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You are here: Home / Past Elections / Election 2016 / Late Night Angry Music Open Thread

Late Night Angry Music Open Thread

by Anne Laurie|  November 22, 201612:56 am| 25 Comments

This post is in: Election 2016, Music, Open Threads, hoocoodanode

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… He had the makings of a leader
Of a certain kind of men
Who need to feel the world’s against him
Out to get ’em if it can

Men whose trigger pull their fingers
Of men who’d rather fight than win
United in a revolution
Like in mind and like in skin…

N!R!A! I owe some commentor a hat tip for this — really enjoying this whole Drive By Truckers album.

Because some people didn’t pay enough attention during the Cheney Regency, from the Washington Post:

At the beginning of Sunday night’s American Music Awards, co-host and former “Saturday Night Live” star Jay Pharoah told the audience they weren’t going to talk about politics: “Tonight is all about the music,” he announced.

That was not entirely true. Minutes later, Pharoah launched into his impression of President-elect Donald Trump (“I love Bruno Mars. I don’t know what color he is, so I can’t deport him. … I love ‘Uptown Funk.’ It was totally about me. … I’m gonna funk this country up, bigly.”)

But punk rock group Green Day was the most overtly political; lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong is a vocal Trump critic. During the performance of their new single, “Bang Bang,” they segued briefly into “Born to Die” by punk band MDC, singing Trump-themed lyrics: “No Trump, no KKK, no fascist USA!” They repeated the line (which has been heard at anti-Trump protests) three times before they finished the song…

Plus, there was this onstage banter between presenters Mark Cuban (entrepreneur and noted Trump nemesis) and Broadway star Idina Menzel:

Cuban: “Congratulations on your new album. I know you’ve been looking forward to that for a long time.”

Menzel: “Thank you so much. What are you looking forward to?”

Cuban: “Not being invited to the inauguration is a good start.”…

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25Comments

  1. 1.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 22, 2016 at 1:06 am

    This.

  2. 2.

    Jack Canuck

    November 22, 2016 at 1:07 am

    Some angry proto-grunge from Vancouver: Slow, Have Not Been the Same

  3. 3.

    Mike J

    November 22, 2016 at 1:09 am

    This is my fight song.

  4. 4.

    NotMax

    November 22, 2016 at 1:10 am

    @efgoldman

    Would append some Shostakovich as well.

  5. 5.

    chopper

    November 22, 2016 at 1:14 am

    hey segued briefly into “Born to Die” by punk band MDC, singing Trump-themed lyrics

    i’m amazed that MDC is becoming relevant again, tho i’ll admit i’ve been listening to them a lot more recently. everything that’s old is new again.

    if punk rock doesn’t have a new golden age what with trump in charge and all then fuck all that shit.

  6. 6.

    Mike J

    November 22, 2016 at 1:17 am

    @chopper: Looking back, punk’s third and fourth golden ages in the eighties weren’t all that great, but I enjoyed them at the time.

  7. 7.

    chopper

    November 22, 2016 at 1:23 am

    @Mike J:

    maybe the seventh time’s the charm.

  8. 8.

    trollhattan

    November 22, 2016 at 1:25 am

    Oops, posted this below by accident. Bonzo Goes to Bitburg, thirty years ago.

  9. 9.

    Major Major Major Major

    November 22, 2016 at 1:29 am

    Wouldn’t be an angry counter-conservative music thread without some Crass.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIdcDL64KCE

    Introducing the Prime Sinister, she’s a mother to us all
    Like the dutch boy’s finger in the dyke her arse is in the wall
    Holding back the future waiting for the seas to part
    If Moses did it with is faith, she’ll do it with an army
    Who at times of threatened crisis are certain to be there
    Guarding national heritage no matter what or where
    Palaces for kings and queens, mansions for the rich
    Protection for the wealthy, defence of privilege
    They’ve learnt the ropes In Ireland, engaged in civil war
    Fighting for the ruling classes in their battle against the poor
    So Ireland’s just an island? It’s an island of the mind
    Great Britain? Future? Bollocks, you’d better look behind
    Round every other corner stands P.C. 1984
    Guardian of the future, he’ll implement the law
    He’s there as a grim reminder that no matter what you do
    Big brothers system’s always there with his beady eyes on you
    From God to local bobby, in home and street and school
    They’ve got your name and number while you’ve just got their rule
    We’ve got to look for methods to undermine those powers
    It’s time to change the tables. The future must be ours

  10. 10.

    EBT

    November 22, 2016 at 1:46 am

    I will skip the obligatory Bulls on Parade
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF__K5u3Tws

  11. 11.

    jenn

    November 22, 2016 at 1:50 am

    Hey all, not too late to call your Senators, and encourage them to pass S.2979, the Presidential Tax Transparency Act. Also, call members of the House Oversight Committee (particularly Republican members) to demand a bipartisan review of PE Trump’s finances and conflicts of interest.

  12. 12.

    Major Major Major Major

    November 22, 2016 at 1:51 am

    @jenn: Am I allowed to wonder if Sanders would vote for it?

  13. 13.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    November 22, 2016 at 2:09 am

    A flower for ya all.

  14. 14.

    Major Major Major Major

    November 22, 2016 at 2:10 am

    @BillinGlendaleCA: Lovely!

  15. 15.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    November 22, 2016 at 2:22 am

    @Major Major Major Major: Thanks.

  16. 16.

    Damien

    November 22, 2016 at 2:32 am

    So who is going to be the arsenal of democracy this time?

  17. 17.

    M. Bouffant

    November 22, 2016 at 2:48 am

    This tune not terribly angry (‘though the band claims to be) but it seems to say something about current events.

  18. 18.

    Bruuuuce

    November 22, 2016 at 2:49 am

    This is why we fight (The Decemberists)

  19. 19.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    November 22, 2016 at 2:55 am

    Just Gimme Some Truth.

    Like efgoldman, I like the classics.

  20. 20.

    Bruuuuce

    November 22, 2016 at 2:59 am

    Another classic, then. Perhaps more in sorrow than anger, but at the root of the anger gripping the world.

    Us and Them

  21. 21.

    thruppence

    November 22, 2016 at 3:34 am

    What will Trump and the Republican Reich do to this country?
    Sabotage.

  22. 22.

    opiejeanne

    November 22, 2016 at 4:12 am

    @Mike J: Hey Mike. What are you doing for Thanksgiving?

  23. 23.

    Duane

    November 22, 2016 at 4:26 am

    Asaad and Putin continue to escalate war crimes in Syria.That makes me angry.

  24. 24.

    Bruce Baugh

    November 22, 2016 at 8:26 am

    Some folks who were listening to weird work in the early ’80s may remember Tony Carey’s band Planet P Project. In recent years he’s revived it, and done some really good angry music, like this:

    In Babylon – just a great song to go fight fascists to.

    Work (Will Make You Free) – I dunno where Carey found this singer, but he’s got an astoundingly sinister voice. He sounds as smooth as someone like Bannon probably imagines himself.

  25. 25.

    Jeffro

    November 22, 2016 at 9:47 am

    You’re welcome, Anne Laurie ;)

    “Ramon Casiano” is my & Fro Jr’s favorite song from AMERICAN BAND…”Ever South” is coming up a close second at this point. (They’re all good, though!) We listen to AB all the time these days

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