justin_cook
(Ventura, CA) | | Posted: Apr 23, 2013 - 11:09 | |
mchernaik wrote:"South America stole our name..." Pure genius.
Yes, he's so often reflecting the righteous absurdity/ignorance we manage to brew in the United States. Amerigo Vespucci landed in Brazil. Don't think he ever made it to North America at all. I love the song title too. |
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ziggytrix
(Dallas, TX) | | Posted: Apr 23, 2013 - 11:01 | |
Anyone else reminded of the AlbionBlackSheep flash animation The End of the World (NSFW) by these lyrics? |
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jmsmy
(Music Town, Klein, Texas) | | Posted: Apr 23, 2013 - 10:40 | |
Oh and save Canada, The UK, Ireland & Greenland.
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Highlowsel
(New York City) | | Posted: Feb 19, 2013 - 12:58 | |
Hilariously sarcastic Randy Newman at his best. Loved it then. Love it even more today. I read somewhere that he once played this song in a concert over in Europe in the mid-70's. The Europeans didn't quite know how to take it.....was he being sarcastic...was he for real? The essence of their puzzlement with American's then...and probably still the essence of the bewilderment today....can't say I blame them....sometime I got's to think we're a remarkably bi-polar society.
So it goes.
Highlow
American Net'Zen
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John2341
(Netherlands) | | Posted: Feb 19, 2013 - 12:54 | |
kcar wrote:
Americans do not gently part with their ignorance or exceptionalism.
Well, I think it's just overcompensation. |
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skyguy
(CO) | | Posted: Feb 19, 2013 - 12:52 | |
Mama don't allow no above ground nuclear testing around here, we don't care what mama don't allow ....boom!
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offroadbiker
(gooder 'n grits) | | Posted: Nov 17, 2012 - 11:53 | |
Holy crap this song is from 1972?! I thought it was from this decade. Still just as relevant today as it was 30 years ago. Yay, human race.
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BikeCoachDave
(Columbia, Ky.) | | Posted: Apr 10, 2012 - 12:50 | |
left foot, right foot, left foot, right foot.
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cc_rider
(Austin Texas. Y'all.) | | Posted: Apr 10, 2012 - 12:50 | |
Randy Newman for President...
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Jared
(South Central...MA) | | Posted: Mar 09, 2012 - 20:50 | |
3 ->6. In a mood I guess.
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fredriley
(Nottingham, UK) | | Posted: Jan 06, 2012 - 08:54 | |
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Dalebarely
| | Posted: Jan 06, 2012 - 08:54 | |
This has to be Will Sasso
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Cynaera
(In a hammock under my own vine and fig tree.) | | Posted: Dec 05, 2011 - 13:55 | |
philbertr wrote:I say we f#%kin' nuke 'em all!!! Who needs 'em any way?! Towel heads, pinkos, slants, spear chuckers, Ruskies, all them people that ain't God-fearin' Christian white folks like us!!
I just know you're going extra-heavy on the sarcasm. I think I probably fit into one of those categories to be nuked. I'm white (actually, I'm sort of a lovely fleshy pink color) but I don't fear God (in fact, I don't even like Him much these days), I'm not really a Christian (I'm flirting with Druidism at the moment, but Cthulu is starting to look pretty good, too), and I'm totally against nukes. But I absolutely love Randy Newman's music. His sense of nuance and vocal inflection is impeccable.  |
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bachbeet
| | Posted: Nov 03, 2011 - 22:45 | |
A song with a serious message. Yet he always used humor. I especially like the line "don't wanna hurt no kangaroo."
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ce
(the Netherlands) | | Posted: Oct 03, 2011 - 09:12 | |
jeremy52 wrote:A co-worker of mine just stopped by my office about five minutes to make me aware of more explosions happening right now in downtown Baghdad. Her straight-faced take on the situation: We should "just drop a few nukes on Iraq and get the damn thing over with". And then I hear this sone on RP. Sheesh. How appropriate. A great tune from Mr. Newman. Though probably written with the Cold War in mind, it's more relevant now than ever.
I occasionally remark that, in my opinion, all people who remark that, in their opinion, certain other people should just be hanged, should just be shot. Or vice versa. I forget. |
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mchernaik
| | Posted: Oct 03, 2011 - 09:01 | |
"South America stole our name..." Pure genius.
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kcar
| | Posted: Sep 01, 2011 - 23:28 | |
robotbass wrote:Amazing...the lyric is still pertinent today. Americans do not gently part with their ignorance or exceptionalism. |
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robotbass
(Boston Area) | | Posted: Aug 01, 2011 - 13:35 | |
Amazing...the lyric is still pertinent today.
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Nerubo
(Denver, CO) | | Posted: Aug 01, 2011 - 13:32 | |
Nerubo wrote:Perhaps it's because I have a degree in Political Science, but the line "And South America stole our name" made me genuinely LOL.
Hmm, replying to my own comment - never a good sign. However, I felt compelled to say two things - Doesn't "South America stole our name" sound like something a "Tea Party" ranter would say without irony?
- It still makes me laugh.
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Nerubo
(Denver, CO) | | Posted: May 30, 2011 - 12:58 | |
Perhaps it's because I have a degree in Political Science, but the line "And South America stole our name" made me genuinely LOL.
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Cynaera
(South of Neanderthal) | | Posted: Mar 28, 2011 - 09:23 | |
Some people just don't "get" Randy Newman's humor. Remember when "Short People" came out and was banned from the airwaves because it was so "prejudicial"? Personally, I love his scathing lyrics - he and Richard Thompson are both masters of sarcasm (or is it satire?) Thumbs up for this song!  |
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aelfheld
| | Posted: Mar 28, 2011 - 09:01 | |
Prince Metternich as popular music.
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Lakeview
(Great White North) | | Posted: Mar 28, 2011 - 09:00 | |
All I hear in Randy's music is Disney and Toy Story. He's over-saturated himself out of the market for serious music in my opinion.
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mchernaik
| | Posted: Nov 22, 2010 - 14:11 | |
RobRyan wrote:This song (Political Science) made it into the FM rotation back in the '70's and was my introduction to Randy Newman. This album is so good, and so sarcastic. I especially like "God's Song (That's Why I Love Mankind)."
God's Song (That's Why I Love Mankind)
Cain slew Abel, Seth knew not why
For if the children of Israel were to multiply
Why must any of the children die?
So he asked the Lord
And the Lord said:
"Man means nothing he means less to me
than the lowliest cactus flower
or the humblest yucca tree
he chases round this desert
cause he thinks that's where i'll be
that's why i love mankind
I recoil in horror from the foulness of thee
from the squalor and the filth and the misery
How we laugh up here in Heaven at the prayers you offer me
That's why i love mankind"
The Christians and the Jews were having a jamboree
The Buddhists and the Hindus joined on satellite TV
They picked their four greatest priests
And they began to speak
They said "Lord the plague is on the world
Lord no man is free
The temples that we built to you
Have tumbled into the sea
Lord, if you won't take care of us
Won't you please please let us be?"
And the Lord said
And the Lord said
"I burn down your cities—how blind you must be
I take from you your children and you say how blessed are we
You must all be crazy to put your faith in me
That's why i love mankind
You really need me
That's why i love mankind"
Love this one too. Thanks for posting the lyrics! |
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mchernaik
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The_Enemy
(The Sewer) | | Posted: Jun 16, 2010 - 09:14 | |
"If I was President, only thing going to China would be MISSILES!"
— Joad Cressbeckler, Presidential Candidate, 2008 Election
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ladron
(Sam Diego, CA) | | Posted: Apr 13, 2010 - 19:50 | |
Jared wrote:
Wow, with one stroke of your brush, you've hit some of the major people I don't really care to hear at all. Still love the dichotomy of RP for that anyways.
Dichotomy indeed - I absolutely love all of the people mentioned. Different strokes... |
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MJMJ
| | Posted: Feb 09, 2010 - 16:10 | |
I believe it's called satire
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KurtfromLaQuinta
(Yep. I'm still here in La Quinta.) | | Posted: Feb 09, 2010 - 16:01 | |
Amen Randy.
Sarcasm aside.
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lmic
(Influential In All The Wrong Ways) | | Posted: Nov 07, 2009 - 11:13 | |
mafe wrote:We'll save Australia
Don't wanna hurt no kangaroo
At the rate we're glibly driving the charismatic megafauna extinct from planet earth, this is the only line that doesn't ring true.  |
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