It's mostly TikTok refugees that use all those weird euphemisms. The fucked up moderation heavily penalizes "unpleasant" words or topics (kill, idiot, Hitler, Palestinian genocide, etc.) but does little to nothing about actual hate speech.
Sit down little shit. Your elders are talking. Their music isn’t relevant to you and many of the greats have passed, but what they we saying is still relevant. We need more younger musicians to play their music again - it still speaks to our times
Using this as an opportunity to hype up a super cool artist, Ryan Cassata! I can't find the full picture because Instagram kept removing it for hate speech 🙃 but it says "this machine kills transphobia"
How about if, instead of worshiping, we just enjoy?
Most artists are dumb as rocks, with zero education on social and governing issues. Awesome talents and superb skills, but holy mother of jesus I would not take life advice from most of the people who make music I like.
You can have anything you want.....at Alice's restaurant.
Make it a Movement!
You can get anything you want......At Alice's Restaurant.
Walk right in, it's around the back
Just a half a mile from the railroad tracks.
And you can get anything you want at Alice's restaurant.
Have to sing it!
In 1954 he wrote a song titled "Old Man Trump" about the racist landlord Fred Trump. An unreleased variant of "Ain't Got No Home" also about fred trump. now we god baby trump with his daddy issues.
"Old Man Trump" is a song with lyrics written by American folk singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie in 1954. The song describes what Guthrie felt were the racist housing practices and discriminatory rental policies of his landlord, Fred Trump. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Man_Trump
That's incredible. Really, I thought this must be bullshit. It's too perfect that Woody Guthrie wrote a song about Trump's dad being a racist asshole. It is real, though! Thank you for bringing it to my attention. 👍
There are no complete versions of Woody singing the song, but he mentions trump in this clip.
There are a few versions of other people doing the song though. Just do a search on YouTube for old man Trump https://youtu.be/hh1QXhqXDbU?si=9BH7mF3Yi0Dg43dg
There was also a Twilight Zone episode where a traveling con man named Trump tried to con an entire small town in the old west.
John Carradine I think?
Not by accident Peth.
I honestly couldn’t give a hoot about celebrities performing there. I don’t like their “music”, don’t like their way of thinking, and certainly despise their politics. Karma will come
You know before Kid Rock turned into a Tumpkin idiot, He was pretty good to see in concert I don't care much for the D team either But just as I didn't turn into a satan worshiper cause I can't stand Baptists, I'm not gonna turn into a fascist cause I can't stand Nancy Pelosi.
I suppose that Old Man Trump knows just how much racial hate
He stirred up in that bloodpot of human hearts
When he drawed that color line
Here at his Beach Haven family project
Beach Haven is Trump’s Tower
Where no black folks come to roam,
No, no, Old Man Trump!
Old Beach Haven ain't my home!
I watched a movie about him helping with unionization and getting his head beat in right along with the workers. as a union activist, it made me a bigger fan of his than his music did.
Plus, growing up on the Columbia, Roll on Columbia was mandatory grade school choir music.
This land is your land, this land is my land
From the northern highlands to the western islands
From the hills of Kerry to the streets of Free Derry
This land was made for you and me
I'll be Willie Nelson: write other people's music, then get stoned myself and become legendary all while always dealing with constant money issues despite being a legend.
Or a Barbara Dane. Folks on Classic Protest Songs from Smithsonian Folkways. Bruce Springsteen. Read the lyrics to Bane - Release the hounds (4 the hardcore peeps) https://genius.com/Bane-release-the-hounds-lyrics Cuz sometimes u need music to work out to - Refused (hon. mention)
Dee Snider’s cool. I used to follow him on Twitter. Back when Angus Young made his comment, Dee Snider initially agreed until he was told by the trans community we don’t convert kids. Then he stopped saying that. It speaks volumes when an older rocker can still learn things.
It's hard to imagine that traditional American music has gone from these authentic folks musicians to whatever this bullsh*t is that claims to be country music today.
Took these photos at the Woody Guthrie exhibit at the Morgan Library a few years ago. Photo #1) He hated Daddy Drumpf & would’ve hated his loser son even more. #2) He had a fascist-killing violin in WW2.
This blues guy I met
That ain't never had a hit
Said you don't gotta be loud, son
To be heavy as shit
Well I'm the triggerman, baby
And tonight I'll prove
That this machine here
Well it kills fascists too
Been so long since I travelled anywhere face reconnection does not work and Blomberg finely said atmosphere in a serious problem and phone company playing games with me Facebook Instagram and elon I have no idea @taylorswifthd.bsky.social @velshimsnbc.bsky.social
You've heard the amazing Mermaid Avenue albums, aye? Nora Guthrie handed over a bunch of lyrics Woody had written down but never wrote tunes for to Wilco and Billy Bragg to set to music and record. Woody was a prolific lyricist in his later post McCarthy years.
It's a side of social media (most of which I'd avoided til a few months ago) I've come to appreciate.
Hogmanay & New Year's Day felt a bit different too, after learning about Watch Night and Heartbreak Day on here. https://time.com/5750833/new-years-day-slavery-history/
Yep. I knew about Fred (who doesn't?) but not Charles Guthrie. It was a post on here about the lynching of Laura Nelson and her son that led me down this scary rabbit hole.
More kudos to Woody.
Only recently learnt about Woody's father's involvement in the horrific lynching of Laura Nelson and her son.
All the more respect for him so determinedly rejecting the racism expected to be his birthright.
I have some cheap Carrie underwood clothing from Dick’s sporting goods. Throwing it out. Mainly because it is crap. It’s called Calia, good for her, she lost weight. And Trumps slogan really is: Make America Great Again - No Fat Chicks.
I skipped a few lines and some verses are in the wrong order, but Guthrie was a genius with this song:
This land is your land, this land is my land
From California to the New York island,
From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters;
This land was made for you and me.
I've roamed and rambled and I followed my footsteps
To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts;
And all around me a voice was sounding;
This land was made for you and me.
When the sun came shining, and I was strolling,
And the wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling,
As the fog was lifting a voice was chanting:
This land was made for you and me.
In the shadow of the steeple I saw my people,
By the relief office I seen my people;
As they stood there hungry, I stood there asking
Is this land made for you and me?
As I went walking I saw a sign there,
And on the sign it said "No Trespassing."
But on the other side it didn't say nothing.
That side was made for you and me.
unfortunately, many of the musicians from that era who pretended to be hippies actually just turned out to be fascist bootlickers anyway. wonder where woody would be today
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Don't let social media censor our speech...
SAY THEIR NAMES!
STATE THE CRIME!
TAKE THEM DOWN!
And Snoop?
What the actual fuck?
Most artists are dumb as rocks, with zero education on social and governing issues. Awesome talents and superb skills, but holy mother of jesus I would not take life advice from most of the people who make music I like.
Make it a Movement!
You can get anything you want......At Alice's Restaurant.
Walk right in, it's around the back
Just a half a mile from the railroad tracks.
And you can get anything you want at Alice's restaurant.
Have to sing it!
If you don’t know, you’re in for a treat.
Give a listen to Bragg’s Workers Playtime. It is very tender and personal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S18KrqrC01U
You're welcome.
There are a few versions of other people doing the song though. Just do a search on YouTube for old man Trump
https://youtu.be/hh1QXhqXDbU?si=9BH7mF3Yi0Dg43dg
John Carradine I think?
Not by accident Peth.
He stirred up in that bloodpot of human hearts
When he drawed that color line
Here at his Beach Haven family project
Beach Haven is Trump’s Tower
Where no black folks come to roam,
No, no, Old Man Trump!
Old Beach Haven ain't my home!
Plus, growing up on the Columbia, Roll on Columbia was mandatory grade school choir music.
This land is your land, this land is my land
From the northern highlands to the western islands
From the hills of Kerry to the streets of Free Derry
This land was made for you and me
https://youtu.be/PlgXghaJCK0?si=Bl6SFuXUZVmAYtex
I liked her😕
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But we don’t. He acknowledged that with his silence and hasn’t said anything about it since.
If he flips though I’ll tear him to ribbons with my fabulous talons, dear.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0SJM5LquU4
https://politicalamericans.com/carrie-underwood-to-celebrate-3-chords-and-the-douche-at-trump-bigotry-festival-on-jan-20/
This dude was the truth.
That ain't never had a hit
Said you don't gotta be loud, son
To be heavy as shit
Well I'm the triggerman, baby
And tonight I'll prove
That this machine here
Well it kills fascists too
💙
Although most of the publications that have them often don't appeal to me anyway.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/mar/08/lynching-postcards-a-harrowing-documentary-about-confronting-history
Hogmanay & New Year's Day felt a bit different too, after learning about Watch Night and Heartbreak Day on here.
https://time.com/5750833/new-years-day-slavery-history/
More kudos to Woody.
All the more respect for him so determinedly rejecting the racism expected to be his birthright.
This land is your land, this land is my land
From California to the New York island,
From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters;
This land was made for you and me.
To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts;
And all around me a voice was sounding;
This land was made for you and me.
And the wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling,
As the fog was lifting a voice was chanting:
This land was made for you and me.
By the relief office I seen my people;
As they stood there hungry, I stood there asking
Is this land made for you and me?
I saw above me that endless skyway;
I saw below me that golden valley;
This land was made for you and me.
And on the sign it said "No Trespassing."
But on the other side it didn't say nothing.
That side was made for you and me.
He was a whole new level of gross. He was completely denigrating to his girlfriend.