Kneel, Young

You know, I can't stand to listen to my own music (yeah, me too) after it's "released." I cringe physically. But damned if the lyrics to my "protest song" (mp3 link) don't kick the tar out of Neil Young's latest effort.

What if Al Qaeda blew up the levees?
Would New Orleans have been safer that way?

I mean, how friggin' tedious is that? Hmmm...I could really come up with a poignant, detail-driven portrait of a fallen soldier's family grappling with the mixed feelings of pride and resentment they harbor...or I could just cut and paste a few headlines from Daily Kos so they rhyme.

ADDENDUM: My lifetime achievement award for musical laziness, though, still goes to Public Enemy for recycling their pre-9/11 "protest song" on iTunes just in time to push Kerry over the top. Here's a rerun of my October 2004 post:

Public Enemy, iTunes Party Like It's 2001
Chuck D and crew arrive unfashionably early to Bush Bash bash; bring Schlitz

If you got burned dropping twenty bucks on Public Enemy's 2002 shitstorm Revolverlution, good news…thanks to iTunes, you can now get burned one song at a time! Like the man said in Robocop, "I'll buy that for a dollar!"

Chuck D and company used to be hard—at least that's what the Village Voice always said. Today, there's only one reason I don't believe Chuck is standing at the mic reading articles out of a years-old copy of Mother Jones he stole from the Air America lobby—I don't believe Air America has a lobby.

Erm, was President Johnson elected?

Apple today (October 26) posted the "new" and de facto controversial video "Son of a Bush" to promote last week's addition of the iTunes "exclusive" single of the same name. In short, it sounds like shit 'cause it is shit: it was produced not by the Bomb Squad but by former PE "Minister of Information" Professor Griff, he of "[Jews are responsible for] the majority of wickedness in the world" fame. Guess we're all chums again now that Jew-bashing is cool again.

Ever timely, Chuck and crew hit iTunes just days before the election. Apparently, though, nobody told Chuck what year it is. "Son of a Bush" is a cold leftover from Revolverlution and tackles the big issue on everyone's mind this election; namely, the fate of the U.S. Navy surveillance plane intercepted over China in April 2001. Why, oh why did Flav ever stop wearing all those clocks around his neck?