Good Song About The Media

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  1. Anarcho Union No Gods No Masters Registered Senior Member

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    Anti-Flag, The Press Corpse
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfVLOd0TnQc

    I find it hard to always put my rants into words, however the lyrics to this song go perfectly. Thoughts?


    We gotta work to make the facts fit the false charges
    Pull the wool over the eyes of the filthy masses
    Stab the people in the back for the corporate choice
    Roll the propaganda out using The People's Voice

    We don't want to talk about it...

    The press scribble scribble every half-truth spoke
    Then shoot it round the country like an April Fools joke
    Hype the nation for a Desert Storm love affair
    Wave the stars and stripes like you just don't care!

    They talk it up all day, they talk it up all night
    They talk until their face turns blue - Red white and blue!
    But when the truth escapes the night and crawls into the day
    We find the picture still askew

    They don't want to... talk talk talk talk talk about it
    They wanna tiptoe, walk around it
    Wave the flag and mindlessly salute
    They don't want to talk about it
    They wanna tiptoe, walk around it
    Wave the flag and cowardly salute

    And on the TV screen...
    ...Diversion and aversion is the flavor of the day
    Was it WMDs? Or Democracy?
    Blame it on MI-6 or the CIA
    The White House Press Corpse only has one thing to say...

    "We don't want to talk about it!"

    The White House boils over, "Al Jazeera got it wrong!"
    The Press Corpse jumps onboard singing the White House song
    While over in Iraq thousands are dead because of lies
    The spineless war drumming-press corpse have taken lives

    They talk it up all day, they talk it up all night
    They talk until their face turns blue - Red white and blue!
    But when the truth escapes the night and crawls into the day
    We find the picture still askew

    They don't want to... talk talk talk talk talk about it
    They wanna tiptoe, walk around it
    Wave the flag and mindlessly salute
    They don't want to talk about it
    They wanna tiptoe, walk around it
    Wave the flag and cowardly salute

    Fires fueled on endless lies
    Black shrouds coat desert skies
    A nation's viewpoint blurred and led
    As embeds report what they're fed

    We don't want to talk about it...
    We don't want to talk about it...
    We don't want to talk about it...
    We don't want to talk about it...

    (We don't want to talk about it...)
    We don't, don't want to, we don't wanna talk about it
    (We don't want to...)
    We don't, don't want to, we don't wanna talk

    They don't want to... talk talk talk talk talk about it
    They wanna tiptoe, walk around it
    Wave the flag and cowardly salute
    They don't want to talk about it
    They wanna tiptoe, walk around it
    Wave the flag and cowardly salute
     
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  5. DanceAndExplode Fear me, for I am Death. Registered Senior Member

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    This song is more about the effect the media has on young, impressionable and insecure girls, but about the media nevertheless.

    John Butler Trio - To Look Like You
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXRmz66XJ8o

    We like your face, we like your style everything about you seems so worthwhile.
    We like your hair, we like your nose - everybody gonna get one of those.
    The bullets for the magazines. Paparazzi shooting like soldiers in their teens.
    I'm just a teenage girl sitting in my room with the bullet for a mirror looking for a broom.

    To Look Like You, to look like you, oh, to look like you.

    I'm gonna burn my skin, I'm gonna cut my hair, I'm gonna grab a bit of me and stick it over there.
    I'm gonna take my meal of two white pills 'cos I'm gonna look like you, yes I will.
    Gonna sell right out to the great white dream 'cos I too want to be a beauty queen.
    I'm just a teenage girl sitting in my room with the bullet for a mirror looking for a broom.

    'Cos I'd do anything in this world to look like you, to look like you.

    I'm gonna buy that mud and apply that paint, Yes I put it on so thick I wonder why I ain't.
    I'm gonna buy everything that you do sell, your clothes, your lips, your rocks, your smells.

    The bullets for the magazines, 'cos I want everybody to see me.
    I'm just a teenage girl sitting in my room with the bullet for a mirror looking for a broom.

    I say I'd do anything in this world to look like you, to look like you.

    We like your face, we like your style and everything about you seems so worthwhile.
    We like your shoes, we like your clothes, now we want a taste of candy going up your nose.
    The bullets for the magazines, 'cos I do want to be a beauty queen.
    I'm just a teenage girl sitting in my room with a bullet for a mirror looking for a headroom.

    'Cos I'd do anything in this world, to look like you, to look like you yeah.
     
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  7. Anti-Flag Pun intended Registered Senior Member

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    One of their best songs. Gets a lot of airplay outside the US.
     
  8. common_sense_seeker Bicho Voador & Bicho Sugador Valued Senior Member

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    Yeah, good song. Just posted it in "What's on your ipod" thread

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  9. gmilam Valued Senior Member

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    Frank Zappa - I'm The Slime
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HyTP9sP_aI
     

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