Osama Bin Laden's Least Favourite.

[howie50]

What would be the song Bin Laden would least like to hear on the radio ? I'll kick off by going for The Cure's Killing An Arab which I believe was inspired by a passage from a William Rice-Burroughs book. Or, how about This Town Aint Big Enough For The Both of Us by those little remembered and much under-rated Sparks.

[educatedfilm]

that's nice... i'm an arab... dont you think you'r letting the simple minded sloganeering tabloid propaganda get to your head? I've known about Ben laden for years, and I've not really cared much for him, and i still dont... but what i dont understand is why poeple get built with some much anger sooooo quickly and with such little substance...

Ben Laden doesn't listen to music... so what the hell is the point in this thread?
I think the flip side to this thread is that poeple should listen to "bullet in the head" by rage:

"Bullet In The Head
This time the bullet cold rocked ya
A yellow ribbon instead of a swastika
Nothin' proper about ya propaganda
Fools follow rules when the set commands ya
Said it was blue
When ya blood was read
That's how ya got a bullet blasted through ya head

Blasted through ya head
Blasted through ya head

I give a shout out to the living dead
Who stood and watched as the feds cold centralised
So serene on the screen
You was mesmerised
Cellular phones soundin' a death tone
Corporations cold
Turn ya to stone before ya realise

They load the clip in omnicolour
Said they pack the 9, they fire it at prime time
The sleeping gas, every home was like Alcatraz
And mutha ****as lost their minds

Just victims of the in-house drive-by
They say jump, you say how high
Yeah
Just victims of the in-house drive-by
They say jump, you say how high
Run it!

Just victims of the in-house drive-by
They say jump, you say how high
Just victims of the in-house drive-by
They say jump, you say how high

Check-a, check-a, check it out
They load the clip in omnicolour
Said they pack the 9, they fire it at prime time
The sleeping gas, every home was like Alcatraz
And mutha ****as lost their minds

No escape from the mass mind rape
Play it again jack and then rewind the tape
And then play it again and again and again
Until ya mind is locked in
Believin' all the lies that they're tellin' ya
Buyin' all the products that they're sellin' ya
They say jump and ya say how high
Ya brain-dead
Ya gotta ****in' bullet in ya head

Just victims of the in-house drive-by
They say jump, you say how high
Yeah
Just victims of the in-house drive-by
They say jump, you say how high

Uggh! Yeah! Yea!

Ya standin' in line
Believin' the lies
Ya bowin' down to the flag
Ya gotta bullet in ya head

Ya standin' in line
Believin' the lies
Ya bowin' down to the flag
Ya gotta bullet in ya head"

[Edited by educatedfilm on 11-26-2001 at 05:31 PM]

[PonyOne]

Looking Down The Barrel Of A Gun by the Beasties...
It fits his situation, it's modern non-muslim/non-religious, and it's sung by three Jews gone Buddhist who support gay rights.

And as long as we're on the topic of revolutionary lyrics... forget those posers from Rage. These are from the Swedish anti-establishment band Refused (so anti establishemnt, in fact, that they broke up... to break establishment):

"New Noise"

Can I scream?
It's here for us to admire if we can afford the beauty of it. If we can afford the luxury of turning our heads.
If we can adjust that $1000 smile and behold the creation of man.
Great words won't cover ugly actions and good frames won't save bad paintings.
We lack the motion to move to the new beat.
When the day is over the doors are locked on us.
Cause money buys the access
and we can't pay the cost.
And how can we expect anyone to listen if we are using the same old voice?
We need new noise
new art for the real people.
We lack the motion to move to the new beat.
We dance to all the wrong songs and we enjoy all the wrong moves. We're not leading. Yeah.
The new beat, The new beat, The new beat, The new beat....

Worms of the Senses/Faculties of the Skull

I got a bone to pick with capitalism and a few to break.
Grab us by the throat and shake the life away. Human life is not commodity, figures, statistics or make believe.
And yeah I like eating excrement and not getting paid for it.
Play the guilt, play the fear and play the anxiety x2
Seduced by the opportunity and robbed of hope. Human suffering is not
commodity, figures, statistics or make believe.
Marginalise away the joy and sell us boredom.
And yeah I like working doing nothing and not making anything.
Blame the poor, blame the uneducated and blame the sick x2
I took the first bus out of Coca-Cola city cause it made me feel nauseous and sh!tty.
I took the first bus out of Shell town cause they didn't want me hanging around.
I took the first bus.
Let's take the first bus out of here.

Now get onto Napster and download some of their MP3's, they'll love you for it.

[Edited by PonyOne on 11-26-2001 at 10:37 PM]

[Raskolnikov]

Hmmmm...

I'd think any number of Chili Peppers tunes, but especially Shallow be Thy Game, and The Power of Equality.

Though I'd like to see the rest of the world spend some time listening to Excuse Me Mister by Ben Harper and Do Not Go Quietly Unto Your Grave by Morphine.

[Bardsley]

Do Not Go Quietly Unto YOur Grave? What are the lyrics to that? The title sounds remarkably like Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, by Dylan Thomas. Rage aren't exactly posers I wouldn't think. As much as anyone being in the spotlight immediately gets called a poser by some as they lean for someone no one else has heard of; we all want something for ourselves and if a band becomes a bit too big...

[unefu72]

You Dropped the Bomb on Me by the Gap Band. I know thats one of the last songs I'd wanna here, and I'm not being hunted by the world.

[blackrose]

Maybe the song innocence, by shaded red...of course, odds are nobody else here has heard it. I would explain it, but i can't remember all the lyrics and you wouldn't understand it uless i wrote them all out.

[Raskolnikov]

Originally posted by Bardsley
Do Not Go Quietly Unto YOur Grave? What are the lyrics to that? The title sounds remarkably like Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, by Dylan Thomas.

Listen young people, I'm seventy four,
and I plan to live sixty or seventy more.
I been all around, and I've done a few things
and I spent a few nights on the floor.
I did everything wrong, but I never got caught
so of course, I would do it all over again.
I suprised many people who'd written me off year ago,
now they're way under ground

Nobody asked me, so here's my advice
To a young man or woman who's living this life
in a world gone to Hell, where nobody's safe:
Do not go quietly unto your grave,
do not go quietly unto your grave.

Well, I've learned a few tricks,
and I'll learn a few more
and I've got enough bullets
to fight a small war

Nobody asked me, so here's my advice
To a young man or woman who's living this life
in a world gone to Hell, where nobody's safe:
Do not go quietly unto your grave,
do not go quietly unto your grave.

[Raskolnikov]

ed and lalimacefolle reminded me of one more song that I think everybody in the world should take a good listen to:

Too Many Puppies by Primus
Too many puppies
With guns in their hands
Too many puppies
In foreign lands
are dressed up sharp in suits of green
and placed upon the war machine
Too many puppies
are just like me
Too many puppies
are afraid to see
the visions of the past brought to life again
Too many puppies, too many dead men.

[PonyOne]

The main reason I don't like rage isn't actually because they fight capitalism from the top of Sony records... by making yourself a major band with a political bent, you can get that viewpoint to the masses.
Rural Country Boy Chuck gets all his CD's at WalMart; it's the only place that sells CD's in a 50 mile radius. WalMart doesn't sell Refused CD's. They do, however, sell Rage CD's (i don't think they really do, but maybe it's a Sam Goody he goes to). So he can hear political statements that he may not have heard before out on the farm but agrees with, and ends up living the rest of his life on his farm, spouting anti-capitalist rhetoric to all who will listen for the rest of his life, and has books by Marx, Sun Tzu, Ingles, etc. rather than The Farmers Almanacs 1995-2055.

I don't like Zack De La Rocha's voice or the fact he's a chronic liar who changes his life story to suit whatever cause he's championing at the release of his latest CD or PR stunt; I happen to be into many of the causes that he champions, but I feel that his jumping on it, then making up bull**** stories about how he was kicked off a reservation, saw his brother killed by the LAPD, etc, trivializes those who are actually caught up in the causes he's rooting for. For God's sake, he can't even get his ethno-racial makeup straight: he's been native american, hispanic, jamaican, half white/half black (his father abandoned his mom as all us white guys do), probably been Tibetan/Palestinian too, at some point...