07.01.11
Another reason to support DD blog — free music!
When Tom Petty (“American Girl”) and Katrina Leskanich (“Walking on Sunshine”) protested the use of their tunes by Michele Bachmann, Ted Nugent stepped into the breach, suggesting “Wang Dang Sweet Poontang” and “Stranglehold.” Really. But we already know he’s an annoying tool, lads.
As readers know DD blog has assiduously committed its rock n roll to satirical videos appropriate for the time. The collection is called Tales from the Great Depression. And it will wind up on iTunes and places like that in about a month or earlier, depending on how I feel about paying the Tunecore protection money for the privilege of being in all the official digital stores, sooner rather than later.
Then you’ll be able to get the mp3’s in one place instead of the fun but idiosyncratic task of wading through the Rock n Roll tab and having them for free.
Or you can just go to YouTube and see them all lined up here.
I don’t know of any other uniform collection quite like it although some people must be doing the same thing. The Tea Partiers do a lot of folk music and I’ve touched on it here and here.
It’s almost all bad kitsch and not because of the political content. These things just got no groove, no lyrical zing, or any cool at all. You just can’t be hip singing about the communist living in the White House or how you pine for the old glory days of the Civil War South when you thought all red-blooded Americans were really free.
And theoretically, I’m inclined to like the mild audacity of Rock Solid with Thaddeus McCotter. But, y’know, for a stalwart GOP candidate for President there’s just no evidence he can actually play that red, white and blue Telecaster … loud. So F for Flunk.
So here’s my collection, sans embed, just linked:
Fat Man
Cursing the Oilmen
GE and Jeff (Taxavoidination)
Hey Cutie!
China Toilet Blooz
That’s Logistics!
Tom Friedman Blooz
And all free. Hard to beat that.
There is some good funny music being made on these matters. However, unlike the enthusiastic Tea Party support for its folk music — no matter how bad it is, the progressive side has no such unifying enthusiasm.
But here’s a great new thing, All Christian-y and Bright, on candidate Bachmann. You have to see and hear it.
And here is a site with the same idea in mind, Public Domain Protest Song.