quoted 1 line how is the song built? what makes it political/ideological?
>how is the song built? what makes it political/ideological?
Starts with a solemn, somber groove and many small snippets of voices,
people saying things like "Guilty of violence agaisnt the earth" "all that
is left is a single question: at which tree do we stop?" "all the younger
geneartions here they've all got your number. you're obsolete."
The song builds, breaks down, more political uprising vocal snippets, the
song builds again to its height. Protests, people screaming. "Till the next
time a tree gets in the way of progress."
Great. The video is even better, with the actual footage of people
protesting, trying to keep thier neighborhoods from being destroyed and
police trying to evict them. Listening to it, i now wish that Takemura
would have chosen this track to remix.
Timber is in the same vein, a though more fun, but with a message that
really only comes from the liner notes or video. All the sounds come from
forests, deforestation footage, etc. The "drums" are from people cutting
down trees by axe, "guitars" are chainsaws, and the vocal is from a woman
from a rainforest.
Atomic Moog 2000 is an anti-nuke song, with vocal snippets like "we can
destroy them and contaminate them" "i made the run, let the bomb go, that
was my greatest thrill" "atomic military buildup can be reversed" "outlaw
the bomb"
Boot the System (on single only) contains computer-generated lyrics (i
forget the program, but rdj uses it for the respect list) about "genocide"
and "babylon system" and asks "why do our governments promote war?"
"Weapons they sell...to make this whole planet hell." According to liner
notes, dedicated to CAAT (Campaign Against the Arms Trade).
And on the Jello Biafra song "every home a prison", the politics are all
from Jello's rant.
quoted 2 lines weren't "Pan Opticon" and "Timber" done in tandem with a Greenpea
>weren't "Pan Opticon" and "Timber" done in tandem with a Greenpeace video
>project?
Not Pan Opticon as far as the liner notes show, but both the singles for
"Timber" and "Atomic Moog 2000" are dedicated to greenpeace.
quoted 2 lines too bad i don't like coldcut that much. i don't see much of a point in
>too bad i don't like coldcut that much. i don't see much of a point in
>getting music just for the free propaganda. :) actually i wonder who would.
Well, i bought "You've got the fucking power" (DHR comp) even though i
generally hate their music. But that had other factors besides their funny
ideology: only $.99, annoys roomies more than me, hope that there was a
great alec empire song on it. There wasn't.
np: Thurston Moore "Root" Alec Empire remix
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