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The Garden District Blues

It seems, therefore, that the cure for being a paranoid wingnut who sees decay all around him, usually in the form of eager fornication, would be to cultivate a little humility and believe that the world will go on even after you die. -pandagon

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Been Causing Trouble Ever Since The World Begins

01. Faun FablesI’d Like To Be
The Transit Rider (Drag City, 2006)
02. The Pernice BrothersCronulla Breakdown
The World Won’t End (Ashmont Records, 2001)
03. The ByrdsEve Of Destruction (wiki)
Eve of Destruction (umvd, 1965)
04. Heavy TrashThis Day Is Mine
Heavy Trash (Yep Roc Records, 2005)
05. The Legendary Shack ShakersCB Song
Cockadoodledon’t (Bloodshot Records, 2003)
06. Wanda JacksonHard Headed Woman (wiki)
Queen Of Rockabilly (Ace Records UK, 2000)
07. New Bomb TurksWe Give A Rat’s Ass
Destroy – Oh – Boy (Crypt Records, 1993)
08. Monarcs - Alphabet Retraction
Apocalyptic Bebop (Self release, 2006)
09. Jello Biafra & The MelvinsThe Lighter Side Of Global Terror (wiki)
Never Breathe What You Can’t See (Alternative Tentacle, 2004)
10. Atari Teenage RiotFuck All!
Burn, Berlin, Burn! (Grand Royal Records, 1997)

note: My contribution to cultural war and decaying world view. Probably the basic feel for this list is the emotion you get after reading about woman suffrage era writing and find out your grandmother was an outlaw fighter too. It is now as it was then. Such an obvious and simple idea but there it is. The simple rage over the obvious injustice. Between emotion and run away thoughts, a simple rebellious idea percolate.

This is a classic MdM list, a two points style transition, series of popular songs contextualized in contrasting key or rhythm. They are obvious but evoking subtle series of emotions, folks and downtempo as foundation. Several are classic songs where simple form is played at higher tempo or breaking race and gender perceptions, etc. Anyway enjoy. Oh yeah and eff the chimpie. A big F.U. postcard from NoLa and please go start a revolution.

see also: Winter Sky, Freedom, Revolt, and Love, My blood is clean
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The song makes its imprint
in the air, making itself felt,
a felt world. Here, there,
the stunned silence

of knowing I will not remember
what I heard;

futures that will never happen,
a fluidity we cannot achieve
except as a child
creating possibility.

This is the untranslatable song
hidden in the earth.

-Untranslatable Song [1]