View Poll Results: what is the best music genre for leftists?

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  • Punk

    26 31.33%
  • Metal

    5 6.02%
  • Pop

    7 8.43%
  • reggae

    5 6.02%
  • rock n' roll

    5 6.02%
  • heavy metal

    2 2.41%
  • rap/urban

    20 24.10%
  • folk

    13 15.66%

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    chose one.
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    emotional folk
    so null vote
    I dreamt of a flower that was so beautiful that when it whithered away and died a tear left my eye. I saw our births, our lives and our deaths. I felt fire paint me with pain and I felt a kiss on my lips with a knife in my neck. Love to heartbreak to self-destruction to birth and to finally learning to frolic back into the same trap with a warm smile.

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    Yeah you missed folk which was probably the original musical vehicle for modern leftism. But truth be told there can be no one form of music that does it best.
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    Anything? Does it really matter, and most leftist music sucks anyways.
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    true about the folk thing, but about there being no good leftist music, i think you&#39;re completely wrong. there is some great leftis music out there.check out the great lyrics thing. so many great bands have leftist messages in their lyrics.
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    Yeah but they aren&#39;t really lefties are they, they might be left of centre but they aren&#39;t communists by any strech of the imagination.
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    Itemise loathing and feed yourself smiles
    Organise your safe tribal war
    Hurt maim kill and enslave the ghetto</span>

    <span style=\'color:red\'>Life lies a slow suicide
    Orthodox dreams and symbolic myths
    From feudal serf to spender
    This wonderful world of purchase power</span>
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    Metal/rock sometimes punk

    anyone heard Deify by disturbed yet?
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    Classical/opra.
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    I voted rap/urban, although I like quite alot of different genres. Rap makes up most of my collection, but I also have the likes of Rage Against The Machine, Damian Marley, Snow Patrol, James Blunt and quite alot of dance music.

    So I have a pretty varied taste. One of the only things I don&#39;t like is the thing which most people have voted for so far, punk.
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    I added folk, hope you don&#39;t mind...
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    Pop. I would really like Ayumi Hamasaki to do a cover of "Fuck tha Police".
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    Pathetic thread
    Stop applauding, the spectacle is everywhere
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    Originally posted by Digital Nirvana@Oct 11 2005, 06:44 PM
    Yeah but they aren&#39;t really lefties are they, they might be left of centre but they aren&#39;t communists by any strech of the imagination.
    So what music do you approve of oh great one?
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    Blue Grass.

    Then the coal company came, with the world&#39;s largest shovel,
    And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land.
    Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken.
    Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man.

    And Daddy won&#39;t you take me back to Muhlenberg county,
    Down by the Green River, where Paradise lay.
    "Well I&#39;m sorry, my son, but you&#39;re too late in askin&#39;."
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    Originally posted by Digital Nirvana@Oct 11 2005, 06:44 PM
    Yeah but they aren&#39;t really lefties are they, they might be left of centre but they aren&#39;t communists by any strech of the imagination.
    That is saying that communists cannot be musical. I strongly disagree. Am I relagated to merely left of the centre when I write music?
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    I really don&#39;t think that the genre matters, as you can have great leftist songs in practically any genre, but i voted for hip-hop (listed as rap/urban)- because of it&#39;s fire and energy, closely followed by reggae.
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    Potentially the most powerful would be pop, as it is heard more by the masses. Punk tends to have a more political message than most genres though, but I voted folk as its where it all started - working men&#39;s music about the life they live.
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    Originally posted by FleasTheLemur@Oct 12 2005, 03:45 AM
    Blue Grass.

    Then the coal company came, with the world&#39;s largest shovel,
    And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land.
    Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken.
    Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man.

    And Daddy won&#39;t you take me back to Muhlenberg county,
    Down by the Green River, where Paradise lay.
    "Well I&#39;m sorry, my son, but you&#39;re too late in askin&#39;."
    "Mr. Peabody&#39;s coal train has hauled it away."
    I love blue grass. hazel dickens is awesome
    I dreamt of a flower that was so beautiful that when it whithered away and died a tear left my eye. I saw our births, our lives and our deaths. I felt fire paint me with pain and I felt a kiss on my lips with a knife in my neck. Love to heartbreak to self-destruction to birth and to finally learning to frolic back into the same trap with a warm smile.

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    Originally posted by Sickle of Justice@Oct 11 2005, 02:57 AM
    chose one.
    no.


    sorry, this whole thing is a tad ludicrous.
    this post was produced on stolen land.

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    you're multicultural - but we're anti-racist!

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    Pop. I would really like Ayumi Hamasaki to do a cover of "Fuck tha Police".
    Whoa.

    Anyway, just about all of those work.
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