Wow. My music phone call really turned some heads on Malloy

Was I wrong? Does most commerical music today have no social conscience? There are exceptions. But, it's not like the late 1960s into the 1970s.

Real protest music died with John Lennon and Harry Chapin.

I am a DJ. You can't believe the shit I have to play when I'm on a job.

on edit: I was Aram from Tucson, AZ.

I missed it and I usually listen to him. Music today sucks for the most part but there exceptions. I liked Eminem's Mosh. I can't even think of any others right now.

Rage Against the Machine was good back in the 1990s.

I thought Peter Werbe was sitting in for him since he's on Randi this last afternoon.

But maybe Malloy was doing Randi's show. It's really confusing lately.

i am thinking about. i am getting my kids into our cd's of the 60's and 70's. telling them to rebel against authority. now, what parent lectures there children at dinner table ot speak out and rebel against authority. we all had a good giggle

I came of age in the eighties, horrible time for music, and I was into the Doors, Zepellin, the Stones, Hendrix and Joplin. I was an outcast.

Not protest music really -- but kind of a protest against what is being played in their ears all the time (Mariah Carey, arrrgh!) which they happily (to me) think is crap.

Mariah Carey was actually very good on her first album. Her background is in gospel music and her first album was very soulful. After that, they commercialized the hell out of her and she sucked.

I think one day, probably once she is old and gray, she will get back to her roots.

I have her "Butterfly" album and that's really good. Her new stuff isn't too bad, that I've heard anyway which is just the singles. Apparently her new album is the number one bought album of 2005. I have her "Rainbow" cd too and that's not too bad but I don't like her doing hiphop stuff like that one. I like her older style of music like she did in the 80's. It just goes so well with her voice.

I disagree. There was a lot of great music in the eighties - you had to look for it but it was there. Pixies, REM, Replacements, U2, Minutemen, Dead Kennedys, Sonic Youth...to name a few off the top of my head.

I like the classic rock, too, but there is so much more out there.

I think it's called emotive.

It is stunning, and on that album, if I recall. Sort of a contemporary dark side version of Lennon's masterpiece, but I think he would understand it fully and feel it deeply.

http://www.benfrank.net/nuke/Free_Peace_mp3s.html (very near the bottom)

Even better (maybe) you can download a whole lot of contemporary people's music and make your own CDs for them.

Their "Putting People on the Moon" is one of the most ferocious, socially aware tunes I've heard in years. It's on their album "The Dirty South."

"Too Much Sex, Too Little Jesus" is an equally scorching look at the Religion Industry.

Wahhhhh upppp :rofl: :rofl:


I'll have to dig into the Malloy archives I missed your call dammit

Or was it Randi?

http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/1gmarchive/002095.html


When the president talks to God
Are the conversations brief or long?
Does he ask to rape our women's' rights
And send poor farm kids off to die?
Does God suggest an oil hike
When the president talks to God?

When the president talks to God
Are the consonants all hard or soft?
Is he resolute all down the line?
Is every issue black or white?
Does what God say ever change his mind
When the president talks to God?

When the president talks to God
Does he fake that drawl or merely nod?
Agree which convicts should be killed?
Where prisons should be built and filled?
Which voter fraud must be concealed
When the president talks to God?

When the president talks to God
I wonder which one plays the better cop
We should find some jobs. the ghetto's broke
No, they're lazy, George, I say we don't
Just give 'em more liquor stores and dirty coke
That's what God recommends

When the president talks to God
Do they drink near beer and go play golf
While they pick which countries to invade
Which Muslim souls still can be saved?
I guess god just calls a spade a spade
When the president talks to God

When the president talks to God
Does he ever think that maybe he's not?
That that voice is just inside his head
When he kneels next to the presidential bed
Does he ever smell his own bullshit
When the president talks to God?

I doubt it

I doubt it