gabechouinard

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Member Since: 11/1/2007
Total Mixes: 26
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CD | Mixed Genre
CD | Alternative - Indie Rock
Cassette | Theme - Narrative
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Fractured States of America: A 2-Disc Exploration of Social Issues

Side A
Artist Song
al pacino  "Peace With Inches" from Any Given Sunday 
Woody Guthrie  This Land Is Your Land 
Johnny Cash  Sixteen Tons 
James McMurtry  We Can't Make It Here (acoustic version) 
Todd Snider  Conservative Christian, Right-Wing Republican, Straight, White American Males 
John Mellencamp  Rural Route 
Tori Amos  Me And A Gun 
brad pitt  "Tyler's Speech" from Fight Club 
Odetta  No More Auction Block For Me 
John Coltrane  Alabama 
David Byrne  Empire 
B-52's  Channel Z 
Dead Kennedys  MTV Get Off The Air 
Donnie  Big Black Buck 
Flipsyde  US History 
Beastie Boys  It Takes Time To Build 
Radiohead  2+2=5 (The Lukewarm) 
Steve Earle  Amerika V.6.0 (The Best We Can Do) 
Hank Williams Jr.  A Country Boy Can Survive 
Bruce Springsteen  The Ghost Of Tom Joad 
Glen Campbell  Galveston 
Side B
ArtistSongBuy
Steven Lynch  My United States Of Whatever 
Outkast  Bombs Over Baghdad 
george c. scott  "Speech to the Troops" from Patton 
Eminem  Mosh 
Pearl Jam  Bushleaguer 
Bright Eyes  When The President Talks To God 
al pacino  "Bad Guy" from Scarface 
Elliott Smith  A Distorted Reality Is Now A Necessity To Be Free 
Ethel Waters  What Did I Do To Be So Black And Blue 
Willie Hutch  Brother's Gonna Work It Out 
Public Enemy  Fight The Power 
Mos Def and Various  A Tree Never Grown 
Temptations  Ball Of Confusion 
The Specials  Ghost Town 
Wilco  Ashes Of American Flags 
Jesus Jones  Right Here, Right Now 
Patti Smith  People Have The Power 
Bruce Springsteen, Bono, Emmylou Harris, Little Richard & John Mellencamp  This Land Is Your Land 

Comment:

Letting a little of my left-leaning liberal hang out.

Disc One or Disc Two

Do I have to expound on the metaphors of the various speech additions? Nah. You all get it....
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Miss Alexandra
Date: 12/22/2007
16 military wives by the decemberists would be a great addition.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Mbhd4LGR-g
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KathrynandRupert
Date: 12/22/2007
A right on musical manifesto. Now this captures the spirit of xmas.Powerful stuff.
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hemizen
Date: 12/22/2007
Love both versions of This Land Is Your Land and much more on this.
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Essex Dog
Date: 12/22/2007
Very cool.
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doowad
Date: 12/22/2007
love the temps, wilco, steve earle, but especially woody & hank. You look like you could be a long-lost Gutbucket Brother.
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gabechouinard
Date: 12/22/2007
"You look like you could be a long-lost Gutbucket Brother."

Entirely possible. I love y'all's Gutbucket mixes.
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Reepicheep
Date: 12/22/2007
i really like the tori amos track. it is an amazing and chilling song.
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musicgnome
Date: 12/23/2007
Looks tremendous!
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Essex Dog
Date: 12/28/2007
Hendrix's rendition of the Star Spangled Banner would fit nicely somewhere in here.