08.18.10
The Simple Pleasures of Folksy Tea Party Tunes
UPDATED
Or, “Some White Men Lament.”
Jump on these grenades. I already did.
How’d this one ^^^ sneak in?
Best of the bunch, lads.
Good news, lads! Good news! The Tea Party does really bad hard rock, too.
I was gonna get into the genre of white folk music “Obama anthems” with Photoshopped Obama Hitlers and ObamaSatans but there were way too many. Your browsers would crash.
Jason said,
August 18, 2010 at 12:27 pm
OMG these are horrible. You could do a full social complex study on the fragility of angry white people with these songs. Very disturbing, their view of loss of control over the “way things ought to be.”
George Smith said,
August 18, 2010 at 3:23 pm
“[Study] on the fragility of angry white people with these songs …”
Then I skate to your blog and see this.
All his X’s live in Texas.
bonze blayk said,
August 19, 2010 at 7:55 am
OK, here’s my review:
“I’m a Good Ole’ American”: made it to 1:14 out of 1:49. Hit pause to avert Exploding Brain Syndrome.
“The New American Pie … The Day The Freedom Died”: :19 out of 7:00. Unbearable!
“Here Come Taxes”: I respect this lady, because even though she’s losing sleep, she’s apparently gonna stick with 1) prayer and 2) voting.
“Tea Party National Anthem?”: My Dear Mr. Destiny: There is no such thing as bad hard rock! And I’m not sure I can detect the difference in terms of absolute bedrock values expressed between this and this, even though they may intend entirely different interpretations of the word “Freedom”, and Alice is serving cake of the beef variety, as opposed to cheese. YMMV!
George Smith said,
August 19, 2010 at 9:05 am
1:42 out of 4:09. I’d forgotten the Coop’s novel if somewhat stomach-upsetting idea of putting a steroid-gobbling guitarist with an axe that looked like an assault rifle out front.
The New American Pie … The Day The Freedom Died???: :19 out of 7:00. Unbearable!
But .. but … but, you missed the part where the DJ asks the listeners to sing along!
bonze blayk said,
August 19, 2010 at 1:46 pm
1:42 out of 4:09.
But… but… but, you missed the part at the end where Mr. Universe breaks his guitar over his knee!
I bet Pete Townsend couldn’t do that! Not even in his prime…
Hmmm… I am now put in mind of the Metal-Bending Mighty Thor! “Funny” anecdote: when we played Rhino Records, I spotted the sleeve for “Keep The Dogs Away”–of which Mike had a copy, and from which we had derived maximal amusement value (“Recorded May/June 1945” … “You are all like straws in the wind!” … no ego problem here!)–and asked Harold Bronson: “Hey! Where’s the record! I gotta buy this!”
Harold responded with a look of dismay upon his face: “Uh… we used it for a frisbee!”
Harold would never make that mistake again!
But I digress, since I was previously saying something, somewhere, ?, about “Freedom”. I’m pretty sure that Thor’s agin’ it… ;-)
George Smith said,
August 20, 2010 at 6:02 am
I tried to trigger a Thor revival a few years ago. I failed.
Inspired by the wholesome power of rock, Thor bends steel bars with his teeth. Uri Geller used to do that to a spoon, the pussy, bending it with fingers until it nearly snapped just before stagetime, a flimflam the Canadian muscleman would never stoop to. See, if more hard-rock artists had to bend metal with their choppers, it might help the journeymen of the genre, tempering them by steel. Oral pain for your aural gain.
The review of a DVD of his mostly Keep the Dogs Away-era material is here.
This all slips my mind in the ocean of Tea Party thrills.here.
No way for a Thor revival these days. “Keep the Dogs Away” was silly camp. The baggy Tea Partiers do dead serious
ridiculous campthat cannot be topped in its surplus.