http://ondeafears.com/2008/06/24/re-these-guys-show-green-day-how-its-done/ I hate music. It's got too many notes. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:50:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://ondeafears.com/2008/06/24/re-these-guys-show-green-day-how-its-done/#comment-1404 “Living in America” by The Sounds « On Deaf Ears Tue, 16 Dec 2008 01:33:24 +0000 http://ondeafears.wordpress.com/?p=77#comment-1404 [...] by The Sounds In the early days of this fine blog, Jason wrote a post on protest music and I followed up.  In the comments to my post, Alex [...] [...] by The Sounds In the early days of this fine blog, Jason wrote a post on protest music and I followed up.  In the comments to my post, Alex [...]

]]> http://ondeafears.com/2008/06/24/re-these-guys-show-green-day-how-its-done/#comment-76 Alex LaPointe Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:07:37 +0000 http://ondeafears.wordpress.com/?p=77#comment-76 As far as protest songs go, I always like the song "Living in America" by the Swedish band: the Sounds (not a James Brown cover). It was released less than a year after Sept. 11th 2001 and contained the lyrics" "We're not living in America, and we're not sorry. No we don't care about the world today and we're not sorry for you [America]" Not that I really agree with the message, but I'm glad they had the balls to release it and it made me proud to live in country where you could hear such a blatantly un-American song on the radio. Especially because If I wrote a song called "Sweden eats Donkey Ass (with lingonberry sauce) with lyrics deriding Abba and Ikea you know the Swedes would never play it on the radio in Sweden. As far as protest songs go, I always like the song “Living in America” by the Swedish band: the Sounds (not a James Brown cover). It was released less than a year after Sept. 11th 2001 and contained the lyrics” “We’re not living in America, and we’re not sorry. No we don’t care about the world today and we’re not sorry for you [America]” Not that I really agree with the message, but I’m glad they had the balls to release it and it made me proud to live in country where you could hear such a blatantly un-American song on the radio. Especially because If I wrote a song called “Sweden eats Donkey Ass (with lingonberry sauce) with lyrics deriding Abba and Ikea you know the Swedes would never play it on the radio in Sweden.

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