Head in the sand, feet in the clay

[dolorosa_12]

It always takes me a lot of words to get to the point. If you want two songs which each say, in five minutes, what it took several thousand words for me to say in my previous post, here you go.

The US version:

Watch on YouTube

Lyrics.

The UK version:

Watch on YouTube

Lyrics.

It is fairly obvious to me what Calexico in the first song, and Massive Attack in the second song are saying, but I am very happy to clarify if it's unclear.

Also, the notion that no one made viable protest music after the 1970s is patently absurd, and anyone who makes such a claim has not been paying attention.

Comments

[senmut]

wtaf?

The 70s were CHOCK FULL of protests and social commentaries...

+calms+ Sorry, I must have had a MUCH BETTER grounding in Music With Meaning than I thought.

[dolorosa_12]

Oh, the 1970s were full of protest music, but what I was seething about is the notion (bandied about by certain cultural critics) that no one created protest songs after the 1970s, when my entire youth (in the 1990s and 2000s) was full of them. The two songs above being prime examples.

[senmut]

I misread then.

And still seethe. As a severe fan of Tracy Chapman, for one.

[kore]

"the notion that no one made viable protest music after the 1970s"

LOL WHA

//still has a copy of "Rock against Bush" on tape somewhere

[dolorosa_12]

There is a certain type of cultural critic who likes to pretend that all artistic innovation and large scale, popular protest ended after the 1970s, and it never ceases to infuriate me.

[lokifan]

Quite.

[dolorosa_12]

Oh wow, perfect example!