Listening to Leonard Cohen's I'm Your Man LP, I was struck by how it casually covers many of the issues that international capitalism raises and that lame journalists struggle to grapple with.
Previously, I'd presumed that globalisation was only dealt with in the '80s by Chumbawamba and their ilk. And when I heard tracks like these, or Dylan's 'Union Sundown' at the time, I thought they were perhaps a little bit conspiracy theory, a little bit anti-internationalist.
Who else -- that doesn't specialise in political music -- was talking about this in the '80s? There must be a bunch.
― Alan Connor, Jr., Wednesday, 21 May 2003 12:42 (twenty-two years ago)