Socialist Music

One day ❤️

I'm not crying, I swear.

From Wikipedia: "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda" is a song written by Scottish-born Australian singer-songwriter Eric Bogle in 1971. The song describes war as futile and gruesome, while criticising those who seek to glorify it. This is exemplified in the song by the account of a young Australian serviceman who is maimed during the Gallipoli Campaign of the First World War.

A beautiful cover sung with a tear-jerking lilt. I just found it last night, and I thought I should share.

What a banger, I love it

Maybe I will get back to making the longer version one day.

Though it's annoying that Kampflieder doesn't exist anymore

"And so you're asking me, who does the dishes after the revolution? Well, I do my own dishes now, I'll do our own dishes then You know it's always the ones who don't who ask that fucking question"

one of my fav black metal albums

Extremely based agitprop cantata/opera. In the anglo establishment it is caricatured as evil and aggressively misinterpreted, possibly because HUAC translated it to smear Brecht and Eisler. (This production does not use the HUAC translation.)

While the Birmingham opera pushes the misinterpretation that it is about sacrificing yoursef for your values, in actuality it is a parable about a young passionate revalutionary whose idealism fatally clouds their judgement. I suspect that the translation makes this less clear, but I do not know the untranslated text.

Bonus points, I can't tell if the production is ironic or not. The cringe framing device feels ironic but the interviewer mentions solidarity with rail strikers at the end, so I can't tell. Either way, some of the audience and choristers interviewed seemed receptive.

I always thought this jam was very pro-worker