The Strongest Politlcal Ad of the 2012 Campaign?

Simple, clear and devastatingly ironic.






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Bain Break

Did you ever meet a sentence you just adored?

Time columnist and trouble-maker, Joe Klein said of concerns over Mitt Romany's time at the head of Bain Capital. "And this will make the Obama campaign’s larger point: the Republicans are defending an economy that has been distorted by financial games-playing over the past 30 years, in which the rich make deals, not products, and pay very little taxes on their curiously-gotten gains. The Republicans will say this is an argument against capitalism. It isn’t. It’s an argument against plutocracy." (italics mine).


An argument against plutocracy.


That's an argument that must be made lest the backbone of a great nation be broken.

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Chumbawamba: A Night of Punk Rock Nostalgia (1988)

After releasing a 10" of a cappella folk and before releasing their first dance-rock album, Chumbawamba (more HERE) played a A Night of Punk Rock Nostalgia at the 1 in 12 Club in December 1988 wherein they played the hits of punk rock; The Clash, The Sex Pistols, Stiff Little Fingers, Buzzcocks, The Damned, The Adverts , UK Subs, 999 and, the Dead Kennedys! (Listen to the whole thing HERE)

This is a flagrant audience recording of the night in question and between songs you can hear the delightfully banal banter of eighties English punk punters. This of course, makes this whole affair that much more...tender?  After all, Chumba are taking the piss out of the idea of punk rock nostalgia by playing these songs in character, sort of like their mock-oi side project, Skin Disease but they also clearly love the material in question.

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Chumbawamba: Live in Bremen, 2008 (FM)

Worry not Powerpearls fans (see HERE), we'll return to the twinkie-ness soon enough, but in keeping with the simultaneously ADD and Obsessive-Compulsiveness of my work here we need to continue to mourn the passing of English-anarcho-folk-dance-punks, Chumbawamba (first take HERE). To remind of of what we've all lost, here's an amazing bootleg - stereling broadcast sound quality and a perfect performance by the smaller, folkier version of the band.





Chumbawamba
Bremen, Germany
Schlachthof
2008-04-23

01 Fade Away ( I Don´t Want To)
02 Song On The Times
03 Add Me
04 Sing About Love
05 A Stitch In Time
06 To A Little Radio  / (Words flew) Right Around The World
07 Unpindownable / On Ebay
08 By And By
09 Jacob´s Ladder
10 Charlie
11 I Wish That They`d Sack Me
12 The Digger´s Song
13 You Can (Kinder Trespass)
14 The Day The Nazi Died
15 Timebomb
16 El Fusilado
17 Bankrobber
18 Homophobia
19 Bella Ciao
20 Buy Nothing Day
21 Her Majesty


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Chumbawamba Break-Up! (Plus Live Ammunition, 2010)

Make all the cheap one-hit wonder jokes you must but English-anarcho-folk-dance-punks, Chumbawamba have broken up (band statement here). This ends an endlessly fascinating (and not always enjoyable) thirty year career. It's terrible news, as their last three albums have been the most consistent of their career (with the possible exception on my beloved English Rebel Songs). As my send-off, here's a live bootleg of the smaller, folkeir version of the band playing in 2010 in Kassel, Germany.





01 Voices, that's all
02 Song on the times
03 Talk
04 Add me
05 Wagner at the opera
06 Thatcher in memoriam talk
07 So long, so long
08 Singing out the days
09 You don't exist
10 Stitch at the time (Stitch that)
-- break
11 Fade Away
12 Tritonus talk
13 The Devil's Interval
14 Ratatatay talk
15 Ratatatay
16 The Day the Nazi Died
17 Torturing James Hetfield
18 Charly
19 Credits
20 El Fusilado
21 Homophobia
22 A Love Letter to Margret Thatcher from General Pinochet
23 Underground
24 On e-Bay
25 Bella Ciao





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