Songs from the past with meaning today

Hard to believe it's almost 25 years since this was released...



I've been listening to this album a lot in the past couple of months, and it's an amazing work.

Interesting lyrics off the same album, from the track "Spreading the Disease":

Politicians say no to drugs
While we pay for wars in South America
Fighting fire with empty words
While the banks get fat

And the poor stay poor
And the rich get rich
And the cops get paid to look away
As the one percent rules America

Spreading the disease
Everybody needs
But no one wants to see
The way society
Keeps spreading the disease

The reference to the one percent is a lot more common these days, hey?

reply to post by InTheFlesh1980


It is, indeed.

How about we get the led out....

The who,wont get fooled again!!

Sorry dont know how to link vids lol

Still love this song.
Mass consumerism and man made disasters.
sheesh 30 years ago

Don't know how to post videos but Hangar 18 by Megadeth and Ohio by CSNY come to mind.

reply to post by InTheFlesh1980



Was listening to this album earlier this evening ... it's damn near 'prophetic' in ways, almost.



good stuff! - the entire album.

My contribution would have to be Working Class Hero - John Lennon.
It was released the year I was born, 1971...almost 42 year's ago!

a reply to: adjensen


47 years after the song and 40 years after Lennon the "MIND GAMES" continue...

We're playing those mind games together
Pushing the barriers, planting seeds
Playing the mind guerrilla
Chanting the mantra 'Peace On Earth'

We all been playing those mind games forever
Some kinda druid dude liftin' the veil
Doing the mind guerrilla
Some call it magic - the search for the grail
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