Music Thread

We need music for our sanity. Please add your favorites.

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Newman is a double Oscar nominee this year.

I'm a sucker for story-songs, and Mike Cooley's about the best at it.

Thanks for creating this thread FT.

Never listen to this first thing in the morning... the rest of your day can't possibly live up to it.



Nothing can get close to the original, but Metallica managed a fairly respectable metalized version:

I could describe the movie this song puts in my head but it'd take a novel...

Caught a train from Alexandria
Just a broken man in flight
Running scared with his devils
Saying prayers all through the night
Oh but mercy can't find him
Not in the shadows where he calls
Forsaking all his better angels
That's how every empire falls

The bells ring out on Sunday morning
Like echoes from another time
All our innocence and yearning
and sense of wonder left behind
Oh gentle hearts remember
What was that story? Is it lost?
For when religion loses vision
That's how every empire falls.

He toasts his wife and all his family
The providence he brought to bear
They raise their glasses in his honor
Although this union they don't share
A man who lives among them
Was still a stranger to them all
For when the heart is never open
That's how every empire falls

Padlock the door and board the windows
Put the people in the street
"It's just my job," he says "I'm sorry."
And draws a check, goes home to eat
But at night he tells his woman
"I know I hide behind the laws."
She says, "You're only taking orders."
That's how every empire falls.

A bitter wind blows through the country
A hard rain falls on the sea
If terror comes without a warning
There must be something we don't see
What fire begets this fire?
Like torches thrown into the straw
If no one asks, then no one answers
That's how every empire falls.

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"Stick it up your ass with your useless thoughts and prayers."

New album out Friday, reportedly gonna be a fist in Trump's fucking face.

Telstar wrote:Newman is a double Oscar nominee this year.

Saw him at Victoria Station in Houston in the early '70's.

Floridatexan wrote:

Telstar wrote:Newman is a double Oscar nominee this year.

Saw him at Victoria Station in Houston in the early '70's.

His father and uncle are knee deep in Oscar nominations. Back before the Fox News brand was fatal to 20 Century Fox. He has a ton of nominations but only 2 wins. He may win for this years Toy Story song but his score for Marriage Story doesn't stand much chance against the favorite, the score for Joker. The music of doom and gloom or perhaps the music of our times. BTW she won an EMMY for composing the score for HBO's Chernobyl series.

Just had to deal with some right-wingers who were whining about their "antifa" boogeymen, so I'm in the mood for the real thing with some good ol' oi.  Give the cringing right-wing cowards something to really fear, since they insist.  Ruck up!  

Republicans don't think the Constitution should apply when it's one of theirs who's breaking it. One law for them, another one for us.

And here's one for all those "red-pilled" incel crybabies.

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