Songs that Specifically Address 9/11....

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There are the obvious ones by the C&W bozos.....

Darryl Worley - "Have You Forgotten?"
Alan Jackson - "Where Were You When the World Stopped Turning"
Charlie Daniels' - "That Ain't No Rag, It's a Flag"
Toby Keith - "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue"

....but who outside of that realm dared touch on the event? I've heard "Safe and Sound" by....er...Sheryl Crow is meant as an elegy to those that decided to jump (is this true? Anyone else heard that?). The lyrics are a bit vague in that department.

Others...?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 13 September 2003 08:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Paris "What Would You Do?” and probably a few more songs on the forthcoming 'Sonic Jihad".....

― scottjames23 (worrysome-man), Saturday, 13 September 2003 08:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Ah yes, this lovely artefact......

http://www.guerrillafunk.com/images/sonic_large.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 13 September 2003 08:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Sleater-Kinney

"Far Away"

7:30 am nurse the baby on the couch
then the phone rings
"Turn on the T.V."
watch the world explode in flames
and don't leave the house
And the sky overhead
is silent, waiting
Clear blue holds its breath
And the heart is hit
in a city far away
but it feels so close
Don't breathe the air today
Don't speak of why you're afraid
(Standing here on a one way road
and I fall down,
no other direction for this to go
so we fall down)
WHY CAN'T I GET ALONG WITH YOU?
And the president hides
while working men rush in
To give their lives
I look to the sky
and ask it not to rain
On my family tonight

― ham on rye (ham on rye), Saturday, 13 September 2003 08:56 (twenty-two years ago)

"Man vs. Nature" by Killdozer

― george gosset (gegoss), Saturday, 13 September 2003 09:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Non-Phixion "Suicide Bomb"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Saturday, 13 September 2003 09:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Wow, that Sleater-Kinney song is really quite eloquent.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 13 September 2003 09:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm please that folks seem to have forgotten Neil Young's "Let's Roll". Now if only people would stop believing that the "Let's Roll" nonsense ever happened.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Saturday, 13 September 2003 10:58 (twenty-two years ago)

i haven't forgotten it, i have assimilated the phrase "let's roll for freedom, let's roll for truth" into my everyday parlance. it means "let's go cop dope".
never heard the song, don't fuckin wish to either.

― duane, Saturday, 13 September 2003 11:11 (twenty-two years ago)

cafe tacuba
has a song on their new one
but it just alludes

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Saturday, 13 September 2003 12:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Super Furry Animals - "Liberty Belle"

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Saturday, 13 September 2003 14:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Springsteen 'into the fire'. I quite like this actually, nice singalong chorus. Shame about the rest of LP.

― scottjames23 (worrysome-man), Saturday, 13 September 2003 14:32 (twenty-two years ago)

jeez colin are you honestly saying that it was all bllx that
'let's roll' stuff ? no way. seriously ? no irony. so, like his
wife is part of the whole jihad thing ? his grandma too ?
*and* neil young ?

― piscesboy, Saturday, 13 September 2003 14:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Manowar - "The Fight For Freedom", taking the non-liberal view.

― udu wudu (udu wudu), Saturday, 13 September 2003 15:15 (twenty-two years ago)

wu tang - rules

― adam west (adamwest), Saturday, 13 September 2003 15:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Cassetteboy 'The Parker Tapes' track no. 94 entitled 'Fly me to NY'

Has to be heard to be believed, chopped up Frank Sinatra vocals telling tale from the perspective of hijacker.

― scottjames23 (worrysome-man), Saturday, 13 September 2003 16:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Dr. Ring Ding's "Bombs over Baghdad"

― Michael B, Saturday, 13 September 2003 16:05 (twenty-two years ago)

elephant man - "the bombing"

― gabbo giftington (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 13 September 2003 16:14 (twenty-two years ago)

mystikal - "bouncin back"

― gabbo giftington (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 13 September 2003 16:14 (twenty-two years ago)

People got offered the chance to make their loved ones look like heroes. Why wouldn't they? Watch the interviews carefully -- the wife and 911 operator have got some screaming body language and big ol' inconcsistancies in their stories. But this isn't the place for that.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Saturday, 13 September 2003 18:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Cassetteboy 'The Parker Tapes' track no. 94 entitled 'Fly me to NY' Has to be heard to be believed, chopped up Frank Sinatra vocals telling tale from the perspective of hijacker.

Yeah, I've heard that. It's so beyond the pale of taste that it boggles the mind.

I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but the whole "Let's Roll" thing is a bit, shall we say, convenient. That Lisa Beamer has gone from widow to entrepreneur on the back of it only fuels said cynicism.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 13 September 2003 18:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Some interesting comments made on the Laurie Anderson thread about "O Superman." Granted....recorded a full nineteen years prior to the event in question, but the track takes on an eerie prescience (albeit wildy out of context and unintentional) given its mournful tone, and specifically the lines.....

"Here come the planes......they're American planes.....Made in America....smoking or non-smoking...."

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 13 September 2003 21:44 (twenty-two years ago)

"Neither snow nor rain nor gloom of night shall stay these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds....."

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 13 September 2003 21:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I've read on the 'net somewhere that "O Superman" was inspired by the failed attempt at rescuing the American hostages in Iran back in '80.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 13 September 2003 21:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Hmmm. Could very well be, I suppose.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 13 September 2003 21:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I haven't heard "Fly Me to New York". What's it like? Why is it so offensive?

Also: Lynyrd Skynyrd - "Red White and Blue." Worst. 9/11. Song. Ever.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Saturday, 13 September 2003 22:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Hear it here:

http://paradroid.com/junk/cassetteboy/cassetteboy%20-%20fly%20me%20to%20new%20york.mp3

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 13 September 2003 22:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Isn't there one on Fear of a Black Planet (ha ha)?

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Saturday, 13 September 2003 22:55 (twenty-two years ago)

tori amos - i can't see new york

― Vic (Vic), Sunday, 14 September 2003 02:53 (twenty-two years ago)

fleetwood mac - illume

― the surface noise (electricsound), Sunday, 14 September 2003 03:04 (twenty-two years ago)

― cinniblount (James Blount), Sunday, 14 September 2003 03:15 (twenty-two years ago)

J-Live's "Satisfied" is awesome. It's all about how nothing has actually changed because of 9/11.
There's Sage Francis' "Makeshift Patriots", which isn't so good. Still, hip-hop's way ahead of other music on the subject.

― Shmuel Marmorstein (shmuel), Sunday, 14 September 2003 07:27 (twenty-two years ago)

"Let's roll for freedom, let's roll for truth" = "Let's get drugs" = classic! When I used to go and buy crystal meth "Kickstart My Heart" was the incantation

― dave q, Sunday, 14 September 2003 10:54 (twenty-two years ago)

creepily enough, "Jesus Etc" by Wilco

Tall buildings shake
Voices escape singing sad sad songs
Tuned to chords strung down your cheeks
Bitter melodies turning your orbit around

Voices whine
Skyscrapers are scraping together
Your voice is smoking
Last cigarettes are all you can get
Turning your orbit around

Our love
Our love
Our love is all we have

Our love
Our love is all of God's money
Everyone is a burning sun

debuted: June 29, 2001, First Avenue, Minneapolis

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Monday, 15 September 2003 04:16 (twenty-two years ago)

not as creepy as roy d. mercer!

― cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 15 September 2003 04:18 (twenty-two years ago)

you got me there

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Monday, 15 September 2003 04:40 (twenty-two years ago)

in the eerily prescient department, there's also pj harvey's entire album "stories from the city, stories from the sea," which opens with the line "look out ahead, i see danger come" and goes on from there:

"threw my bad fortune off the top of a tall building..."

"can you hear them? the helicopters? i'm in new york..."

"you must leave now before the sunrise above skyscrapers..."

"10,000 willing pilots flying/interfacing/space and beyond/built an army/to come and find me..."

"and the battle is won and the planes keep winging..."

and so on. i suppose if you spend some time in new york, no matter what the year is, you're bound to notice the paranoia, and the tall buildings, and the fear, even if you're experiencing and trying to write about love. i mean, that's just part of new york. still, that album has haunted me ever since 9/11.

― fact checking cuz, Monday, 15 September 2003 05:21 (twenty-two years ago)

If we're doing prescient songs? Ahem..

She's the one makes me feel these ways
He's the one needs sun rays
Can't stand to feel
Hate to feel
Gone insane
Hijack a plane
Don't push me 'cause I'm close to the edge
Trying hard not to lose my head
Can't hardly breathe
I've been and seen
She hides my Ventolin
Can't hardly breathe
Can't hardly breathe
Can't hardly breathe

(I'm the one), I'm the one
(Who hides his medicine), Who hides his medicine
(Watch him stop breathe), Watch him stop breathe
(Watch him bleed), Watch him bleed
(I right the wrongs and take his songs), I right the wrongs and take his song
(And we all live happy ever after), And we all live happy ever after

(Can't hardly breathe),
Can't hardly breathe
Can't hardly breathe
Can't hardly breathe
Can't hardly breathe

And we all sing together now
Can't hardly breathe

― Vic, Monday, 15 September 2003 07:47 (twenty-two years ago)

but then even sonically along w/ lyrically all of PMT seems as if it's the soundtrack to the smoke-filled morning of Sept 11 to me - or any apocalypse - since it just sounds like hell

― Vic, Monday, 15 September 2003 07:49 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah horace, and another one about schmollywood -- the americans insist on doing their dates differently from everyone else up until, well, recently, but that is an unhappy coincidence i imagine -- i feel sorry for public enemy, in that things might backfire on them in lots of ways, what with all this climate change
nobody i know in new zealand believes that black box stuff -- i remember watching it at the time, and a defence advisor to Clinton was telling the BBC that shooting down that plane would be technically illegal, and the BBC speculation seemed to be that plane 4 was headed for camp david, for a sort of metaphorical purpose -- in any case it was passing nearby the presumably heavily fortified camp david ..

duane is right though, neil young is a total prat for steaming into what almost all artists of any sort seem to have been at pains to avoid, and he's a total prat for "rockin' in the free world" for that matter
what's with that guy ? why doesn't he just shut up ? is he addicted to making records ?
cf: Trans or Hawks and Doves, or most pertinentely Reactor, which had those great tracks "T-Bone" and "Shots (on the border)" -- well i guess he's just voicing american blue collar woes and patriotics with that stuff too, but at least the music was passable

― george gosset (gegoss), Monday, 15 September 2003 07:55 (twenty-two years ago)

General Levy - "Taliban Slam" (actually from memory I don't know if it directly addresses September 11, it might be entirely focussed on Bin Laden in Afghanistan.)

Mighty Pawol Power - "Osama Say"

Someone mentioned a Mad Cobra track about it that I'd love to hear.

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 15 September 2003 08:13 (twenty-two years ago)

MC Hammer: 'Ain't No Stoppin' Us', from this lovely album:
http://www.artistdirect.com/Images/Sources/AMGCOVERS/music/cover200/drf000/f032/f03265ob6df.jpg

Plus:
Canibus: 'Draft Me'
Pimp-A-Lot: 'Intifada'
Mr. Len: 'Home of the Brave'
Cash'N'Computa: 'Groundzero (In Our Hearts You Will Remain)'

You should check out the Hammer song, it's fucking hilarious.
Dead Prez: 'Know Your Enemy'

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Monday, 15 September 2003 08:39 (twenty-two years ago)

That Hammer cover gave me the first "laugh out loud" of the day. Cheers, Jay!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 15 September 2003 11:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, and they even changed it! On the first edition, he was literally wearing the s&s. He looked kindalike a well-done bratwurst wrapped in bacon.

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Monday, 15 September 2003 13:36 (twenty-two years ago)

alex, and everone else for that matter, the killdozer track up-thread should give you a good days laugh

_But_ for maximum effect, you _must_ know what the name "Irwin Allen" means and hopefully be vaguely familiar with his oevre

― george gosset (gegoss), Monday, 15 September 2003 14:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Song That Specifically Caused 9/11 is the thread I want to read

― Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 15 September 2003 14:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Seek ye....

R Kelly compares himself to Bin Laden

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 15 September 2003 14:16 (twenty-two years ago)

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