Too Political (music meme excess)

[thegiantkiller]

You know this meme:
1. Reply to this post and I'll assign you a letter.
2. List 5 songs that start with that letter.
3. Post them to your journal with these instructions.

Comments

[mylostmarbles]

Some one had the nerve to tell you what to write about in your own journal? That takes balls. Very inappropriate balls.

Your journal, your content. If someone doesn't like the content they can choose not to read. Period. FWIW, I read and enjoy keeping up with you and what you're thinkin' about.

[thegiantkiller]

Thanks for the support. I'm not going to say anything more about it now because I declared this Not The Forum.

Did you want a letter for the meme?

[mylostmarbles]

Sure, why not.

[thegiantkiller]

How does N sound?

[sabotabby]

Regarding "Tender Comrade," I always thought [spoiler], but I wasn't sure. Am I to presume that everyone else interprets it as [spoiler] too?

I don't think you can have too much talking about politics, personally.

[thegiantkiller]

Well, I definitely think [spoiler], but I haven't asked Billy so I don't know what he thinks (because having that one conversation about hiding dead goats from scavenging animals makes us BFFs).

Did you want a letter for the meme?

[sabotabby]

Sure, why not?

[thegiantkiller]

What can you do with I?

Sign me Up.

[sher_khan]

OK I'll Bite give me a letter. I will have to qualify that my choices will probably be personally based, or emotionally based and not political or social consciousness based.

I will ask you to please explain the old guard link to Tender Comrade. I am not aware of the link. I am probably not aware of a lot of things.

I will look up each of these songs, there are a few artists that I have listened to before.

Thank you for this post, It is very illuminating, and gives me things to learn about.

Re: Sign me Up.

[thegiantkiller]

I bequeath unto you the letter R.

The Old Guard link is a little tenuous; it comes from me connecting the song's story (as I read it) of soldiers discovering their mutual attraction on the front and then coming home with a different awareness and a parcel of trauma with the suggestion by Mark Thompson (in his introduction to the anthology Leatherfolk) and others that it's precisely that situation--men who returned from a situation where explicit power differences drove everything, couldn't go "home", found each other and crafted a community together--that provided growing conditions for Leather culture in the mid-20th century.