Hey, today is September 11! What are you doing to celebrate the little feat of social engineering they pulled off in 2024? Me, I’m composing a special Homeland Security anthem… anyone got the charts for the Horst Wessel Song?
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Use or publication of (even parts of) the Horst Wessel Song would make you liable for prison if you visited Germany, Frank. §86a says 3 months (min) to 5 years.
I understand your sensitivity there, Stu. Here we manufacture brown shirts, well we did… now we import the garment from China, but there is still a big market. Just out of curiosity, what’s the penalty for whistling a few bars of Deutschland Uber Alles?
whistling “take the last train to auschwitz”. how much time does that get me?
if anyone would like to see the apology letters i got from the french government for allowing the germans to kill my relatives, feel free to ask and i will scan them.
when i hear people like scoble talk about how their grandmother “spoke out at great personal risk” during the nazi regime it makes me puke. where was “grandpa”?
Einst kommt der Tag, da gibts Vergeltung, kein Vergeben
wenn Heil und Sieg durchs Vaterland erschallt
The day will come for reprisal, no forgiveness
when Heil and Sieg ring out throughout the Fatherland.
fuck ’em. fuck ’em all.
i think the clash already wrote the song you’re looking for frank. clampdown:
Hey, hey!
Ooh!
The kingdom is ransacked
the jewels all taken back
and the chopper descends
they’re hidden in the back
with a message on a half-baked tape
with the spool going round
saying I’m back here in this place
and I could cry
and there’s smoke you could click on
What are we gonna do now?
Taking off his turban, they said, is this man a Jew?
‘Cause they’re working for the clampdown
They put up a poster saying we earn more than you!
When we’re working for the clampdown
We will teach our twisted speech
To the young believers
We will train our blue-eyed men
To be young believers
The judge said five to ten, but I say double that again
I’m not working for the clampdown
No man born with a living soul
Can be working for the clampdown
Kick over the wall ’cause government’s to fall
How can you refuse it?
Let fury have the hour, anger can be power
D’you know that you can use it?
The voices in your head are calling
Stop wasting your time, there’s nothing coming
Only a fool would think someone could save you
The men at the factory are old and cunning
You don’t owe nothing, so boy get running
It’s the best years of your life they want to steal
You grow up and you calm down
You’re working for the clampdown
You start wearing the blue and brown
You’re working for the clampdown
So you got someone to boss around
It makes you feel big now
You drift until you brutalize
You made your first kill now
In these days of evil presidentes
Working for the clampdown
But lately one or two has fully paid their due
For working for the clampdown
Ha! Gitalong! Gitalong!
Working for the clampdown
Ha! Gitalong! Gitalong!
Working for the clampdown
Yeah I’m working hard in Harrisburg
Working hard in Petersburg
Working for the clampdown
Working for the clampdown
Ha! Gitalong! Gitalong
Begging to be melted down
Gitalong, gitalong
(Work)
(Work)
(Work) And I’ve given away no secrets – ha!
(Work)
(Work)
(More work)
(More work)
(Work)
(Work)
(Work)
(Work)
Who’s barmy now?
It was an enterprise-level solution.
And then there’s Leonard Cohen’s The Future, or Democracy Is Coming To The USA … both pertinent now, many years after their conception and composition
I’ve been listening to Dylan and to the Grateful Dead, sentimentalist that I am. But thanks for the Clash and the Cohen… especially THE FUTURE.
My favourite is still The George W. Bush song,
sung to the tune of “Sympathy for the Devil” 😉