GFF Soundtrack Vol. 3 - Political Palace

Alright, here we go..

Like all the other GFF discs, we'll be aiming for 15-20 tracks clocking in at under 74 minutes (go figure). Since this is the Political Palace, we want songs with a message. Protesting or supporting, it doesn't matter, but generally the music is just going to be a way to get the artist's standpoint across.

Genre doesn't matter. Anything is good. Hell, if you've got a speech you'd like to submit, I'm all for it (consider length though) .The one limitation I'm gonna throw in is the nominator must be able to explain what issue or message the song deals with, if it's not incredibly obvious (It's not like I'm going to question it if you suggest RATM). Also, songs dealing with race are O.K., but no nazi shit. Sorry, Skrewdriver fans, but that's why we have the Sewers.

We don't want repeats from last time, so don't suggest:
Rammstein - Amerika
The Offspring - LAPD
System Of A Down - Boom!
John Lennon - Give Peace A Chance
John Lennon - Imagine

That's right, we only got 5 tracks together last time. We can do better than that.

Please post a link to your nominations at one of megaupload.com, rapidshare.de or yousendit.com.

Finally, don't go overboard with nominations; keep your list a reasonable length.

My suggestions:
Frank Zappa - Trouble Every Day
Neil Young - Southern Man
Last Poets - White Man's Got A God Complex

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Probably should have mentioned earlier, but I think we'll try for one track per artist. Like the GY!BE choices, but just a nod that most likely only one will get in.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by RABicle

Billy Bragg - Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards

Spoiler:

It may have been Camelot for Jack and Jacqueline
But on the Che Guevara highway filling up with gasoline
Fidel Castro's brother spies a rich lady who's crying
Over luxury's disappointment
So he walks over and he's trying
To sympathise with her but he thinks that he should warn her
That the Third World is just around the corner

In the Soviet Union a scientist is blinded
By the resumption of nuclear testing and he is reminded
That Dr. Robert Oppenheimer's optimism fell
At the first hurdle

In the Cheese Pavilion and the only noise I hear
Is the sound of someone stacking chairs
And mopping up spilt beer
And someone asking questions and basking in the light
Of the fifteen fame filled minutes of the fanzine writer

Mixing pop and politics he asks me what the use is
I offer him embarrassment and my usual excuses
While looking down the corridor
Out to where the van is waiting
I'm looking for the great leap forwards

Jumble sales are organised
And pamphlets have been posted
Even after closing time there's still parties to be hosted
You can be active with the activists
Or sleep in with the sleepers
While you're waiting for the great leap forwards

One leap forward, two leaps back
Will politics get me the sack?

Here comes the future and you can't run from it
If you've got a blacklist I want to be on it

It's a mighty long way down rock 'n roll
From Top of the Pops to drawing the dole

If no one seems to understand
Start your own revolution and cut out the middleman

In a perfect world we'd all sing in tune
But this is reality so give me some room

So join the struggle while you may
The revolution is just a tee shirt away
Waiting for the great leap forwards

Communist Billy Bragg laments about the lack of progress shown by Russia, Cuba and China. He trys in invigorate the great leap forwards.

While I like the song choice, I don't agree with your interpretation. Bragg is criticizing those countries, because they never actually achieved communism, his ideal form of government. All they did was kill a bunch of folks while establishing thinly veiled dictatorships. He goes on to criticize coffe-shop communists, the college kids with Guevara paraphernalia because they keep seeing his face in head shops.

I'm also going to throw in another track:

Sly & The Family Stone - Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Thanks for the lyrics, but I think the tablature might be a bit excessive.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Could someone sticky this? Thanks.

I'm very much liking that Immortal Technique track, Capo. Also, could you get a link for the Love track? I've lent my copy out, and don't know when I'll be getting it back.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Hey Capo, just a reminder on that Love track.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Alright, so I put this thing together. The following is the final track listing. It comes in at 70 minutes 54 seconds. Don't bitch if your song didn't make it. Choices were made based on time, catchiness factor of the song, and whether or not I thought the song was a piece of shit. It's a pretty good mix of "classics" and newer stuff, and I substituted some rarer, live versions of cuts that were suggested. It goes like this:

01. N.W.A. - Fuck Tha Police
02. The Mothers Of Invention - Trouble Every Day
03. The Last Poets - White Man's Got a God Complex
04. Sun Ra - Nuclear War
05. U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday (Live)
06. Moxy Früvous - Gulf War Song
07. The Cranberries - Zombie
08. Oingo Boingo - Insanity
09. Immortal Technique - Freedom Of Speech
10. Black Sabbath - War Pigs (live, alternate lyrics)
11. Love - The Red Telephone
12. Barry McGuire - Eve of Destruction
13. Billy Bragg - Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards (live, alternate lyrics)

You can get all the tracks here.

FELIPE NO

Thanks yourself. You've done a great job organizing this whole bit.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?