Jagger mauls Bush (Stones song "Sweet Neocon" Bush: "full of sh*t")

[truthpusher]

http://uk.news.launch.yahoo.com/dyna/article.html?a=/050809/340/fp7n1.html&e=l_news_dm

Jagger mauls Bush
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(Tuesday August 09, 2005 10:14 AM)
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The Rolling Stones accuse President George W Bush of being "full of sh*t" on their new album, it has emerged.

"Sweet Neo Con", one of the tracks on the band's forthcoming LP "A Bigger Bang", is known to be fiercely anti-Bush.

(snip)

An extract from "Sweet Neo Con" features the following lines: "You call yourself a Christian, I call you a hypocrite/You call yourself a patriot, well I think you're full of sh*t."

Speaking to Newsweek, Jagger explained the background to the track. "It is direct. Keith said (adopting Richards' voice), 'It's not really metaphorical.'

"I think he's a bit worried because he lives in the U.S. But I don't," commented Sir Mick.

(snip)

Link Story: http://uk.news.launch.yahoo.com/dyna/article.html?a=/050809/340/fp7n1.html&e=l_news_dm

[AX10]

1. GOOD! and any right wing pundit, 'actor' or country 'music' singer...

attacks MIC, may they get throat noguels and never speak again!

[Greeby]

12. Speaking of which

Have you ever noticed when the GOP goes trolling for celebrities. They always come up with the scrapings off the bottom of the barrel?

[Judi Lynn]

13. You'd think it'd embarrass them:the very bottom. The pits. Lower depths.

Truly bad actors, Ted Nugent, country singers. It goes down from there!

[Coventina]

2. The Rolling Stones prove themselves relevant

Good for them!

:toast:

on edit: had to make my spelling "relevant"

[TomPainesBones]

4. LOL

The Stones actually SAYING something.
What is the world coming to!

[foo_bar]

36. you're right, it's like Mel Torme singing Strange Fruit

I always thought the Stones were quasi-conservative, seeing how they made it through the 60s without a single protest anthem (not counting "Shattered"). What a difference 40 years make.

[R Hickey]

48. Sympathy for the Devil - didn't seem quasi-conservative to me.

When we plotted revolution in the sixties, in Madison, Wisconsin, it seemed to be our theme song..."Beggers Banquet" seemed radical at the time.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

51. Quasi-conservative?

Have you ever LOOKED at Keith Richard?

They didn't have to say a word to protest - they've lived their lives exactly as they pleased, and, to me, that's protest enough. Politics be damned - when Mick got his knighthood, Keith said this: "I thought it was ludicrous to take one of those gongs (awards) from the establishment when they did their very best to throw us in jail," in a reference to his and Jagger's 1967 conviction on drug offenses, later overturned on appeal. (December 4, 2003)

I love that guy.

I may have to break the 25-year embargo and actually buy this new Stones album ...................

[foo_bar]

56. "quasi" in the leftie lawyer sense

materially different (Keith Richards) yet analogous (Sir Mick Jagger). But arguments about pop culture are famously irresolute, so it's "whatever gets you through the night..."

[OldLeftieLawyer]

64. Hey

If this is being quasi, I hope you achieve it. Ain't nothing better.......

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

58. ever heard street fighting man?

that one always struck me as a bit on the radical side

[foo_bar]

60. and "Start Me Up" is the official advertising jingle of Windows 95

I love (most of) their music, but their politics were always apolitical at best, establishmentarian at worst.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

61. But there were no politics

If you understand that rock'n'roll is never about politics and always about busting the establishment, then you'll begin to understand that the Stones were as radical as can be. It's about the young taking revenge on the old ways.

See?

[foo_bar]

62. but they're no longer "the young"

They're the establishment now, like Johnny Rotten but with millions in advertising contracts:

The Stones, in return, will get massive exposure of their new material from their forthcoming Virgin Records release, The Bigger Bang, to their core demographic of middle-aged males. The all-new studio set is due in stores Sept. 6.

http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,17110,00.html?tnews

[OldLeftieLawyer]

65. I'm not talking about "them"

I'm talking about rock'n'roll, which is ageless.

[foo_bar]

67. who replied to whom?

Music is ageless, time will tell which chart toppers were music. I suspect much of it is anyway, but only our great-grandkids will know for sure.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

68. My grandkids already know

It's all rock'n'roll, and there is no such thing as time..................

[foo_bar]

71. it's only rock'n'roll (but I like it)

[Iris]

7. You mean again, right?

:)

[tabasco]

3. I wish it had been a jaguar instead.

A big, hungry jaguar.

[goforit]

5. Whooo Hooo Jagger!!!!.........Rock on!!

:rofl: :headbang: :rofl:

[Judi Lynn]

6. 'It's not really metaphorical.' HA!

It's about time! Can't wait to hear this. It'll sell like crazy, no doubt.

Thanks.

[Spazito]

8. Excellent! Jagger is right on!

I was fortunate to be able to see the Stones when they performed in Toronto at the SARS concert where they donated proceeds from the sales of items to the healthcare workers. It shows that Mick and his band put their money and lyrics to good work!

[JAbuchan08]

11. Yeah its nice to see that the "pompous" rock star image he projects

isn't all encompassing. Kudos to Mick!!

[krkaufman]

27. Gotta hope that the Right-Wingers boycott the upcoming tour...

... thus making it easier for me to get tickets! :)

[JAbuchan08]

9. Lets see the wingers take on an um.... "American" institution like the

Stones. *snicker*

[hobbit709]

10. 40 years of Rock 'n' Roll

and they still have attitude.

[dbonds]

14. I might have to buy this.

Got to support those that speak up.

[Kikosexy2]

26. Give us Mick!....

I'm sure gonna buy it before it's banned from Wal-Mart--hahahaha. You want more anti-Bush go with Rickie Lee Jones last CD--she really takes a whack at Jr. ("Ugly Man") and the 2000 election ("Little Mysteries").

[OldLeftieLawyer]

66. Well, thank you very much

I'll be picking up her CD tomorrow - because of what you posted.

Thanks.

[MaineDem]

15. Even here in the US we have freedom of speech...

Oh wait...maybe we don't.

Way to go, guys!!! I'm going to order the CD now.

[AFSCME girl]

16. This is awesome! Rock on, Stones!!

:bounce:

[geckosfeet]

17. I haven't bought a Stones album in twenty years! But I'm buy'n this! nt

[SOS]

18. Anyone remember the "Undercover" controversy?

In 1983 the Stones released "Undercover" which was critical of Reagan's Central America policy. MTV said they could not air the video because it was "too violent". LOL!
This new one sounds good. Look forward to hearing it.

[truthpusher]

20. Great album

[Kurovski]

19. Wow, Mick goes punk!

Total rock rage.

Can't wait to hear my feelings put to music.

Edit: I hope they produce a nifty little music video to go along with it.

[VegasWolf]

21. Jagger has Drudge and the FReepers heads spinning like a top! nt

[LibDemAlways]

22. Mick's a bright guy and, at this stage of

his life/career, he surely doesn't give a shit what anybody thinks. I'm glad he decided to speak out and I like his choice of words. "Full of shit" about sums it up.

[Kurovski]

28. Clearly, no sympathy for the devil there.

[whatever4]

23. Oh bless his little old heart!!

Now, all I have to ask is what took so long. Anyone with a public voice ought to be speak out, ought to be speaking out, speaking LOUD!!

This is our nation at stake. Not some small political issue.

And it's not just our nation either. It's the human race really. It really is.

Not that I blame people for not caring. Not anymore. It's what we do best. And it's not at all hard to be hateful to a populace that has allow what we have allowed.

But still. The words should be said. By EVERYONE that can say them.

While we still can say them.

Before the blacklisting starts. Ya know?

[trogdor]

24. Steel Wheels (1989)

Rock and a Hard Place

The fields of Eden
Are full of trash
And if we beg and we borrow and steal
We'll never get it back
People are hungry
They crowd around
And the city gets bigger as the country comes begging to town
We're stuck between a rock
And a hard place
Between a rock and a hard place
This talk of freedom
And human rights
Means bullying and private wars and chucking all the dust into our eyes
And peasant people
Poorer than dirt
Who are caught in the crossfire with nothing to lose but their shirts
Stuck between a rock
And a hard place
Between a rock and a hard place
You'd better stop put on a kind face
Between a rock and a hard place
We're in the same boat
On the same sea
And we're sailing south
On the same breeze
Guiding dream churches
With silver spires
And our rogue children
Are playing loaded dice
Give me truth now
Don't want no sham
I'd be hung drawn and quartered for a sheep just as well as a lamb
Stuck between a rock
And a hard place
Between a rock and a hard place
You'd better stop
Put on a kind face
Can't you see what you've done to me

They did another one during the Gulf War - something about "sending in the 82nd Airborne. What was the title?

[AntiCoup2K4]

43. That would be "Highwire"

We sell 'em missiles, We sell 'em tanks
We give 'em credit, You can call the bank
It's just a business, You can pay us in crude
You love these toys, just go play out your feuds
Got no pride, don't know whose boots to lick
We act so greedy, makes me sick sick sick

So get up, stand up, out of my way
I want to talk to the boss right away
Get up, stand up, whose gonna pay
I want to talk to the man right away

We walk the highwire
Sending the men up to the front line
Hoping they don't catch the hell fire
With hot guns and cold, cold nights

We walk the highwire
Sending the men up to the front line
And tell 'em to hotbed the sunshine
With hot guns and cold, cold nights

Our lives are threatened, our jobs at risk
Sometimes dictators need a slap on the wrist

Another Munich we just can't afford
We're gonna send in the eighty-second airborne

Get up, stand up, who's gonna pay
I wanna talk to the boss right away
Get up, stand up, outta my way
I wanna talk to the man right away

We walk the highwire
Putting the world out on a deadline
And hoping they don't catch the shellfire
With hot guns and cold, cold nights

We walk the highwire
Putting the world out on a deadline
Catching the bite on primetime
With hot guns and cold, cold nights

Get up! Stand up!
Dealer! Stealer!
Hey!

We walk the highwire
We send all our men into the front lines
We're hoping that we backed the right side
With hot guns and cold, cold nights

We walk the highwire
We send all the men up to the front lines
And hoping they don't catch the hellfire
With hot guns and cold cold, cold, cold, cold nights

We walk the highwire
We walk the highwire
With hot guns and cold, cold, cold nights

With hot guns and cold, cold nights

[Atlas Mugged]

55. I love that song

It's amazing that the Stones released that song at the end of the first Gulf War and there's people on this thread snarking that the Stones never make a political statement; thanks for including it. Even Bill Clinton has announced the Stones before a benefit concert and people are still accusing them of being politically vague. And after their '95 concert in D.C., they went directly to the White House as special guests. And, for those unaware, the song, 'Sweet Black Angel', was a tribute to Angela Davis.

[DrZeeLit]

25. Thank you! I was wondering when somebody in "my generation"

(a nod to the who) was gonna STEP UP and start doing some protest singin'!
I mean, BIG TIME, even though I do love those small, start up songs.

I'm thinnin' lately -- where are the marchers, the songs, the protests?

I suppose of there was a draft, everyone would come marching out of the woodwork, huh?

Still, I would love a big ol' hunkin' rally, a march on DC, with the Stones and Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, and the whole next generation of big names... all focusing on this for shit administration and the illegal war.

Ah, but it's summer and everyone's at the beach, huh?

[OldLeftieLawyer]

52. Steve Earle

He's been heating it up from the beginning. Check out his website.

Also John Prine - on his new CD, he takes a really nice shot at Fuckface.

[thecrow]

29. My will directs that the Rolling Stones be played

at my funeral...
"Gimme Shelter" to be specific.
(Let them leave dancing, is my thought)
I might just have to glean more songs from them :)
Way to go, Mick!

[musette_sf]

30. aw, gee, Condi requested "Brown Sugar"

and Sir Mick wrote a song JUST FOR HER!!!

[Burried News]

31. Crank it up Mick

Never stop, Never stop, Neverstop

[musette_sf]

32. Now all they need to do is do a remake of

"Star Star", rename it "Power Power", and dedicate it to Abramoff.

[hippiechick]

33. I thought your headline was: "JOGGER mauls Bush"

:rofl: :wow: :rofl: :wow: :rofl: :wow:

[Name removed]

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[truthpusher]

35. The Lounge? I guess the story of the biggest band in history...

...slamming Bush politically is not big news? I don't always get how things work here at DU - I thought this was LBN material...Oh Well.

[Kire]

39. Nominate it anyway.

[truthpusher]

41. I would nominate if I could, but I can't.....

...I posted it - I do think it is an awesome story that will get lots of press.

[Kire]

45. Oh, I see.

so this got moved from LBN to the Lounge? your post sounded like you were pissed at the OP for posting it in the Lounge. I didn't look to see that you were the same person.

This should be LBN material.

[truthpusher]

53. What gives? I thought it was a big deal?

[Kire]

59. They're jumpy on LBN.

They've never kept anything I've posted over there so I just stopped and posted in GD or the Lounge. I think you might have to get an established reputation for posting good stuff. Like that old, I can't get a job if I don't have experience and I can't get experience if I don't have a job.


Fuck them. Honestly, I don't even browse LBN anymore. The greatest pages are where it's at now.

[truthpusher]

73. They keep most of my stuff up...

...however, it seems that anything to do with music gets placed in the lounge.

[Kire]

46. Looks like it's got five votes now.

that was quick

:yourock:

[Chovexani]

37. Awesome!

I can't listen to the Stones without thinking of Edina's mother on Absolutely Fabulous...there was a flashback once when Eddie was a teenager and sneaking home drunk from a concert. Mom asked who she'd seen.

"The Stones, the Beatles, the Rolling Who?"

:D

[Pystoff]

63. Oh shit I love Ab Fab

I miss it so much but the last episode made up for it going away in kickass style.

[Kire]

38. Nominate this lounge thread for the Greatest Page

Go ahead. It's okay.

[MalibuChloe]

40. I am buying that! Cool! n/t

[AntiCoup2K4]

42. Thanks Mick!

That one just went into the signature :evilgrin:

[Initech]

44. Now I really cant wait for their new album!

Rock on Mick and Keith!

[earth mom]

47. Nominated! This thread deserves to be seen.

Haven't heard the song yet, but would love for it to hit # 1!

I LOVE the Stones!

B-)

[truthpusher]

49. I agree....

...I think this story is awesome - I hope it gets attention here in the lounge?

[txb]

54. I Found IT! hey Hey HEY!!! Best Article TODAY!

nice to see ol' Mick doing something and not caring what the sponsors think.......I feel 'less dirty' about, shit---proud of....the $65 ticket I bought for the 11.13 Rolling Stones / Metallica gig at The Yard........


maybe this is the best, and only, way to stop the war......politics often yields less progress than a jogging machine.

the STONES have the bucks and balls to do what the fuck they like......or at least SAY what they feel.....

kind of like a Patriotic Woman standing in a ditch in TEXAS today, wouldn't you say??

Now Cindy may need a themesong......these Stoney guys, ya know....they might be just the band for the job! ;-)

Heartbreakers with your forty-four,
I wanna tear your world apart,
you heartbreaker with your forty-four,
I wanna tear your world apart,

Heartbreaker, painmaker
stole the love right out of your heart
Heartbreaker, heartbreaker
You stole the love right out of my heart
Heartbreaker, heartbreaker
I wanna tear your world apart.
Doo doo, doo doo doo doo doo doo,
doo doo doo doo doo doo doo,
doo doo doo doo doo doo.

[dalloway]

50. that is awesome! people will be singing about Bush's lies

for generations to come....

Recommended.

[I Know How To Do it]

57. They just signed a contract with Monday Night Football. Should be interest

ing to see how that works.
I betcha the Cons will be screaming for the Boycott of Monday Night Football.
I bet heads will explode in confusion.

[paineinthearse]

69. Guide to 'A Bigger Bang'

http://www.uncut.co.uk/music/the_rolling_stones/special_features/8652



They may still be the greatest live rock'n'roll band in the world, but nobody expects much from a new Rolling Stones studio album these days. Indeed, it's eight years since the last one - 1997's Bridges To Babylon - and after the four patchy new tracks that appeared on 2002's Forty Licks compilation, they would never make get around to making another studio record. Yet when Uncut suggested to Mick Jagger at the end of 2003 that the Stones had become a touring-only band like The Grateful Dead towards the end of their career, it was clear that his pride was wounded by the suggestion. "No, I think the Stones have to make another studio album," he insisted.

Now finally they've gone and done it with 'A Bigger Bang', a title which apparently reflects their "Fascination with the scientific theory about the origin of the universe." A notion which raises intriguing images of Mick, Keith, Charlie and Ronnie sitting around the studio reading Stephen Hawking for inspiration. Co-produced by Don Was and the band, the album was recorded in sessions in Paris at the end of 2004 and spring/early summer this year and mixed in Los Angeles. It contains 16 new Jagger-Richards compositions, which length-wise at least, puts the album in the bracket of Exile On Main Street (18 tracks) rather than Let It Bleed (nine tracks) or Beggar's Banquet and Sticky Fingers (10 tracks).

What's more, it is surely their last studio album. Given the long gaps between albums these days, the Stones will be in their 70s before another is due. So there might be a couple more tours but there surely won't be another studio record. Early indications suggest that with this is mind, the Stones have defied the odds and raised their game to produce one last great album. There's none of the trendy fripperies that characterised Jagger's last solo album 'Goddess In The Doorway', no programming or borrowing from dance music or any other modern passing fad or fashion. As one Stones' employee puts it, 'They decided to borrow from themselves instead'. For the first time in years, sources say, Jagger and Richards wrote in tandem and the result is the most organic-sounding album they've made in decades.

Due for release on September 5, this is what Uncut has been able to piece together about an album that might be subtitled 'How The Glimmer Twins Got Their Groove Back'...

Rough Justice
A kick-ass rocker, full of animal imagery about roosters, chickens, cocks, foxes and even a bat out of hell. At one point, Mick sings "put your lips to my hips and tell me what's on your mind".

Let Me Slow Down
One of the best tune on the record, with a great femme fatale lyric
("there's a swish in your step and a gleam in your eye") and a dramatic chorus with a lovely descending melody, "I said baby, baby, baby, let me down real slow.''

It Won't Take Long
Classic "Heart Of Stone" style Mick put-down lyrics as he tells the girl he'll soon forget her, accompanied by great dual guitar work form Keith and Ronnie.

Rain Fell Down
A touch of New Orleans funk and a circular, clanging Meters-style guitar motif from Keith. Chugs along rather like Dylan's "Slow Train Coming".

Streets Of Love
Starts with mock-Renaissance guitar chords, like "Lady Jane" or "Tears Go By", and builds into a big stadium ballad, with Mick deliciously mouthing lyrics about stalking the streets of love and confessing ''I must admit I was awful bad. . .''

The Back Of My Hand
Raw and dirty blues, fantastic slide guitar, wailing harmonica, Mick yelping like a cat on heat. The ghost Of Muddy Waters walks.

This Place Is Empty
Great piano-led ballad sung by Keith but very rootsy. Real honky-tonk-style tack piano and Keith crooning ''treat me sweet and cruel".

She Saw Me Coming
Mick on the prowl again - only this time his prey was wise to the old
predator's tricks.

Biggest Mistake
Mick admits to making an error? Surely some mistake. Needless to say
there's a girl at the bottom of it...

Oh No, Not You Again
Storming Sticky Fingers-era rocker with a lyric about ''Oh no not you again, fuckin' up my life...'' previewed in the band's surprise live set on the balcony of New York's Juilliard School when they announced their new tour in May.

Dangerous Beauty
Mid-tempo track on which Mick explains how he could always resist everything but temptation.

Laugh I Nearly Died
A simmering mid-tempo groove with Mick sounding more impassioned than in years - "Been travelling far and wide, wondering who's gonna be my guide... I'm so sick and tired... I feel so despised... Laugh? Laugh? Laugh? I nearly died."

Sweet Neo Con
The biggest surprise. We thought Mick was an old Thatcherite. But here he sticks it to Bush and co right between the eyes. ''You say you are a Christian , I think you are a hypocrite,'' he spits in the opening line to a tune a little like Dylan's "Masters Of War", while the chorus sneers, ''How come you're so wrong, my sweet neo-con.'' A Virgin spokeswoman in the US has already put out a panicky statement denying it's about Bush or anyone on the White House (can't risk upsetting Clear Channel, can we?). But if you believe that, you'll believe anything.

Look What The Cat Dragged In
Another rocker with a classic riff and typical Jagger lyric.

Driving Too Fast
Keith in overdrive on a pounding riff that rocks like its 1971.

Infamy
The album ends with Keith stepping up to the mic again for his second wasted-sounding vocal of the album.

[paineinthearse]

70. DU ACTION: Call/email your local rock station, demand they play this...

early and often...

Will be interesting if Clear Channel or other outlets ban it.

[Skip Intro]

72. I wonder how Ameriquest will feel about this?

They're sponsoring the tour. Commercials all over.

lol

[dooner]

74. Camp Casey should start broadcasting

and perhaps aim this loud music at "the compound", the way "we" do when we're trying to get bad guys to surrender.

[sakabatou]

75. I can hear the neocon heads exploding.

KABOOM!

:evilgrin: