Playlist and rant by Algernon
None of these songs are new, many have appeared on lists I’ve prepared in the past. All are protest songs, speaking of race, bigotry, abuse, struggle, identity, heavy handedness to criminality of those who should be upholding the law.
Nothing changes, nothing changes overseas nothing changes here, were we have the forces of conservative extremism who ensure that nothing changes. Is it right that a young policeman face slams a lippy 17 year old to the footpath and a police commissioner say the young bloke was just having a bad day ?
It’s not right that authorities ignore the protests of those who say they can’t breathe who then die and not be held accountable for their actions. Is it right that our First Nations people are over represented in our Prison system for things white people wouldn’t be held in prison for ?
It’s a bizarre world where a US President will incite violence against his own people or to use tear gas against peaceful protestors so he can walk to a church and hold up a bible, a book he has not read and has no idea of its content, an action repugnant to anyone of faith.
Is it OK that he thinks civil war is the way forward ?
The more the world goes forward the more it stays the same.
Rubber bullets – 10CC
O-o-h child – The Five Stairsteps
A change is gonna come – Sam Cooke
Young gifted and black – Nina Simone
Wake up everybody – Howard Melvin and the Bluenotes
Solid Rock – Goanna
Beds are burning – Midnight Oil
The Dead heart – Midnight Oil
Tribal Voice- Yothu Yindi
Down city streets – Archie Roach
Thou shall not steal – Kev Carmody
Killing in the name – Rage against the machine
The revolution will not be televised – Gil Scott Heron
What’s going on – Marvin Gaye
Window Dresser's Arms, Pig & Whistle 
Brilliant.
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Not bad is it.
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“Plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose”… n’est pas, Algae…? C’est dure, la vie, n’est pas?
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C’est effectivement Asty.
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Another fabulous song-list, Algae… so many of your songs seem to sing out the theme-song to my life… But if you’re all wondering about what I was listening to when I was just 17 years old, hear’s an example… one of my favorite albums of all time… To other piglets, I’d just like to say, put down the ironing, switch of that soap-opera on the idiot-box, make sure there’s nothing in the oven or on the stove-top, and just sit back, relax, and listen to one of the very best albums you will EVER hear… Trust me! Would I lie to you? 😀
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LOL! Sorry piglets! Forgot to post the link, didn’t I? Anyway, here it is:
Enjoy! 😀
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Dammit! Forgot to post the link again! Here it is:
With love to all piglets, everywhere! 😀
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Much the same for me Asty. Many tunes of my youth.
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Ah… love ya forever my brother! Just ’cause you may be interest, here’s what I was listening to when I discovered your song-list in my email:
If you dig it, post it on your next play-list for the piglets… and maybe make your next playlist about ‘protest singers’, and/or ‘protest songs’!
Lots of love to ya, Algae… ya KNOW you’re my favorite DJ! 😀
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Now I thought of including an Arlo Guthrie tune (not this one).
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No worries, Algae… they’re ALL good! Might I suggest, “The Pause of Mr Claus” since there’s probably no need to post “The Motorcycle Song” now, anyway?
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Onya, Algy. Rubber Bullets – takes me back.
Also – Beds Are Burning – I recall was John Howard’s favourite Oils song. Pretty sure he has never actually listened to it.
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Piece of irony …. When I played Beds are Burning, with Pete up front and centre – across the bottom of the clip came an ad fo Colorbond Roofing …… a little too close to Pink Bats ?
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Gotta wonder with the ads don’t you.
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Yup
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Rubber bullets was the catalyst for the list. But so was the clustershitfuckery going on around the world ATM as well as the Idiot and Toddler in Chief who is running the US. Might have marched last week had I not been between Cataract operations (second yesterday) as well as a family thing.
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Yes, I wanted to march but I have taken weeks to get over the not Covid-19 chest infection and I am respecting being in the high risk group.
Having said that, not for a minute do I feel Scummo exuding genuine concern. It ‘s not in hid DNA. But stifling dissent – he’s riddled with that – and so is the sweet as pie Gladys.
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That’s the thing isn’t it , being somewhat a high risk. Agree about Scotty the Stupid, it’s all politics to him, an idiot tin pot dictator. Had some respect for the Bin Chook until a few weeks ago though she handled the bushfires and COVID along with Andrews well. Now she seems to be losing it.
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Just sneaking the odd fracking project through on the quiet 😗
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And approve a mine under dam against all advice. then not tell anyone for a few months.
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LOL! So you too had a ‘not Covid 19’ chest infection, Therese? What a curious coincidence… I was hospitalized for five days with ‘not Covid 19’ pneumonia and am still taking Warfarin (otherwise known as ‘rat poison’… the chemist himself told me so!) for pulmonary embolisms… which, of course, were also NOT ‘Covid 19’. I wonder if anyone else had a ‘not Covid 19’ chest infection? 😉
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