Yeah, I caught it and changed it as you were typing.
Outstanding film; they should at least get some kind of technical Oscar for getting all that different recording media to gel so well.
You spelled “stoned” wrong.
(Bolding mine).
I like “Within You Without You” quite a bit.
Maybe not so much reviled as held in contempt, but my god, the queen of country music sings the hell out of it.
Most stuff.
I like “Stand By Your Man,” too.
Lyle Lovett does an amazing version.
Horst Wessel Lied. I have no idea what the words mean, or why it’s so despised. I just know that it’s fun to march to!
Mr. Robato by Styx is an excellent song that gets a lot of ridicule. That whole album had an interesting story behind it. Styx were a great band.
On the wild assumption that you’re not kidding: Horst-Wessel-Lied - Wikipedia
I know this is basically a “guilty pleasures” thread, so I’ll admit to digging Whigfield and her two big singles from 1994/95 or so, “Saturday Night” and “Another Day.” She may have had other hits in Europe, but those are the two that got a lot of play on MusiquePlus when I lived in Montreal. But then, I’m always a sucker for a girl with great cheekbones.
I think about the whole guilty pleasures concept a lot, partly because I have friends who swear by movies like Hook and Mrs. Doubtfire and any number of other movies that just happened to be always on afternoon TV back when networks showed movies. I’m convinced a lot of people love movies, teevee or songs that are objectively Not Good just because they were key memories of childhood. Personally, I thought “We Built This City” was the bomb when it came out (I was twelve), but I recognize it as cynical crap now. Though, oddly, I really enjoy the medley of that song plus “We’re Not Gonna Take It” in the Rock of Ages movie, maybe because Russell Brand really sells the lunacy of the scene.
My post was a lame attempt at humor.
A celebration of racism? Can you point to the lyric(s) that celebrate racism?
I will say up front that if you’re talking about “they love the Governor, we all did what we could do”, it’s expressing that the singer (and like-minded Alabamians) opposed him and his candidacy and election.
As a southerner, I can say it does get tiring to be tarred with a broad brush like that. It’s understandable, but it’s wrong. Blaming me for George Wallace or Marge Greene is like if I blamed you (a presumed northerner) for sending us this awful Yankee named Donald Trump. I did what I could do to prevent that, and I assume you did likewise, so we shouldn’t quibble over a dumb regional beef.
We cannot continue this discussion in Cafe Society because the blue that wants to pour out of my mouth right now would singe this peaceful thread.
My favorite album of all time is the “White Album.” There’s a weird story behind how I became acquainted with it. A friend of my brother’s had bought the double cassettes and hated the album. I think he was expecting things like the hits he’d heard over the years and this album wasn’t like that. So he gave them to my bro. We listened and fell in love. But we only played Revolution #9 once…it made our ears cry.
The old pre-recorded cassettes didn’t sound great, and we loved the album enough to go buy the vinyl. Then we put music onto a cassette so we could listen to them in the car (and to preserve the source material). If you leave out Revolution #9, the album fits on your Maxell XLII 90 minute cassette. One for the car, one for the home cassette deck…that’s what we did.
It’s also easily skipped now that I have the CD 
Sure Van Zant has said that, but I’m not convinced. Co-writer Ed King has said it’s totally a pro-Wallace song.
If the verse says that they and like minded Alabamans oppose Wallace, then what does this mean:
Sweet home Alabama (oh, sweet home)
Where the skies are so blue
And the governor’s true
What does “true” mean in this context?
And shortly after
Montgomery’s got the answer
Is the “answer” the bus boycott, or the White Citizens Council? Peaceful protest or firebombing black churches?
I don’t think LS is specifically trying to have it both ways, but the nature of rock lyrics makes it ambiguous which side they are on. Easy to say after the fact “oh we’re the good guys”, but yet they used the rebel flag in their band up until 2012!
PS Watergate should bother them. Wonder why it didn’t? maybe they think Nixon did the right thing.
I did some reading about the song here:
This is maybe the most damning factoid they gave:
So at least some people think it’s pro-racist asshole.
I had no idea that this was a thing.
I also didn’t know that this list would include such right-wing classics as Sympathy for the Devil, Wouldn’t It Be Nice, and Gloria.
What are some of their favorite titles?
The South’s Gonna Do it Again
Another Brick in the Wall
Strange Fruit
Killing An Arab
Brown Sugar
God Bless the USA
(If any of those are in the actual list, I don’t know what to say)