American Idiot by Green Day has become my new, traditional Independence Day music for the last 8 or so years.
Would love to replace that with something more patriotic, but we’ve got a lot of turning around to do before “Proud to be an American” is back in my playlist rotation.
Edit: And while I’m on my soapbox here, I’d like to extend a big ‘fuck you’ to any republicans celebrating today. You don’t get to celebrate the founding of the nation you’re trying so hard to destroy.
American Idiot by Green Day has become my new, traditional Independence Day music.
…I’m old. cranks up Fortunate Son
some extra boring dystopia for your day
Also, what in the everloving AI fuck is this nonsense 🤦♂️
Should we…make a playlist? I’ll add two more.
- Green Day - American Idiot
- CCR - Fortunate Son
- Woodie Guthrie - This Land is Your Land (via @[email protected] – updated to different version with the “lost” verse)
- System of a Down - Prison Song (BYOB is a close second)
- Descendants - 'Merican (Added from @[email protected]’s suggestion.)
- John Mellencamp - Little Pink Houses (via @[email protected])
- Stone Sour - Come What(ever)
- Avenged Sevenfold - Blinded in Chains (last two via @[email protected])
- Flobots - Handlebars (via @[email protected])
- NOFX - Idiots are Taking Over (via @[email protected])
- Rage Against the Machine - Know Your Enemy (via @[email protected])
- Disturbed - Land of Confusion | Genesis - Land of Confusion (via @[email protected])
Adding the “lost verse” for 'This Land is Your Land":
“One bright sunny morning in the shadow of the steeple, by the relief office I saw my people. As they stood hungry, I stood there wondering if God blessed America for me.”Would be remiss in not including a version of This Land is Your Land that includes the oft-omitted verses.
This version seems to have all of the verses. Sweet!
The Times They Are A-Changin (Bob Dylan) and The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (Gil Scott-Heron) are also classics.
*edited to add links @[email protected]
Nice one. Added and included the lost verse.
Can’t believe I forgot this one - South Park did a fantastic job bringing Sixteen Tons into the modern era.
That is a good one. I may save that for my Labor Day playlist.
Rage against the machine - Know your enemy seems relevant. Also maybe Freedom
Fits perfectly. Added!
Little Pink Houses. The point in this song is often missed as well.
Good one. Added!
Land of Confusion would be another addition. I’m in favor of the Disturbed version.
Excellent addition. I also prefer the Disturbed cover, but I added both.
Bush-era (same as American Idiot) but shockingly still relevant. Too heavy for this list?
Not at all; it’s the messages that are important. I mean, I already put SOAD on there, so… lol
Mezmerize was such a damn good album. Popping that on for the day.
Handlebars by Flobots, White America by Eminem
You should make this a separate thread!
Added!
I thought about that, but I don’t know if it’ll maintain inertia. Hopefully people see a lot of comments in this post and decide to chime in.
Perhaps I can put the result into a Spotify playlist and post that afterwards?
May I suggest “Don’t Let Me Die in America” by of Montreal? (Confusingly, an American band)
Also “Sunset on 32nd Street” by Strike Anywhere - although you could pull any track off that whole album and it would work.
NOFX is perfect on that list.
What about
The Sound of Silence. I’m partial to Disturbed’s version, but the original by Simon and Garfunkel fits depending on the mood.
Fortunate Son and Born in the USA have the advantage no conservative has ever read the lyrics
They play fortunate son at Trump rallies without a shred of irony
What a coincidence, I’m listening to American Idiot in full right now. Looks like we’re in a similar frame of mind.
I’d also recommend ‘Merican by The Descendants. Also released in 2004, it perfectly captures that dichotomy of being so proud of all the good our country has brought us while holding the deep shame of all our missteps. Sadly these days it seems like we’re growing the list of things to feel shame about.
Anyway, enjoy your last 4th of July of the old republic.
I’d also recommend ‘Merican by The Descendants.
I just half jokingly commented about collaborating on a playlist. Adding that!
My 4th of July songs are “woods of love by the embarrassment” which is about barbaric acts America has committed and “Not proud of the USA by the Mice” about anti war. I think you’ll like both if you like green day. They have cited the mice as an influence.
The real shit is NoFX - War on Errorism
Too many to choose from, but “Idiots are Taking Over” seemed pretty apt and called out to me. lol.
…do we still celebrate the 4th if we’ve regressed back to a monarchy as per SCOTUS’s new dystopian ruling?
There is: Bob Dylan: Masters of War
as long as you keep your Amazon Social Purchasing Score high enough
Yaaaaaaaay! (:
…/wrists
Well just rename it Monarch’s Day.
Yes, because
Gotta love how scotus gutted a bunch of laws just to prevent marijuana from getting rescheduled. I hope this fucks up a lot of unforseen stuff further down the line.
I think the balance of those unforeseen fuckups are going to rest squarely on the shoulders of us plebs.
We should let corps buy a star on the official flag with the money they should have paid in taxes each year.
Don’t give Clearance Thomas ideas…
They should buy ad space on those judges robes like it’s nascar.
Someone should definitely photoshop that
Bayer is a German company
hasn’t stopped them
bribinglobbying American politicians …(pretty sure we have more Roundup in our blood than any German)
Your guys are just easier to bribe.
Not that it would be particularly hard with ours.
You can say they are being bribed now… Bribing is legal now, no need to even pretend anymore
Nestle is a Swiss company though? Maybe replace with Lockheed Martin
and yet they still interfere with our politicians, water supplies, baby formula, food safety, and child slavery laws …
I don’t think corporate America realizes that the system they’ve been the parasites of is very, very close to not serving their interests anymore globally. But uh, you know. Gotta think about them quarterly pr0fitz
The corporation don’t want the system anymore. They want to buy the infrastructures and charge for it.
Thats only 30 “stars” the other 20 must be the shadow corps
How do you not have a burger King in there ?
Burger King is owned by a Brazilian conglomerate
That’s neat, I actually didn’t know that. I was making a american king joke.
