2000s | Hope In Exile

Boys (lesson one) – Jars of Clay (2009) d75

By Peter / April 5, 2017 / 2000s, Education, Hope, Love, Resistance, Slider

For everyone who raises boys or knows a boy, these lessons are a good place to start. Lesson three – you’re not alone, not since I saw you start breathing on your own. You can leave, you can run, this will still be your home.

Good things – Dan Mackenzie (2003) d64

By Peter / March 25, 2017 / 2000s, Consolation, Encouragement, Hope, Love, Slider

Good things, ‘cuz we love, good things are happening. It’s a strange world, and these are crazy times, but good things are happening.

The logical song – Joe Crookston (Supertramp cover) (2008) d62

By Peter / March 23, 2017 / 2000s, Cognitive & Emotional Dissonance, Hope, Slider

Now watch what you say or they’ll be calling you a radical, Liberal, fanatical, criminal. Won’t you sign up your name, we’d like to feel you’re Acceptable, respectable, presentable, a vegetable!

Water so wied – Laway (2010) d61

By Peter / March 22, 2017 / 2000s, Consolation, Love, Slider

Looking at those photos of German Chancellor Angela Merkel looking dumbfounded at our President sent me looking for German protest music. You probably don’t know Laway, but Jon and I discovered them on a church trip to Germany 30 years ago. This is their version of a Scottish song we know as “The water is […]

Let’s duet – John C. Reilly and Angela Correa (2007) d41

By Peter / March 2, 2017 / 2000s, Encouragement, Funny, Slider

A bipartisan plea for unity.

A guy named Joe – Coyote Grace (2006) d34

By Peter / February 23, 2017 / 2000s, Consolation, Equity, Hope, Justice, Slider

In light of the latest Presidential injustice, I googled “transgender protest songs.” Who am I to change my life? Who am I to fuck with form? Who am I to weather a storm? But I go slow. I said goodbye to everyone I know. And one morning I awoke, and I was this guy named […]

God’s Gonna Cut You Down – Johnny Cash (2003) d23

By Peter / February 12, 2017 / 2000s, Action, Anger, Equity, History, Slider

Alison suggested this one, saying “I might have to listen to this every day – just for re-assurance.” Go tell that long tongue liar, go and tell that midnight rider, tell the rambler, the gambler, the back biter. Tell ’em that God’s gonna cut ’em down

Ain’t gonna let nobody turn me around – The Roots (2009) d19

By Peter / February 8, 2017 / 2000s, Action, Good Video, History, Hope, Justice, Slider

The soundtrack to the film “Soundtrack For a Revolution” features contemporary artists singing traditional Civil Rights-era freedom songs. The Roots perform “Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around” in this clip, which juxtaposes black-and-white footage of 20th-century Civil Rights protests with color footage of the band performing in a recording studio. Thanks Nadine for the […]