[ReadyontheRight]

Not necessarily gun-related, but I think it's Freedom and U.S.A.-Related.

We are so innudated with bliss-ninny garbage from the U.S. entertainment industry, I am interested in music that supports the THR point-of-view.

Danny Elfman -- Who wrote the theme songs for The Simpsons, Edward Scissorhands and who has scored countless other Hollywood productions -- used to lead a band called "Oingo Boingo" in the early 1980s.

Oingo Boingo songs were played in many John Hughes movies (i.e. Sixteen Candles), but never really hit the charts in the pre-"Alternative Music" era.

I was listening to some of my old albums (you know -- big, black 1'X1' pieces of vinyl with grooves you have to 'flip over' to hear ALL the songs), when it occurred to me that some of the music I listened to when I was a teenager actually meshes with my current political views. Case in point:

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"Capitalism" -- by Oingo Boingo

There's nothing wrong with Capitalism
There's nothing wrong with free enterprise
Don't try to make me feel guilty
I'm so tired of hearing you cry

There's nothing wrong with making some profit
If you ask me I'll say it's just fine
There's nothing wrong with wanting to live nice
I'm so tired of hearing you whine
About the revolution
And bringin' down the rich
When was the last time you dug a ditch -- baby?

If it ain't one thing
Then it's the other
Any cause that crosses your path
Your heart bleeds for anyone's brother
I've got to tell you you're a pain in the ???

You criticize with plenty of vigor
You rationalize everything that you do
With catchy phrases and heavy quotations
And everybody is crazy but you

You're just a middle class, socialist brat
From a suburban family and you never really had to work
And you tell me that we've got to get back
To the struggling masses (whoever they are)
You talk, talk, talk about suffering and pain
Your mouth is bigger than your entire brain
What the hell do you know about suffering and pain . . . You dumb F*%@!

(Repeat first verse)

(Repeat chorus)

There's nothing wrong with Capitalism
There's nothing wrong with Capitalism
There's nothing wrong with Capitalism
There's nothing wrong with Capitalism

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Is anyone else familiar with Oingo Boingo? Or are there any other bands out there who "get it"?

[Mike Irwin]

Oh yeah. Their music was pretty big when I was in college.

They were featured prominently in a movie with Rodney Dangerfield called "Back to School" that also featured Sam Kinnison...


OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

OH OOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Hehehehehehe...

[TekChef]

Boingo has a MASSIVE cult following..and most of them don't get things like that in their lyrics.

Elfman is a musical genius...he is up there with Zappa.

He worked HARD for many years, and made his way with quality music and never compromised himself. He is now one of the most in demand hollywood composers, and is living a good life.

Proof that hard work can make dreams happen.

Other bands that "get it"-Rush comes to the top of my head. Neil Peart , who writes the lyrics, is VERY much in the mold of personal freedom. His lyrics are intelligent, and require some really thinking to grasp.

Another band is Iced Earth-they are American underground metal act that was formed by a 17 year old kid in the late1980s-Jon Schaffer. He ran from a bad home, and worked his butt off to get to where he is today. They have SEVERAL very patriotic songs, and he fully believes in hard work, personal freedom, and making your own future happen, never depending on anyone.

Honestly, I can't see why any artist of any sort can support socialism/communism-when it turns bad(and it does), they are the first ones censored, removed and executed.

[Duncan Idaho]

http://elfman.filmmusic.com/

[six 4 sure]

I think Tool has some pretty cool lyrics in a few of their songs. I cleaned my favorite up as best I could.

@$%& L Ron Hubbard and
@$%& All his clones
@$%& all those gun-toting hip gangster wannabes

and it goes on to say

@$%& smiley glad-hands with hidden agends
@$%& these dysfunctional insecure actresses

[Akurat]

Metallica...or perhaps just James Hetfield.

-"To secure peace IS to prepare for war"...and all of 'Don't tread on me'

-"I hunt, therefore I am, harvest the land, taking of the fallen lamb"

-lots of others I'm forgetting ATM, its late

[Orthonym]

Just because they're SOOO strange.

[El Tejon]

They are the band in "Back to School" (1986) in Rodney's dorm room. "It's a Deadman's Party.":D

"Why don't you call me sometime when you have no class."

"Ophelia, hold some of my calls.":cool:

[sm]

I suddenly feel very very old. Pink Floyd , Dark Side Of the Moon released in '73 when I graduated HS.
I think I did kill more brain cells than originally thought, I can't recall some things. I quit booze in '84. Cells don't grow back, they say, yep it's true.

78s, 33s, 45s, 8 tracks..., Annie Green Springs, Boone Farms (for the blond and the brunette) Old Charter for me, Joplin, CCR, Hendrix, Who,Creme, Stones....damn I'm old.

I have no idea whom some bands were politically, and I really don't know whom they are now. Guess that's why I have what I do around the house.

sheesh, guess it's official...I'm a relic

[Ed Straker]

Aren't they the ones who sang 'Melt the Guns'?

Nope, that was XTC. A lot of that time period runs together in my head...:banghead:

[10-Ring]

Oh Yeah!! :D I was a hue Boingo fan. I went to their last few Holloween shows & their last show @ the Universal Amp.

Man...talk about feeling OLD :banghead:

[El Tejon]

10-ring, you're not just getting older, but better!:D

Besides, the young & nubile dig an older guy.:cool:

[Sylvilagus Aquaticus]

whoa, re1973...deja` vu all over again...don't scare old hippies like that. I went to a birthday party when I was in college and the band was the B52's. Weird.

Regards,
Rabbit.

[braindead0]

The Residents!

There about as freedom oriented as you can get.

I'm surprised anybody here has even heard of them....

[ElToro]

TED NUGENT.. totally gets it!

I saw Oingo Boingo at teh Great America theme park amphitheater in like 1989.. for all you in the bay area who remember when that was a safe place to go...

[braindead0]

for all you in the bay area who remember when that was a safe place to go...

I was up at the Fillmore in 1997 (Residents shows), walked back to Chinatown at 3:45am on a Saturday morning..through the tenderloin... dangerous places aren't all they're cracked up to be sometimes.

Of course, when you look like one of the dangerous people... it's easier.:evil:

[sm]

What no Steppenwolf fans ? :D
Hendrix and Joplin died I think In my soph year , We cranked up Santana and dissected frogs in Bio. while mourning.
Beatles of course ( saw them on Ed Sullivan show b/w tv)
Rare Earth, Peter Frampton,Chicago,BloodSweat&Tears...

Grounds for a butt whuppin= Bee Gees. :barf:

Gotta have Allman Bros ( Eat a Peach, Fillmore East)
ZZtop...I was told I was there...told I had a real good time Is there a Patti in the audience from Nashville that drove a Challenger 340 six pack that attended an all girl school in N'ville that can confirm that evening for me ? :D Oh she carried a Lt wt Commander, we shot the next day on a farm...ear plugs didn't help, nothing helped. For some reason I couldn't hit squat with my Combat Commander that day...

[Langenator]

Ah, Oingo Boingo, still one of my favorite bands almost 8 years after they rode into the sunset.

Actually, I think their biggest hit was "Weird Science," theme song to the movie and later TV show of the same name.

Another of their songs with a conservative bent, from way back in 1981, "Only a Lad" from the album of the same name.

Johnny was bad, even as a child everybody could tell
Everyone said if you don't get straight
You'll surely go to hell

But johnny didn't care
He was an outlaw by the time that he was
Ten years old
He didn't wanna do what he was told
Just a prankster, juvenile gangster

His teachers didn't understand
They kicked him out of school
At a tender early age
Just because he didn't want to learn things
(had other interests)
He liked to burn things

The lady down the block
She had a radio that johnny wanted oh so bad
So he took it the first chance he had
Then he shot her in the leg
And this is what she said
Only a lad
You really can't blame him
Only a lad
Society made him
Only a lad
He's our responsibility
Only a lad
He really couldn't help it
Only a lad
He didn't want to do it
Only a lad
He's underprivileged and abused
Perhaps a little bit confused

His parents gave up they couldn't influence his attitude
Nobody could help
The little man had no gratitude

And when he stole the care
Nobody dreamed that he would
Try to take it so far
He didn't mean to hit the poor man
Who had to go and die
It made the judge cry

Only a lad
He really couldn't help it
Only a lad
He didn't want to do it
Only a lad
He's underprivileged and abused
Perhaps a little bit confused

It's not his fault that he can't believe
It's not his fault that he can't behave
Society made him go astray
Perhaps if we're nice he'll go away
Perhaps he'll go away
He'll go away

(repeat chorus)

Hey there johnny you really don't fool me
You get away with murder
And you think it's funny
You don't give a damn if we live or if we die
Hey there johnny boy
I hope you fry!

[Correia]

I'm a huge Oingo Boingo fan. It was one of things that got my wife to like me when we first met. :) She flew to California and slept in the airport to catch their farewell concert.

Only a Lad is brilliant.

[Destructo6]

Still a big Oingo Boingo fan. Since they were/are a LA band, I've listened to them long before the Dead Man's Party album. One of my favorites, that goes along with the theme of this thread is "Only a Lad".

They still play LA clubs from time to time, but under a pseudonym.

[Joe Demko]

Th 80's were a long time ago.
They were fun but they are done,
and they ain't coming back.

[Ian]

Steppenwolf, Rush, Shadow Gallery - all great bands with some seriously pro-freedom lyrics.

I like some of Nugent's music, but he's more conservative than pro-freedom, IMO.