There are a number of songs on "Let Us Play" that were very
political/preachy. In fact, weren't "Pan Opticon" and "Timber" done in
tandem with a Greenpeace video project? Check those liner notes! And oh
jesus, don't forget that Jello Barfa (sic) piece!
quoted 9 lines those disgressions aside, what to do as far as political music goes?
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>> >those disgressions aside, what to do as far as political music goes?
>> I think that Coldcut does quite a good job on "Pan Opticon." I'm not quite
>> sure if that's one of your "sparks", or more. The song has a lot of
>> resonance here where a bunch of people are protesting a relocation of a
>> highway onto sacred ground to some Native Americans. "This is what you do
>> when they come to take you out of your house..." exactly.
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> how is the song built? what makes it political/ideological?