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RandomKoolzip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-25-03 11:29 AM
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4. Unfortunately Rock is no longer the music of rebels and freethinkers
exclusively. There are a lot of right-wing rock music fans. Rock has largely lost its anti'authoritarian kick and is just fodder for commercials, right-wing radio shock jocks, selling beer, etc. This all happened around 1983 or so, by the way....
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  -why do hate radio hosts use rock music to begin their shows pstokely  Jul-25-03 11:25 AM   #0 
  - Watch the movie "Bob Roberts"  deutsey   Jul-25-03 11:27 AM   #1 
  - David Bowie wasn't happy  romantico   Jul-25-03 11:29 AM   #2 
  - like when Reagan used 'Born in the USA' in 84  pstokely   Jul-25-03 11:31 AM   #5 
     - and stupid f***ing Reagan and his people  Skittles   Jul-25-03 01:09 PM   #24 
  - Savage Weiner plays Motley Crew at the begining of his show  pstokely   Jul-25-03 11:29 AM   #3 
  - Unfortunately Rock is no longer the music of rebels and freethinkers  RandomKoolzip   Jul-25-03 11:29 AM   #4 
  - so has country  pstokely   Jul-25-03 11:32 AM   #6 
  - 1983...that's exactly when I remember the shift too  deutsey   Jul-25-03 11:33 AM   #7 
  - I still like Rock music.. as long as it meets my strict criteria.  RandomKoolzip   Jul-25-03 11:41 AM   #11 
  - I remember it being more like  ArkDem   Jul-25-03 01:11 PM   #25 
  - Vicarious hipness  BurtWorm   Jul-25-03 11:36 AM   #8 
  - Weiner thinks using metal makes him a rebel  pstokely   Jul-25-03 11:41 AM   #10 
     - my take too  Ignoramus   Jul-25-03 12:29 PM   #16 
  - that often bothers me  SheepyMcSheepster   Jul-25-03 11:36 AM   #9 
  - Mr. Ego (Rush) Used Elvis Preseley's "In The Ghetto" the other day  bushisanidiot   Jul-25-03 11:48 AM   #12 
  - That Elvis song is one of the most racist I've ever heard.  maveric   Jul-25-03 01:08 PM   #23 
  - Rock and Hip-Hop have outlived their progressive impetus  roughsatori   Jul-25-03 11:53 AM   #13 
  - Presumably they want to use something stirring.  QC   Jul-25-03 11:55 AM   #14 
  - Ultimate Rush hyprocrisy with his theme song  wuushew   Jul-25-03 12:19 PM   #15 
  - Agreed. It's disgusting that he hijacked that song  SiouxJ   Jul-25-03 12:37 PM   #17 
     - I remember a Chrissie Hynde a while ago regarding Rush's theme song.  ftbc   Jul-25-03 12:59 PM   #18 
  - They "present" themselves as "with-it", happenin' ordinary folks  SoCalDem   Jul-25-03 01:02 PM   #19 
  - They want to indoctrinate "younger" people.  whoYaCallinAlib   Jul-25-03 01:04 PM   #20 
  - rush once confessed that chrissy hind gave him a  bearfartinthewoods   Jul-25-03 01:05 PM   #21 
  - They are on the cutting edge..  kentuck   Jul-25-03 01:06 PM   #22 
 

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