c/d s/d songs about peace and harmony

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what're the good ones? (are there any?)

― gaz (gaz), Monday, 25 August 2003 21:22 (twenty-two years ago)

"windows of the world" is great

― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 25 August 2003 21:23 (twenty-two years ago)

inspired by this conversation.

g: what do you think of the curs ov dialect disc?
b: haven't listened. i'm wary. they used to be so great but now i think they're too...competent.
g: the beats are pretty inventive.
b: the dj used to only have one turntable! they'd be like dropping the mic and shit. i loved 'em.
g: there might be too many rhymes about multiculturalism and living together.
b: i like the old cv!
g: (chris rock voice) its the old db! it aint the new db!
b: yeah. i just like rappers who rhyme about taking drugs and doing unspeakable things with women...

― gaz (gaz), Monday, 25 August 2003 21:27 (twenty-two years ago)

o yeah am. i like that song. which version?

― gaz (gaz), Monday, 25 August 2003 21:28 (twenty-two years ago)

thinking of "where's the love" the problem is that the lyrics are so scattershot and self-aggrandizing and the chorus so self-serving. there's an arrogance to much of the "peace" and "harmony" stuff (even the bacharach song i mention above, which has a grogeous melody and is more of a lament than a protest song)---like when american's read an article on israel, roll their eyes and ask "why can't they just make up and get along?" it's a wilfull denial of the complexity of the issues and the vested interests of people in the world. "oh why can't we all just share the love like the black-eyed peas we will all be so happy then" etc.

― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 25 August 2003 21:43 (twenty-two years ago)

oh which version? dionne warwick of course. her album of the same name is the best dionne warwick album. you can probably find it in a garage sale for 50 cents!

scott walker's is nice too.

― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 25 August 2003 21:44 (twenty-two years ago)

i can't go too far in this worrisome direction b/c i adore gospel music, much of which is similarly pedantic and generalizing, albeit in a religious vein (is it the specificity of religious belief that redeems the banality of the lyrics in those cases??)

― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 25 August 2003 21:45 (twenty-two years ago)

"What's So Funn `Bout Peace, Love & Understanding" by Elvis Costello & the Attractions (written by Nick Lowe)

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 25 August 2003 22:16 (twenty-two years ago)

That should've been Funny, of course.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 25 August 2003 22:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I like the idea of having a "C or D" about songs about peace and harmony, just because I really want to hear someone argue against the idea of peace and harmony.

That said, anybody hear Aaron McGruder, brilliant cartoonist, on C Span, when he was giving this speach, in which he said he didn't like gangsta rap but respected gangsta rapper's ability to sell themselves, and went on to say something like, "I don't listen to The Black Eyed Peas -- they're corney."

I just thought it was really spot on.

― David Allen, Monday, 25 August 2003 22:22 (twenty-two years ago)

it's not peace and harmony that irks me, it's the meme "peace and harmony" as its often used in popsong.

― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 25 August 2003 22:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Search: "Peace Train" by Cat Stevens, "Sweet Harmony" by the Beloved, "Melt the Guns" by XTC

Destroy: "Peace Train" by 10,000 Maniacs, "Get Together" by the Youngbloods, "Peace Dog" by the Cult (whom I love, but ugh!). "Let Love Rule" by Lenny Kravitz

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 25 August 2003 22:31 (twenty-two years ago)

It's interesting that the Black Eyed Peas get slapped around for being corny or simplistic or whatever, yet Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On?" gets pretty much universal props.

And speaking of simplistic (not necessarily a bad thing):

John "Give Peace a Chance" and "Imagine" Lennon to thread.

Incidentally, is anti-war necessarily pro-peace-and-harmony? I'm thinking of "Masters of War" here.

― David A. (Davant), Monday, 25 August 2003 22:47 (twenty-two years ago)

CLASSIC / SEARCH

"Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In" -the 5th Dimension
"Reach Out of the Darkness" -Friend & Lover
"San Francisco" -Scott McKenzie
"people got to be free" -the rascals

― reo fordecor, Wednesday, 27 August 2003 03:35 (twenty-two years ago)

"The Window" by Steve Miller. And since everyone owns three copies of Fly Like an Eagle, classic.

― weatheringdaleson (weatheringdaleson), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 04:23 (twenty-two years ago)

i would like to contradict alex in nyc and recommend you search "get together"

― amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 04:32 (twenty-two years ago)

revenge - pineapple face

"...always live in peace..."

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 04:33 (twenty-two years ago)

"I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing" (and buy it a coke.) - The New Seekers.

Very nice, but maybe in the next world .. "Death of a Disco Dancer"

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 11:15 (twenty-two years ago)

well, there's "love is peace" by amon duul. chorus: "love is peace, freedom in harmony."

(they were hippies.)

― your null fame (yournullfame), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 12:12 (twenty-two years ago)

"Harvest For The World" - The Isley Brothers, classic

― Saskia, Wednesday, 27 August 2003 13:17 (twenty-two years ago)

"i would like to contradict alex in nyc and recommend you search "get together"

Amateurist, you SHAMELESS FREEDOM ROCKER!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 14:26 (twenty-two years ago)

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