3 thoughts on “FMD 8-18-17: If I had a hammer”

1. During the Wisconsin Uprising music was essential to keeping our spirits up. I sung myself hoarse many times singing old protest & solitarily songs in the Capitol rotunda or trudging around the Square in the cold.

   'A few favorites from that time and all times:'

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   - This Land is Your Land* - Battle Hymn of the Republic - Solidarity Forever - Mahalia Jackson - Keep Your Hand on the Plow - Sam Cooke - A Change is Gonna Come - Nina Simone - Mississippi Goddamn - Oscar Peterson - Hymn to Freedom - Curtis Mayfield - People Get Ready - Aretha Franklin - Respect - Woody Guthrie - Union Maid - Pete Seeger - Which Side are You On? - The Almanac Singers - I Don't Want Your Millions, Mister - Sister Rosetta Tharpe - This Train - Paul Robeson - Joe Hill - Johnny Cash - Man in Black - Utah Phillips - The Preacher and the Slave - Phil Ochs - Power and the Glory & I Ain't Marching Anymore - Billy Bragg - There is Power in a Union - Bruce Springsteeen - Long Walk Home - Tom Russell - Who's Gonna Build Your Wall? - The Nightwatchman - Until the End * The only song that could replace the "Star Spangled Banner" in my eyes. Versions I enjoy: Woody Guthrie; Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, Pete Seeger; Peter, Paul & Mary; Bruce Springsteen & the E-Street Band, Old Crow Medicine Show, and Chicano Batman.

2. 1. BJörk “Hidden Place” Vespertine
   2. Linked Horizon “Guren No Yumiya (Feuerroter Pfeil und Bogen)”* Jiyuu he no Shinegeki
   3. L'Arc~en~Ciel “Shine”* Butterfly
   4. Theatre Brook “Uragiri no Yuuyake (Extended TV size)”* Uragiri no Yuuyake
   5. Emot “Sacrilege” Trees & Claws EP

   6. SawanoHiroyuki[nZk]:mizuki “aLIEz (TV Size)”* A/Z
   7. Jacob Plant “Drop That”* Home: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
   8. Peter Gabriel “Sledgehammer” So
   9. Urban Tribe “Micro Machines” The Collapse of Modern Culture
       a. Blue Grosbeak* “Song” (Cornell Master Set)
   T. They Might Be Giants “Birdhouse in Your Soul” Flood
   E. Bonnie "Prince" Billy “The Dragon Song” Pete's Dragon: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

   *Notes:
   2. Attack on Titan, Season 1 Opening Theme.
   3. Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit, Opening Theme
   4. Durarara!!, Season 1 Opening Theme. At two minutes instead of 90 seconds, this version was extended with a guitar solo in the middle which was used in some episodes to show scenes from previous episodes.
   6. Aldnoah.Zero, One of two Season 1 Closing Themes. I think I can pull the word "Rayet" out of the lyrics, which is the name of a my favorite character on the show.... Nope, it's Japanese-pronounced English words "Crier" and "Liar". I should have never looked it up.
   I see that a good share of the lyrics aren't Japanese (or English interjections), but German. I get why for the Attack on Titan songs, but why here?
   7. Gorg theme.
       a. A bit of an irruption into Minnesota this summer, with a handful of county-first records as far east as Hennepin and Washington. If you know of any gravel pits in the Southern third of the state, go look for some.

3. Per Phil's request:
   

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