There’s a group that I’m not all that familiar with called Southern Culture On The Skids. I was surprised to learn that I was actually familiar with some of their stuff. They’ve had several different songs that appeared in several different movies in the last quarter century. While I am one that will often sit through the credits, I never really noticed they had so many songs used in films.
Recently, I ran across a writing online that mentioned that fact, so I did some digging. And, sure enough, they’ve been in movies I’ve seen. And some movies I haven’t seen. No Oscar winners in the bunch, but still films I’ve seen.
Their first national exposure came with their song “Camel Walk.”
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Here comes the new commie…same as the old commie. Hope we don’t get fooled again: Revolutionary Communist Party USA Leader Bob Avakian Announces He’s Backing Biden.
“Biden is not ‘better’ than Trump, in any meaningful way — except that he is not Trump and is not part of the move to consolidate and enforce fascist rule, with everything that means,” Avakian said in an email to supporters on Monday.
“To approach this election from the standpoint of which candidate is ‘better’ means failing to understand the truly profound stakes and potential consequences of what is involved. The fact is that there can be one — and only one — ‘good’ that can come out of this election: delivering a decisive defeat to Trump and the whole fascist regime.”
“Right now, for everyone who is concerned with ending injustice and oppression, and with the question of whether humanity will have a future worth living—or will have a future at all—removing the Trump/Pence fascist regime from power is an immediate, urgent question and truly historic imperative.” But Avakian said “to be clear, this means not a ‘protest vote’ for some candidate who has no chance of winning, but actually voting for the Democratic Party candidate, Biden, in order to effectively vote against Trump. This is not because Biden (and the Democratic Party in general) have suddenly become something other than what they are: representatives and instruments of this exploitative, oppressive, and literally murderous system of capitalism-imperialism.”
A vote for Biden is meant to remove Trump, he said.
“This is a regime headed by ‘a demented bully’ with his finger on the nuclear button. It is a regime that, without exaggeration, threatens not just greatly heightened suffering for the masses of humanity but the very existence of humanity itself, through its intensified moves to further the plunder of the environment and its boasts of unequaled.
Oops I left the last part of the last sentence out…. “unequaled weapons of mass destruction and its blatant declaration of willingness to use those weapons, including its massive nuclear arsenal.”
Seems to me he must know that a commie candidate would have no chance to win as he admits… “To be clear, this means not a ‘protest vote’ for some candidate who has no chance of winning.” In other words his own party’s candidate.
Heh. You’d think that they’d wise up when their predictions that a Trump/Pence election woud turn America into The Handmaid’s Tale didn’t pan out.
Trump’s had his finger on the button for almost four years. Nuclear war is imminent!!
Trump has controlled the military and intelligence communities for just as long. Police state (like Obama’s) is coming soon!
Jerks. Jerk {coughs}.
Remember when it was Reagan who was going to launch a nuclear war? Ahh the good old days.
[Re: The Group:]
Never heard of them, but that’s not surprising, as I’m not likely to watch any movie for which they’re doing a soundtrack.
Babe guitarist.
Southern accent to a B-52s / Talking Heads stepchild. And a baseline I can’t get out of my head right now.
SCOTS rocks…
/nothing follows, or needs to
if you haven’t heard them before, check’em out!
i’ve been a fan since the mid-90s.
I’ve seen flyers for Southern Culture on the Skids for years. I’ve never been much of a clubber so I have never caught them. Kinda interesting.
Thanks.
IMAO proves useful.
Someone used kaishakunin in this Article.
Do we qualify as an educational site?
Where’s moderation when you need it?!?!
It fell on its sword.