@msquebanh I love the shit out of this song. Been trying to catch up on...everything I missed while I took my nap between work and dance, then got some much-needed exercise/stress relief and just wanted to say this, and several others I've seen in your thread are favorites. Impeccable taste!
@shayz0rz I'm a huge music junkie & was also the first local POC female DJ here. I was fired from 3 bars in Vic (I had gigs at 5 bars here & 4 in Vancouver) because I started using my popularity at gigs to shout out humanitarian msgs & play heavy POC activism songs. NO REGRETS 👊🔥🎶💕💗☮️❤️
@shayz0rz Fuck those weakass boss bar owners. I made shitloads more direct monies by hosting private parties after & 2 of my old shitass bosses tried to gain entrance & were bounced the fuck out. I am NOT sorry for telling them - You are not welcome & leave before my security physically removes you. Those asshats actually tried to offer me more $ to come back for exclusive nights & I told them to go fuck themselves. They only wanted to exploit my popularity at the time.
This song condemns the horrors of the genocidal ethnic cleansing of Indigenous peoples in USA; the colonialism & how Native peoples ran, trying to find refuge from the brutalities of violent colonial forces.
This #AntiWar song is about consequences of USA war on #Vietnam.
#USmilitary used #AgentOrange, a chemical herbicide defoliant. Killing full ecosystems. Killing & disabling people, to this day.
We're still trying to get US govt to pay for human damages reparations, decades later.
This song's about the inner battles that we all fight, on a daily basis. Speaking to the universal experience of confronting challenges, whether personal or societal in nature.
He faced mass #racism - despite serving, loyally, for #USAmilitary & protecting white soldiers - who treated him like he wasn't even a human being. He had more #courage than whole lot of them.
This song's a rallying cry for unity, strength & standing up against oppression.
It speaks to the human desire for freedom & justice, encouraging listeners to rise above their fears & face the challenges that surround them. It encourages fierce, radical resistance against state imposed abuses & oppression.
Inspired by a book set in #WWI - “Johnny Got His Gun”. That was made into a movie in 1971 & that film inspired this metal track. Focused on a war veteran who lost all of his limbs in addition to most of his senses & confined to a hospital bed. Despite all of this he is still very much alive; while he desires to die.
@emb Yes... that is actually why some of us, in our teens, when it was released & didn't know what it was really about...related to it because it echoed our feelings of depression. It helped us, at the time, to realize that how we sometimes felt - wasn't so foreign to others. It helped us not feel alone.
This energetic #AntiWar song is about how millions of men in #WWI went to fight in a war that was supposed to end all wars. They discovered one fact about it, and that was that #WarIsHell.
This song is #AntiWar - it asks people to think long & hard about what/who they're fighting for, when it comes to war & to think about fighting harder for things that help humanity, more than sacrificing your life for corrupt, warmongering governments.
1st time I saw GD was in a basement in Fernwood here in Victoria
This was released during the US invasion on Iraq & Afghanistan. It's about how US Govt continues to sacrifice its citizens in their ongoing bloodthirsty wars in foreign countries.
@msquebanh Interesting. Didn't know that one. That war was 100% to spike oil prices so huge profits could be raked in. Killing OSB and getting rid of al Qaeda was the pretext.
It was Numb and Crawling that introduced me to Linkin Park. Much different.
PE's fierce call out on mass media's propaganda, the MSM false narratives & how it influenced groupthink.
"Anybody who knows me really well or cares knows I wrote Don’t Believe The Hype a bit influenced by Noam Chomsky Manufacturing Consent in the 80s,” Chuck D said in a tweet from 2021.
"Don’t Believe the Hype” inspired by left-wing political commentator #NoamChomsky, who authored the famous book Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, which came out the same year as this song.
@msquebanh - you know you're old when things like this just feel wrong.. like, it feels like Manufacturing Consent has existed forever but I'm psure Don't Believe the Hype was only released like 5 years ago 😆
@aby I'm so tired of seeing violent war history repeat, again & again. My PTSD has taken hits because this recent unbridled violence is bringing up a lot of past war & refugee camp memories for me & my surviving family members. I am using music therapy to alleviate the pain in my heart & soul. I want this violence to cease. It's creating more generations of war traumatized children. My heart hurts over it all.
@aby Please contact as many unions as possible & try to organize phone banking & emailing campaigns, in your area. It takes a village & people who can't get out physically can help with lots of important actions, from home 💕💗
@msquebanh - oh, I have been emailing and phoning. I'm also hooked in with some of the protest and action organisers here and am helping out with the admin/backend type stuff.
I'm Aboriginal.. we know how important community solidarity is, especially in the face of state violence 💜
@aby I appreciate every single person like you. I believe us BIPOC folks can help shift things a lot. Especially when we are speaking our truths, sharing what our elders & ancestors have taught us, doing best we can where we live & refusing to shut up when told to by colonial asshats 💗✊️💖
This song is about the universal shared sentiment of soldiers who are deployed to wars, far away & the longing to return, to their families.
It's an upbeat track with very somber messages.
This is about the disconnect between US govt’s #AntiWar propaganda & fugly realities that soldiers & civilians faced in US war on #Vietnam.
"Come on Wall Street, don't be slow
Why man, this is war au-go-go
There's plenty good money to be made
By supplying the Army with the tools of its trade"
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