Sex Pistols

[ggw]

Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
  I think America has always had a do it yourself ethos. That is part and parcel what the Republican Party is built on.
 
   

Originally posted by the scientist:
   

Originally posted by ggw:
  My point is that Young was influential musically, whereas I would argue that the Sex Pistols were more influential culturally.

Well If you say the attitude of punk, the do it yourself ethos, was a cultural change then maybe.
 
 Who did Neil Young have such a massive inluence on? I know I could look it up on allmusic, but that thing lies. [/b]

[/b]

I bet John Lydon votes Republican.

[thirsty moore]

I saw Patti Smith cover "Keep On Rockin' In the Free World" a few years back.  I hear she's punk.
 
 

Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
  For me, let's put it this way. There was a time maybe ten years ago where I went to about six shows in a row, and every band I saw did a Neil Young cover. I have never seen anybody do a Sex Pistols cover.

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Us your high school education and figure it out for us.
 
 
 Rockin' In The Free World"
 
 There are colours on the street
 Red, white and blue
 People shufflin' their feet
 People sleepin' in their shoes
 But there's a warnin' sign on the road ahead
 There's a lot of people sayin' we'd be better off dead
 Don't feel like Satan but I am to them
 So I try to forget it anyway I can
 
 Keep on rockin' in the free world
 Keep on rockin' in the free world
 Keep on rockin' in the free world
 Keep on rockin' in the free world
 
 I see a girl in the night
 With a baby in her hand
 Under an old street light
 Near a garbage can
 Now she puts the kid away and she's gone to get a hit
 She hates her life and what she's done to it
 That's one more kid that will never go to school
 Never get to fall in love never get to be cool
 
 Keep on rockin' in the free world
 Keep on rockin' in the free world
 Keep on rockin' in the free world
 Keep on rockin' in the free world
 
 We got a thousand points of light
 For the homeless man
 We got a kinder gentler machine gun hand
 
 We got department stores and toilet paper
 Got styrofoam boxes for the ozone layer
 Got a man of the people says keep hope alive
 Got fuel to burn got roads to drive
 
 Keep on rockin' in the free world
 Keep on rockin' in the free world
 Keep on rockin' in the free world
 Keep on rockin' in the free world
 
 
 

Originally posted by mankie:
  "Keep on rocking in the free world"
 
 What the hell was the man thinking?
 
 (I'm a fan of Neil Young for the record)

[kosmo vinyl]

Originally posted by mankie:
  "Keep on rocking in the free world"
 
 What the hell was the man thinking?
 
 (I'm a fan of Neil Young for the record)

well prior to 9/11 it was sarcastic chorus as part of a song pointing out the various problems in the "free world".  the problem now is the chorus has made it an fist pumping anthem.  sad really...
 
 Rockin' In The Free World
 
 There are colours on the street
 Red, white and blue
 People shufflin' their feet
 People sleepin' in their shoes
 But there's a warnin' sign on the road ahead
 There's a lot of people sayin' we'd be better off dead
 Don't feel like Satan but I am to them
 So I try to forget it anyway I can
 
 Keep on rockin' in the free world
 Keep on rockin' in the free world
 Keep on rockin' in the free world
 Keep on rockin' in the free world
 
 I see a girl in the night
 With a baby in her hand
 Under an old street light
 Near a garbage can
 Now she puts the kid away and she's gone to get a hit
 She hates her life and what she's done to it
 That's one more kid that will never go to school
 Never get to fall in love never get to be cool
 
 Keep on rockin' in the free world
 Keep on rockin' in the free world
 Keep on rockin' in the free world
 Keep on rockin' in the free world
 
 We got a thousand points of light
 For the homeless man
 We got a kinder gentler machine gun hand
 
 We got department stores and toilet paper
 Got styrofoam boxes for the ozone layer
 Got a man of the people says keep hope alive
 Got fuel to burn got roads to drive
 
 Keep on rockin' in the free world
 Keep on rockin' in the free world
 Keep on rockin' in the free world
 Keep on rockin' in the free world

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

ala Born in the USA
 
 
  "Keep on rocking in the free world"
 
 What the hell was the man thinking?
 
 (I'm a fan of Neil Young for the record) [/QUOTE]well prior to 9/11 it was sarcastic chorus as part of a song pointing out the various problems in the "free world".  the problem now is the chorus has made it an fist pumping anthem.  sad really...

[thirsty moore]

Since when did Neil Young go poncey British?
 
 

Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
  There are colours on the street

[thirsty moore]

Nevermind, he's Canadian.
 
 

Originally posted by thirsty moore:
  Since when did Neil Young go poncey British?

[ggw]

And just to tie everything together, here's Bowie's take on Young:
 
 "There's youthful redemption in everything he does, a joyfulness about being an independent thinker in America."

[mankie]

Originally posted by thirsty moore:
 [QB] Nevermind, he's Canadian.
 
 

 He's talented...he obviously wasn't yanklish!
 
 I know all about the song by the way...just thought he was above that kind of crap that's all.

[ggw]

This is before the Thermidor of late-70's punk, when one rock icon after another fell before its guillotine of cultural relevancy, and Young was the one 60's artist not only spared by the revolution but also embraced as a kindred spirit.
 
 This is back before the nitwitted lawsuit filed against him in the 80's by the head of his record label, David Geffen, for not making true ''Neil Young'' records, before the 90's, when Kurt Cobain quoted him in his suicide note, before he became the only artist in the year 2000 that one could possibly imagine sharing a concert bill with, say, Merle Haggard on the one hand and Nine Inch Nails on the other.
 
 
 http://www.laurencecook.com/erickson/articles/neilyoung.html

[thirsty moore]

While the lyrics might tell a story of urban blight, many people don't realize that Neil Young just wanted to get laid.

[kosmo vinyl]

Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
  ala Born in the USA
 
 
  "Keep on rocking in the free world"
 
 What the hell was the man thinking?
 
 (I'm a fan of Neil Young for the record)

well prior to 9/11 it was sarcastic chorus as part of a song pointing out the various problems in the "free world".  the problem now is the chorus has made it an fist pumping anthem.  sad really... [/b][/QUOTE]
 
 another song which the boss himself has let lose it's meaning... even after some republican president candidate tried unsuccessfully to coop as their theme.
 
 i saw csn&y post 9/11 and was disappointed that neil was turning "rockin" into anthem... however at the greendale show he was again performing it with the anger of when it first came out.  pearl jam unfortunately has let it become anthem... unless they are grinning inside when they play it

[thirsty moore]

To further complicate things... Social D. and Sonic Youth toured with Young in the early 90's.

[kosmo vinyl]

Originally posted by thirsty moore:
  To further complicate things... Social D. and Sonic Youth toured with Young in the early 90's.

a great tour by the way... complete with the rust never sleeps giant amps and drums!  to bad that his audience didn't appreciate either of the support acts.

[ggw]

Originally posted by thirsty moore:
  To further complicate things... Social D. and Sonic Youth toured with Young in the early 90's.

In my mind, that was the greatest triple-bill of all-time.