Yesterday, I plunked Green into my CD player for the first time in a long time, and my wish to fall back into the reveries this album had induced in me before kept getting rudely interrupted by my realization that, somehow, Michael Stipe, et al had proleptically made an album that voiced the horrors of George W. Bush's administration. . .
Here are just a few examples:
I believe in what you do
I believe in watching you ("Turn You Inside Out")
Serve your conscience overseas
(over me, not over me)
Coming in fast, over me ("Orange Crush")
and, of course, Dick Cheney's anthem:
I've a rich understanding of my finest defenses
I proclaim that claims are left unstated,
I demand a rematch
I decree a stalemate
I divine my deeper motives
I recognize the weapons
I've practiced them well. I fitted them myself. . . ("World Leader Pretend")
Of course, it's not that surprising that such an album, written by a band with a political bent after the ravages of 8 years of Reagan, would be so fitting today. But it got me thinking: What other songs and albums, written before the fateful "election" of 2000, do other members of Daily Kos think are fitting for today? I'm looking forward to your contributions. At the worst, it will help us kill some time in between agitating for the dismantling of the Worst Presidency Ever.