music for the next four years..

[zoophagous]

at least there will be a steady stream of good protest music for the next few years...I'm trying to put a bright side to all of this.

[Good Intentions]

Somehow I disagree.  I would recommend repeated listenings of Das Ring des Nibelungen, preferably an opera in a single sitting, not only because it is utterly fantastic (and shows that complete and utter loony crazed fuckwits can create beautiful things, though as consolation that seems like clutching at straws) but because it seems a fitting soundtrack to the stupidly partisan politics you guys now have.  The candidate debates would have been much cooler with the Forging Song playing in the background.

Eyehategod are releasing a new album sometime, which should put all of this into perspective (especially if Ashcroft sings again).

[jebreject]

Oh, Propagandhi.  Please save us from this mess.

[Salkin Red]

sorry, but it's actually "DER Ring Des Nibelungen" - around here a ring goes with the male adjective "der" since we obviously don't belive a ring's just a thing.

[missy]

[Andrew_TSKS]

well, sam mcpheeters has returned to playing balls-out hardcore with his new band the wrangler brutes, so i guess i'll be listening to their cassette a lot. that's for starters. probably also a lot of early uncle tupelo so i can commiserate with jay farrar about being underemployed and broke. and there's always the absolutely pulverizing swarm of the lotus records, especially their new ep.

sigh.

[missy]

Wrangler Brutes played here last night. My housemates went, but i couldn't have made it and still voted in my neighborhood.

the real sign of my defeat is that I wish i'd gone to the show instea of the polls. if you knew me, this statement would make you slap me.

ugh.

numb.

[WhereTheSlimeLive]

I could listen to Mayhem's Grand Declaration of war for the next four years.  It would be fitting with this regime in their new state of security, and it rocks too much.  The album doesn't get enough credit.

[jebreject]

Yeah, my post election playlist is the first three Uncle Tupelo records, followed by Born Against's Rebel Sound of Shit and Failure, and then Propagandhi's entire discography, and then maybe some Weakerthans just to try to even me out.

Plus one bottle Jim Beam Rye.

[normalcarpetride]

I saw Wrangler Brutes on saturday. They played for 20 minutes then busted out. Sam hurt his foot and was using a cane to hobble around and poke people with. They have a new record on Kill Rock Stars.

[davy]

i listened to all three joy division albums--including substance--in succession this afternoon, beginning shortly after i arrived at work, and ending just a little bit ago. startlingly, i actually feel better now.

i've since moved on to the fall's our nation's saving grace, hoping it might give me a clue, despite the small matter of their nation not being the same nation as mine.

[Charming Tedious]

Right now, I don't need protest music.  Right now I need music that will convince me that life is still worth living and people are good at heart, and things are worth fighting for.  What's working:

Thanksgiving:  Welcome Nowhere
BARR:  What Would the Second Barr
Little Wings:  Magic Wand

[Lalitree]

I only had a handful of CDs with me at work last week, but Wednesday and Thursday I played London Calling and it felt good. Then I put on Elliot Smith's XO, and that sweet soothing melodies really helped too, in a wallowing sort of way.

[Keith from TTIKTDA]

I've been listening to GBV's Hold on Hope for a long time today.

[Shelley]

I've been listening to Nate Denver's Neck No One Is Coming To Help You. The line that is sticking: "Self mutilation's such a comforting temtation but it doesn't solve a god damned thing."

[fleetwoodmarc]

I only had a handful of CDs with me at work last week, but Wednesday and Thursday I played London Calling and it felt good. Then I put on Elliot Smith's XO, and that sweet soothing melodies really helped too, in a wallowing sort of way.

that's funny because on thursday while making breakfast i was looking for, y'know, that record, the one that i wanted to listen to and i was about to give up when my eyes hit the 'london calling' spine and i was like, "you know, i kinda can't believe it, but i think that might be exactly what i'd like to hear right now."  so i threw it on and it sounded better than it has in i don't know how long.  the reason i had a hard time believing it was because just a couple of weeks ago i told my girlfriend that i was ready to sell/trade all of my clash records(except 'sandinista') because i couldn't imagine feeling the need to pull them off the shelf ever again.  luckily, i say lots of things way before i actually get around to doing them.  new elliott smith is in pretty heavy rotation.  and this revenge lp.  oh,  this revenge lp.......

[Good Intentions]

The question I have to those listening to London Calling atm - do you feel more drawn to songs like 'Guns of Brixton', or 'Death or Glory'?  Perhaps even 'The Card Cheat'?

I've consistently heard that the first lp is better - I don't agree, songs like Revolution Rock and The Card Cheat really hit a chord in me.

[justinh]

guns of brixton.  i love that song.  and spanish bombs.  i think it's side two that i really like, so sorta like the middle.

[wubfur]

These are, indeed, those proverbial times that try our souls.

I take comfort from the fact that the Mekons have been making great oppositional rock music since before Ronald Reagan was president and they're still at it today.

[justinh]

i love the mekons.  



also, dudes, guns n' roses - civil war.  if only axl was here to guide us through these dark times...

[jebreject]

don't get me wrong, i love me some guns n' roses, but there's NO FUCKING WAY i want axl leading me ANYWHERE.

[davy]

my london calling votes go for "rudie can't fail" and "train in vain". but i love the album start to finish; "revolution rock" is really the only song i never cared much for.

hey! i just got my first-ever copy of appetite for destruction on saturday. i'm so proud. it's a big beautiful vinyl copy, and the urge to immediately mount it on my wall somewhere is overpowered only by my wife's threats of bodily harm.