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Song Ideas for the New Depression

Posted:
Fri Oct 10, 2008 11:07 am
by SuNomi
This is tongue in cheek of course. I just lost my job of 11 years due to this whirlpool of an economy. Everywhere I go, I see signs of uncertainty and fear. This being Halloween, I was thinking of throwing a "panic party" to get the demons out. What kind of New Wave gems would best set the mood for said event?
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Posted:
Fri Oct 10, 2008 3:45 pm
by iposse
Sorted by subject (with lyrics!)
Our economy sucks:
Private Domain - Don't Need That Much
("You'll never see me hang my head to cry / Because the stock market just took a dive")
Big Audio Dynamite - The Bottom Line
("A dance to the tune of economic decline")
Job prospects are bleak:
Billy Bragg - To Have and To Have Not
("Qualifications once the Golden Rule / Are now just pieces of paper")
XTC - Earn Enough for Us
("Im just praying by the weekend / I can earn enough for us")
The greediness of corporations:
Max Q - Way of the World
("And the corporate snakes coming in to feed / On that pathetic fact known as human greed")
Depeche Mode - Everything Counts
("The grabbing hands / grab all they can")
Midnight Oil - Blue Sky Mine
("And the company takes what the company wants")
Killing Joke - America
("Where everybody has got their price / They'll sustain our way of life")
We realize that our economy structured on debt/credit doesn't work:
Living Colour - Type
("This is the time when the lie is revealed / Everything is possible, but nothing is real")
And as the housing market crashes:
Talking Heads - (Nothing But) Flowers
("This used to be real estate / Now it's only fields and trees.")

Posted:
Fri Oct 10, 2008 4:03 pm
by Bitter Almonds
<p align="justify">[}:)]
"Remembrance Day" by B-Movie
"Dancing With Myself" by Billy Idol
"Ashes To Ashes" by David Bowie
"Nag, Nag, Nag" by Cabaret Voltaire
"Independence Day" by The ComSat Angels
"Collapsing New People" by Fad Gadget
"Don't Crash!" by Front 242
"Darkness" by The Human League
"Interzone" by Joy Division
"Eighties" by Killing Joke
"TVOD" by The Normal
"Joy" by Psychic TV
"It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" by R.E.M.
"Johnny Teardrop" by Suicide
"While I'm Still Alive" by Ultravox!

Posted:
Fri Oct 10, 2008 7:50 pm
by phillyidol
party at ground zero- fishbone
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Posted:
Sat Oct 11, 2008 3:29 am
by zill
Cash Flow - Liesure Process

Posted:
Sat Oct 11, 2008 4:18 am
by eight6
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Posted:
Sat Oct 11, 2008 7:36 am
by Mathman
To Hell with Poverty - Gang of Four
It has the immortal line
"To hell with poverty, we’ll get drunk on cheap wine"

Posted:
Sat Oct 11, 2008 8:04 am
by glokstadt
[quote][i]Originally posted by zill[/i]
<br>Cash Flow - Liesure Process
[/quote]
Ditto, what I was gonna post! [:)]
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Posted:
Sat Oct 11, 2008 8:05 am
by glokstadt
[quote][i]Originally posted by Mathman[/i]
<br>To Hell with Poverty - Gang of Four
It has the immortal line
"To hell with poverty, we’ll get drunk on cheap wine"
[/quote]
I think wherewereyouin82 and i agree with you! I have a few other GO4 songs in my list... [:p]

Posted:
Sat Oct 11, 2008 8:16 am
by Yachtingtype
Lords Of The New Church - Open Your Eyes

Posted:
Sat Oct 11, 2008 8:29 am
by Frau_Blucher

Posted:
Sat Oct 11, 2008 8:52 am
by club80
Amazing choices so far!
Here's a few other ideas:
Kill The Poor - Dead Kennedys
(I'm) Stranded - The Saints
Right To Work - Chelsea
High Rise Living - Chelsea
Government Policy - The Expelled
Life During Wartime - Talking Heads
Money - The Flying Lizards
Lovely Money - The Damned
Money's Too Tight To Mention - Simply Red
Money Means So Much To Me - The Hugh Beaumont Experience
We didn't sell a lot of records, but somehow we left an impression.
-Johnny Ramone-

Posted:
Sat Oct 11, 2008 9:41 am
by phillyidol
Together Forever- Rick Astley........oops!
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Posted:
Sat Oct 11, 2008 9:47 am
by Yachtingtype
[quote][i]Originally posted by phillyidol[/i]
<br>Together Forever- Rick Astley........oops!
Worlds GREATEST Photographer!
[/quote]
That post just depresses me... lol [:p]

Posted:
Sat Oct 11, 2008 10:03 am
by Screen13
Psychic TV's version of "Eve of Destruction"
Radiation - Suicide (From their 2'nd album)