#David rovics

[joy-haver]

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Solidarity forever : IWW | Wikipedia article on railway abandonment | All used up : Utah Phillips | The commonwealth of toil : Joe glazer | We have fed you all for a thousand years : IWW | John Henry | I don’t want your millions mister: The Almanac Singers | The big steel rail : Gordon Lightfoot | Chattanooga choo choo | Paradise : John Prine | We have fed you all for a thousand years | I’ve been working on the railroad | We have fed you all for a thousand years | ballad of a Wobbly: David rovics | Ralph Chaplin Speaks | The MTA | Freight Train : Elizabeth Cotton | Freight train blues : Bob Dylan | The city of New Orleans : Arlo Guthrie |Hobos lullaby : Woody Guthrie | Night trian: James brown

[paintingsandrecords]

a platypus; ink and watercolor

last seven day’s listening:

joan armatrading - whatever’s for us

tom lehrer - songs by tom lehrer

bruce cockburn - stealing fire

tim barry - spring hill

david rovics - living in these times

tim barry - the roads to richmond

fugazi - fugazi

the uncluded - hokey fright

they might be giants - secret music, vol 2

[rednqueer]

a small collection of songs about colonialism, and first few specifically about palestine

songs I genuinely like and which genuinely give me hope and which i therefore want to share with you guys. these are from my favourite artists.

[grand-army-radio]

This goes out to Wat Tambor.

[rebelrhoads]

(National Day Laborers)

[gwydionmisha]

David Rovics - The Commons

[punkass-diogenes]

The spirit of Phil Ochs lives on

[rosaluxembae]

Condolences to anyone who likes a character but that piece of media's tags are just full of that character's stans being vicious

[joy-haver]

hey leftie ppl, what’s ur fave leftie music???

[anarchypumpkincowboy]

It’s sleepy time please allow me rest I beg of you brain please I am so sleepy

My brain:

I grew up on this mountain it’s in my very soul so when the company moved next door started digging for the coal tearing up the mountain with drillers and draglines I knew then what needed to happen to those mines

10,9,8 SOMETIMES THATS JUST HOW IT GOES 3,2,1 GET OUT BEFORE IT BLOWS

[intheholler]

Any recommendations for catchy songs about specific American historical events? Hurricane by The Band of Heathens (unless I'm mistaken, it's pretty explicitlu about Katrina) and The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald are examples.

i love the song hurricane, but i didn't know about the other til now. thank you for the inadvertent rec!

also i don't know about catchy necessarily but i do have a few historical event tunes to recommend.

It's About Blood by Steve Earle is about West Virginia coal mining disasters, at the end of which he lists by name around two dozen victims of specific disasters. this one gives me chills. this whole album Ghosts of West Virginia does actually

Big Time in the Jungle by Old Crow Medicine Show is about snatching up poor, uneducated southern boys and shippin em off to Vietnam. pretty catchy, v fuckin dark by the end

Battle of Blair Mountain by David Rovics is about,, well,, the battle of blair mountain

Seneca Creek by Charles Wesley Godwin mentions the WV flood of 1985 though is about the singer's grandparents iirc

... and as i made this list i realized i sure talk a lot about and revere west virginia for someone whos never lived there (but plans to <3). anyway here's some stuff to balance it

Casey Jones by The Grateful Dead is about a conductor in Tennessee who stayed on a runaway train to let others escape to safety and ultimaetly died (and is catchy as fuck actually)

Battle of New Orleans by Johnny Horton is pretty straightforwardly about the war of 1812

Ohio by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young is about the Kent State Massacre

American Pie by Don McClean was written in response to the plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. Richardson Jr. i feel like everyone knows this song but maybe not the actual meaning, i didn't know til a few years ago. so maybe i'm just behind

anyway if yall know any please add in reblogs or leave in the replies, i love this kinda thing

[natalieironside]

I have never met a man more determined to sully his own name or ruin his own life than David Rovics

[haveyouheardthisband]

[polyamorousmood]

do you know of any polyam love songs?

BOY, DO I!

The list is not as long as I'd like but I literally keep a spreadsheet of polyam songs 🎵

Top picks for love songs are probably, in order, Can't Help but Fly, You and Your Friend, and In the Middle.

I'm always looking for more so if anyone who knows any others PLEASE add them, I'm literally begging 😭

Plaintext song list (sans ratings, so don't judge) below the cut

In The Middle by Dodie

The Cult of Dionysus by The Orion Experience

Mambo No 5 by Lou Bega

3 by Britney Spears

Someone New by Hozier

Do Ya Thang by Rihanna

My Girl Got a Girlfriend by Ray Lavender

Felices Los 4 by Maluma

Kinky by Ke$ha

No I in Threesome by Interpol

Save the Last Dance for Me by The Drifters

Let Me Love You byGeri Halliwell

Five Moms and Three Dads by Tom Hunter

Perils of Poly by Gaia Consort

Polyamory Song by David Rovics

Can't Help But Fly by Climbing PoeTree

Cyrus in the Moonlight by Cyndi Lauper

Triad by Jefferson Airplane

You and Your Friend by Snake River Conspiracy

Why Does it Have to be (Wrong or Right) by Restless Heart

Just Be Good to Me by The S.O.S. Band

Follow Me by Uncle Kracker

Everybody's Girl by Jinkx Monsoon

Polyamorous by Breaking Benjamin

[soup-mother]

i wonder what transmisogynistic "the left are trying to cancel me" grift david rovics is on at the moment

[seaglassandeelgrass]

Profits & Prices: Who makes what and what is paid by whom? Songs of commodities, costs, collateral, consumption, and compensation.

Cover image is a butcher selling mutton from Ms.4182 tav.138, the 14th-century Tacuinum Sanitatis held by the Biblioteca Casanatense.

The Money Crop- Malvina Reynolds

Who Reaps the Profits? Who Pays the Price?- Leon Rosselson

Working Reward- The Haymarket Squares

Pound a Week Rise- Siobhan Miller

Hey Ho- Tracy Grammer

The Hand That Feeds- The Crane Wives

Tomorrow Will Follow Today- Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman

Age of the Robber Barons- David Rovics

The Falcon- Mimi & Richard Farina

Dictatorship of Capital- Alistair Hulett

You Stay Here- Richard Shindell

Le Diable et le Fermier- Windborne

Chemical Worker's Song- Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith

Dying to Make a Living- The Local Honeys

Black Trade- The Unthanks

Something in the Rain- Tish Hinojosa

Free Enterprise- Jan Hammarlund

The Ballad of Accounting- Peggy Seeger & Ewan MacColl

The Capitalist Blues- Leyla McCalla

P.O.P. (Profit Over People)- The Moods

The Butcher's Sher- Daniel Kahn & the Painted Bird

21 tracks; 85 mins. [Spotify]

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