Slyngstad | Bluesky
Transcript
A three-panel political comic by Slyngstad highlighting the long history of political activism in music. In the foreground of all three panels, two audience members are seen talking in profile.
Panel 1:
On Stage: A modern musician holding a microphone calls out, “FREE PALESTINE!”
Foreground: One audience member complains, “UGH, WHEN DID MUSICIANS START TO BE SO POLITICAL?”
Panel 2:
On Stage: Freddie Mercury performing at the 1985 Live Aid benefit concert, with the “Live Aid” global logo in the background.
Foreground: The second audience member replies, “START?”
Panel 3:
On Stage: Folk singer Woody Guthrie playing an acoustic guitar with his iconic slogan written across it: “THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS”.
Foreground: The second audience member continues, “MAYBE YOU JUST WEREN’T LISTENING.”
You’d have to be some kind of American Idiot to miss the messages.
The Message must have been lost on these people Born in the USA it’s a shame that The Revolution Will not be Televised because it might make it more obvious, but That’s Just the Way it is.
It ain’t me I ain’t no fortunate son…
Rage Against the Machine but not like in a political way or anything, just like, noises and anger and centrism
Songs from Paul Ryan’s workout playlist
He’s singing along,
“Some of those that work forces, are the same that wear crosses”
You can imagine his thoughts on “chosen whites”
You won’t believe the amount of right wingers who believe RATM are right wing. I assume because they sound angry?
“Fuck you I won’t do what you tell me” is kind of universal, but you’d think “Some of those who work forces are the same who burn crosses” would have been a hint towards which side they lean towards.
This is not even a strawman. I seen people on reddit argue “art is supposed to just be fun, not push any ideologies.”
Ironic, the idea that art should just be for fun is its own ideology
Don’t you hate when Rise Against the Machine gets political?
When did they become a bunch of woke libtards? /s
You missed about 7 other insult phrases, 4 slurs and at at least 2 racist remarks.
Rise
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Fuck it it stays wrong whoops!
I respect when someone stands by their mistakes.
Don’t have this issue as much with punk and hardcore music :P
Okay I need some help. Is there a place I can figure out precisely the boundaries of hardcore music because I’ve been told a few times I should do a hardcore band.
I do blues, folk, jazz, and church music. Hardcore sounds fun but I should know what it is before I try
There aren’t really any boundaries.
You have: American hardcore Powerviolence Crust Euro hardcore
And about 100 other subgenres, that have their own styles. It’s mostly just energy speed and pissed off.
For example bands like Brain Tourniquet, storm of sedition, fentanyl, candy apple, tower 7, kinetic orbital strike, kohti tuhoa, extortion, Woodstock '99, Doped Up, and my current obsession 偏執症者 (Paranoid) all fall under the Hardcore label but all sound distinct from each other.
Edited to add links to band pages
So I’m spending next week building musical instruments (long story) and I think you just gave me a good work Playlist
I’m no expert (more of a metalhead) but I don’t know any of these. When talking about hardcore I’m thinking more about Sick of it All, Hatebreed, Terror, Walls of Jericho, 25 Ta Life and the like.
I know some of them, but they’re not super likely to show up on hardcore discussion threads.
Yours would. Although 25 ta life would just be Rick riding a horse memes.
Terror is always good. Incendiary, Backtrack, Have Heart, Trap Them, Nails, Left Behind, Trapped Under Ice. But yeah, hardcore has been around long enough there’s lots of different flavors and offshoots.
I apologize if my last post seemed dismissive, I’m a lifelong hardcore fan. Like old enough to buy Minor Threat out of step when it came out.
I edited my first post to add links for context for the bands I named, if I had the time I would add hundreds more, cheers!
No offense, I fully understand there are a lot of subgenres. I dont want to dismiss the bands you like, I was just surprised to not see what seem (to me) to be the more popular names. But that may be just be my own bubble, and should definitely not be considered an absolute reference or an attempt at gatekeeping what’s “good” hardcore. Anyway, thanks for the links!
I totally get that, and I was definitely not trying to gatekeep. I apologize if I came off that way, cheers and love what you love and keep rocking!
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