Thinking of Phil Ochs' LP jacket that showed him sitting on his guitar case reading the Times (or the Herald-Tribune), looking for stories to turn into topical songs. His sources, magazine titles and a TV talk show (look up Les Crane) make this about the media, and more ... https://youtu.be/3cdqQ2BdgOA?si=7fMPvWiyTpvHzSoS
Favorite: "Newspapermen Meet Such Interesting People" https://youtu.be/URjif7Z9BEw?si=La6JabXwUB4vGBrf
Sigh. And Dylan's (snarky unkind) "Ballad of a Thin Man" ...
and a harder to find Mickey MacConnell (Irish Times) song about fading away on the night shift with the arrival of the younger "Boys of the Byline Brigade."
Do listeners and "Dont Look Back" viewers appreciate 1960s Dylan's Jonesing at superficial pop-music-news reporters and musicless/humorless serious but overworked, lazy, reactionary or liberal journos who wanted him to give them answers in quick quotable inspiring polemics? https://youtu.be/we37yX3zpKA?si=MMxbQrR45gDDcLZz
A lot of great suggestions already, but I'll add one more:
Guns N' Roses - Get In The Ring
Maybe not one of their greatest songs and the profanity ridden tirade mid song may seem a little immature looking back, but it's also kinda hilarious https://youtu.be/ktMlvATL83U?si=iK1r00Hcqrev_ut4
I've always had a soft spot for Sarah Jones' "Your Revolution Will Not Happen Between These Thighs." When FCC fined a radio station $7K in 2001 claiming indecency, she sued them on 1st Amendment grounds!
I covered the suit for Sojourner feminist newspaper; I may also have written this action alert?
Here comes the hotstepper
I'm the lyrical gangster
...
No, no, we don't die
Yes, we multiply
Anyone pres will hear the fat lady sing
...
Hey, start like a jackrabbit
Finish in front of it
On the night is jack, that's it, understand
I'm the daddy of the mack daddy
-Here Comes the Hotstepper
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM4vblG6BVQ
https://youtu.be/vBFiDNQ8JGQ?si=GK1QgtXBTCNZMvSh
https://youtu.be/p5Uyk835Imo?feature=shared
https://youtu.be/3cdqQ2BdgOA?si=7fMPvWiyTpvHzSoS
https://youtu.be/5nMxwkON-uk?si=hQU0OXBHs8CCFxaI
https://youtu.be/u659Y8jJ1nA?si=EGphwtsP5djSINAa
Sigh. And Dylan's (snarky unkind) "Ballad of a Thin Man" ...
and a harder to find Mickey MacConnell (Irish Times) song about fading away on the night shift with the arrival of the younger "Boys of the Byline Brigade."
https://youtu.be/we37yX3zpKA?si=MMxbQrR45gDDcLZz
Cuz he went tf in. And it’s a bop. He was aggravated 😮💨
https://youtu.be/DOeQOIKem88?si=oa4gwutxnBergkcq
https://youtu.be/H5CklvBAflc?si=vz7h-e6YvN4y3rV_
Guns N' Roses - Get In The Ring
Maybe not one of their greatest songs and the profanity ridden tirade mid song may seem a little immature looking back, but it's also kinda hilarious
https://youtu.be/ktMlvATL83U?si=iK1r00Hcqrev_ut4
I covered the suit for Sojourner feminist newspaper; I may also have written this action alert?
(Yes I know about the stupid "controversy" about the singers stance on stuff not happening in America but I really don't give a damn. 🤷♂️)
https://youtu.be/QnJFhuOWgXg?si=00ja1QrHPX2dIGSK
I'm the lyrical gangster
...
No, no, we don't die
Yes, we multiply
Anyone pres will hear the fat lady sing
...
Hey, start like a jackrabbit
Finish in front of it
On the night is jack, that's it, understand
I'm the daddy of the mack daddy
-Here Comes the Hotstepper
https://youtu.be/Q03E7oTc5qo?si=creU1E96sTyV0Q5j
A Day In The Life
https://youtu.be/UYeV7jLBXvA?si=dmn1VIpxN0A2fRlp