There's always "Cat Scratch Fever"

[Rastapopoulos]

Oddly, the bands Republicans love don't seem to love them back.

 

[mobes23]

You'd think they'd check with the bands first...although, it happens so much that maybe they figure they'll just use the songs and handle the rebuke on the back end. It's probably easier to ask for forgiveness than permission (that they won't get.)

 

[jlprk]

In almost every Republican convention, and never a Democratic convention, I read of a songwriter saying that he didn't grant legal rights to Republicans, and demands that they stop using his song. The first time I read it was when the "Hello Dolly" writers didn't like Republicans singing "Hello Barry" at their 1964 convention.

 

[MARIS61]

You'd think they'd check with the bands first...although, it happens so much that maybe they figure they'll just use the songs and handle the rebuke on the back end. It's probably easier to ask for forgiveness than permission (that they won't get.)

That's always been the way the Republican party has approached things (your money, your home, your pension, your civil rights...). Never mind who owns it, we'll just steal it and see if we can get away with it.

 

[maxiep]

It's kind of like the rich people Democrats want to tax don't like them taking their money.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

That's always been the way the Republican party has approached things (your money, your home, your pension, your civil rights...). Never mind who owns it, we'll just steal it and see if we can get away with it.

Um, that's the dem's motto. You are getting mixim'd up, errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, mixed up.

 

[3RA1N1AC]

yeah, musicians dont really go for the whole 80 year old rich stodgy white guy demographic

maybe they should just stick with john tesh

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

yeah, musicians dont really go for the whole 80 year old rich stodgy white guy demographic

maybe they should just stick with john tesh

Or Pussy Riot from Russia.

 

[Denny Crane]

Thin Lizzy singer's mother is not "the band." Geez.

And Thin Lizzy probably doesn't own the rights to their music. Republicans (or most anyone else) can use the music if they pay the BMI or ASCAP fee.

 

[3RA1N1AC]

rage against the machine-greed

Greed!
Causing innocent blood to flow
Entire culture, lost in the overthrow
They came to seize and take whatever they please
Then all they gave back was death and disease
My people were left with no choice but to decide
To conform to a system, responsible for genocide
Responsible for genocide
Responsible for genocide...

[Spoken:]
'AIDS is killing the entire African nation
And a vaccine is still supposedly under preparation
But these governments they don't mind the procrastination
They say
"We'll kill them off,
take their land
and go there for vaction."'

My people's culture was strong, it was pure
And if not for that white greed
It would've endured
My people were left with no choice but to decide
To conform to a system
Their minds enslaved
Their souls encaged
I feel the rage
It's brutality can never be undone
But the sun is not yet set
The bass and drums and microphones a threat
That's when ya investigate the crimes from the inside
And see that they're responsible for genocide
Responsible for genocide
Responsible for genocide...

Ya cram ya culture down my throat
Say I'm inferior when I find that I choke
Ya fill my mind with a false sense of history
And then you wonder why I have no identity?
Well I'll strike a match and it'll catch and
Spread the insight we need
A tiny fire, burning bright
Shedding light on the darkness of greed

 

[3RA1N1AC]

rage against the machine-greed

Greed!
Causing innocent blood to flow
Entire culture, lost in the overthrow
They came to seize and take whatever they please
Then all they gave back was death and disease
My people were left with no choice but to decide
To conform to a system, responsible for genocide
Responsible for genocide
Responsible for genocide...

[Spoken:]
'AIDS is killing the entire African nation
And a vaccine is still supposedly under preparation
But these governments they don't mind the procrastination
They say
"We'll kill them off,
take their land
and go there for vaction."'

My people's culture was strong, it was pure
And if not for that white greed
It would've endured
My people were left with no choice but to decide
To conform to a system
Their minds enslaved
Their souls encaged
I feel the rage
It's brutality can never be undone
But the sun is not yet set
The bass and drums and microphones a threat
That's when ya investigate the crimes from the inside
And see that they're responsible for genocide
Responsible for genocide
Responsible for genocide...

Ya cram ya culture down my throat
Say I'm inferior when I find that I choke
Ya fill my mind with a false sense of history
And then you wonder why I have no identity?
Well I'll strike a match and it'll catch and
Spread the insight we need
A tiny fire, burning bright
Shedding light on the darkness of greed

 

[speeds]

Christian Rock sells loads of albums. Seems like there'd be lots of selection there for conservatives.

Born in the USA is my favourite for politicians to use considering it's anti-nationalistic message. Too much iron-ing.

 

[3RA1N1AC]

Born in the USA is my favourite for politicians to use considering it's anti-nationalistic message. Too much iron-ing.

werd