Saturday, December 6, 2014

Rolling Stone remains cool after all these years!

Rolling Stone remains cool after all these years!
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Readers' Poll: The 10 Best Protest Songs of All Time
Our readers pick the greatest activist anthems by artists like Bob Dylan, Neil Young and Rage Against the Machine.
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  • Joseph Zernik 10 Country Joe and the Fish, 'I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag'

    His words weren't exactly Shakespeare, but Country Joe
    McDonald spoke for young people all over America when he released the
    anti-Vietnam classic "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag." "One, two,
    three, what are we fighting for?" he sang. "Don't ask me, I don't give a
    damn/Next stop is Vietnam." The song took on a new life when he
    performed an impromptu rendition at Woodstock, a highlight of the
    documentary that followed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded...
    Country Joe McDonald - I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag
    Country Joe & the Fish Yeah, come on all of you, big...
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  • Joseph Zernik 9
    Bob Dylan, 'Hurricane'
    Bob Dylan was a decade past his protest song phase when he became aware of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a professional boxer in
    jail for a murder he claimed he didn't commit. With help from playwright
    Jacques Levy, Dylan wrote an impassioned eight-minute tune about
    Hurricane's ordeal, dramatically raising public awareness of the
    situation. Dylan didn't exactly get all the details right and was even
    taken to court by witness Patty Valentine over alleged inaccuracies, but
    the song remains incredibly powerful. Even so, he hasn't performed it a
    single time since 1976. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded...
    Bob Dylan - Hurricane
    Bob Dylan - Hurricane ( uncensored 1975 version) columbia records copyright
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  • Joseph Zernik 8
    Creedence Clearwater Revival, 'Fortunate Son'

    John Fogerty wrote "Fortunate Son" 45 years ago, but it
    continues to cause a stir. Just last month, the former Creedence
    frontman played the song at the White House to honor the troops and
    nobody said a peep. But a week later, Bruce Springsteen, Dave Grohl and
    the Zac Brown Band played it at a Veterans Day show at the National Mall
    and many on the right freaked out, saying they had attacked the
    military. In reality, Fogerty served in the Army Reserves and wrote the
    song about how the elite members of society made sure their own children
    never made their way to Vietnam. Like most great protest songs, it's as
    relevant today as it was on the day of its release. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded...
    Creedence Clearwater Revival - Fortunate Son - Live 1969
    Fortunate Son, live Performance by CCR in 1969.
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  • Joseph Zernik 7
    Bob Dylan, 'Blowin' in the Wind'
    In the early Sixties, most people knew "Blowin' in the Wind" long before they had heard the name Bob Dylan. Peter, Paul and
    Mary turned the tune into a hit in 1963, and everyone from Sam Cooke to
    the Doodletown Pipers followed. It's been translated into at least a
    dozen languages, featured in countless movies and played live over 1,200
    times by Dylan alone. The songwriter has dropped almost all of his
    1960s catalog from his current tour, but he still breaks out "Blowin' in
    the Wind" every night. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded...
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  • Joseph Zernik 6 Rage Against the Machine, 'Killing in the Name'
    Rage Against the Machine released "Killing in the Name" as their debut single in 1992, showing their unique fusion of rap and rock from the
    very start. It's a furious song about racism, police brutality and
    defiance, culminating in a furious cry of "Fuck you, I won't do what you
    tell me." It has the power to stir up a crowd like virtually no other
    song in human history, and it served as the final encore at what could
    very well go down as their last concert.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded...
    Rage Against The Machine - Killing In The Name
    Music video by Rage Against The Machine performing...
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  • Joseph Zernik 5 Barry McGuire, 'Eve of Destruction' Bob Dylan was mostly done releasing protest songs by 1965, creating a vacuum that Barry McGuire was all too happy to fill. His cover of P.F.
    Sloan's "Eve of Destruction," a tune originally presented to the Byrds
    and the Turtles, became a Number One hit. These were the early days of
    the Vietnam war, but the Cuban Missile Crisis was a very recent memory
    and there was widespread fear of a nuclear war. McGuire later turned
    towards Christian music, but he still performs "Eve of Destruction" at
    his gigs.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded...
    Barry McGuire Eve Of Destruction Live Hullabaloo 1965
    Ah- The Circle of, um, Life?
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  • Joseph Zernik 4 Bob Dylan, 'The Times They Are A-Changin'' Bob Dylan's old friend Tony Glover tells an amazing story about finding a draft of "The Times They Are A-Changin'" in a typewriter: "I said to
    him, 'What is this shit, man?' And he responded, 'Well, you     know, it
    seems to be what the people like to hear.'" Whether or not Dylan really
    wrote the protest anthem in a moment of cynicism, it remains one of the
    defining works of the 1960s. It was released weeks after JFK's death and
    just a few months before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed. It was a
    time of tectonic cultural shifts, and Dylan summed it up in a
    three-minute folk song.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded...
    Bob Dylan The Times They Are A Changin' 1964
    TV Movie, The Times They are a Changing' (1964)...
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  • Joseph Zernik 3 Buffalo Springfield, 'For What It's Worth' Contrary to widespread belief, Stephen Stills didn't write "For What It's Worth" about Vietnam. He wrote the song in late 1966 out of
    solidarity with Sunset Strip hippies who fought the police over a
    pote    ntial new curfew. The song became Buffalo Springfield's breakthrough
    hit, launching the careers of both Stills and Neil Young. Countless
    replays in movies and Time Life commercials may have slightly dulled its
    impact, but it remains a classic.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded...
    Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth 1967
    S.O.S Please if you like this song positive rate, there is a...
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  • Joseph Zernik 2 Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, 'Ohio' Days after the Kent State massacre, Neil Young saw a photo of 14-year-old Mary Ann Vecchio kneeling over the dead body of college
    student Jeffrey Miller. He poured his rage and sorrow into the lyrics to
    "Ohi    o" and called his Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young bandmates into the
    studio the following day to record the new song. Even though "Teach
    Your Children" was all over the radio, the label rushed the finished
    product out, and it was playing over the air before week's end. CSNY
    broke up just a few months later, making "Ohio" their furious final
    statement – at least until the many reunion tours.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded...
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  • Joseph Zernik 1 Bob Dylan, 'Masters of War' The very week that Bob Dylan arrived in New York City, outgoing president Dwight Eisenhower warned the country about the dangers of the
    "military-industrial complex." His words were largely ignored, and just
    two years     later the world was even closer to nuclear war. Meanwhile, the
    arms industry was making a fortune and spreading money all over
    Washington, D.C. The situation enraged Dylan, and he funneled this anger
    into the caustic "Masters of War." "I hope you die and your death will
    come soon," he wrote. "I'll follow your casket in the pale afternoon and
    I'll watch while you're lowered to your death bed and I'll stand over
    your grave 'til I'm sure that you're dead." It's hard to get much
    harsher than that.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded...
    Masters Of War, live 1963
    Live at the legendary Carnegie Hall concert, here's hoping the masters of war die tomorrow
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