folk music

[Organic Revolution]

make folk music a threat again!

download it for free here:http://www.riotfolk.org/


Riot Folk Baby!

[Organic Revolution]

from ryan harvey,

Peace, Justice, and Anarchy

This country ain't nothing but a company's dream
A couple hundred million workers, that's all that they see
Our hands on the tools, money writing the rules
From the sweatshop prisons to the cops in the schools

You got the middle class living like it's gonna last
Working longer harder hours for less and less cash
Got the media spins, Republocrat twins
Got the war profiteer-corporate executive grins

You got the heroin running through the veins of the poor
Got the ghettos locked down, paying blood for the war
You got the cities decay, the dealers to pay
And the death squads working for the CIA

You got a million new jobs inside a thousand new jails
Outsourcing the unions, profits tipping the scales
Got a brainwashed youth, a trumped up truth
Got snipers armed with rifles on the factory roof

You got a 30 minute speech full of oohs and aahs
Got the cops armed tough out there breaking the laws
You got the front row seat, to your own defeat
You got the tear gas cannisters filling the street

You got the laws all written for the rich and the white
Trick the rest of them fools into the army to fight
In a dead end game, each war the same
Got a land and a people and a market to claim

You got a woman being raped everywhere that you look
In the courts, in the jails, in the schools, in the books
Got the TV set, sexisms outlet
Got a culture full of men taught to fall for that shit

Yeah and I did too, I'm not blaming you
But I'm trying to unlearn what they said was true
Yeah and I need help, I'm not afraid to say it
It's a subliminal tool, sometimes it's hard to see it

You got a job in an office, you got your own room
Got a pen and a paper and a drive to consume
Got the suit pressed thin, got the myth that you'll win
And the raise to replace true ambition

You gotta move up the ladder at the company's speed
Gotta learn to dance quick for the company's greed
You gotta justify every step that you can
With your eyes closed tight, with your head in the sand

You gotta fight your desires to fight the police
You gotta fight your heart and your every belief
You gotta trust the leader whatever he says
With the flag held high, yeah you're already dead

You already gave up if you take their advice
If you play their game, you've paid their price
And you're gone, gone, gone, there's no turning back
Unless you realize your potential, raise the fist and react

If we look to teach other, and to ourselves
And ignore the phony remedies they stock on the shelves
We can undermine the greed on which the system depends
In hopes to build a new world based on lovers and friends

We gotta build from the bottom what we want at the top
We gotta work together if we want this to stop
From the thick grassroots to the top of the tree
I want peace, justice, and anarchy!

[Organic Revolution]

32 people looked at it no one responded? did anyone listen to it?

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

i like David Rovics

[coda]

Pete Seeger.

[Urban Rubble]

Well, I downloaded a little bit.

After two Ryan Harvery songs, I think he's so-so, his voice kind of annoys me.

Tom Frampton sounds really good after 2 songs, he's got a kind of Against Me thing going on. Try "I Dreamed I Saw Ronald Regan Last Night" or "Honesty Is Not Fucking Emo". I like it a lot.

Evan Greer is not my cup of tea.

[Invader Zim]

The only folk I like is rock or punk music with folk sort of blended into it. Bands like the levellers and the Pogues.

[Organic Revolution]

tom frampton is punk folk.

[RASH chris]

I've seen the riot-folk collective play before. And I've chit-chatted with Ryan Harvey, he's a nice guy and a dedicated activist.

They all seem like great people.

[Organic Revolution]

i met them in berkley, on one of my travells. they are nice people and great musicians.

[Stokey]

Erik Petersen is classic.

[Urban Rubble]

The only folk I like is rock or punk music with folk sort of blended into it. Bands like the levellers and the Pogues.

Go download some of Tom Frampton. Since I last posted I've listened to a little more, and I repeat, I really fucking like it.

Thank you Organic Revolution for posting this. Lately I've been listening to reggae almost exclusively because nothing in the punk/rock world has been very interesting to me, but I'm really enjoying this guy. I hate to compare, but he really does remind me of Against Me's acoustic stuff.

I repeat, try "Honest is not fucking emo".

[Xvall]

Phil Ochs.

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

Devendra Banhart
not commie, but amazing

[Organic Revolution]

Originally posted by Urban [email protected] 28 2005, 07:12 PM

The only folk I like is rock or punk music with folk sort of blended into it. Bands like the levellers and the Pogues.

Go download some of Tom Frampton. Since I last posted I've listened to a little more, and I repeat, I really fucking like it.

Thank you Organic Revolution for posting this. Lately I've been listening to reggae almost exclusively because nothing in the punk/rock world has been very interesting to me, but I'm really enjoying this guy. I hate to compare, but he really does remind me of Against Me's acoustic stuff.

I repeat, try "Honest is not fucking emo".
shit we should trade some reggae.. i got like 60 dubs that i have extra coppies of.

[Subpar]

Originally posted by [email protected] 28 2005, 05:44 PM
i like David Rovics
Word.

I saw him when he came down to texas during spring break. I was really impressed that he had stuff out on akpress.

"Here's to love and solidarity, and a kiss behind the barricades."

Fucking Brilliant.

[rioters bloc]

ani difranco

billy bragg

[Floyd.]

You people know nothing about folk music. Get an education and add lovegospel to your soulseek userlist to start with.

[Lord Testicles]

i dont really lisen to folk music but i have heard a few billy bragg songs

[violencia.Proletariat]

i like folk, if you like punk rock then you would really dig erik petersen and robert blake, they have an album together that you can get off of profane existence. i also dig woody guthrie, some dylan, country joe mcdonald, etc.

[dopediana]

this tom frampton dude is amazing. and he's going to be in pittsburgh this weekend. thanks for the tip, i'm so going. fuck beerpong at frathouses and warm kegs of miller lite....

[Eastside Revolt]

Who here digs the Old Crow Medicine Show?

You have to check them out.

I totally feel the pain, it reminds me of hip hop.

[Red Power!!!]

Originally posted by [email protected] 29 2005, 01:52 AM
Devendra Banhart
not commie, but amazing
Ah yes. A fellow Devendra lover. I think my and a couple of my friends are going to see him.

Click (http://www.undertheradarmag.com/protestauction.html)

on top, there.






(Iron and wine is also splendiferous)

Red power. :P

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

Iron & Wine is freakin amazing.
Have you heard Sufjan Stevens's new album?

[Non-Sectarian Bastard!]

Listen to this one:

Ethan Miller - Only Eight (http://s48.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2LQC9TFP7YP4H2UL9PZRK4YK4W)

I don't know if this constitutes riotfolk, but it was on a website dedicated to riot folk. Tell me what'd think of it.

[Organic Revolution]

yeah he is a artist on riot folk

[Non-Sectarian Bastard!]

So what'd you think of it? It was the only song on the website that I liked.

[Red Power!!!]

I have "A Sun Came" by Sufjan.




Do you think he will make it through all the states? :o
that would be really tough.

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

he's still pretty young... which you wouldn't think from listening to his music... but I doubt it. I mean, what other musicians produced that much material?

Has he said that he intends on making an album for every state... or is that just a rumor?

[Red Power!!!]

I'm accually not sure. My friend just told me he was making one for each state(and he is a good source of info.)


Are you into "The Lost Patrol"? they have a nice song entitled "Another song about Marx and me"


Check it out here. (#03). (http://www.burningheart.com/lostpatrol/extra/)

[Urban Rubble]

Has he said that he intends on making an album for every state... or is that just a rumor?

Against Me! is starting a tour soon where they're going to hit all 50 states. Pretty impressive I think.

Speaking of which, I'm listening to their new album. So far it's alright, not as great as I expected.

[Floyd.]

Dear Red Power and RedZeppelin,

don't you listen to fucking shit I say?

search for Devendra Banhart Sufjan Stevens and Iron& Wine within music and check the dates for who made the first mention even threads about the shit name dropping in some instances

then holy fuck months later people magically "discover" this shit and talk like it's all "new and exciting"

fuck

if only more ****s took my totally brilliant and insightful music advice on board more often. I mean shit I don't know of everything but I don't listen to filller at all.

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

congratulations, but I bought Our Endless Numbered days the week it came out, so there
I also bought Woman King the week it came out

[Floyd.]

So.... wanna shag?

[Urban Rubble]

Victor doesn't shag people with similair tastes, he's more into hate sex with punk rockers and top 40 fans.

[voyagetoinfinity]

Against Me! is probably my favorite folk/punk band, although their sound isn't really folk anymore, still good. Defiance Ohio is also good. I went to a folk punk fesitval this summer, and it was fuckin cool. All the bands were awesome, and they offered free vegan-friendly food

[tambourine_man]

anyone listen to dave van ronk or ramblin' jack elliott
they aren't overtly political but i think van ronk was pretty involved in the activist scene in the sixties and founded some (shortlived) leftist organizations in nyc.
but anyway/ good folk music huh

ohh and i don't know if he qualifies as folk exactly, sort of folksy blues or bluesy folk, whatever, but Mississippi John Hurt! i wish i could play guitar like that.

[Bad Grrrl Agro]

Originally posted by [email protected] 28 2005, 06:07 PM
i like David Rovics
YES!!!!!!

[Wanted Man]

Well, Bob Dylan is a given.

David Rovics is indeed awesome. You can legally download ALL his music for free on www.davidrovics.com (go to audio and video online in the left menu).

[Eastside Revolt]

Who here digs "The Old Crow Medicine Show"?

They've got some wicked songs that really make you feel the pain of the poeple living in the appalachian area.

[JKP]

The voice is a bit harsh, but seems alright.

Thanks.