RichW
Toronto
Retired
Mar 18, 2005
Favorite Song: 7 Days to the Wolves
Favorite Band: Nightwish
Favorite Album: Wish You were here Pink Floyd
First Concert: Lighthouse Cedarbrae HS circa 1971.
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listen:
The Main Mix
If you don't get it; not our problem.
Rough live music can often be better than sterile studio renditions.
once again joni fucking mitchell scores 1/10
If I don't like a song I don't rate it. I guess the urge to hate is in some people, and must be expressed. I'll give it a 10 to offset your 1.
A rating of 8.7 confirms that I’m one of the few people who doesn’t care for this album. It may have been partly due to the line “we don't need no education”. Like many others my route out of poverty was education and, to me, saying kids don't need it is thought disordered.
However each to their own, I’m glad so many people get pleasure from this song, but its ‘not my cup of tea’.
I'm shocked that you're only a few years younger than me, in Scotland, and you don't get it. They were critiquing how education was delivered to the working class. I was born in Glasgow 1955 and by the time I was 11 had been streamed by my social class to a lesser education. No exceptions allowed. The delivery of education not the quality was complete crap. Most teachers and headmasters were borderline sadists and excessive physical and emotional punishment was the norm. Fortunately for me we escaped to Canada in 1966. While not perfect, I was actually tested and given the opportunity to try. I was allowed to choose an advanced high school course which in turn led to post secondary education. The first in my family to do so.
I firmly believe that had I stayed in Scotland, I'd be dead or in jail. If not I would have continued the generational dance of under employment and unemployment as the system was designed to do. I'm not suggesting people can't beat the system but the deck was stacked and I had no role model. Maybe you were lucky or just very good.
You completely miss the point of these songs and the theme of the album IMO.
I'm 73 years old, and this music isn't my cup of tea, but i'm not complaining. However, you sound just like the adults of my youth who complained about that LOUD rock and roll noise with the lyrics that you couldn't understand.
I'm 66 and agree with this comment. I like it.
Another great cover is on "Playing for Change" on the YouTube channel
Can it really be a cover when the song writer plays it and invites others to play too.
Saw the Eurythmics back in the 1980s, and boy could this woman stalk a stage.
Me too at the Kingswood Music Theatre 1984. Might have been the best sound I ever heard especially just Annie Dave and his guitar for a good chunk of the show.
No.
Yes, great cover.