http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2002-2006 by the authors Sat, 29 Jul 2006 17:47:05 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/03/12/074743.php#comment-416943 I guess she has forgotten. It is interesting that only country musicians have really written from the perspective of those fighting it, at least for commercial airplay. I heard a song called "letters from Home", which is kind of sappy, topo, but it does offer a glimpse of the comaraderie somefind during wartime. Several rap albums have been proded and released by people serving in Iraq. 4/25's "Live From Iraq" is pretty good. ]]> 416943@blogcritics.org Sat, 29 Jul 2006 17:47:05 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/03/12/074743.php#comment-416804 I just got home from the store where the local country station was blasting this ridiculous song and forcing all to listen. Please burn every copy of this thing and never let it see the light of day again. For God's sake, it's 2006, we know the whole war was a farce, a diversion from the actual problem, that it has caused a huge amount in lives lost and money, that it was not about "freedom" or "protecting our land" but about oil, that it was dreamed up by Bush and the neocons long before 9/11 and that there was no link whatsoever between the two. Any station that plays this outrageous piece of propaganda should be boycotted. ]]> 416804@blogcritics.org Sat, 29 Jul 2006 11:52:33 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/03/12/074743.php#comment-275566 As a connoisseur of satire, I have nothing but praise for Worley's anthem; no songs have exhibited such subtle self-parody-- intentional or not-- as "Have You Forgotten". Even those songs that Stone/Parker wrote for "Team America: World Police" can even come close. My personal favorite line: "It'll just breed anger, that's what the experts say"...Man, I HATE those Ivy-League, big-shot "experts"! The military snare drum under the bridge is also priceless, and of course rhyming "bin Laden" with "forgotten" is another over-the-top moment of frantic jingoism. The song is such a perfect-yet-blatant example of propaganda that I've long suspected that it was written by a secret department at Haliburton. I'm sure this song has found its way onto every "Drinkin' at the Gravel Pits '03" mix-tape of every 17-year old in South Carolina (it's perfect for imagining the face of bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, or John Kerry on that firing range target). As for me, it maintains steady rotation on my MP3 player. ]]> 275566@blogcritics.org Sun, 20 Nov 2005 15:35:14 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/03/12/074743.php#comment-164001 Country has never been capable of writing decent odes to tragedy and never will, as far as I'm concerned. As for using tragic events as the basis for a song, it is perfectly fine, so long as people can relate to it, and as long as it does not ring false. There is no song about 9\11 that I KnOW Of that fits any of those categories. Using the name of terrorists will instantly date the song, which is why those songs you heard in 2001 on the top of the charts aren't even considered today. ]]> 164001@blogcritics.org Tue, 7 Jun 2005 21:20:49 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/03/12/074743.php#comment-59502 It's the combination of pugnacity and schmaltz that have always sickened me about "Have You Forgotten?" No, Mr. Worley (son of JoAnne?), some of us left-wing intellectual types haven't forgotten bin Laden, but a certain "Commander" in Chief seems to have done so. ]]> 59502@blogcritics.org Wed, 21 Apr 2004 21:29:23 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/03/12/074743.php#comment-59447 I prefer to just look down my nose at supposedly creative artists who, in the guise of patriotism/sympathy, presume to try to exploit the emotions and sensibilities of the music-listening public to enhance their own popularity with one demographic group or another. It's just business. It's similar to the airy tinkly piano music that gets played in the background of soft-focus TV commercials about diseases and death and insurance for retired people. You know the type. The "creators" of this tripe are trying to grab us at an emotional level in order to sell something to us. Business. ]]> 59447@blogcritics.org Wed, 21 Apr 2004 17:12:03 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/03/12/074743.php#comment-59430 Hey, retards, Michele didn't praise the Beastie Boys.... "No wonder they haven't recorded anything in five years. They forgot how to write." Does that sound like praise to you? Just because someone finds a song insipid, that does not put them in either the terrorists or the anti-war camp. It is best to read everything before commenting BTW, I, too, find all the country-song odes to New York to be a bit...insipid. Country songs are generally not sung about New York, and this sudden outpouring of Manhattan bluegrass is a little icky. ]]> 59430@blogcritics.org Wed, 21 Apr 2004 15:42:17 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/03/12/074743.php#comment-6210 All of us High-brow intellectuals will not neccesarily look down on Dale Worley. It's great poetry, it's terrific music. All of it. And just in time. The review above praising the Beastie Boys is sick and perverted. ]]> 6210@blogcritics.org Thu, 27 Mar 2003 11:26:25 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/03/12/074743.php#comment-6209 All of us High-brow intellectuals will not neccesarily look down on Dale Worley. It's great poetry, it's terrific music. All of it. And just in time. The review above praising the Beastie Boys is sick and perverted. ]]> 6209@blogcritics.org Thu, 27 Mar 2003 11:26:19 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/03/12/074743.php#comment-6208 All of us High-brow intellectuals will not neccesarily look down on Dale Worley. It's great poetry, it's terrific music. All of it. And just in time. The review above praising the Beastie Boys is sick and perverted. ]]> 6208@blogcritics.org Thu, 27 Mar 2003 11:26:07 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/03/12/074743.php#comment-6207 All of us High-brow intellectuals will not neccesarily look down on Dale Worley. It's great poetry, it's terrific music. All of it. And just in time. The review above praising the Beastie Boys is sick and perverted. ]]> 6207@blogcritics.org Thu, 27 Mar 2003 11:26:04 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/03/12/074743.php#comment-5251 Stupid high-brow intellectuals who can't actually reason their way out of a paper bag and look down their upturned noses at someone like Daryl Worley for speaking out for our nation and our troops ought to be either re-educated by people with a trace of wisdom, or have their lips permanently stitched together so that we don't have to listen to their mindless self-inflated drivel. ]]> 5251@blogcritics.org Sat, 22 Mar 2003 15:42:15 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/03/12/074743.php#comment-5013 I have met Darryl Worley. He is a very spiritual man. I think this song is very truthful, a lot of people have forgotten. ]]> 5013@blogcritics.org Wed, 19 Mar 2003 22:48:35 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/03/12/074743.php#comment-5012 I have met Darryl Worley. He is a very spiritual man. I think this song is very truthful, a lot of people have forgotten. ]]> 5012@blogcritics.org Wed, 19 Mar 2003 22:48:29 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/03/12/074743.php#comment-5011 I have met Darryl Worley. He is a very spiritual man. I think this song is very truthful, a lot of people have forgotten. ]]> 5011@blogcritics.org Wed, 19 Mar 2003 22:47:23 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/03/12/074743.php#comment-4909 i think the song is great and i dont know why people are talking about differnt issues besides the song. it has alot of meaning and we should be going to war to protect our country. if the united states sits around like president clition did then we will have another 9/11. now would you all like that?? ]]> 4909@blogcritics.org Tue, 18 Mar 2003 22:21:31 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/03/12/074743.php#comment-4908 i think the song is great and i dont know why people are talking about differnt issues besides the song. it has alot of meaning and we should be going to war to protect our country. if the united states sits around like president clition did then we will have another 9/11. now would you all like that?? ]]> 4908@blogcritics.org Tue, 18 Mar 2003 22:21:10 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/03/12/074743.php#comment-4907 i think the song is great and i dont know why people are talking about differnt issues besides the song. it has alot of meaning and we should be going to war to protect our country. if the united states sits around like president clition did then we will have another 9/11. now would you all like that?? ]]> 4907@blogcritics.org Tue, 18 Mar 2003 22:21:08 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/03/12/074743.php#comment-4906 i think the song is great and i dont know why people are talking about differnt issues besides the song. it has alot of meaning and we should be going to war to protect our country. if the united states sits around like president clition did then we will have another 9/11. now would you all like that?? ]]> 4906@blogcritics.org Tue, 18 Mar 2003 22:21:07 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/03/12/074743.php#comment-4905 i think the song is great and i dont know why people are talking about differnt issues besides the song. it has alot of meaning and we should be going to war to protect our country. if the united states sits around like president clition did then we will have another 9/11. now would you all like that?? ]]> 4905@blogcritics.org Tue, 18 Mar 2003 22:20:58 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/03/12/074743.php#comment-4904 i think the song is great and i dont know why people are talking about differnt issues besides the song. it has alot of meaning and we should be going to war to protect our country. if the united states sits around like president clition did then we will have another 9/11. now would you all like that?? ]]> 4904@blogcritics.org Tue, 18 Mar 2003 22:20:56 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/03/12/074743.php#comment-4903 i think the song is great and i dont know why people are talking about differnt issues besides the song. it has alot of meaning and we should be going to war to protect our country. if the united states sits around like president clition did then we will have another 9/11. now would you all like that?? ]]> 4903@blogcritics.org Tue, 18 Mar 2003 22:20:47 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/03/12/074743.php#comment-4698 Coming from a military family, and having "seen the elephant" to protect your first Amendment rights to stupid opinions, I find the tone of the website to be extremely naive and jeuvenile. The world is not going to suddenly make a right turn, and all vehicles and industry suddenly run on air, light and water. No: it's not about oil. Sure, wind is more desirable than gas. I like clean air, as much as the next man. But this naive, childish petulance is so out of touch with reality that it sounds like you are describing OZ, and not the world as it is. I suggest you become more informed about current events, and read your American history. Good people have bled and died for your rights to be stupid. ]]> 4698@blogcritics.org Sun, 16 Mar 2003 21:27:14 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/03/12/074743.php#comment-4450 Mark, I don't know if it comes from the marketing end, or if the artists feel the need to indentify with, or comment upon, landmark events, but something as slight as a pop song is very rarely up to the task. ]]> 4450@blogcritics.org Wed, 12 Mar 2003 12:35:53 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/03/12/074743.php#comment-4446 eric, isn't this just another sign of our society's need to be flogged over the head with stuff? it just seems like subtlety is lost on folks these days. ]]> 4446@blogcritics.org Wed, 12 Mar 2003 12:11:31 EST