I must not think bad thoughts...

[Javaman]

The facts we hate well never meet walking down the road everybody yelling "hurry up, hurry up!" but im waiting for you i must go slow i must not think bad thoughts when is this world coming too both sides are right but both sides murdered i give up why can't they

i must not think bad thoughts

i must not think bad thoughts

the civil wars and the uncivilized wars conflagrations leap out of every poor furnace the food cooks poorly and everyone goes hungry from then on it's dog eat dog dog eat body & body eat dog i can't go down there i can't understand it im a no good coward & an american too a north american that is not a south of a central or a native american

oh i must not think bad thoughts

i must not think bad thoughts

im guilty of murder of innocent men innocent women innocent children thousands of them my planes my guns my money my soul my blood on my hands it's all my fault i must not think bad thoughts i must not think bad thoughtsthe facts we hate you'll never hear us i hear the radio it's finally gonna play new music you know the british invasion but what about the minutemen fleasheaters doa big boys and the black flag were the last american bands to get played on the radio please bring the flag? please bring the flag! glitter-disco-synthesizer night school all the noble savage drum drum drum astronauts go back in time to hang out with the cave people it's about time it's about space it's about some people in the strangest places woody guthrie sang about b-e-e-t-s not b-e-a-t-s

i must not think bad thoughts

i must not think bad thoughts

the facts we hate

More lyrics: http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/x/x/#share

(I was driving home yesterday from out doing errands. This song came on. I love this song, but every time I hear it, it so completely upsets me. I had to pull over to collect myself - what have we become?)

[Uncle Joe]

1. Why do you love the song?

Thanks for the thread, Javaman.

[Javaman]

4. It reminds me of another time and place...

unlike the one we live in now.

A time when the voices were for the people and not against.

[blogslut]

5. It reminds me of the Reagan era

When the song was released and things were pretty freaking bleak.

[Javaman]

7. Yeah they were, but at least the musical artists who wrote songs about

the people still got play on the radio.

There were still unions even though asshole ray-gun was firing the members.

It was the last gasp for workers rights before they were completely trashed.

Like I said, different time and place. There were still voices then. Little did we know, that those same voices would be quelled via propaganda from the right.

The left fought the traditional battles while the right fought the dirty war and won.

This is why this song makes me sad when I listen to it.

[blogslut]

9. Horsefeathers

There are more voices now than ever before as well as more venues from which to be heard.

Look where you are.

[Javaman]

12. yes and no...

I do believe that there are still people singing about it, but given the landscape of the recording industry, rarely is there any play on the radio regarding these types of songs.

but then again, the concept of radio has changed drastically.

I'm the first to admit I'm wrong and I maybe wrong here, but in the end, "I must not think bad thoughts" still makes me sad.

[blogslut]

14. Perhaps

But X was never a big national act. When they got play it was on college and low-watt alternative stations. I love that song. It stunned me then. It stuns me now but the only reason I ever heard it was because I sought it out.

You're right that radio has changed. Today there are very few individually owned stations and very few deejays actually picking tunes to play. Most stuff is pre-programmed and the songs are selected by the suits who take their orders from the record companies. But then, that crap started happening in the late seventies.

[Uncle Joe]

16. Maybe those conflicting feelings of attachment and sadness too this song is

nostalgia for a time; when you were younger?

I'm not familiar with this song, but the lyrics seem like a definite downer to me, so maybe it was the time of your life; that's the emotional touchstone.

[Javaman]

17. Actually, when I first listened to this song...

It was a powerful message to me that things were changing and we on the left had to hold the line against those changes.

Now, it seems to me that many of the lyrics in the song have now come to pass and resonate more today then back then.

[Patsy Stone]

2. X kicked ass!

IMHO.

[maxsolomon]

15. X KICKS ass

they still tour, with the original lineup.

[Javaman]

18. With Billy Zoom? nt

[Gold Metal Flake]

19. Yes.

[ixion]

3. One of my favs by X...

thanks for posting! :yourock:

[Bluenorthwest]

6. This is a song by X.

What is it called? Does it have a name? Exene Cervenkova and John Doe are the writers? I have not listened to them for many years, back when they were an actual band. The sound bothered my cat, so I stopped listening to them.

[Javaman]

8. The title is, "I must not think bad thoughts"...

and yes it was written by X.

[hfojvt]

10. Do some people think like that?

My own mental conversation is a little more coherent. It may not translate well to a DU post (sometimes the other half of the joke stays in my head either deliberately (it's more fun, after all, if somebody else recognizes the line from Hitchhiker's Guide or Cat's Cradle or Doorways in the Sand, or, let's be honest, Gilligan's Island) or because of laziness, rushing, etc.) and then there's the cheesy music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxb34GhZb0I

[RandomThoughts]

11. Just think your thoughs do not make things happen

Then if your thoughts make things happen, they wont, and you are not doing those things :)

If you think something above that has complete knowledge and is all good does things, then you will not make things happen by thought, by your thoughts :)

Easy delusion to defeat.

:)

[Javaman]

13. While I find your post interesting...

the point of the title of the song has nothing to do with a thought experiment.

Not thinking bad thoughts and just going along with blinders on, is the point of the song.

I'm going to assume, you knew that. :)

Cheers.