If you want my choice of those still breathing and singing, go to Dick Gaughan's website. Boab |
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28 Feb 02 - 12:11 PM (#659969) Subject: RE: BS: Social Conciousness From: M.Ted "Back in the USA" is the album--don't know if it is available on CD--the music is much tighter and cleaner, and more focussed than "Kick Out the Jams", with one of the most powerful shuffle beats that there ever was--it was on Atlantic, they had been dropped by, who was it? Electra I think, and the album climbed to about 30 on the Billboard charts--by this time, they had split from the White Panthers, and they no longer had American flags drapped across the amps--their reputation followed them though, and they got no airplay at all---they were not political guys, though, and their music was a physical rebellion than an intellectual one--the crowds loved them, but they fans were much more proto-metal fans than the studied Maoists that the White Panthers claimed to be-- Getting back to topic, they did inspire the whole punk rock movement--which was a very raw form of protest--all in all, Bobert, they were a very good choice-- |