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I Ain't Marching Anymore (Freedom Suite)
| Artist | Song | |
| Buffalo Springfield | For What It's Worth (Buffalo Springfield, 1967) | |
| Jefferson Airplane | We Can Be Together (Volunteers, 1969) | |
| Jackson Browne | Lives In The Balance (Lives In The Balance, 1986) | |
| Tom Paxton | What Did You Learn In School Today (Ramblin' Boy, 1964) | |
| Wes Houston | To Be A Killer (Best Of Broadsides, 1962-1988, 2000) | |
| Phil Ochs | I Kill Therefore I Am (Farewells & Fantasies, 1997) | |
| The Fugs | Kill For Peace (The Fugs, 1966) | |
| Matt Jones | Hell No, I Ain't Going Go (Best Of Broadsides, 1962-1988, 2000) | |
| Curtis Mayfield & The Impressions | This Is My Country (Anthology: 1961-1977, 1992) | |
| Bob Marley & The Wailers | Revolution (Natty Dread, 1974) | |
| John Lennon | Bring On The Lucie (Anthology, 1998) | |
| Mad Season | I Don't Wanna Be A Soldier (Working Class Hero: A Tribute To John Lennon, 1995) | |
| Television | Foxhole (Adventure, 1978) | |
| Bob Dylan | Political World (Oh Mercy, 1989) | |
| John Mellencamp | To Washington (Trouble No More, 2003) | |
| John Fogerty | Deja Vu All Over Again (Deja Vu All Over Again, 2004) | |
| Steve Earle | The Revolution Starts Now (The Revolution Starts Now, 2004) | |
| Black 47 | I Ain't Marching Anymore (Bleecker Street: Greenwich Village In The 1960s, 1999) | |
| The Pogues | The Band Played Waltzing Matilda (The Very Best Of The Pogues, 2001) | |
| Tommy Sands & Delores Keane | Where Have All The Flowers Gone (Where Have All The Flowers Gone: The Songs Of Pete Seeger, 1998) | |
Comment:
The 5th in this anti-oil-war, bush sucks, fascism on the march series. Two years later and with no end in sight. Bush has created the largest terrorism training center in the world with our troops as the targets. He brought in on alright, the dumbass.I was surprised that I still had not used some classic songs such as the first couple here. The first note of Steven Stills' masterpiece is like a bell ringing, a call to arms and immediately sets the tone of this mix. The Airplane song is another call to look around at what's going on and to tear down the wall surrounding what the government is doing. Jackson Browne continues with a rant against the Reagan era war mongering in Central America.
That is followed by a group of old school protest folk songs that begin with Tom Paxton asking what our kids are learning in school about our government. It is just as relevant today as in 1964 especially with all the bush doublespeak and PR pseudo news. Some songs about killing too including the classic Fugs. Hell No, I Ain't Going Go. a great R&B war protest song from the Vietnam era followed by Curtis Mayfield letting everyone know this is our country. Not in our name, damn it.
Bob Marley calling for change. John Lennon crying stop the killing now and Mad Season covering Lennon's I Don't Wanna Be A Soldier. An interesting take on soldiering by Television and another political rant by Dylan. Mellencamp takes an old traditional folk song and updates the lyrics for the bush years. John Fogerty and Steve Earle write new protest songs against bush and the oil war. The mix ends with a group of Irish flavored classic anti-war songs. Black 47 tears into the Phil Ochs tune and The Pogues do a heart rending version of the old World War I protest song. The mix ends with the Celtic drone of Irish folk singers Tommy Sands and Delores Keane tearful question of where have all the flowers gone? Placed on the graves of young soldiers by young girls.
Peace. Bring the National Guard home. Send the twins.
Feedback:
Great mix.Although if George himself heard this he wouldn't notice it was anti war.
Great cd. Maybe you can add a few vulgar epithets between tracks?
Great picks. Too bad we need mixes like this.
Wonderful selections.
Ain't it the truth! When I go to the anti-war march in San Francisco this Saturday (3/19), I'll be playing these tunes in my head -
The songs speak for themselves. Save the vulgar epithets for when bush comes to your town. Oh, I forgot... bush doesn't believe in democracy at home and you can't go to a presidential event if you don't sign a statement swearing allegiance to him. Use a vulgar epithet and you might end up in jail.
As a Libertarian I am against foreign intervention and the massive spending involved in the support of the intervention. Not to mention the waste of lives. For a long time (a long time ago) For What Its Worth was my favorite song. To my ears Steve Earles song is an instant classic. Superior job George!
as always, way to go George!Saw the following last evening and is quite disturbing. about the medias involvement and GWs using of the media for this game he has been playing. Please rent it if you get a chance, the man who made it was in TV media for years and has been a watchdog ever since he left, due to all the ways the government uses to buy the media. What a bunch of chickens. Talking about "Embedded!">br>http://www.wmdthefilm.com/mambo/index.php?option=content&task=category§ionid=6&id=73&Itemid=40
did he really do a sieg heil or what, the man never stops to suprise me, I feel really sorry for you yanks to have him as your leader for the next 4 years and allt the new laws for the airwaves sounds really frightening for a swede
Great mix, George. Everyday something worse comes up...Social Security being ripped apart, the bankruptcy bill screwing lower-income people. I'd love to trade for this series...
btw nice mix too
YOU ARE MY KIND OF GEORGE! EMERY FOR PRESIDENT!!!
Outstanding mon ami.
Excellent. But enough music... let's get on with what really matters -- er, apparently privatizing social security. Boy, sure am glad we've got our priorities straight!
You said it George! Hmmm, biggest corporate campaign contributors were brokerage houses. Now privatization of social security in the way of private investment. Methinks I smells a rat! Great mix, scary cover.
Beautiful
Yeah, I'd vote you for president. Great stuff.
Go tell 'em, George!
Bush is the devil...and this mix is fantastic.
STAY OUT OF MY BUSH GEORGE!
STAY OUT OF MY BUSH GEORGE!
40 years later ..... and we're still singing these songs. I find that highly discouraging. But not discouraging enough to give up. After all, the Buffalo Springfield, Jefferson Airplane, Fugs, Phil Ochs, Lennon, Dylan, all did their small parts to bring an end to one war. Keep singing! Bring home the troops!
Excellent George! I'll need some of these Freedom Suites sometime. Kudos for picking that Television song.
I wish you can stop at 5, but I don't hold out much hope. Just got to keep fighting & singing these songs.
I would add this one to the political mix exhibit, but it won't let me put in more than two per mixer :-(
I would add this one to the political mix exhibit, but it won't let me put in more than two per mixer :-(
Keep on fighting the good fight! Great mix with a disturbing cover.
absolutely perfect
I can't improve upon what the folks have been saying. Wonderful songs and a fantastic sentiment. Behind you 100%, George!
Love it, love it, love it. Too many cuts to name on here which are just perfect - and as the wise philosopher Nick Lowe said, what's so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding...?
This looks absolutely tremendous. If you want to copy this for me and bring it when you come to the 'burgh, let me know what I can do for you.
Excellent.
Great. but also very sad.
What everyone else has said.
The quickest route to peace is surrender.
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
Yeah, but I don't think that means that John Stuart Mill was in favor of unnecessary and pointless slaughter.
Please note that Bush, Cheney, Wolfowitz, et. al have never in their lives risked their own personal safety, only that of others.
Please note that Bush, Cheney, Wolfowitz, et. al have never in their lives risked their own personal safety, only that of others.
The so called decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings has been caused by a self serving oil cartel gaining control of the country through rigged elections, misinformation and outright lies. Actually protesting against despots is the highest form of patriotism and expression of freedom. As a veteran who spent four years on active duty I've earned that right. Peace is surrender? What a dumbass thing to say and typical of bush ignorant doublespeak.
George and joey, I couldn't have said it any better!
Touched a nerve obviously. Peace isn't surrender. What I said was, the fastest way to peace is to surrender. Fortunately the worst tyrants of our time, Hitler and Stalin, came along when people of courage where around to oppose them. Just pointless blood shed right? Don't let the dor hit you in the ass.
I wonder who gets compared to "Hitler and Stalin" most often at this point in time Supercrowley..? I'll give you three guesses. (The first two don't count.) And whose "morals"? Yours?
Thanks George!!!
Thanks George!!!
Ignorance is bliss. Keep watching Fox News.
Actually, Stalin wasn't stopped by the U.S., he was aided by him. See any parallels?
Good mix. Interesting comments.
It almost seems too redundant to post a comment, but there is strength in numbers -- keep up the great work George -- and everybody else, call your representatives -- let them know how you feel about what they are doing (Soc. security, Alaska drilling, writing discrimination into the constitution etc). They are supposed to be working on YOUR behalf. Don't let them lose sight of that.
Great. Love the Television and the sentiment especially.
As if it should surprise anyone, but George is going out in the same blaze of delusion as he was under when you made this mix. It is really disheartening to the mess this president has left us, our children and grandchildren as well as future politicians.