Mega Thread The Random Thoughts Thread Part 4: Shitizens on Pootroll

[Eddie Dingle]

Small town white boy, hopping on a bus to the city, seeing new things, feeling threatened and scared by it, feeling vulnerable and lost, and responding in ways atypical of that, in an aggressive and derogatory way. Admitted as such in the lines about knowing right from wrong and watching TV.

Like to hear your thoughts on NWA with those standards.


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Hates gays and calls black men the n word because he was "a scared small town white boy".

Jesus even Slash your guitar hero number 483 thinks it was racist and homophobic.

C'mon edgie if it walks like a duck....

 

[edgie]

It's brilliant in it's forthrightness.

I guess I have to add a 'to me, in my opinion' although that should be obvious, in case someone thinks I'll speaking for then.

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[Papa G]

Anyone that isn't familiar with the song, you be the judge......

1,2,1,2,3,4
[Whistle]
Guess I needed sometime to get away
I needed some piece of mind
Some piece of mind that'll stay
So I thumbed it down to Sixth and L.A. ---
So I thumbed it down to nine o six ten L.A. ("90610")
Maybe a Greyhound could be my way

Police and *******, that's right
Get out of my way
Don't need to buy none of your
Gold chains today
I don't need no bracelets
Clamped in front of my back
Just need my ticket; 'til then
Won't you cut me some slack?

You're one in a million
Yeah, that's what you are
You're one in a million, babe
You're a shooting star
Maybe someday we'll see you
Before you make us cry
You know we tried to reach you
But you were much too high
Much too high, much too high,
Much too high, yes, ow!

Immigrants and ******s
They make no sense to me
They come to our country
And think they'll do as they please
Like start some mini Iran,
Or spread some ****in' disease
They talk so many goddamn ways
It's all Greek to me
Well some say I'm lazy
And others say that's just me
Some say I'm crazy
I guess I'll always be
But it's been such a long time
Since I knew right from wrong
It's all the means to an end, I
I keep it movin' along

You're one in a million
Oo, you're a shooting star
You're one in a million, babe
You know that you are
Maybe someday we'll see you, Oo
oh, Before you make us cry
You know we tried to reach you
But you were much too high
Much too high, Oo, much too high
Yeah,
Much too high, huh, no, no, oh
Ow!

Radicals and Racists
Don't point your finger at me
I'm a small town white boy
Just tryin' to make ends meet
Don't need your religion
Don't watch that much T.V.
Just makin' my livin', baby
Well that's enough for me

You're one in a million
Yeah that's what you are
You're one in a million, babe
You're a shooting star
Maybe someday we'll see you
Before you make us cry
You know we tried to reach you
But you were much too high
Much too high, ow, much too high,
Much too high, much too high
Yeah, yeee, yeah, yeee, igh!
Ow! Much too high
(Oh, much too high, ah,
much too high, ah, much too high
much too high, ow, much too high)

The words ****ed out are the n word and the derogatory word for homosexuals starting with f.

Seriously? Dude. You never called anyone a ****ta? Ever? In the 1980s?

 

[Contested Marx]

Narrative in a Gunners song?

Next thing, Rolph Harris wins a Nobel prize for literature.

 

[edgie]

Seriously? Dude. You never called anyone a ****ta? Ever? In the 1980s?

No, he's perfect.


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[Eddie Dingle]

Seriously? Dude. You never called anyone a ****ta? Ever? In the 1980s?

Is it still the 80's? I would have for sure and now I know better. It would appear Edgie and Axl don't.

No, he's perfect.

You know I'm not saying that edgie but that song was wrong in the 80's whether we knew it then or not. Why did it cause so much controversy when it came out?

 

[JimmyBeerCans]

Narrative in a Gunners song?

Next thing, Rolph Harris wins a Nobel prize for literature.

The red flags really should've gone up when he started singing about his middle leg

 

[chiwigi]

The red flags really should've gone up when he started singing about his middle leg

Two little boys not clear enough for you?

 

[Papa G]

Two little boys not clear enough for you?

Rolfs fiddling appeared to be exclusively with females.

 

[Magus]

Axl is a better guy than Rolf

 

[Eddie Dingle]

• Axl is a better guy than Rolf

  
  Settled out of court twice for domestic violence issues.

 

[JimmyBeerCans]

Even Jimi Hendrix dropped it

Astro man, flyin' across the sky two times higher
Than that old f****t superman ever could

lel

 

[Magus]

• 
  
  Settled out of court twice for domestic violence issues.

Still better than Rolf

 

[JimmyBeerCans]

Rock Stars and domestic violence.. there's a list as long as a phonebook

 

[bomberclifford]

I wondered where everyone went.

Just did a quick catch up on the shit posting.
Wow.

 

[bomberclifford]

I am Jumbo's Inflamed Sense of Rejection.

 

[edgie]

If we disliked any movie that featured intolerant and divisive content, even in a negative light, we wouldn't like many movies at all. Nobody is claiming the usage of those terms is a good thing, I just find it more powerful in the song. Unfortunately many can't see past them.

Why is music held to a different standard?

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[Contested Marx]

I'm still stuck way back at 'narrative' sorry

 

[Contested Marx]

Welp anyway for mine Andrew Bird, Stuart Murdoch, Colin Melloy no racist, homophobe lyrics, no stories of domestic violence* so I'm all good






*Except for a couple of songs with severe narrative so yeah

 

[JimmyBeerCans]

If we disliked any movie that featured intolerant and divisive content, even in a negative light, we wouldn't like many movies at all. Nobody is claiming the usage of those terms is a good thing, I just find it more powerful in the song. Unfortunately many can't see past them.

Why is music held to a different standard?

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Black artist drops the N word, bags out "crackers" n' wants to shoot cops no one blinks

 

[_VXV]

What do I know, I like Burzum & GG Allin.

 

[Contested Marx]

Yep as the Chamber Pop Twee and neoFolk music lover I'm taking the moral high ground and it's Awesome

 

[bomberclifford]

GG Allin

I still have disturbing dreams about that GG doco.
What a nutcase, but...

His early stuff was surprisingly not-shit.

 

[JimmyBeerCans]

That GG doco put me right off me tucker for a day or so

 

[edgie]

Hey no music is as inclusive as AC/DC.

It's right there in the name.

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