| Rovics, David / For the Moment |
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| Album: | For the Moment | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Rovics, David | Added: | 07/2005 | |
| Label: | Yo Yo Recordings | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2005-07-31 | Pull Date: | 2005-10-02 |
| Week Ending: | 2 Oct | 18 Sep | 28 Aug | 14 Aug | 7 Aug |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Sep 27, 2005: | Umami Storytime After the Revolution | 4. | Aug 10, 2005: | Brownian Motion The Draft Is Coming | |
| 2. | Sep 14, 2005: | Brownian Motion Falluja | 5. | Aug 03, 2005: | Brownian Motion Falluja | |
| 3. | Aug 27, 2005: | subbing for raymundo and chief Spanish Journalist Strike | ||||
| Album Review |
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| Your Imaginary Friend Reviewed 2005-07-26 | ||
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Quality anti-war, peacenik progressive protest folk music. Not namby pamby bull, but no punches pulled good stuff. Straight to the point lyrics that cut like a knife over basic folk guitar with some overdubs, a la Dylan, Guthrie, Ochs. Byrd endorses this guy as a stalwart of Democracy Now. Having screened about 300 bad versions of this genre as music director post Sept 11th I'll endorse this stuff happily too. 1) abu gharaib, guantanamo torture the price of "progress"? 2) FCC: this is a great song, written in the person of a college educated iraqi who stands up for his family and country. unfortunately this track is pretty much ruined by an incongruous "rap" that has one motherfucker and renders this otherwise very powerful song radio un-friendly (edit accordingly if you play this track ..."to see another blackhawk down motherfucker", at about 1:15 remaining 3) anti draft song, going to war for haliburton, exxon, "the draft is coming" 4) slow ballad 5) ballad for Hugo Chavez, "before the coup" 6) a history of the new world, cuba, guantanamo bay 7) american bombings of non enemy targets, the media's inability to report real news 8) israel's wall construction 9) denser instrumentation 10) legend of irishmen who fought for mexico 11) love song to a picture of an el salvadoran "guerilla girl" 12) FCC ("shit") 13) love song 14) urban gardening appeal 15) sensitive song about iraqui refugee child's life 16) nice volume pedal electric guitar wails, embellishments, this one about isreali/palestinian conflict's effect on simple family life there 17) "whoever wins in november", it doesn't matter i guess cuz they're both the same apparently 18) utopian vision of revolution where no more weapons are made or used 19) a genuinely beautiful love song, politics aside, with a 60hz buzz | ||
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