NovelGentry
22nd September 2004, 17:18
(Note, Title says Wyatta *typo* should be Wyatt)
There was a short discussion the other day about music in our ghetto che-lives chat when the server was down, where basically I presented myself as someone who can't stand a lot of rebellious music just becaus it's such shitty music. So in a quest to find decent music with a socialist/communist agenda I went out searching. I have found this music, and it was produced by a man named Robert Wyatt (front mand for psychadelic rock/jazz band Soft Machine fromthe 60s). He produced two solo albums in the 80s, one called Nothing Can Stop Us, and another called Old RottenHat.
Check out these lyrics:
Alliance -
There is a kind of compromise you are master of
Your endless gentle nudging left us polarised
You're proud of being middle class (meaning upper class)
You say you're self sufficient (but you don't dig your own coal)
I think that what you're frightened of more than anything
is knowing you need workers more than they need you
"A herd of independent minds" Chomsky got it right
Joggling into battle waving old school ties
The Age of Self -
They say the working class is dead, we're all consumers now
They say that we have moved ahead - we're all just people now
There's people doing 'frightfully well' there's others on the shelf
But never mind the second kind this is the age of self
They say we need new images to help our movement grow
They say that life is broader based as if we didn't know
While Martin J. and Robert M. play with printer's ink
The workers 'round the world still die for Rio Tinto Zinc
And it seems to me if we forget
Our roots and where we stand
The movement will disintegrate
Like castles built on sand
Born Again Cretin -
At least I won't be shot for singing
I'm a free agent - I can protest
This must be freedom
I must be happy!
So let Mandela rot in prison
Someone should tell him how lucky he is
Read him George Orwell, explain Solidarity because
He must understand how he needs us
What with our Culture, our Charm and our Brains
But how could he understand?
(the) heathen got no soul
One of my favorite songs off Old RottenHat is called The British Road and has a very interesting line that says "how can I rise if you don't fall?"
There was a short discussion the other day about music in our ghetto che-lives chat when the server was down, where basically I presented myself as someone who can't stand a lot of rebellious music just becaus it's such shitty music. So in a quest to find decent music with a socialist/communist agenda I went out searching. I have found this music, and it was produced by a man named Robert Wyatt (front mand for psychadelic rock/jazz band Soft Machine fromthe 60s). He produced two solo albums in the 80s, one called Nothing Can Stop Us, and another called Old RottenHat.
Check out these lyrics:
Alliance -
There is a kind of compromise you are master of
Your endless gentle nudging left us polarised
You're proud of being middle class (meaning upper class)
You say you're self sufficient (but you don't dig your own coal)
I think that what you're frightened of more than anything
is knowing you need workers more than they need you
"A herd of independent minds" Chomsky got it right
Joggling into battle waving old school ties
The Age of Self -
They say the working class is dead, we're all consumers now
They say that we have moved ahead - we're all just people now
There's people doing 'frightfully well' there's others on the shelf
But never mind the second kind this is the age of self
They say we need new images to help our movement grow
They say that life is broader based as if we didn't know
While Martin J. and Robert M. play with printer's ink
The workers 'round the world still die for Rio Tinto Zinc
And it seems to me if we forget
Our roots and where we stand
The movement will disintegrate
Like castles built on sand
Born Again Cretin -
At least I won't be shot for singing
I'm a free agent - I can protest
This must be freedom
I must be happy!
So let Mandela rot in prison
Someone should tell him how lucky he is
Read him George Orwell, explain Solidarity because
He must understand how he needs us
What with our Culture, our Charm and our Brains
But how could he understand?
(the) heathen got no soul
One of my favorite songs off Old RottenHat is called The British Road and has a very interesting line that says "how can I rise if you don't fall?"