CDR-80: The Anti-Bush Treatise

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I'm interested in suggestions for a compilation which explores-exposes-indicts the era and policies of President G.W. Bush and the accompanying "Neo Conservative" political agenda.

This should include all possible genres, and not necessarily *just* American artists...

I am aware that there have been plenty of 'anti-Bush' songs; I'm interested in which people feel hit the target most effectively...

― Tom May (Tom May), Thursday, 8 September 2005 10:07 (twenty years ago)

First up:

Eminem - Mosh (too late as it did come, this stands as a very appropriate response to the times and the man)

Perhaps something off Suicide's "American Supreme", to convey the experience of 9/11...

Does anyone recall if there were many musicians lining up to pen songs attacking "The Commander In Chief" between his election and 9/11?

― Tom May (Tom May), Thursday, 8 September 2005 10:13 (twenty years ago)

Eminem's Square Dance

― mentalist (mentalist), Thursday, 8 September 2005 10:40 (twenty years ago)

You might want to comb www.protest-records.com, though the only track I really liked was Jim O'Rourke's cover of Bill Fay's Pictures of Adolph Again

― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 8 September 2005 13:13 (twenty years ago)

Sage Francis to thread

― elmo (allocryptic), Thursday, 8 September 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

"Sweet Neon Con" by the Stones.

― Huey (Huey), Thursday, 8 September 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)

Crass's "How Does It Feel To Be The Mother of a Thousand Dead." Actually about Margaret Thatcher, but more than applicable.

― Douglas (Douglas), Thursday, 8 September 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

i reckon this should be included :

http://www.fwmj.com/plex/media/thelegendaryko/George%20Bush%20Doesnt%20Care%20About%20Black%20People.mp3

― mark e (mark e), Thursday, 8 September 2005 14:35 (twenty years ago)

The Coup's "Party Music" to thread, as I'm sure you know.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Thursday, 8 September 2005 15:18 (twenty years ago)

Okay Tom, who here doesn't want to get ripped on THE GANJA first!!!!!

― Gabe Tonkin, Thursday, 8 September 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)

Paris - Bush Killa

Actually about his father, but works well either way

― Mickey (modestmickey), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

about the neo-con agenda:

"Kill the Poor" and "When Ya Get Drafted,"

both by Dead Kennedys

― jehu, Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:59 (twenty years ago)

I'd rather hear a pro-Bush CDR myself.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:09 (twenty years ago)

To Love and To Be Loved: Bright Eyes

Their best song, with a great anti-bush verse

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)

TVOR's Dry Drunk Emporer:

http://turbine.slackworks.com/robots/blair/DryDrunkEmperor.mp3

― schwantz, Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

TVOR's Dry Drunk Emperor:

http://turbine.slackworks.com/robots/blair/DryDrunkEmperor.mp3

[whoops - bad spelling]

― schwantz, Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

"The Problem" by J.J. Cale

― Billy Pilgrim (Billy Pilgrim), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:37 (twenty years ago)

though it personally rankles me to no end, bright eyes' "when the president talks to god" might be the most prominent lately.

steve earle's "condi condi" if you're feeling saucy.

"masters of war" if saucier.

― awful bliss (awful bliss), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:37 (twenty years ago)

http://www.fwmj.com/plex/media/thelegendaryko/George%20Bush%20Doesnt%20Care%20About%20Black%20People.mp3

― schwantz, Thursday, 8 September 2005 21:46 (twenty years ago)

You might want to comb www.protest-records.com, though the only track I really liked was Jim O'Rourke's cover of Bill Fay's Pictures of Adolph Again

That's a great song - I'm also a fan of Mudhoney's "Hardon For War."

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Thursday, 8 September 2005 22:39 (twenty years ago)

"Who is This America Dem Speak of Today?" by Antibalas

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Thursday, 8 September 2005 23:03 (twenty years ago)

and we'll pray, all damn day, every day,
that all this shit our president has got us in will go away
while we strive to figure out a way we can survive
these trying times without losing our minds

shysters live from scheme to scheme and my 4th quarter pipe dreams
are seeming more and more worth fighting for
so i'll curate some situations, make my job a big vacation
and i'll say FUCK BUSH AND FUCK THIS WAR

Loose Lips by Kimya Dawson.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Thursday, 8 September 2005 23:50 (twenty years ago)

everything on the bullshit detector comps

― renegade bus (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 8 September 2005 23:54 (twenty years ago)

Thighpaulsandra - The Bush Administration Project

― ..., Friday, 9 September 2005 00:01 (twenty years ago)

Fiery Furnaces - We got back the plague

― casey (t. fiend), Friday, 9 September 2005 01:16 (twenty years ago)

Tumor Circus - Hazing For Success - Again, about Bush Snr.

― Ben Dot (1977), Friday, 9 September 2005 02:17 (twenty years ago)

Ministry's "No W"

― Zane, Friday, 9 September 2005 06:06 (twenty years ago)

George Bush Doesn't Care About Black People

― mentalist (mentalist), Friday, 9 September 2005 13:37 (twenty years ago)

K-Otix George Bush Doesn't Care About Black People

― mentalist (mentalist), Friday, 9 September 2005 13:37 (twenty years ago)

Thanks for that, Mentalist. I haven't checked that blog in a while, nor heard from the K to the O. And man, I love their early singles and eps. But this is maybe even better.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Friday, 9 September 2005 14:02 (twenty years ago)

good to see folks are getting the Legendary KO track - seems demand has killed the orig site ..

― mark e (mark e), Friday, 9 September 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

Just found "Katrina Clap" by Mos Def.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Friday, 9 September 2005 23:55 (twenty years ago)

"son of a bush" by public enemy

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 9 September 2005 23:56 (twenty years ago)

Can the somewhat tepid response here be taken as evidence against the "at least with the Republicans in we'll get LOTS OF GREAT MUSIC!!" meme?

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 12 September 2005 06:53 (twenty years ago)

I mean, in the '80s we had "The War Song," people!

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 12 September 2005 06:55 (twenty years ago)

Trans Am's "Uninvited Guest" is a lot of fun - Negativland-style re-edited Bush speeches set over a driving Jan Hammer-style synthy track.

― Who Are You, Buster Gonad? (Bent Over at the Arclight), Monday, 12 September 2005 07:04 (twenty years ago)

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