Power to the People

[kentuck]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wos-dDxpJlQ

[Forkboy]

1. He's a little wishy washy for my taste.

I prefer people who are a little more blunt. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KTsXHXMkJA

So you been to school
For a year or two
And you know you've seen it all
In daddy's car
Thinkin' you'll go far
Back East your type don't crawl

Play ethnicky jazz
To parade your snazz
On your five grand stereo
Braggin' that you know
How the niggers feel cold
And the slums got so much soul

It's time to taste what you most fear
Right Guard will not help you here
Brace yourself, my dear

It's a holiday in Cambodia
It's tough, kid, but its life
It's a holiday in Cambodia
Don't forget to pack a wife

You're a star-belly sneech
You suck like a leach
You want everyone to act like you
Kiss ass while you bitch
So you can get rich
But your boss gets richer off you

Well you'll work harder
With a gun in your back
For a bowl of rice a day
Slave for soldiers
'Till you starve
Then your head is skewered on a stake

Now you can go where people are one
Now you can go where they get things done
What you need, my son...

Is a holiday in Cambodia
Where people dress in black
Need a holiday in Cambodia
Where you'll kiss ass or crack

Pol pot, pol pot, pol pot, pol pot, etc.

And it's a holiday in Cambodia
Where you'll do what you're told
A holiday in Cambodia
Where the slums got so much soul

[Kat45]

3. I always loved that song.

I was never into hard core except for the DK's. Loved their politics, in a similar way as I loved Frank Zappa's politics.

[Forkboy]

4. His politics were what grabbed me, too.

I have to say that I liked Jello Biafra's lyrics so much that my own name here on DU is named after one of his songs. :)

[Kat45]

6. Is 'Forkboy' the name of the song, or a part of the name?

It doesn't sound familiar, offhand, but then again I haven't listened to them in years. I always loved their song "We've Got a Bigger Problem Now." THAT one, I remember. And of course "California Uber Alles."

[Forkboy]

7. Forkboy is the name of a song he did with the guys from the band Ministry,

The side project was a band called Lard, and Forkboy was one the lead song on their 2nd album. The lyrics are all about the "plumbers", those who do the dirty work for various Right Wing groups. I thought it was cool to take that and turn it around, and sabotage the Right Wing instead. I'm the Left Wing's plumber, the one willing to do the dirty work to undermine the Right Wing. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5lLa0EU0cU

[drm604]

2. Working Class Hero

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njG7p6CSbCU

[saras]

5. Great song, stronger performance

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N_rNz2oAGA

Definitive, makes Lennon's version sound like a demo. Admittedly demos sometimes have a hell of a lot of soul...

BTW, back in eighty-whenever, when it was new, a friend of mine played "Holiday In Cambodia" on his college radio show, and started getting phone calls saying "what is that crap?" His response was to keep playing the song for the rest of the two-hour show.

[drm604]

8. You and I are going to have to disagree.

No way is that better than Lennon's, and no way in hell does Lennon's sound like a demo.

[azul]

9. What I imagine is that John Lennon

would not be touring around the world today waving corporate America flags like McCartney if he were still alive.

He would not stand for the way things are now, I imagine further, and would be leading protests and media attention around the world exposing the war on poor people, the war on common sense and the truth. His voice is sorely missed in the haze of lies today.

I do think President Obama could rally the world in such a war on poverty and ignorance if he could only get real and lose the shackles of wealthy power that prevent his acting on conscience and enforcing the rule of law. The office is endowed now with sufficient power for him to put up a hell of a fight if he was so inspired. I try to imagine that.

[azul]

10. #9

number nine lol