Bring Them Home
Here's Pete Seeger's version of his fine anti-war song, in 1969:
And here's Bruce Springsteen's, which I heard him sing at the Sheffield Arena last year.
It's interesting to compare the two versions, both the music and the lyrics.
I love protest songs, when the song is good, as this one most certainly is: but, like agit-prop theatre , the song or the play has to be as powerful and brilliant, in its genre, as the message it's trying to put across. Otherwise you just feel you've been beaten over the head with the message.
And here's Bruce Springsteen's, which I heard him sing at the Sheffield Arena last year.
It's interesting to compare the two versions, both the music and the lyrics.
I love protest songs, when the song is good, as this one most certainly is: but, like agit-prop theatre , the song or the play has to be as powerful and brilliant, in its genre, as the message it's trying to put across. Otherwise you just feel you've been beaten over the head with the message.
posted by Daphne at 9:32 pm
1 Comments:
Bad rhymes for peace! Phallus-eee and weppunreee is the best, but Bruce has got a good few in there too, like laaandothefree and overseas.
If you love rhymes that are crap,
Bring the troops home from Iraq!
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