| Stevie Wonder – You Haven't Done Nothin' Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| It's kind of amazing... here I am reading these lyrics 5 years after the last comments - and the lyrics could still be ripped from the headlnes! I am sad to say that I don't think that Stevie Wonder would apply these words to the current regime... which only goes to show that sometimes the song is much greater than the singer. | |
| Jethro Tull – Bungle In The Jungle Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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woollymoore wrote: "In the seventies homosexuality was not only taboo but very much looked on as a pervision ( not my opinions folks ok, but history ) so inneundio was used ( e.g.. Batting for the other side )." Were you alive in the 70s? It was a very mixed time (as all times are, I suppose) but in many ways it was a very tolerant time. FWas there anybody who didn't know the Village People were a gay group? (maybe the big shocker was finding out one of them was straight! By and large, people found them lovable and entertaining. Assistants to the president went to Studio 54 and rubbed elbows with gays and snorted coke, which wasn't legal, but generally it was kind of no big deal. The repression really kicked in with Reagan in the 80s (who personally didn't have any problem with gays, but never let a personal virtue interfere with a political ambition). People like to imagine that history is linear, that we are progressing from the dark to the light, and in some ways that's true, we don't deal with strikes by rounding up the workers and crucifying them by the thousands on the mall in Washington DC (as the Romans did) but in other ways it's more like it swings back and forth like a pendulum. Women / gays / blacks gain rights, property, power, then lose them. A constant uphill struggle. In a lot of ways, the 70s were an easy going time. In other ways, they weren't. |
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