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The Falls Road Taximan

The Falls Road Taximan
[1977]
Album “England's Vietnam - Irish Songs of Resistance”, Folkways Records

Scritta da Barney McIlvogue

The Peoples' Taxis first appeared on the Falls Road, Belfast, when the Corporation withdrew public transport from routes through Republican areas where a riot or a gun battle was a daily occurrence. The gap was quickly filled by a group of local taxi men. At lOp per person it must be the cheapest adventure trip in Western Europe. This song is dedicated to Tony, one of our political prisoners in Long Kesh.
(Nota dal libretto che accompagna il disco)

Falls Road è il nome di una delle strade principali di Belfast, quella che divide i quartieri cattolici da quelli protestanti di Shankill Road. Durante il conflitto contro gli occupanti inglesi e la guerra civile tra le due comunità contrapposte il servizio di trasporto pubblico fu interrotto per motivi di sicurezza in tutte le aree dove... (Continues)
As I roved out through Belfast town, around by Castle Street,
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/22 - 13:17
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The Internee

The Internee
[1977]
Album “England's Vietnam - Irish Songs of Resistance”, Folkways Records

Scritta da Barney McIlvogue

The song tells of the anguish of the internee's wife, as she watches her husband being dragged from their bed and brought to Long Kesh, there to be held in a barbed wire cage without charge or trial for an indefinite period. As she watches the politicians selling out she comes to the conclusion that it will take more than words to end the repression of a State guilty of such inhuman behaviour. Now, in May 1975 despite Merlyn Rees' pathetic lies [Lord Merlyn-Rees, labourista, segretario di Stato per il Nord Irlanda tra il 1974 e il 1976, ndr] over 300 Republicans are in Long Kesh.
(Nota dal libretto che accompagna il disco)
It was four o'clock in the morning when they dragged him from his bed,
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/22 - 12:44
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England’s Vietnam

England’s Vietnam
[1977]
Album “England's Vietnam - Irish Songs of Resistance”, Folkways Records
Scritta da Brian Whoriskey

“The people of Vietnam fought for 30 years before achieving their independence. The path to freedom may be long and hard but for England the simple message is that the days of the colonists are over, and, for all her military might, she cannot forever deny the Irish people their freedom”
(Nota dal libretto che accompagna il disco)
Well, good morning, friends, it's good to be back in the good old U.S.A.
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/22 - 11:47
Song Itineraries: Conflicts in Ireland
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Friedenspanzer

Friedenspanzer
una canzone stupenda musicalmente e forse testualmente un pò banale, ma sempre meravigliosa...

die arzte ...simply the best...
jbs 2010/2/22 - 03:48
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Audience Of One

Audience Of One
[2008]

Lyrics & Music by Tim McIlrath
Album: Appeal to Reason

"Audience of One" is the second single from their 2008 album Appeal to Reason. Hitting number four on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart, it is Rise Against's third-highest charting single, behind the previous single from Appeal to Reason, "Re-Education (Through Labor)", which peaked at number three and the third single "Savior". In mid-October 2008, the L.A. radio station KROQ began playing "Audience of One." Its video was announced to be shot with director Brett Simon on December 9. On January 15, the video for "Audience of One" premiered on MySpace. The single was released on CD and 7" vinyl on March 3, 2009 in the UK. The song is also a downloadable song in Guitar Hero World Tour.
"Audience Of One" is featured with a customized Rise Against Theme in Tap Tap Revenge 2 for the iPhone and iPod Touch. It is featured... (Continues)
I can still remember - the words and what they meant
(Continues)
Contributed by giorgio 2010/2/21 - 21:33
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È lei

È lei
(2010)

Album: "Le vie del rock sono infinite"
È lei che proprio in questo istante sta nascendo
(Continues)
2010/2/21 - 12:06
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Pick Up The Bones

Pick Up The Bones
[2000]
Album: Brutal Planet
Collecting pieces of my family in an old pillow case
(Continues)
Contributed by giorgio 2010/2/21 - 11:15
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Voci sospese

Voci sospese
Dall'album "Iguana Cafè" del 2005
Voci sospese
(Continues)
Contributed by Renato Stecca 2010/2/21 - 10:27
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Put Out The Fire

Put Out The Fire
[1982]
Album: Hot Space

"Put Out the Fire" is an anti-firearm song written by Brian May, with lead vocals by Freddie Mercury. May recorded its guitar solo under the influence of alcohol (after many unsuccessful attempts). Though never released as a single, "Put Out the Fire", the album's most 'traditional' Queen song, later appeared on the Queen Rocks compilation in 1997. A new video was also produced for the accompanying video compilation, featuring a live performance of the song intercut with footage of fire and explosions.
They called him a hero
(Continues)
Contributed by giorgio 2010/2/21 - 09:31
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Osposidda

Osposidda
(P.Pillonca- Piero Marras)

La storia che vi raccontiamo risale a vent’anni fa, ed è una storia tragica di banditismo sardo vero, nel quale i cattivi diventano leali e i probi, col sangue de sa justhitzia, perfidi. Era la sera del 19 gennaio del 1984. Quattro fuorilegge sequestrarono l’imprenditore di Oliena Tonino Caggiari, ma furono subito intercettati ad Osposidda, nel monte Corrasi, (tra Orgosolo e Oliena) da una “pattuglia” di civili olianesi immediatamente postisi alla ricerca del compaesano. Tale manifestazione fu l’espressione de Sa kirka o de Su Kertu, così chiamata a secondo della variante linguistica, la quale rispondeva all’istituto antichissimo della radicata cultura sarda comunitaria, che impegnava gli abitanti dei rispettivi paesi colpiti dai furti di bestiame in genere (o in questo caso da sequestro), ad andare alla ricerca della cosa rubata per restituirla al proprietario.... (Continues)
Allumadas de fogu
(Continues)
Contributed by Egon 2010/2/21 - 03:18
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Notte lituana

C’era una volta la luna
(Continues)
Contributed by Egon 2010/2/21 - 03:09
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Don't Say

Don't Say
[2006]
Album "Dubfellas"
Don’t say me bye friend
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/21 - 00:21
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Muro 'e mare

Muro 'e mare
[2006]
Album "Dubfellas"

"Simme tutte quante clandestine..."
Simme 'nu punte nire dinte a 'stu cielo d'acque
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/21 - 00:19
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Bum Bum

Bum Bum
[2008]
Album "Vulgus"

Una "spoken-song in dub" affidata al grande drammaturgo, attore e scrittore napoletano Peppe Lanzetta.
… Ma addo’ sta’ ‘a felicità
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/21 - 00:01

Vox Media

Vox Media
Vox Media

Vox Media – Marco Valdo M.I. – 2010
Cycle du Cahier ligné – 90

Vox Media est la nonantième chanson du Cycle du Cahier ligné, constitué d'éléments tirés du Quaderno a Cancelli de Carlo Levi.

Vox Media, dit Lucien l'âne, que veux-tu dire par là ? Entends-tu signifier une voix , car vox si je me souviens bien veut dire voix en latin, donc, une voix moyenne, une voix du milieu ou une voix dont le nom serait Media...

Ce serait plutôt dans ce sens qu'il faut aller, mon ami Lucien l'âne. Media est une sorte de nom international qui désigne les moyens de diffusion – et non de communication comme certains essayent de le faire croire. On diffuse, un point, c'est tout. Juste un mot à ce sujet : pour qu'il y ait communication, il faut qu'il y ait une voie à double sens, un aller-retour, une expression et une réponse et de surcroît entre deux parties égales. On est loin du fonctionnement... (Continues)
Il y a bien longtemps
(Continues)
Contributed by Marco Valdo M.I. 2010/2/20 - 22:55
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Cuando los ángeles lloran

Cuando los ángeles lloran
QUANDO GLI ANGELI PIANGONO
(Continues)
Contributed by Maria Pia 2010/2/20 - 19:37
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Smisurata preghiera

Smisurata preghiera
Makroll su Gabbieri a Kabul in s'Afganistan.

Arrogu liau de s'arrumanzu de Àlvaro Mutis
"Unu bellu Mòrriri" de su 1989 e
torrau a prentai po is: Editzionis Einaudi,
Cannaca po is busciacas, 1992 e 1997, Turinu.

Po ndi sciri de prus apitzus de Àlvaro Mutis cracai innoi e brintai in sa poisia de cust’òmini mannu.
Makroll, su Gabbieri, arremonat a sa pàgini 131 de su lìbburu.
(Continues)
2010/2/20 - 18:33
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La Cantagranda

La Cantagranda
Chanson italienne – La Cantagranda – Ivan Della Mea – 2000

L'insertion de « Grandchant » dans les CCG est due essentiellement à deux strophes au caractère clairement antimilitariste (et, dans une moindre mesure, aussi à la présence dans cette très longue chanson – dix neuf minutes et trois secondes – d'une allusion à la mort de Giuseppe Pinelli (Ces strophes sont en gras). Pour le reste, à propos de ces très vaste chanson (dont le texte est ins&éré pour la première fois sur le net) je reprends un article publié le 22 juillet 2005.

Ivan Della Mea est des mêmes années que Guccini et que De André. Lui aussi de 1940, année de guerre; il est né un seize octobre, curieusement le même jour que ma mère (qui il y a quelques jours, l'a écouté pour la première fois de sa vie...) On me dit qu'il n'est pas très bien et qu'il n'a pas seulement mal à sa tocante; il serait cependant trop facile d'accrocher... (Continues)
GRANDCHANT
(Continues)
Contributed by Marco Valdo M.I. 2010/2/20 - 16:40
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My Country

My Country
[1985]
Album "No Rest for the Wicked"
Tell all the people who believe what they read in the press
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/20 - 11:56
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51st State

51st State
[1986]
Album "The Ghost of Cain"
Look out of your windows, watch the skies
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/20 - 11:43
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Better Than Them

Better Than Them
[1985]
Album "No Rest for the Wicked"
This is our town, this is Friday night
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/20 - 11:37
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The Power Is Yours

The Power Is Yours
[1986]
Album "Neither Washington Nor Moscow"
Let's get this situation sorted out!
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/20 - 11:20
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Take No Heroes

Take No Heroes
[1986]
Album "Neither Washington Nor Moscow"
Somebody told me today
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/20 - 11:14
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Kick Over The Statues

Kick Over The Statues
[1986]
Album "Neither Washington Nor Moscow"
At the end of an era
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/20 - 11:05
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It Can Be Done

It Can Be Done
[1986]
Album "Neither Washington Nor Moscow"
Russia sparked the fires in 1917
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/20 - 11:00
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D.I.Y.

D.I.Y.
[2005]
Album "Restless Soul"
Warmongers, kill yourselves
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/20 - 10:20
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Perfect Sense

Perfect Sense
Riguardo al testo, la voce di HAL non è presente sulla registrazione finale, poiché Stanley Kubrick non diede a Waters il permesso di usarla.

Se pensate bene, tempo prima (nel 1970 circa, i Pink Floyd ancora "interi"), Waters e compagni non permisero a Stanley Kubrick di usare le musiche di Atom Heart Mother per Arancia Meccanica... Che Kubrick si sia arrabbiato con Waters? Ma dopo tutto, era una musica troppo solenne per un film così violento...
Luca 2010/2/19 - 14:29
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Green Grow The Rushes

Green Grow The Rushes
[1985]
Album "Fables of the Reconstruction"

Una canzone che con Flowers of Guatemala e Welcome To The Occupation costituisce una sorta di trilogia sulla politica statunitense verso i paesi del centro e sud America negli anni 80, in particolare rispetto alla questione dell'immigrazione, solo apparentemente contrastata con la forza (e con grande spargimento di sangue) ma tollerata, quando non incentivata, a seconda delle esigenze del mercato, che sempre predilige la manodopera a basso costo ("some surplus, cheaper hands") - in maggioranza clandestini ("Pay for your freedom, find another gate") sfruttati, ricattati, minacciati - per massimizzare i propri profitti ("The amber waves of gain")...

Il titolo si riferisce probabilmente alla canzone popolare religiosa di origine ebraica "Green Grow The Rushes, Ho", un brano molto noto nel mondo anglofono. Alcune fonti ritengono che gli immigrati... (Continues)
The wheelbarrow's fallen
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/19 - 13:07
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I Want to Be President

I Want to Be President
[2004]
We got arms
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/19 - 11:58
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Free World

Free World
[1989]
Album "Kite"

Una canzone dedicata alla vita della gente comune in Inghilterra negli anni del thatcherismo...
I thought of you when they closed down the school
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/19 - 11:26
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San Quentin

San Quentin
"Nonno" Cash ci manca ogni giorno... inarrivabile. Questa è pura poesia.
Alberto 2010/2/18 - 18:58
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Sólo le pido a Dios

Sólo le pido a Dios
La nuova guerra delle Falkland
La posta in gioco è il petrolio

Una società britannica inizia le ricerche di altri giacimenti e il governo argentino limita la navigazione verso le isole

di Omero Ciai, da La Repubblica

Sott'acqua, intorno all'arcipelago delle Falkland/Malvinas, ci sarebbero, secondo uno studio della Geological Society of London, 60 miliardi di barili di greggio. Un tesoro difficile da sottrarre all'Oceano ma che, visti i costi crescenti del petrolio, diventa ogni giorno più appetitoso. Tant'è vero che una impresa britannica, Desire Petroleum, ha annunciato l'avvio delle ricerche nell'area a nord delle isole dove spera di estrarre nei prossimi anni fino a 3 miliardi di barili di oro nero. L'interesse di Desire e di altre aziende del Regno Unito a caccia di idrocarburi per far girare il mondo nei prossimi decenni ha riaperto in Argentina la ferita della contesa sulla Falkland/Malvinas... (Continues)
Alessandro 2010/2/18 - 14:46
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Old England

Old England
[1985]
Album "This Is the Sea"

"Old England" is a criticism of Thatcherism, blaming Margaret Thatcher's economic policies for what The Waterboys perceived to be an increase in desperation amongst the young and poor in the England of that time, and a rise in drug addiction, specifically to heroin. The refrain, Old England is dying is a quote from James Joyce, and the lines You're asking what makes me sigh now / What it is makes me shudder so are from W.B. Yeats' poem, Mad as the Mist and Snow.
(en.wikipedia)
Man looks up on a yellow sky
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/18 - 14:22
Song Itineraries: Miss Maggie Thatcher
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Pax Americana

Pax Americana
[2004]
Album "The Revolution of Species"

Testo trovato su archive.org
Bloody confrontations from
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/18 - 13:44
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Freedom is Humanity

[2004]
Album "The Revolution of Species"

Testo trovato su archive.org
Tolerance is key to dismantling oppression
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/18 - 13:43
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Forgotten Genocide

Forgotten Genocide
[2004]
Album "The Revolution of Species"

Testo trovato su archive.org
A trail of blood from sea to sea
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/18 - 13:41
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Murder is Murder

Murder is Murder
[2004]
Album "The Revolution of Species"

Testo trovato su archive.org
Murder is murder
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/18 - 13:39
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Money, Power and Lies

Money, Power and Lies
They break into our houses
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/18 - 13:35
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Rich man's War, Poor Man's Struggle

[2004]
Album "The Revolution of Species"

Testo trovato su archive.org
Sign off your life, pack up your bags
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/18 - 13:29
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The Unknown War Criminal

[2005]
Testo trovato su archive.org
He likes the tales and legends,
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/18 - 13:18
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Some Misgivings

[2005]
Testo trovato su archive.org

"About life after the bomb drops."
My name is Harry, Dick or Tom.
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/18 - 13:12
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The Spun Us Another War, Ma

[2003]
Scritta un mese dopo l'invasione americana dell'Iraq nel marzo 2003.
They spun us another war, ma
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/18 - 12:52
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Standing On the Moon

Standing On the Moon
[1989]
Album "Built to Last"
Words by Robert Hunter
Music by Jerry Garcia
Standing on the moon
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/18 - 12:37
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U.S. Blues

U.S. Blues
[1974]
Album "Grateful Dead from the Mars Hotel"
Words by Robert Hunter
Music by Jerry Garcia
Red and white
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/18 - 11:20
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Throwing Stones

Throwing Stones
[1982]
Album "In the Dark" (1987)
Words by John Perry Barlow
Music by Bob Weir

Il brano è incluso pure nella compilation "Greenpeace: Rainbow Warriors" uscita nel 1989 per commemorare l'attentato subito da Greenpeace nel 1985, quando i servizi segreti francesi affondarono la nave ammiraglia del movimento, la "Rainbow Warrior", mentre si trovava alla fonda nel porto neozelandese di Auckland. Nell'attentato morì il fotografo Fernando Pereira, attivista di Greenpeace.
Picture a bright blue ball, just spinning, spinnin free,
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/18 - 11:02




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