Sounds for January 2020 and Beyond

January 31, 2020 10:02 PM

This is your fight song in a battle without honor.

Hold on, because although you're bleeding, although you get knocked down ... you get up again – it's the storm, not you, that's bound to blow away. Reach for the sun. In a world that keeps pushin' you around, it's hard to dance with the devil on your back. Heaven knows we need a little hope for a better day; don't stop thinking about tomorrow. I won't give up, if you don't give up; we'll ride the stormy weather.

You're alive and kicking, there's life in your face, and you're tired of the bullshit. Challenge what the future holds, and say what you wanna say, and let the words fall out: "I'm stronger than you. You don't own me. No, I regret nothing: I'm not gonna take it anymore, I'm gonna fly now. Fuck you, the people have the power. The future's in the air: a storm wind that will ring the freedom bell."

In life, you're gonna get what you give. It's up to us to change this town called Malice. You will make it through this year.

posted by WCityMike (10 comments total)

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
posted by danhon at 10:11 PM on January 31, 2020

⏪⏺️⏹️⏸️⏩
posted by clavdivs at 11:17 PM on January 31, 2020 [1 favorite]

I support this post. Music often takes you on these kind of journeys so sit down and contemplate your death or glory while the lightning crashes all around you and you feel yourself disintegrate because life goes on forever and it’s a wonderful world. Can you hear me?
posted by Slarty Bartfast at 11:27 PM on January 31, 2020 [3 favorites]

Let me watch by the fire and remember my days
And it may be a trick of the firelight
But the flickering pages that trouble my sight
Is a book I'm afraid to write
posted by Mrs Potato at 3:21 AM on February 1, 2020

redemption songs basically. And thank you, WCityMike, I'll always take hope over despair.

And if we're going to wax on the simple minded crowd, I think they finally lost me with Once Upon A Time, not that I ever had much problem with Alive + Kicking. One album previous though, there was a still a mighty Kick Inside to be reconciled. I sometimes wonder if they blew a piston here, never quite got the big simple engine entirely back on song. Not that they didn't keep selling rcords.

And if it's sheer wild (to the point of bombastic and madly beyond) epiphanous liberation you want, Spear of Destiny seem to have found it here.
posted by philip-random at 7:55 AM on February 1, 2020

Some may think Life is Shit, but I prefer to side with those that think Life is Grand; in any case, we're all Waiting for the Great Leap Forward.
posted by Edward L at 9:40 AM on February 1, 2020 [1 favorite]

It's Crystal Clear that it's time to Rally Round, because the Internationale that unites us means that you Stand By Me and I stand by you and together we can bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old.
posted by ob1quixote at 9:54 AM on February 1, 2020

Today I learned that Stephen Colbert approaches singing the same way I do (in karaoke), way too earnest, way too loud, and totally blowing out vocal chords.

I mean, there’s a lot I would do to be on stage with the Mountain Goats singing that song, but at least now I know roughly how it would sound. (And am incredibly jealous)
posted by Ghidorah at 8:23 PM on February 1, 2020 [1 favorite]

Always remember, if and when things get real, there's an official theme song for fucking someone's shit up
posted by CynicalKnight at 8:36 PM on February 1, 2020 [1 favorite]

Do you think we're gonna make it? I don't know unless we try. If you don't want to be seen, you don't have to hide. Now hold still, as everything spins.
posted by Lipstick Thespian at 10:26 AM on February 2, 2020