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Peregrine Took

(7,412 posts)
Sun Oct 10, 2021, 01:34 PM Oct 2021

Why can't we, the good guys, have a powerful song like this?



Something with heft and passion that tells our side of things. Maybe like "He's a lying piece of shit, and he's all yours!"

Important to note - this guy isn't even a veteran. LOL
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Why can't we, the good guys, have a powerful song like this? (Original Post) Peregrine Took Oct 2021 OP
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Oct 2021 #1
What are you talking about? I'm saying its a powerful song full of propaganda Peregrine Took Oct 2021 #3
Something new and contemeporary. n/t Peregrine Took Oct 2021 #4
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I think it's trite and jingoistic. It's more annoying than that other allegedly patriotic song ... marble falls Oct 2021 #25
Our side has several of the greatest, Woodie Guthrie's This Land is My land, and our poet laurete ShazamIam Oct 2021 #2
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YesFor my own list, I include Jager/Richards songs, I Can't Get No Satisfaction and You Can't ShazamIam Oct 2021 #12
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The Stones didn't authorize Trump to use it, and took steps to stop it. ShazamIam Oct 2021 #15
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Fuck Aaron Lewis East-A-Squared Oct 2021 #6
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takes a special kind of stupid to claim tearing down Confederate statues is unAmarican, or to ... marble falls Oct 2021 #10
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But if they're interested, there's plenty of rat poison to snort, it's cheaper than toot and crank. marble falls Oct 2021 #19
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Heck, the Texas lege made it illegal to tear down Confederate statues, so... LeftInTX Oct 2021 #22
That's only half the story - they've removed the Confederate monuments and statues off UT-Austin's marble falls Oct 2021 #23
I think they made the law in response to UT-Austin etc. LeftInTX Oct 2021 #29
Aaron Lewis is a POS. Just sayin' DinahMoeHum Oct 2021 #11
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Is Ted Nugent finally retiring from the musical shitbag awards? marble falls Oct 2021 #24
Powerful? What a piece of crap rurallib Oct 2021 #18
I suspected something wrong from the start, even just the dude's voice, but I stuck with the vague UTUSN Oct 2021 #21
I just threw away valuable time, reading the lyrics. Paladin Oct 2021 #26
The young artists of today only write crap that disappears after a few months. milestogo Oct 2021 #27
What was wrong with this one? DFW Oct 2021 #28

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Peregrine Took

(7,412 posts)
3. What are you talking about? I'm saying its a powerful song full of propaganda
Sun Oct 10, 2021, 02:00 PM
Oct 2021

- see the reaction it got from YOU!!!!

We need someone to write a powerful song for OUR side.

Who are you to decide what I can post???

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marble falls

(57,060 posts)
25. I think it's trite and jingoistic. It's more annoying than that other allegedly patriotic song ...
Mon Oct 11, 2021, 10:05 AM
Oct 2021

... "Gawd Bless the USA!" Lee Greenwood's paean to pseudo-patriotism.

ShazamIam

(2,570 posts)
2. Our side has several of the greatest, Woodie Guthrie's This Land is My land, and our poet laurete
Sun Oct 10, 2021, 01:46 PM
Oct 2021

(to me) and recent Nobel Prize winning poet Bob Dylan gave us, Blowing in the Wind, These Times They Are A Changing, and earlier Charles Tindley wrote, We Shall Overcome.

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ShazamIam

(2,570 posts)
12. YesFor my own list, I include Jager/Richards songs, I Can't Get No Satisfaction and You Can't
Sun Oct 10, 2021, 03:43 PM
Oct 2021

Always Get What You Want, as very potent protest songs and in a peculiar way positive.

Let's throw in Bruce Springsteen"s, Born In the U.S.A.

I believe our side's songs are more numerous and more popular than what to me sounds like something from the USSR or China.

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marble falls

(57,060 posts)
10. takes a special kind of stupid to claim tearing down Confederate statues is unAmarican, or to ...
Sun Oct 10, 2021, 03:39 PM
Oct 2021

"am I the only one who gives a shit
about my kids"

Rhymes his kids with shit, interesting.

He feels that the Red, White and Blue would not be taking down Confederate statues. Yeah? Well the Red, White and Blue took down the Confederacy.

As Vet I think he's full of shit. Particularly when he claims he'd take a bullet for the flag. Dime store patriot with no freaking skin in the game.

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LeftInTX

(25,201 posts)
22. Heck, the Texas lege made it illegal to tear down Confederate statues, so...
Mon Oct 11, 2021, 02:07 AM
Oct 2021

this guy isn't that "special kind of stupid"....He's a racist redneck like the Texas lege.

marble falls

(57,060 posts)
23. That's only half the story - they've removed the Confederate monuments and statues off UT-Austin's
Mon Oct 11, 2021, 09:55 AM
Oct 2021

... campus and put them in the State Cemetary.

Response to DinahMoeHum (Reply #11)

UTUSN

(70,671 posts)
21. I suspected something wrong from the start, even just the dude's voice, but I stuck with the vague
Sun Oct 10, 2021, 10:14 PM
Oct 2021

lyrics until I verified that his gripes --- "they taking all," and yelling "F*** at the tv" and "statues coming down" --- were total wingnut crap.

As for music well composed - uh, Richard WAGNER was really good at that, while putting it at the service of Aryans.

As for propaganda being well executed - uh, yea, we know really good examples of that.



Paladin

(28,246 posts)
26. I just threw away valuable time, reading the lyrics.
Mon Oct 11, 2021, 10:15 AM
Oct 2021

Aaron Lewis even shits on Bruce Springsteen. Fuck Lewis, and his goose-stepping tune.

milestogo

(16,829 posts)
27. The young artists of today only write crap that disappears after a few months.
Mon Oct 11, 2021, 10:42 AM
Oct 2021

No songs like this any more:

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