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The picture on Daniel's myspace page with a guy holding acoustic guitar saying, "This machine kills fascists", is extremely true. Look at today’s culture, some might say its incredibly dirty and unclean... well we have to think, who are in charge today? Who holds the jobs? Why it’s the flower children of course, the people who sang about peace and love, individuals who fought against war and draft, who worked together to make each other happy. Now look at today, a world with another war, still festering with hate that could cause more pain then that in the
Our parents sang about happiness and joy, about what could happen if the world was better or worse off, letting us know what we were getting ourselves into. Nowadays music talks about a now where self-glamour rules. We care about our wastes, our paychecks, our pensions, our hair, our Abercrombie and Fitch t-shirts. The people singing about peace and love are not us but the same people who did during our parents’ age. Neil Young, since he has not died, takes it upon himself to channel the world’s dangers into music. Letting us know what is wrong and what needs to be fixed. What happened to adolescence's fervor, its ambition, its need to do something, a need to change the world? Are we a perfect world, not needing change? Do we have all that we will ever need until the rest of our lives and our children’s lives?
Individuals need to take charge and join into causes. Paying a few dollars into the collection basket, or mailing a few 10s to the Red Cross is not enough. We need to make things happen, things that we do not know. Change happens because people actually get up. Nothing is perfect; nothing in the near future (or far possibly) will be perfect. Nevertheless, we need to make it better. We need to stop thinking about ourselves and start thinking about those around us and those not around us. People who really need help are both in far away countries and in our own towns.
One way to achieve this was through music. However, will music ever be used again for change or will it continue to be used as a diversion?
posted by Anonymous at 8:14 PM
2 Comments:
Ok I'm gonna give you a shot to save this shit somewhere else cause it has absolutely nothing to do with music. ok the reference to Woody Guthrie ("the guy" with the sticker, who was not a flower child by the way; he was around in the 30s and his songs were not one of happiness and flowers. They were about the downtrodden and the poverty ridden)and the one about Neil Young (who by the way regrets writing "Ohio" one of his biggest protest songs because it was capitalizing on a bunch of kids' deaths and Neil, as much as i love the guy, doesn't offer any solutions; just the same old bullshit: peace,man. love everybody, friend).
About today's culture we're not different from them. They protested the war so feverently because of the draft. Reinstate it and kids will be up in arms again. Those twats didn't care about world issues; they just didn't want to die.
There are some people trying to change the world now. But you don't know about them since you don't listen to anything after 1985. And in the '60s there was a lot of dumb shit then too. One I can think of is.. the Beach Boys. Girls and cars very common themes. They weren't trying to change the world. And if you're looking towards musicians to make a difference then you're probably pretty fucking stupid. They're mostly drug addicts that know a good melody.
And I don't really know you or anything but I don't see you doing shit.
I'm sick of hearin about how our generation sucks, especially from people in our generation. The hippies were all about fashion too and drugs and sex. Most of those fuckers didn't care about change; they only showed up to be seen at the be-in.
So im summary fuck them and fuck you assholes.
I've written a few songs about interesting shit. One is about war (of all things), which I call Down Tune. I'll play it for you sometime.
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