Tea Party Music

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04-07-2010, 13:49
Lemur

Tea Party Music

As you may know from my Corporate Anthem thread, I am a big fan of bad music. And I just discovered the Tea Party anthem genre. And I'm in love.

Let's skip the foreplay and go straight to penetration:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFu5J700Y_g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wsg3-pjeP38

(The new board software won't allow more than two embedded movies, so from here on you have to follow links to feel the goodness:

best TEA PARTY RALLY song ever

The Property Tax Song

AMERICA IS ME - Anthem for "We the People" by Mack Hayes - Tea Party salute (this one may be my favorite)

Yankee Doodle ~ Tea Party Mix! Pumped Up

Obamanation - obamacare healthcare kill the elderly rationing national socialism nazi

If I didn't have to visit a client this morning, I would need to spend the rest of the day savoring all of this fantastic musical badness ...
04-07-2010, 17:27
drone

Re: Tea Party Music

See, this highlights the entire problem with the Tea Party movement, this shows that they are just angry, populist (ex)Republicans. True libertarians would never accept this music, it's too obvious that the musicians are not on any good drugs.
04-07-2010, 19:12
Gregoshi

Re: Tea Party Music

The problem with these songs/videos is they preach to the choir. I can't see anyone being swayed by such goofy lyrics and even sappier images who doesn't wear an American Flag Snuggie. :laugh4: Once upon a time these songs might have rung true, but in today's world where everything is so carefully staged to project the right symbolism, they feel shallow.
04-07-2010, 19:30
PanzerJaeger

Re: Tea Party Music

Is that second one Miley Cyrus?

In any event, during the hippie movemnt, for every CSNY, there were a dozen mediocre bands...
04-07-2010, 19:31
Louis VI the Fat

Re: Tea Party Music

All that's missing is a defiant/teary-eyed 'We Shall Overcome'.
04-07-2010, 19:44
Sasaki Kojiro

Re: Tea Party Music

Quote:

Originally Posted by drone

See, this highlights the entire problem with the Tea Party movement, this shows that they are just angry, populist (ex)Republicans. True libertarians would never accept this music, it's too obvious that the musicians are not on any good drugs.

Well those are the youtube musicians. Also it seems like most musicians are liberal, except for country singers. They'd be better off with this as the tea-party anthem in my opinion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLuaGRoxO9k
04-07-2010, 22:52
Ronin

Re: Tea Party Music

I was expecting the Pixies - Where is my mind?
04-07-2010, 23:03
Lemur

Re: Tea Party Music

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gregoshi

The problem with these songs/videos is they preach to the choir.

There is no "problem" with these songs; they are glorious examples of bad music, a genre which I happen to love. They're splendid in their awfulness. Stop looking at them as political vessels and see what they really are: cultural artifacts of shame.

Quote:

Originally Posted by PanzerJaeger

In any event, during the hippie movemnt, for every CSNY, there were a dozen mediocre bands...

Think about all of the amazingly bad music lost in time due to the lack of YouTube in 1968. It's enough to make a lemur cry.
04-08-2010, 00:26
Louis VI the Fat

Re: Tea Party Music

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sasaki Kojiro

Well those are the youtube musicians. Also it seems like most musicians are liberal, except for country singers. They'd be better off with this as the tea-party anthem in my opinion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLuaGRoxO9k

Yes!

See, that's what dissapoints me in this music. It's not the politics - beaten to death and not for this thread at any rate. No, it is that it feels so misplaced. It reaches back to misplaced or obsolete symbolism. It is civil rights / 1968 songs meets Disney patriotism meets Christian rock. We need something new!

I want flags and guns and modern music!
04-08-2010, 01:19
Tellos Athenaios

Re: Tea Party Music

@Lemur: just think what fun you can have when you mix Tea Party with Song Smith. :yes:
04-08-2010, 10:15
Ironside

Re: Tea Party Music

Quote:

Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat

Yes!

See, that's what dissapoints me in this music. It's not the politics - beaten to death and not for this thread at any rate. No, it is that it feels so misplaced. It reaches back to misplaced or obsolete symbolism. It is civil rights / 1968 songs meets Disney patriotism meets Christian rock. We need something new!

I want flags and guns and modern music!

Isn't the tea party movement heavily influenced by "returning to the lost golden age" (that never really existed) rethorics? I'm not sure if anything else than old school country patriotic music really fits that thought. Libertarains realizing that they strive for something that is in reality new might go for more modern music.
04-10-2010, 00:12
Beskar

Re: Tea Party Music

I love the Socialist imagery being used.
04-10-2010, 00:44
spmetla

Re: Tea Party Music

And here I thought tea party music was a bunch of little girls singing nursery rhymes.
04-10-2010, 02:17
Lemur

Re: Tea Party Music

To much talk, not enough bad music. Stop your yapping and post some tunes!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fp_ky5VmjjM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1byTDgu7iA
04-10-2010, 02:44
Megas Methuselah

Re: Tea Party Music

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lemurie

I am a big fan of bad music.

So, since you hate rap, that means rap is considered "good music." :smartass2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThIEEPW8ic0

(no baddie language)
01-18-2011, 15:22
Lemur

Re: Tea Party Music

Had to do some digging to find this thread again, but it was worth it to share the latest:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhMepzqJvIw
01-18-2011, 15:49
Ronin

Re: Tea Party Music

this is a comedy tv skit.....RIGHT???? RIGHT????
01-18-2011, 15:57
Greyblades

Re: Tea Party Music

Do you think they would allow me to send it to you've been framed?
01-18-2011, 16:55
Gregoshi

Re: Tea Party Music

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lemur

Had to do some digging to find this thread again, but it was worth it to share the latest:

Glad I hadn't eaten lunch yet - though dry heaving sucks too.
01-18-2011, 19:54
Fisherking

Re: Tea Party Music

:dizzy2:Why does this remind me of the Jerry Springer Show?

What people won’t do to embarrass themselves.
:laugh4:
01-19-2011, 06:25
Tuuvi

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This music makes me feel like the US is a bad place to live. Take me to Nigeria pleeaase I'm begging you :help:
01-19-2011, 17:02
Beskar

Re: Tea Party Music

"We are Freedom Fighters!!! We fight for freedom!!!"

That is what the people who drove hijacked planes into the twin-towers said as well...
01-19-2011, 17:36
Strike For The South

Re: Tea Party Music

Quote:

Originally Posted by Beskar

"We are Freedom Fighters!!! We fight for freedom!!!"

That is what the people who drove hijacked planes into the twin-towers said as well...

But they wern't white

duh
10-25-2011, 15:47
Lemur

Re: Tea Party Music

Inspired to find the original by the latest Herman Cain ad. This one's got fairly high production values:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0heL2Czeraw#!
10-25-2011, 16:34
Ronin

Re: Tea Party Music

Would love to try to sneak this one in to their programming......I´d bet good money they wouldn´t catch the meaning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12kcpP-8jfM&ob=av2e
10-25-2011, 17:04
lars573

Re: Tea Party Music

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ronin

this is a comedy tv skit.....RIGHT???? RIGHT????

You wish.

And this is the only Tea Party music I'll ever listen too:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCye7v79Tz0&list=PLC37F62D07B8145BA&index=3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgkvLhGbqyg
10-25-2011, 17:14
drone

Re: Tea Party Music

I'm waiting for OWS music. It should be as good or better than 70's punk.
10-25-2011, 17:54
Ronin

Re: Tea Party Music

Quote:

Originally Posted by drone

I'm waiting for OWS music. It should be as good or better than 70's punk.

wouldn´t it just be the Rage Against the Machine catalog?
10-25-2011, 19:53
Vuk

Re: Tea Party Music

Quote:

Originally Posted by Strike For The South

But they wern't white

duh

Do you forget that the Tea Party is not a religious organization that goes around blowing buildings up. Honestly Strike, you are the most race obsessed person I have ever/never met. It really is not healthy to the mind to only be able to see things through the lens of race. You are like the Marxists who go around explaining every event in human history as a class struggle, only with you it is a racial struggle. Seriously man, chill the heck out. If you think Americans (or at least the majority white population and any conservative minorities) are a bunch of racist arseholes, why don't you go to Iraq or Mexico and see what type of racial equality you will find there.
10-25-2011, 20:22
PanzerJaeger

Re: Tea Party Music

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vuk

Do you forget that the Tea Party is not a religious organization that goes around blowing buildings up. Honestly Strike, you are the most race obsessed person I have ever/never met. It really is not healthy to the mind to only be able to see things through the lens of race. You are like the Marxists who go around explaining every event in human history as a class struggle, only with you it is a racial struggle. Seriously man, chill the heck out. If you think Americans (or at least the majority white population and any conservative minorities) are a bunch of racist arseholes, why don't you go to Iraq or Mexico and see what type of racial equality you will find there.

I think the comment was made in jest...
10-25-2011, 20:33
drone

Re: Tea Party Music

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ronin

wouldn´t it just be the Rage Against the Machine catalog?

Nah, the production value is too high.
10-25-2011, 22:09
Vuk

Re: Tea Party Music

Quote:

Originally Posted by PanzerJaeger

I think the comment was made in jest...

He certainly meant it to be amusing, but the way it came across to me he was also pointing out what he saw as a double standard in the way people think of different groups.
He has made plenty enough comments of the like in total seriousness before. It gets annoying after a while.
10-26-2011, 08:42
a completely inoffensive name

Re: Tea Party Music

Yeah, Strike is so race obsessed, he probably strips naked and stands in the Texas sun for 3 hours so he can get a deep tan and calculate how many women would give him the time of day before and after.
10-26-2011, 22:46
lars573

Re: Tea Party Music

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vuk

Do you forget that the Tea Party is not a religious organization that goes around blowing buildings up.

Yet.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1Y73sPHKxw
10-27-2011, 02:55
Centurion1

Re: Tea Party Music

strike is very race obsessed in vuk's defense.
10-27-2011, 20:11
Tuuvi

Re: Tea Party Music

Quote:

Originally Posted by drone

I'm waiting for OWS music. It should be as good or better than 70's punk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01WJVkog9_E&feature=related
10-27-2011, 20:49
Lemur

Re: Tea Party Music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc_-L4fyLUo
10-28-2011, 13:09
TheLastDays

Re: Tea Party Music

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lemur

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc_-L4fyLUo

But this video is not done by them, right? That's someone making fun of the song, no?
10-28-2011, 14:17
Lemur

Re: Tea Party Music

Quote:

Originally Posted by Oh! TheLastDays!

But this video is not done by them, right? That's someone making fun of the song, no?

Don't believe so; check out the fella's home page. He bills himself as country and comedy, but he does not appear to be making fun of the tea partiers. I believe this video is legit.
10-28-2011, 15:18
TheLastDays

Re: Tea Party Music

My God... I wish I could make this post less spam but that's all I can say.
10-28-2011, 16:13
Tellos Athenaios

Re: Tea Party Music

It seems Lemur is not the only fan of bad music:

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Wow! What an amazing weekend in Pigeon Forge! Two SOLD OUT shows! Thanks for being the best fans ever!

EDIT: And here they are: http://www.raystevens.com/music.html

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