Posts Tagged ‘music’

Merry Christmas!

Thursday, December 25th, 2014

Enjoy a break from politics and spending time with your family. Here’s George Winston’s version of “The Holly and the Ivy” off his landmark album December:

Merry Christmas!

Poll: What is the Most Annoying, Insipid, and Self-Righteous Left-Wing Political Song of All Time?

Wednesday, December 29th, 2010

This post by Ann Althouse (and the ensuing comments) got me thinking about just what is the worst liberal song of all time? Being a man of action, I went ahead and created a poll:

What is the most annoying, insipid, and self-righteous left-wing political song of all time?
Bruce Cockburn: “If I Had a Rocket Launcher”
Bob Dylan: “Masters of War”
John Lennon: “Imagine”
Midnight Oil: “Beds are Burning”
Peter, Paul and Mary: “If I Had a Hammer” (originally Pete Seeger)
Pink Floyd: “The Fletcher Memorial Home”
Helen Reddy: “I Am Woman”
Sting: “Russians”
XTC: “Here Comes President Kill Again”
Neil Young: “Southern Man”
  
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A few notes on my criteria:

  • It had to be a popular song people would actually recognize (which meant everything by Rage Against the Machine was right out)
  • It had to suck (so things like the Sex Pistols’ “God Save the Queen” and many Dead Kennedys songs were exempt because they kicked ass)
  • Only one song per artist (I mean, I really could have used just about everything off Pink Floyd’s The Final Cut otherwise)
  • It had to have a certain self-righteous pretentiousness about it, so anything that was actually funny was exempt.

So go ahead and vote for your favorite musical slice of Suckitude.