Music with a strong message for the times

[Sue (Ayt)]

Posted by grapevine (here)

Posted by Sue (Ayt) (here)
This song is old, (Everybody Knows, 1988, Leonard Cohen)
but the video they made here is something else!
So many faces and innuendos to catch. Takes more than one watching to catch it all.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=R3LpLaWIrXQ

Wow Sue, that's quite a video . . .
PS: What was the reference to Jim Reeves about though?

I had no idea, but I looked up "Jim Reeves conspiracy" and AI told me this:

AI Overview The conspiracy theories surrounding country music star Jim Reeves generally stem from his untimely death in a 1964 plane crash. The most prominent conspiracy theory ties his death to the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
The JFK Connection: Some theories allege that Reeves was deliberately targeted or had his plane sabotaged. Proponents claim he possessed dangerous knowledge because he saw Lee Harvey Oswald at a Dallas nightclub (co-owned by Jack Ruby) the night before the assassination. Theorists speculate his death was orchestrated to prevent him from testifying as a witness.

[Raskolnikov]

Posted by Sue (Ayt) (here)
This song is old, (Everybody Knows, 1988, Leonard Cohen)
but the video they made here is something else!
So many faces and innuendos to catch. Takes more than one watching to catch it all.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=R3LpLaWIrXQ

Thank you Sue (Ayt). One of my favorite songs ever, so on target. "Everybody knows the fight was fixed, the poor stay poor, the rich get rich. And everybody knows that you live forever, ah when you've done a line or two. Everybody knows the scene is dead but there's gonna be a meter on your bed that will disclose, what everybody knows. And everybody knows that you're in trouble. Everybody knows what you've been through, from the bloody cross on top of Calvary to the beach of Malibu. Everybody knows it's coming apart. Take one last look at this Sacred Heart before it blows - everybody knows." Nice to see artists, musicians, creators of all ilks taking it to the "bastards that be." This one is worth it for the intro alone...

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=48-geUgSF8g

[Raskolnikov]

Always loved Public Enemy, that combo of the male dominant voice being echoed by the jester's affirmation. They really perfected their craft. This mix with the Sugarhill Gang should be seen at least once. The spirit of rebellion was never so much fun

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=jx7dPmn_xQc

Don't, don't
Don't, don't
Don't, don't
(Now here's what I want you all to do for me)

Back, caught you lookin' for the same thing
It's a new thing, check out this I bring
Uh, oh, the roll below the level, 'cause I'm livin' low
Next to the bass, (c'mon), turn up the radio

They claimin' I'm a criminal
But now I wonder how, some people never know
The enemy could be their friend, guardian
I'm not a hooligan, I rock the party and clear all the madness
I'm not a racist, preach to teach to all
('Cause some they never had this)

Number one, not born to run, about the gun
I wasn't licensed to have one
The minute they see me, fear me
I'm the epitome, a "Public Enemy"
Used, abused, without clues
I refused to blow a fuse
They even had it on the news

Don't believe the hype
Don't, don't, don't, don't believe the hype
Don't, don't, don't, don't believe the hype

Yes, was the start of my last jam, so here it is again
Another def jam, but since I gave you all a little something
That I knew you lacked, they still consider me a new jack
All the critics you can hang 'em, I'll hold the rope
But they hope to the Pope, and pray it ain't dope
The follower of Farrakhan, don't tell me that you understand
Until you hear the man, the book of the new school rap game
Writers treat me like Coltrane, insane
Yes to them, but to me I'm a different kind
We're brothers of the same mind, unblind

Caught in the middle and not surrenderin'
I don't rhyme for the sake of riddlin', some claim that I'm a smuggler
Some say I never heard of ya, a rap burglar, false media
We don't need it, do we? (it's fake that's what it be to ya, dig me?
Yo, Terminator X, step up on the stand
And show these people what time it is, boy)

Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't believe the hype
Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't believe the hype
Don't believe the hype, don't believe the hype
Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't believe the hype

Don't believe the hype, it's a sequel
As an equal, can I get this through to you
My 98 boomin' with a trunk of funk
All the jealous punks can't stop the dunk

Comin' from the school of hard knocks
Some perpetrate, they drink Clorox
Attack the Black, because I know they lack exact
The cold facts, and still they try to Xerox

The leader of the new school, uncool
Never played the fool, just made the rules
Remember there's a need to get alarmed
Again I said I was a timebomb

In the daytime, radio's scared of me
'Cause I'm mad, plus I'm the enemy
They can't c'mon and play me in prime time
'Cause I know the time, plus I'm gettin' mine

I get on the mix late in the night
They know I'm livin' right, so here go the mic, sike
Before I let it go, don't rush my show
You try to reach and grab and get elbowed

Word to Herb, yo if you can't swing this
Learn the words, you might sing this
Just a little bit of the taste of the bass for you
As you get up and dance at the LQ

When some deny it, defy it, I swing bolos
And then they clear the lane, I go solo
The meaning of all of that, some media is the wack
As you believe it's true
It blows me through the roof

Suckers, liars, get me a shovel
Some writers I know are damn devils
For them I say, don't believe the hype
(Yo Chuck, they must be on a pipe, right?)
Their pens and pads I'll snatch, 'cause I've had it
I'm not a addict, fiendin' for static
I'll see their tape recorder and I grab it
(No, you can't have it back, silly rabbit)
I'm going' to my media assassin, Harry Allen, I gotta ask him
(Yo Harry, you're a writer, are we that type?)
Don't believe the hype

Now here's what I want you all to do for me
Don't believe
Don't, don't, don't believe the hype
Don't believe
Don't, don't, don't believe the hype

I got Flavor and all those things you know
(Yeah boy, part two bum rush and show)
Yo Griff, get the green, black, red, and
Gold down, countdown to Armageddon
88 you wait the S1's will
Put the left in effect and I still will
Rock the hard jams, treat it like a seminar
Reach the bourgeois and rock the boulevard
Some say I'm negative, but they're not positive
But what I got to give (the media says this?)
Red black and green (yo, don't believe the hype)
(They got to be beaming that pipe you know what I'm sayin'?) You know what I mean

Yo, them Megas got 'em goin' up to see Captain Kirk
Like a jerk and they outta work, let me tell you a lil' somethin' man
A lot of people on daytime radio scared of 'em
Because they're too ignorant to understand the lyrics of the truth
That we pumpin' into them clogged up brain cells
That just spun their little wooden skulls they call caps
You know what I'm sayin'? But the S1's are straightenin' it out
Quick fast in a hurry, don't worry, Flavor vision ain't blurry
You know what I'm sayin'? Yo, Terminator X

Don't, don't believe, don't believe the hype
Don't, don't believe, don't believe the hype
Don't believe the hype, don't believe the hype
Don't, don't believe the, don't believe the hype

[Raskolnikov]

This one speaks volumes.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=O9rCTxWzsL8

[Raskolnikov]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=QNJL6nfu__Q

"They Don't Care About Us"

Skin head, dead head
Everybody gone bad
Situation, aggravation
Everybody allegation
In the suite, on the news
Everybody dog food
Bang bang, shot dead
Everybody's gone mad

All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us
All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us

Beat me, hate me
You can never break me
Will me, thrill me
You can never kill me
Jew me, sue me
Everybody do me
Kick me, kike me
Don't you black or white me

All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us
All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us

Tell me what has become of my life
I have a wife and two children who love me
I am the victim of police brutality, no
I'm tired of being the victim of hate
You're raping me of my pride
Oh, for God's sake
I look to heaven to fulfill its prophecy...
Set me free

Skin head, dead head
Everybody gone bad
Trepidation, speculation
Everybody allegation
In the suite, on the news
Everybody dog food
Black man, blackmail
Throw the brother in jail

All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us
All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us

Tell me what has become of my rights
Am I invisible because you ignore me?
Your proclamation promised me free liberty, no
I'm tired of being the victim of shame
They're throwing me in a class with a bad name
I can't believe this is the land from which I came
You know I really do hate to say it
The government don't wanna see
But if Roosevelt was living
He wouldn't let this be, no, no

Skin head, dead head
Everybody gone bad
Situation, speculation
Everybody litigation
Beat me, bash me
You can never trash me
Hit me, kick me
You can never get me

All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us
All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us

Some things in life they just don't wanna see
But if Martin Luther was living
He wouldn't let this be, no, no

Skin head, dead head
Everybody's gone bad
Situation, segregation
Everybody allegation
In the suite, on the news
Everybody dog food
Kick me, kike me
Don't you wrong or right me

All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us
All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us
All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us
All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about
All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about
All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us

And prison version,

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=t1pqi8vjTLY

[petra]

I've watched that Michael Jackson prison one so many times already, that's a really good one Raskolnikov

I feel like this one belongs here too, it's a song my boyfriend showed to me. The part about "time running out" really speaks to me. It's not as lyrical as the others.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=q5u8Nmgbjls

[petra]

Let's add a bit of positivity here. This one seems like it belongs here too.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=hRd2dSdIvbU

[Eva2]

Deleted - did a search to see if it was posted and it came up negative but later discovered that this same video was posted by Vicus in this thread.

[Paul D.]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=nC9dQOnUyao

" just bees and things and flowers "




My life, my life, my life, my life in the sunshine
Everybody loves the sunshine

Sunshine, everybody loves the sunshine
Sunshine, folks get down in the sunshine
Sunshine, folks get 'round in the sunshine

Just bees and things and flowers
Just bees and things and flowers
Just bees and things and flowers
Just bees and things and flowers

My life, my life, my life, my life in the sunshine
Everybody loves the sunshine

Sunshine, everybody loves the sunshine
Sunshine, folks get down in the sunshine
Sunshine, folks get 'round in the sunshine

Feel what I feel, when I feel, what I feel
When I'm feeling, in the sunshine
Feel what I feel, when I feel, what I feel
When I'm feeling, in the sunshine

Do what I do, when I do, what I do
When I'm doin', in the sunshine
Do what I do, when I do, what I do
When I'm doin', in the sunshine

Sunshine, everybody loves the sunshine..

[Sue (Ayt)]

Nice one Paul - mellow and reflecting our commonality.
Must admit though, that it is so bright and hot where I live today, that I could welcome a bit of rain! haha

Here's another one that reminds us of our commonality. It's from 1985, and "Russians" could easily be changed to any nationality.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=h59SRiSW9t8

[Eddy Fire]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=9ndc3GW6SIM

[Eddy Fire]

Matt Johnson of The The, is still singing and writing about reality!, when we were listening to music in the 80's, it wasn't just beats and pretty notes. There was the possibility that it was part of a conversation taking us to a better place, and correcting the wrong turn of Thatchism.
He called the plandemic a totalitarian nightmare, and seems to have been cancelled, can't find any interviews about these views though.