Politics of Music

[david44]

Seldom has a song had more influence than Grandola Vila Morena the signal for the Portuguese overthrow of Europe's longest fascist regime, i mentioned last week on the PI discussion of Negros Island .

Today an article on the very topic

How Portugal’s 1974 Eurovision entry toppled the country’s fascist regime | Portugal | The Guardian

Others might include the Marseillaise, Horst Wessel or Special aka Free Nelson Mandela


htts://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgcTvoWjZJU

[britanicus123]

An ongoing struggle

[Edmond]

The Shamen on Top of the Pops getting everyone chanting Es are good, Es are good is an impressive display of wordsie.

Not that I knew what Es were in 1992, but it was explained to me later.

[Edmond]

The Shamen on Top of the Pops getting everyone chanting Es are good, Es are good is an impressive display of wordsie.

'The kicker? This song was the number 1 during the "Drug awareness week".'

'only the british could have the brass balls to go on top of the pops during drug awareness week and shout E's ARE GOOD'

[cyrille]

The Shamen on Top of the Pops getting everyone chanting Es are good, Es are good is an impressive display of wordsie.

What tf were you on last night?

[Edmond]

Pure French lavender with a pinch o' chamomile.

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Old but lovely flute

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For historical interest, hope won't reanimate the second front on Looper's kitchen

named after a nazi killed by the communists , Horst Ludwig Georg Erich Wessel (9 October 1907 – 23 February 1930) was a member of the Sturmabteilung (SA), the paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party

[david44]

For Helge and other reds under the bed

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Saw Bruce when studying in the states a lovely pianist with gravelly almost Dylan/Tom Waits drone

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my fave Stevie Wonder song

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[Edmond]

Surely 99 red balloons gets an airing.

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Surely 99 red balloons gets an airing.

Genau Luft waffle

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[Joe 90]

Worth a read..


2 Tone Records began in a Coventry flat in 1979 and peaked two years later, when the Specials’ era-defining Ghost Town went to No 1 as riots blazed around a UK in recession. The label launched the Specials and the Selecter from the current City of Culture, plus Londoners Madness, Birmingham’s the Beat and others, all to chart success, but also ended up naming an entire movement: dance crazy, sharp-suited, political, multi-racial ska-pop that reverberates to this day.
As a major two-tone exhibition comes to the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum in Coventry, the Guardian spoke to the people who were at the centre of a multicultural revolution

‘A blur of legs, arms and adrenaline’: the astonishing history of two-tone | Ska | The Guardian

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yep another classic above reminds me of

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