I bet this gets played a lot

[james_davis_nicoll]

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[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

I'd never heard this before, but, well, yes. Excellent news from across the world.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Really? I remember it as being popular back the Reagan era.

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

I pretty much quit listening to pop music about 1979. Not sure why.

[icedrake.livejournal.com]

It does in my house, but that's because we're big fans of Tracy Chapman.

Strangely enough, it hasn't come up in the random shuffle lately.

[gohover.livejournal.com]

This music video was recommended by Wael Ghonim on his twitter feed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgw_zfLLvh8

You can hit the "cc" button at the bottom of the video player to get English-language captions.

[elegantelbow.livejournal.com]

I *adore* that song and that whole album.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

Yes, well. No revolution where she's talking about.

chapman

[crotchetyoldfan.livejournal.com]

from '88 - when there still remained some small shred of hope that the US might wake up and realize some of the dreams of the 60s.

Tracy is wonderful (love her voice) but sadly revolution has passed this country by. Too many people have been sheepeled.

Re: chapman

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

I think the last time an actual revolution in the US was plausible was the 1930s, and it was as likely to be bloody and fascist as anything else. In 1988 it was a fantasy. The best one could possibly hope for was a post-Reagan rebirth of redistributive liberalism, and that didn't happen.

The 30-year trend of flat real median wages and increasing wealth concentration has to be unsustainable, and we could use some constitutional restructuring. But it might take the dying off of people who are still freaked out by the civil rights movement.

[celestialweasel.livejournal.com]

One of the 'discussions' between friends that got the nastiest (in terms of glowering and ill feeling) that I remember was, back when this album came out, between someone who thought this was great and someone else saying that the people on the welfare line weren't talking about a revolution.

[http://users.livejournal.com/krin_o_o_/]

All in all, the thought of a revolution in the US fills me with dread.
No matter how it starts, I fear there would likely be the following ending:
) "can't we all just get along and live in peace, harmony and work to the betterment of everyone?"
} "no." *bang*

- Krin *very cynical this morning*