DontRunMeOver

I'm thinking that somebody should write a song about the number of people in Sheffield at the moment who are stuck away from their homes due to flooding. The song could be called "Just swim home you idiots" or something similarly sympathetic.

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Urban Hat€monger ?

Or you could just get Jarvis Cocker , Def Leppard , Arctic Monkeys & The Human League to record a charity version of Michael Row The Boat Ashore.

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sleepy jack

From what I understand from your post you don't listen to any music aside from stuff on the radio, theres plenty of political stuff out now. I see political rallies pretty frequently and have been to some, I really don't understand your post maybe its just a cultural difference thing.

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jackhammer

If band's want to adopt a political agenda, it usually put's me off their music. By all means, have political views, but ramming them down peoples throats is defeatist by nature. A lot of us here have jobs. Do we make an issue of our political beliefs when we deal with the public or management at work? Very rarely and that's how I prefer things. If i'm interested in a particular poltical endeavour, i can make up my own mind.

Our duty? a dubious statement-some people are pro-war, some are anti-are we moral arbitraters now?

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wha?

we are NOT doing are duty.
niggas need to activate!

jackhammer

Wha?-a ban is coming soon-why bother? Have u got nothing better to do?

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wha?

i'm spreadin the cause. doin my duty. fightin the good fight. bein an activisto. che guevara, viva la revolucion. nothing better to do. there IS NOTHING better to do!

dirt mcgirt

if tha drummer from def leppard tried to row a boat hed go round in circlez, ya clown.

Alexander the Grape

Protest songs>love songs

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I'm back like JC lol.

boo boo

The thing is. Most music has a message and politics have played a part in that for a long time. So in response to "stick to what you're good at", well. For some musicians their work is very closely tied with politics. Woodie Guthrie, Bruce Springsteen, Steve Earle, John Fogerty, Public Enemy, MXPX and Rage Against The Machine are prime examples of this.

So in a way, its not just about music, theres a political agenda, and so its natural for people with beliefs to want to get their message accross, and if they have a platform to speak out on, its their god given right to use it. Isn't America great?

So no, fat idiots like Rush Limbaugh shouldn't be the only people to get paid for having an opinion. Politically outspoken musicians who write very political lyrics are pundits too, in a way.

I think politics in music is essentially a great idea. What better way to inspire people than through music, right? However there is a problem with how some musicians chose to deal with politics.

Take The Dixie Chicks for example, these are really dumb broads if you ask me. For one their music wasn't really political at all, then the fat one dissed bush and now they are liberal icons, fronting for all sorts of liberal causes. But dispite their praise from the left, their record sales and popularity have declined. Because as a result of expressing their views they have alienated a great deal of their audience, after all, they are a Country group, and it dosen't take a rocket scientist to see that the Country music fanbase is predominately Conservative.

Sometimes it pays to keep your mouth shut.

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