April 25, 2005

Atomic Platters I found this website rather randomly while searching for photos of a dead televangelist. A collection of weird, cheesey, anti-communist songs and random right wing propaganda recordings. This one is a supposed recreation of what one would hear at a communist cell meeting. There's lots more where that came from. The links above will take you to the webpages for each albums. Click on the links to hear real-audio files of the recordings.
posted by squidranch 19 years ago
  • During an era of such landscape-altering pop music albums as "Blonde on Blonde," "Revolver," and "Pet Sounds," there was another kind of artist making waves. And unlike Dylan, the Beatles and Brian Wilson, she was making these waves in a polite, sober, hygienic and, above all, patriotic fashion. Janet Greene, a raven-haired, American-flag-pin-wearing folk singer, didn't sing out about grape boycotts or slain civil rights workers like so many others in her genre. No, she sang songs with such decidedly un-folk-like titles as "Commie Lies," "Fascist Threat" and "I'm Just a Poor Left-Winger." That's just damn fine.
  • *waves at mct* hi tool! borrow a digital camera damnit! I wanna see pix of you and ms. tool wearing your colors.
  • *waves back at squidders* Dammit, I'll have to see what I can do. I promise, if I can track one down, I'll post both a shirt pic and tattoo pics.
  • I love this kind of thing.
  • Awesome !
  • I so almost checked out a CD at the library the other day that had "Jesus Hits Like the Atom Bomb." Almost. Groovy post.
  • Wow - I think I may have been referred to as 'comrade dick' at some of the communist meetings I've attended too.
  • [this is mandatory, citizens]
  • Communists don't sit around reading Karl Marx? Damn, all that library time wasted. Well, I've already mastered corrupting college kids, so I better get off working on how to poison drinking water.
  • I also love how he became a communist because communists tricked him into fighting tuition increases - which (of course!) had been brought in by communist faculty members. Not many people read that part of Marx, but it's quite clear in chapter 24 of the Communist Manifesto that all good communists should be for drastic tuition raises. It's just a logical part of the political/economic ideology. On a more serious side (and because it came up in my class the other day) - how would you define communism? (Small c or Big C - if you differentiate between them, that is.)