'Why We Fight'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
I think it's an old celtic folk song called "Fields of Athenry".
Connie, does the version start out with some rockin' guitars, have some bagpipes in the middle, and a male lead singer, dueting with a female during the chorus? If so, it's likely Dropkick Murphys.
Curious - in my post of the Police lyrics - do you see the whole post in the "quote" font (looks like a typwriter font) or just the first paragraph? Because my browser (Firefox on XP) has shown it both ways.
Ooh, "Sun City!" I loved that song and video, and not just because Bono looked really hawt in his beard.
There was a full album spun off from that, which included a U2 song "Silver and Gold," later to be found live on "Rattle and Hum." So there's another one.
My Levellers cds are pretty much all protest songs, with pretty fiddles.
Surely if you're gonna have one Costello, it's Shipbuilding. If 2, Shipbuilding and Tramp the Dirt Down. If 3, actually, Oliver's Army, Shipbuilding and Tramp the Dirt down.
What about Radio Radio?
Curious - in my post of the Police lyrics - do you see the whole post in the "quote" font (looks like a typwriter font) or just the first paragraph? Because my browser (Firefox on XP) has shown it both ways.
Only the first paragraph is the fixed-width font. The rest is the standard font. The t p tags you've embedded in the post close the t tt tag on most browsers (I'm using IE).
What about "Elvis Costello Totally Wants to Make Out With Heather Alayne"?
Or does that one not really count as a "protest song"?
Thanks Jon. Will fix.
(Wondering why Firefox does it both ways....)
eta: Weird. When I went to edit, it looked OK. I discovered that each <p> tag had been closed before the next <p> began a new paragraph, even though I did not enter any </p> tags.
Only if it's protesting his marriage to Diana Krall, Heather.
I like "Less Than Zero" and "Pills and Soap," for Elvis protest songs. "Tramp the Dirt Down" is angriest, but i'm not sure its best.