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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
some artists are compelled to speak out in times of crisis. that often does not make for good art--- it's more propaganda, but it's still a valid form of expression.
around the time of the military coup in chile neruda wrote a poem calling for the destruction of nixon. it was a bad poem but it was necessary for him to write in a time of terror and brutality. he died 12 days after the "other" september 11, when pinochet killed allende and over power. decades later we know without a doubt what kinds of monstrosities the chilean dictators carried out under the sponsorship of the cia. what was worse? a bad poem, or pinochet? please, get your priorities straight...
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"Let's Impeach the President" will surely not go down in history as a peice of art but rather a peice of crap. There are certainly good protest songs, and Neil has some of the best. But for god sakes any third grader could have scratched out those lyrics before math class. That's just embarrassing.
I think it's great that there are the peaceniks out there. I don't happen to agree with them, but again, simply as a protest song, Neil has given us a real stinker.