Christmas is over. Time for leftovers and a look back at 2011.I try not to get political on this blog, but when a power pop favorite like Brian Ray writes a song for the ninety-nine percent of us, then I am proud to post this. For another equally great anthem for the OWS crowd, you can’t beat Our Lady Peace’s “Fight the Good Fight” for inspiration.
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Tea Party isn’t phony: they stand for something: less government. not “no government”, but less. They went to townhall meetings; they held a protest in D.C., of which they cleaned up afterwards –not like this paid-for OWS “movement” of basically entitled, dirty young people. Sorry for the truth. And Brian Ray comes along –RICH Brian Ray–and spews his guilt out in a song. How deeply phony. Hey Brian, do you need 40 bass and electric guitars, Mr. Greedy? Get my point? What YOU earn, why should Barack Insane Obama tell you how much you should keep or not? Classic, Marxist, class warfare. Sickening.
Though this is a great blog, run by a very intelligent blogger with a terrific ear for music (though he got The Red Button wrong: shoulda’ been #1, but we of the pop elite will forgive him this one time.)
Said with a wink and a smile (but not the ows rant. Meant every word of that!!!).
Peace!
Liverpool/UK
Tyler,
You are entitled to your views, but I disagree with your opinion here. In fact if you took all the OWS imagery out of the video the message become apolitical. So do you think the tea party is “phony” too?
PUKE!
On this phony song and the phony “movement” known as “occupy”. Brian Ray: get real. You’ve made a fortune playing bass for Paul McCartney, the greatest gig on the planet. So spare me your guilt trip that you had the audacity to make a lot of money.
And the song blows anyway.
Peace.