| Phillips, Utah / I've Got to Know |
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| Album: | I've Got to Know | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Phillips, Utah | Added: | Mar 2004 | |
| Label: | Daemon Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2004-03-01 | Pull Date: | 2004-05-03 |
| Week Ending: | May 2 | Apr 25 | Apr 18 | Apr 11 | Mar 28 | Mar 21 | Mar 7 |
| Airplays: | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jan 17, 2015: | Music Casserole This Here River | 4. | May 02, 2008: | thats not bluegrass How to Live in Peace | |
| 2. | Aug 24, 2008: | Sunny Side Up Riding the Peace Train | 5. | Apr 19, 2006: | the evil twins I've Got to Know | |
| 3. | May 27, 2008: | At Your Local Dive Rice and Beans, Ain't It Fine, Yellow Ribbon | 6. | May 18, 2005: | Brownian Motion, Strangest Music Distillation I Will not Obey |
| Album Review |
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| Your Imaginary Friend Reviewed 2004-03-02 | ||
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Wobbly/Socialist folk hero Utah Phillips has found allies, friends, in everyone’s vocal social conscience warehouse living activists AK Press, who have re-released some of his finest work to date. And seeing as he’s been making music for upwards of 50 years, that’s saying a lot. This is FANTASTIC. Ironically, most of it was recorded in 1991 and, like the comedy of Bill Hicks, its more timely than ever, dealing with issues of global genocide, war on Iraq, and basic human, worker, rights (remember those?). Some will recognize pieces from the fantastic retooling that Ani DiFranco did of him some years back (The Past Didn’t Go Anywhere). Pieces are all poignant, intelligent, scathing, and hilarious, sometime simultaneiously. Seldom accompanied by more than his own minimal guitar strumming, a lot of this is simple story telling, a capella singing or poetry reading. Its all really really great, a true anti-war statement, anti all wars, violence. A true masterpiece. PLAY. LOTS. I will segregate these between stories/poems, and songs: Songs: 2) basic anti-war folk song, title track, “co-written” by Woody Guthrie 5) yellow ribbons, anti-war 9) a capella, killing ground 12) a capela, Korean war, hatred 14) simple folksong 16) wars effect on love, people 18) lord aint it sad, losing friends 20) spoken, a capela, “I will not obey” the draft, war 22) a capela, anti war 25) folksy about the Enola Gay, Hiroshima 27) police state/third world murder, corruption 28) middle American suburbia nimby 30) a capella WWI anti-war 32) with intro, folky classic, river theme Poems, Stories: 1) brief, “I pledge allegiance…” 3) ideas, workers 4) anti military weaponry 6,7) anti-war, pacifism 8) story- military draft, dodging 10) korea, bigotry 11) story- public transpo, flying, “my car wont run on blood”, leads into next song nicely 13) “victory parades” 15) military, war’s effect on a young man 17) anti-war, taking responsibility 19) story, returning from Korea, tramping, Amon Hennisy 21) story- attending pro-war demonstrations, killing, “I support the troops”, take responsibility 23) story- Truman cactus, enola gay, only one country has used the atomic bomb on humans 24) poem 26) WWI era anti-war 29) a story 31) story, talk- how to make peace inside, throw your TV out the front window 33) brief, with great Morman joke at the end | ||
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