• Stonewyvvern@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 day ago

    Methamphetamine by Old Crow Medicine Show

    Times, they ain’t like nothing they used to be

    From rocky mount’ to northeast Tennessee

    Where the river flows with a dusty, coal disease

    And the babies whine cause they can’t find nothing to eat

    But, mama, she ain’t hungry no more

    She’s waiting for a knock on the trailer door

    [Chorus]

    It’s gonna rock you like a hurricane

    It’s gonna rock you 'til you lose sleep

    It’s gonna rock you 'til you’re out of a job

    It’s gonna rock you 'til you’re out on the street

    It’s gonna rock you 'til you’re down on your knees

    It’s gonna have you begging pretty please

    It’s gonna rock you like a hurricane

    Methamphetamine

    Don’t need no PhD for a hundred dollar card

    Just find a crooked cop and that doctor disregard

    Cause when it’s either the mine or the Kentucky national guard

    Um, I’d rather sell him a line than to be dying in the coal yard

    Now, papa, he ain’t hungry no more

    He’s waiting for a knock on the trailer door

    [Chorus]

    Well, it’s a war out there, and it’s fought by poor white men

    From the plateau to the falls of the Cumberland

    You better watch your back, cause you just can’t trust a friend

    And the method man is going to get you in the end

    So listen to the whispering wind

    It sounds like a big storm rolling in

    It’s gonna rock you like a hurricane

    It’s gonna rock you 'til you lose sleep

    It’s gonna rock you 'til you’re out of a job

    It’s gonna rock you 'til you’re out on the street

    It’s gonna rock you 'til you’re down on your knees

    It’s gonna have you begging pretty please

    It’s gonna rock you like a hurricane

    Methamphetamine

  • GraniteM@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 day ago

    There are about 14,000 coal miners in West Virginia.

    We could give each of them a million dollars and close all of the mines for a little more than the cost of a single aircraft carrier.

  • GalacticSushi@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    210·
    3 days ago

    You load sixteen tons, what do you get?

    Another day older and deeper in debt

    Saint Peter don’t you call me cause I can’t go

    I owe my soul to the company store

  • call_me_xale@lemmy.zipEnglish
    45·
    3 days ago

    But the banks are made of marble

    With a guard at every door

    And the vaults are filled with silver

    That the miners sweated for

  • JesusChristLover420@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    26·
    3 days ago

    God don’t venture down here
    The Devil’s lost your name
    Your life hangs in the balance
    on this fragile human chain
    And when your spirit’s waning
    The fear is yours to tame
    When you feel the darkness closing
    Turn up your carbide flame

    So tell God and the Devil they can try
    But today’s not gonna be the day we die

  • Godric@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    2 days ago

    Throw on some Utah Phillips, nothing better than an old Wobblie to preface getting wobbly with someone special, thank me later.

  • Rhaedas@fedia.io
    29·
    3 days ago

    I wonder if it was specifically about coal miners, or if that was just the theme of the playlist. Because if it’s just the vibe, there’s some great songs there. First two that come to mind are Dire Straits’ “Telegraph Road” and Springsteen’s “The River”, but there’s a lot more like that.

    • Xaphanos@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      3 days ago

      But just believe in me, baby, and I’ll take you away

      From out of this darkness and into the day

      From these rivers of headlights, these rivers of rain

      From the anger that lives on the streets with these names

      'Cause I’ve run every red light on memory lane

      I’ve seen desperation explode into flames

      And I don’t want to see it again

    • merc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      Come, mister tally man, tally me banana

      (Daylight come and me wan’ go home)

      Come, mister tally man, tally me banana

      (Daylight come and me wan’ go home)

      Definitely not about coal miners, but certainly a song about blue collar workers

      I was just thinking about that song because I watched The Greatest Night in Pop, and they broke into singing Day-O at one point in the process. I was just thinking a call and response work song would have made for a much better solution for what they were trying to do, which was have a chorus, but also give soloists a chance to do a very quick solo.

    • Sibshops@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
      6·
      3 days ago

      If it even exists. The coal miner part was obviously added in after the fact and not part of the original tweet.

  • beSyl@slrpnk.netEnglish
    10·
    3 days ago

    Need YouTube playlist link! Please

    (Bcuz fuck Spotify. But also fuck Google. But ya.)

        • beSyl@slrpnk.netEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          I dont think subsonic is recommended anymore. It is closed source now. It has been forked and there are several forks available. Suck as navidrome.

          I don’t use any of these though, so do your own research!

  • Njos2SQEZtPVRhH@piefed.socialEnglish
    3·
    2 days ago

    Test Dept made an album with the ‘South Wales Striking Miners Choir’ called Shoulder to Shoulder. It contains the track ’ Shockwork ’ which starts with a speech, rallying up the protestors. Test Dept is an industrial band with an emphasis on percussion. Another track on the album is called ’ Fuel to Fight '. They accomplish exactly that with their music. I can’t imagine a more appropriate band to be at such a rally.

    I sometimes miss the sort of politically engaged anger of the 80s. I was born in the 90s so perhaps it’s just a romantic look at a past that never was. People are angry now too, but I wonder if it’s not, more than in the past, fused with algorythmically induced hatred of the ‘other’, instead of honest, rightful anger. Like the difference between: ‘I am angry because there is this injustice, and we’re not going to tollerate you standing in our way to solve this injustice’ and ‘I am angry at you because there is this injustice, which is your fault and therefor I hate you’. Clearly the first version leaves room for the ‘unjust person’ to change and choose to go along with this new move towards justice. The second one leaves the ‘unjust person’ feeling, "wait, what… I am not deserving of such hate, I am not evil, you must be crazy for hating me, and therefor I will hate you in return and together we will spiral down into the depths of civil war’.